You don't need to walk in knowing what LUFS means or why PPM has a fast attack. flexMeter ships 37 in-app help articles, five contextual tips that surface at exactly the moment they're useful, a six-step onboarding tour, and a diagnostic that explains what it's checking — so the app stops feeling mysterious about ten minutes in.
We didn't write a manual. We wrote a library.
Organized so you can find what you need by what you're trying to do — not by which feature ships it. The whole library lives in the Help menu and ⌘? from anywhere in the app.
Plain-language explainers for the ideas the app is built on. Read these once and the rest of the app stops feeling mysterious.
Step-by-step recipes for the most common things you'll want to wire up. Stream Deck, OBS, Logic, Discord — there's a guide for each.
When you want the exact answer. Every settings pane, every keyboard shortcut, every URL scheme parameter, every WebSocket command, every OSC address.
TipKit tips are the opposite of a tutorial overlay. They wait. When you do the thing that needs explaining, the explanation shows up. The rest of the time, the UI stays quiet.
Fires: Fires on the Overs readout the first time you clip a session
Points you to Air Log so you have the receipt next time it happens.
Fires: Appears under the source picker when BlackHole or Loopback is installed
Suggests you're probably here to meter your output, and shows the route.
Fires: Surfaces under the target picker when you're on the factory default
Suggests picking the platform you publish to so the target line means something.
Fires: Pops over the Display picker when two or more screens are connected
Reminds you that flexMeter can pin to a specific display, not just any display.
Fires: Banner when OBS, Zoom, Logic, Pro Tools, or Reaper takes focus
Offers the matching preset and remembers your answer per app.
Tips remember whether you've seen them. If you want to start fresh — handing the Mac to a friend, or just because — Settings → Advanced → Danger Zone → Reset Shown Tips.
On first launch the desktop dims to about 62% black and a cyan-outlined hole cuts around the real meter strip — so the tour talks about the actual thing on your screen, not a mockup. Right-arrow advances; Escape skips. Reopen anytime from Show Tips.
You're looking at the meter strip. Everything you need is one right-click away.
Green, yellow, red. Peak hold lingers for 1.5 seconds. Triple-click for quiet zone.
⌘⇧← / → / ↑ / ↓ to reposition. Or press and drag the strip; it snaps to the nearest edge.
Right-click the strip for input device, mode, position, peak hold, opacity, and more.
Click-through is one shortcut away: ⌘⇧L. ⌘⇧M toggles visibility. ⌘⇧F finds the strip.
Tally, Text Strip, Air Log, iPhone Companion — the rest waits in Settings until you want it.
Four checks against the live engine. Each result comes with a plain-language explanation so you finish the sweep knowing more about your chain than when you started. Useful before a critical recording. Useful for answering a podcast network that asks if you're EBU R128 compliant. (Pro tier.)
The vocabulary in the status indicators (and the VoiceOver announcements) is borrowed from broadcast control rooms — the kind of language a working engineer would use on the talkback. You absorb a little of the trade just by reading the app's own UI.
The entire learning library — 37 articles, five tips, the onboarding tour, the console vocabulary, the in-app glossary — ships with the free download. The Standards Sweep is the only learning surface gated behind Pro, because it's a diagnostic, not a reading list.