Privacy
Last updated November 1, 2026.
The app
Ambient collects nothing. It has no accounts and sends no telemetry. Agent events travel over a private Unix socket on your Mac and stay there. If you pair another machine, the agents on it send their events to your Mac over your own ssh, and nowhere else. Ambient goes online only when you ask it to: the one-time offline voice download, and the text you select when you choose an online voice.
Download counts
We count downloads so we know how many people try Ambient and which launch posts they came from. Each download adds one anonymous record: the date, the version, the ref tag of the link you followed (or the site that linked to the download) and your country. It holds no IP address, no cookie and nothing that identifies you.
Website analytics
To see which pages help people and which links bring them here, this site uses Umami, a privacy-focused analytics service. It sets no cookies, doesn't store your IP address and doesn't follow you across sites. It records the pages you view, the site or ref tag that sent you, your browser, operating system, device type and country, clicks on the download and update buttons, how quickly pages load and respond (Core Web Vitals), and how the living wallpaper demo is used and how smoothly it runs. If your browser sends Do Not Track, nothing is recorded.
Feature requests
The feature requests board is public: what you write there, and how many votes it has, anyone can see. Posting and voting need no account. Your browser keeps a random ID so you vote once per request; we store only a scrambled version of it. To limit spam, we count posts and votes from each network every day. Each count is filed under a keyed, one-way hash of your network address and the date, never the address itself, and counts from before yesterday are deleted whenever someone posts a request. We don't store IP addresses, cookies or email addresses for the board. To have a request removed, email us.
Update emails
Downloading Ambient doesn't ask for anything. After the download starts you can leave your email address to hear when a new version ships. We use it only to tell you about Ambient — new versions and new features. We don't sell or share it. If you arrived from a link with a ref tag, such as one in a launch post, we store that tag with your address so we know which posts people found useful.
The form is stored with Netlify, which hosts this site. Netlify may log standard request information, such as IP addresses, to operate and secure the site.
Your choices
To see, correct or delete your details, email vivek.yadav@stringswaytech.com or reply to any email from us, and we'll do it. Every email we send includes a way to stop receiving them.