Telemetry: what's sent, how to disable

At first launch Dimmy asks whether it may send usage statistics and crash reports. Nothing is sent until you say yes, and each has its own switch. Two destinations, both in EU data centres: PostHog EU for usage statistics, Sentry EU for crash reports. Events are linked to a random installation ID, so they are pseudonymous, not anonymous. Versions up to 0.7.13 started with both switches on.

What we send

• App version, OS, CPU architecture.
• Event names (app.started, transcription.completed, llm.applied, ...).
• Numbers and durations (audio length in seconds, processing time in ms, word count).
• Provider category tags (local, groq, openai, ...) but never the URL, never the API key.
• Which transcription engine ran, as a category tag on transcription.completed (batch, deepgram_stream, local_stream, chunked_caption).
• model.download_completed: which kind of local model finished downloading (whisper, llm, parakeet) and whether it succeeded. Never the model path or filename.
• consent.logged: which step the meeting recording-consent gate reached (shown, accepted, cancelled, announced, declined), so we can measure drop-off. Never the participant names, the spoken announcement, or any meeting content. Ties to meeting recaps.
• Crash stack traces (truncated and secret-redacted).

What we never send

• The audio you record.
• The text of any transcription.
• Any prompt or LLM output.
• API keys, even in error messages.
• Your IP, hostname, or username.
• File paths beyond a categorical tag.

Turn it on or off

1. 1Open Settings → Privacy.
2. 2Send anonymous usage data: on sends usage events to PostHog, off stops them.
3. 3Send crash reports: on sends crash reports to Sentry, off stops them.
4. 4Both take effect immediately. Already-sent events cannot be recalled; write to us to have them deleted.

Audit it yourself

Every telemetry call is logged locally with [telemetry] prefix. Open your Dimmy log file and grep for [telemetry] to see exactly what was sent and when. See Privacy policy for the full breakdown.