Privacy

Glimpse runs locally by default. Your audio and transcripts stay on your machine. They never touch our servers. The only thing we collect is a small amount of anonymous usage telemetry, and you can turn it off at any time.

Who you are to us

A random number your computer picked.

Not your name. Not your IP. Not your device. We genuinely have no idea who you are.

Where it lives

On a server in Europe.

We use a tool called PostHog, hosted in the EU. That's the only place those little numbers go.

What we collect

  • When you open and close Glimpse
  • How long you had it open
  • How many things you dictated
  • Which model and mode you used
  • Whether you used LLM cleanup
  • Which models you download
  • When you finish onboarding
  • When something fails, and what step failed

What we never collect

  • Your transcripts
  • Your audio
  • Your API keys
  • Your prompts
  • Your name, IP, or device ID
  • Anything personally identifiable

If you bring your own LLM

Glimpse has optional features (Cleanup, Edit Mode, and Personalization) that can call an external LLM provider you configure. When you use one of those, the relevant text and prompt are sent directly from your machine to that provider. Your API key stays on your machine, stored locally in Glimpse. Nothing routes through us.

Turning it off

Open Glimpse and head to Settings → App. Toggle analytics off. Restart the app. Done. Nothing more leaves your machine.

Why we collect anything at all

Building Glimpse means deciding what to build next, what to improve, and just as importantly, what to cut. Anonymous usage data helps us make those calls based on what people actually use.

For example: we once added support for a transcription model called Moonshine. After a month, the data showed it had been used exactly once, by us. Without that signal, features linger forever.

When analytics are on, they're anonymous and GDPR compliant. Only the Glimpse team can see the data, and it's only used to improve the app.

Your data will never be sold. This applies to cloud mode too.

your data is yours, not ours to share.

Want to verify? Read src-tauri/src/analytics.rs or the Glimpse Wiki.