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How-to Guides

Check for updates, receive beta releases, and control automatic updates in the website version of BoltAI.

How to update BoltAI

Questions and guides about BoltAI mac app v2

BoltAI v2

License

BoltAI is the best AI client for Mac: feature-packed, native performance and respect your privacy.

Features

Quick Start

Setup

Your first chat

Instantly interact with an AI model with inline features

Inline AI

Extend BoltAI with MCP servers, tools, plugins, and Connectors.

MCP, Tools & Connectors

How to Use the Featurebase MCP Server in BoltAI

Use current v2 search tools, filesystem MCP servers, environment settings, and project-specific tool selection.

Use web search and local file tools in BoltAI v2

Set up AI providers, authentication, models, and provider-specific options in BoltAI.

Provider Guides

Connect an AI provider to BoltAI and choose which models are available.

Add an AI provider and API key

How to use LM Studio in BoltAI

How to use OpenRouter in BoltAI

How to set up Google Vertex AI in BoltAI

How to use OpenClaw in BoltAI

How to use Hermes Agent in BoltAI

Common questions about the BoltAI Mobile app

BoltAI Mobile

Getting Started

Sign-in, account access, login issues, and account-related help.

Account & Access

Linking your Cloud Account

Permanently delete your account and associated cloud data from the web or mobile app.

How to delete your BoltAI Cloud account

Questions about licenses, invoices, billing, support updates, and renewals.

License, Billing & Renewal

BoltAI on Setapp

Export your BoltAI data from the Setapp version and import it into the website version.

Move from Setapp to the website version of BoltAI

Why do I see “Payment Required” in BoltAI with Setapp?

Understand where BoltAI stores data, how Cloud Sync works, and how to protect and move your information.

Data, Sync & Privacy

Which permissions does BoltAI require?

Back up the BoltAI data stored on this Mac and restore it safely.

Back up and restore local BoltAI data

How to import data from BoltAI v1 to v2?

I forgot my master password. How can I reset?

Common issues, fixes, errors, activation problems, and provider failures.

Troubleshooting

How to export diagnostics for Cloud Sync issues

How to inspect AI requests in BoltAI

Choose whether to restore hidden chats and folders or delete them permanently.

Review chats from an incomplete deletion

Understand output and agent step limits, and what to do when a response stops before finishing.