Privacy
Glimpse runs locally by default. Your audio and transcripts stay on your machine and 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.
A random install ID, not you
Not your name, your IP address or your device. Just a random number your computer picked, so we never know who you are.
Stored in Europe
We use a tool called PostHog, hosted in the EU. That's the only place those little numbers go.
What we collect, and what we never do
What we collect
- When you install, open, and close Glimpse, and how long each session lasts
- Which transcription models, modes, and features you use (like LLM cleanup)
- The rough size of each dictation: how long it ran and how many words (never the text itself)
- When something fails, gets discarded, or the app crashes, including where in the code (never the error message)
- Whether you finish setup, and which dictation shortcut you end up on
- Your app version, operating system, CPU type (Apple Silicon or Intel), and how you installed Glimpse
What we never collect
- Your transcripts
- Your audio
- Your API keys
- Your prompts
- Crash messages or error text
- The apps or websites you dictate into
- Your dictionary entries or replacements
- File paths or library titles
- Your name, IP, or device ID
- Anything personally identifiable
Want the exact event names and properties we send? See the full analytics reference.
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 then App. Toggle analytics off. We send one final note that you opted out, and then nothing more leaves your machine.
This website
tryglimpse.cc uses the same EU-hosted PostHog to count visits: which pages are viewed, the referring site and campaign tags, your browser, operating system and rough country, and clicks on download, buy, GitHub and Hugging Face links. It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser, so each visit gets a random ID that's gone when you leave. There's no session recording and nothing you type is captured. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, the analytics script never loads.
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.
Want to verify? Read src-tauri/src/analytics.rs or the Glimpse Wiki.