diff --git a/buzz/settings/settings.py b/buzz/settings/settings.py
index 8b411049..43bfb084 100644
--- a/buzz/settings/settings.py
+++ b/buzz/settings/settings.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import enum
 import typing
 import logging
+import uuid
 
 from PyQt6.QtCore import QSettings
 
@@ -48,12 +49,21 @@ class Settings:
 
         UI_LOCALE = "ui-locale"
 
+        USER_IDENTIFIER = "user-identifier"
+
         TRANSCRIPTION_TASKS_TABLE_COLUMN_VISIBILITY = (
             "transcription-tasks-table/column-visibility"
         )
 
         MAIN_WINDOW = "main-window"
 
+    def get_user_identifier(self) -> str:
+        user_id = self.value(self.Key.USER_IDENTIFIER, "")
+        if not user_id:
+            user_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
+            self.set_value(self.Key.USER_IDENTIFIER, user_id)
+        return user_id
+
     def set_value(self, key: Key, value: typing.Any) -> None:
         self.settings.setValue(key.value, value)
 
diff --git a/buzz/widgets/application.py b/buzz/widgets/application.py
index 478cf26a..ca49ecb2 100755
--- a/buzz/widgets/application.py
+++ b/buzz/widgets/application.py
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
+import logging
 import sys
+import locale
+import platform
 import darkdetect
 
+from posthog import Posthog
+
 from PyQt6.QtGui import QFont
 from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication
 from PyQt6.QtGui import QPalette, QColor
@@ -175,6 +180,24 @@ class Application(QApplication):
 
         self.window = MainWindow(transcription_service)
 
+        posthog = Posthog(project_api_key='phc_NqZQUw8NcxfSXsbtk5eCFylmCQpp4FuNnd6ocPAzg2f',
+                          host='https://us.i.posthog.com')
+        posthog.capture(distinct_id=self.settings.get_user_identifier(), event="app_launched", properties={
+            "app": VERSION,
+            "locale": locale.getdefaultlocale(),
+            "system": platform.system(),
+            "release": platform.release(),
+            "machine": platform.machine(),
+            "version": platform.version(),
+        })
+
+        logging.debug(f"Launching Buzz: {VERSION}, " 
+                      f"locale: {locale.getdefaultlocale()}, "
+                      f"system: {platform.system()}, "
+                      f"release: {platform.release()}, "
+                      f"machine: {platform.machine()}, "
+                      f"version: {platform.version()}, ")
+
     def show_main_window(self):
         if not self.hide_main_window:
             self.window.show()
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 56448308..1675d6ad 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -187,6 +187,18 @@ files = [
     {file = "av-14.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:132b5d52ca262b97b0356e8f48cbbe54d0ac232107a722ab8cc8c0c19eafa17b"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "backoff"
+version = "2.2.1"
+description = "Function decoration for backoff and retry"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7,<4.0"
+groups = ["main"]
+files = [
+    {file = "backoff-2.2.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:63579f9a0628e06278f7e47b7d7d5b6ce20dc65c5e96a6f3ca99a6adca0396e8"},
+    {file = "backoff-2.2.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:03f829f5bb1923180821643f8753b0502c3b682293992485b0eef2807afa5cba"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "backports-tarfile"
 version = "1.2.0"
@@ -1955,6 +1967,18 @@ files = [
     {file = "mccabe-0.7.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:348e0240c33b60bbdf4e523192ef919f28cb2c3d7d5c7794f74009290f236325"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "monotonic"
+version = "1.6"
+description = "An implementation of time.monotonic() for Python 2 & < 3.3"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+groups = ["main"]
+files = [
+    {file = "monotonic-1.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:68687e19a14f11f26d140dd5c86f3dba4bf5df58003000ed467e0e2a69bca96c"},
+    {file = "monotonic-1.6.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:3a55207bcfed53ddd5c5bae174524062935efed17792e9de2ad0205ce9ad63f7"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "more-itertools"
 version = "10.6.0"
@@ -2760,6 +2784,32 @@ files = [
     {file = "polib-1.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:f3ef94aefed6e183e342a8a269ae1fc4742ba193186ad76f175938621dbfc26b"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "posthog"
+version = "3.23.0"
+description = "Integrate PostHog into any python application."
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+groups = ["main"]
+files = [
+    {file = "posthog-3.23.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2b07d06670170ac2e21465dffa8d356722834cc877ab34e583da6e525c1037df"},
+    {file = "posthog-3.23.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:1ac0305ab6c54a80c4a82c137231f17616bef007bbf474d1a529cda032d808eb"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+backoff = ">=1.10.0"
+distro = ">=1.5.0"
+monotonic = ">=1.5"
+python-dateutil = ">2.1"
+requests = ">=2.7,<3.0"
+six = ">=1.5"
+
+[package.extras]
+dev = ["black", "django-stubs", "flake8", "flake8-print", "isort", "lxml", "mypy", "mypy-baseline", "pre-commit", "pydantic", "types-mock", "types-python-dateutil", "types-requests", "types-setuptools", "types-six"]
+langchain = ["langchain (>=0.2.0)"]
+sentry = ["django", "sentry-sdk"]
+test = ["anthropic", "coverage", "django", "flake8", "freezegun (==1.5.1)", "langchain-anthropic (>=0.2.0)", "langchain-community (>=0.2.0)", "langchain-openai (>=0.2.0)", "langgraph", "mock (>=2.0.0)", "openai", "parameterized (>=0.8.1)", "pydantic", "pylint", "pytest", "pytest-asyncio", "pytest-timeout"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pre-commit"
 version = "2.21.0"
@@ -4806,4 +4856,4 @@ type = ["pytest-mypy"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
 python-versions = ">=3.9,<3.13"
-content-hash = "deb764edd760f9578f1c9f77621e459d755006e9066355b4f3311ce0f115ea34"
+content-hash = "54b43566cebe502c9d7b2ca7c7a0694a15cb17891a8a1b981f249ea5442fb8c9"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 433fb732..4569dec9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ treetable = "^0.2.5"
 soundfile = "^0.13.1"
 urllib3 = "^2.3.0"
 demucs = {url = "https://github.com/raivisdejus/demucs/releases/download/4.1.0a3/demucs-4.1.0a3-py3-none-any.whl"}
+posthog = "^3.23.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 autopep8 = "^1.7.0"