Privacy
What leaves your machine.
By default, your questions, answers, screen and files stay on your computer. layman has no analytics, no tracking and no account. Things only go out when you choose a feature that needs the internet, and each one is listed below.
Stays on your computer
- Your questions and the answers from local models. They're generated by Ollama on your computer.
- What layman reads for context: selected text, window text (read with your operating system's own OCR), and files you selected.
- Chat history, settings, snippets, to-dos and anything layman learns about your routines.
- Cloud API keys, encrypted with Windows DPAPI or stored in the macOS Keychain.
layman reads your screen only when you press the shortcut. It never reads password fields or password managers.
Sent when you buy and activate
- Lemon Squeezy handles checkout and license keys. It receives what you enter at checkout.
- On activation and every few days after, layman sends your license key and a device label (your computer's name plus an 8-character fingerprint) to Lemon Squeezy, so a key works on one computer at a time.
Sent only if you use it
- Cloud models. With a cloud model selected, your messages and anything attached go to that provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Groq or OpenRouter), under their terms. The model menu labels who receives the data.
- Web searches and links open in your browser.
- Model downloads come from Ollama's library.
- Integrations and calendar feeds you connect talk to those services directly from your computer.
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