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Every privacy dial in one place: what leaves your computer, what shows on your profile, and how to browse without an audience.
Privacy & Incognito
Every privacy dial in one place: what leaves your computer, what shows on your profile, and how to browse without an audience.
Tranzio has a community side (profiles, ratings, messages), and how much of you it shows is up to you. The Privacy section of Settings gathers every dial in one place, and none of them affect what you can do in the app: a maximally private account installs, builds, and publishes exactly like a public one.
Helps us see which features are slow or failing.
A report is sent automatically if the app crashes.
Pause activity on your public profile while you browse.
What each switch does
| Where | What it does |
|---|---|
| Share anonymous diagnostics | Anonymous usage signals: which features get opened, which screens are slow, which actions fail. They're tied to a random id rather than to your name, and anything you type is masked before it leaves. |
| Send crash reports | When something throws, the technical detail of what went wrong is reported. It's the single most useful signal for fixing bugs during the beta, and it lives inside the diagnostics switch, not beside it. |
| Online status | Who sees the green dot when you're using Tranzio: everyone, friends only, or no one. It only controls the dot; your profile, your name and your work stay exactly as visible as before. Set it to no one and nobody is told when you come or go, not even the people you're already talking to. |
| Incognito mode | Pauses activity on your public profile while you use the app. Browse, install, and experiment without it appearing anywhere. |
| List me on the community registry | Whether other people can find you by searching for you. Turn it off and you're reachable through work you chose to publish, not through the people search. |
| Request a data export | Not a switch. It writes everything the catalog holds about your account to a single dated JSON file in your downloads folder. |
Both telemetry switches ship on, and both are one click from off. Nothing is captured before the app has read your choice, and turning a switch off stops the capture there and then, not at the next restart.
Diagnostics and crash reports, precisely
These two are worth understanding rather than guessing at, because they're the only switches on this page that send anything anywhere. Diagnostics is the master: crash reporting sits inside it, so switching diagnostics off silences errors too, whatever the crash switch says.
- Screen openedBuildsent
- Button usedRun health checkssent
- Session recordinganything you type is maskedsent
- Unhandled erroraudio dock failed to mountsent
Both on, which is how Tranzio ships. Everything here is tied to a random id, not to your name.
With diagnostics on, Tranzio also records how you moved through the app so a bug report can be watched back rather than guessed at. Everything you type is masked in that recording, and turning diagnostics off stops the recording along with everything else.
Incognito, in practice
With Incognito on, your recent activity stops updating for other viewers, while everything you do still works and still counts for you: installs proceed, your translation work saves, and achievements keep accumulating quietly. Turn it off and your profile picks up from there. It's a pause button for your public presence, not a second account.
What others see
- Rated a Japanese translation of Hades
- Installed Japanese for Celeste
- Hidden while Incognito
- Hidden while Incognito
What still counts for you
- Rated a Japanese translation of Hades
- Installed Japanese for Celeste
- Earned the First hundred lines badge
- Rated a Japanese translation of Tunic
Incognito on. The profile stops updating for other players, and nothing you do is lost.
Things you've published stay published; Incognito hides your activity, not your work. To unpublish an adaptation, use its publishing settings.
What actually leaves your computer
Tranzio keeps four small databases per game, and it's worth being exact about them, because the difference between them is the difference between a translation tool you can trust with somebody else's game and one you can't. Three of the four never leave your machine at all.
game.tranzioThe game's source strings and the labels you gave them.Staysoriginals.tranzioThe publisher's original text, exactly as it was extracted.Stayslocal.tranzioMachine state: folder paths, install bookkeeping, per-computer settings.Staysadaptation.tranzioYour translation, and only your translation.Ships, scrubbed
adaptation.tranzio Publishing copies the file, blanks the columns below, and uploads the copy. The one you work in is never modified.
- Draft comments
- Local file paths
- Caption text
- Store page copy
| File | Where it goes |
|---|---|
originals.tranzio | Nowhere. It holds the publisher's own text as extracted from the game, and it is never uploaded, in any flow. |
local.tranzio | Nowhere. Machine state: absolute folder paths, install bookkeeping, per-computer settings. |
game.tranzio | Nowhere. It carries the game's source strings and your labels for them. Earlier builds of Tranzio sent it with a publish; current ones do not. |
adaptation.tranzio | To the catalog, when you publish, as a scrubbed copy. Your translation is the point of publishing, so this is the file that goes. |
Your data, in general
The short version worth remembering: your library, settings, and translation work live on your own computer, and only published adaptations, messages, and account details live with Tranzio. The breakdown is in Accounts, plans & your data, and account deletion (which removes your data with it) sits in Settings under Danger zone.
If you'd rather read it than take our word for it, the same Privacy section has Request a data export, which hands you a JSON file of everything the catalog holds under your account.