Dictly privacy policy

Dictly - Dictation for YouTube™ · Effective 30 October 2026

In short: Dictly does not collect, send, share or sell any data. Everything it needs stays in your own browser.

What Dictly does with data

No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking, and no servers of our own.
To get subtitles Dictly opens YouTube's own “Show transcript” panel for the video you are watching and reads the transcript YouTube loads into the page. The only other thing it loads is the picture (thumbnail) of videos you practised, straight from YouTube's image server (i.ytimg.com), to show them in your list. Nothing about you is sent with it, and nothing goes to anyone other than YouTube.
Your practice progress (which sentences you finished or skipped, and when — for your daily stats and streak), the titles of videos you practised, and your settings are stored only on your computer, in Chrome's extension storage. They never leave your browser. Uninstalling Dictly deletes them. If you choose Save backup file in Settings, the same data is saved as a file on your own computer; Dictly never uploads it.
What you type in the answer box is used only to check your answer on your computer. It is not saved or sent anywhere.

`sidePanel`	Shows the dictation exercise in Chrome's side panel next to the video.
`storage`	Saves your progress and settings on your own computer.
`activeTab`	Lets the panel know which tab you are looking at when you open it.
`scripting`	When Dictly is installed or updated, adds Dictly to YouTube tabs that are already open, so you don't have to reload them.
Access to `www.youtube.com`	Plays and pauses the video for each sentence, notices when you switch videos, and reads the video's subtitles from YouTube's transcript panel. Dictly runs on no other website.

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Dictly is not made by or affiliated with YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.