What the maker of Listen receives about you, which is as close to nothing as software can get. Last updated 27 August 2026.
Listen runs entirely on your devices. Jacaranda Labs operates no server for it and requires no account. Your recordings, transcripts, notes and voiceprints are yours, on hardware you control, and we cannot see them. Nothing about you is collected beyond the anonymous statistics described below, which are on by default, yours to turn off any time, and never contain your content.
If you enable iCloud sync, data moves between your own devices through your own Apple account, sealed with a key we never hold. If you point the Ask feature at a hosted AI provider, the transcripts you ask about go to that provider under your agreement with them, not ours. The built-in OpenRouter connection requires a Zero Data Retention endpoint and denies provider data collection on every request; another endpoint follows that endpoint's own policy. Both are off until you turn them on.
Both apps send anonymous usage statistics and crash reports by default, and Settings, Privacy is where you turn it off. What can be sent is counts and durations in rough buckets, file sizes in rough buckets, which app a call was in from a fixed list, the kind of device holding a recording's audio (a Mac or an iPhone, never which one), stable failure codes, and crash stack traces. Never recordings, transcripts, notes, titles, names, tags, searches, questions, file paths, or raw error text. TELEMETRY.md is the complete dictionary of every event and property, and the filter that enforces it is public code both apps compile in.
eu.i.posthog.com), configured to discard IP addresses at
ingestion. Events are kept indefinitely: PostHog has no way to delete
events after a set time, so nothing here can promise that it happens.
What is deleted, immediately and on your instruction, is the install ID
that connects them, which is the switch in Settings, Privacy.Some infrastructure sees ordinary connection metadata, such as your IP address, because of how the internet works:
None of these connections carries your recordings, transcripts, or anything derived from them.
You are the controller of what you record. Recording other people is regulated nearly everywhere: consent rules differ by country and by US state, and workplaces have their own. Listen gives you the tools (deletion that propagates everywhere, voiceprint forgetting, an activity log), and the obligation to record lawfully is yours.
Every right a data subject might exercise against a Listen library is exercised on the device that holds it, by its owner: the library is open WAV and JSON files, so access and portability are the file system, and deletion is deletion, propagated to every synced device and to iCloud. There is no copy at Jacaranda Labs to ask about, correct, or erase.
This notice changes only via the public repository, where its history is visible. Questions: github.com/mugoosse/listen/issues.