diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9a2a092..208e29e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1966,6 +1966,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-stream",
  "toml 0.9.12+spec-1.1.0",
  "tracing",
+ "tracing-appender",
  "tracing-subscriber",
  "url",
  "uuid",
@@ -7816,6 +7817,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "symlink"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a7973cce6668464ea31f176d85b13c7ab3bba2cb3b77a2ed26abd7801688010a"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
 version = "1.0.109"
@@ -8742,6 +8749,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-appender"
+version = "0.2.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "050686193eb999b4bb3bc2acfa891a13da00f79734704c4b8b4ef1a10b368a3c"
+dependencies = [
+ "crossbeam-channel",
+ "symlink",
+ "thiserror 2.0.18",
+ "time",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-attributes"
 version = "0.1.31"
diff --git a/dataans/src-tauri/Cargo.toml b/dataans/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
index c033b19..4f63ca3 100644
--- a/dataans/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
+++ b/dataans/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ tokio-stream = "0.1"
 
 # logging
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["std", "fmt", "ansi", "env-filter"] }
+tracing-appender = "0.2"
 
 common = { path = "../common" }
 toml = "0.9"
diff --git a/dataans/src-tauri/src/main.rs b/dataans/src-tauri/src/main.rs
index ad68cbc..bcd2009 100644
--- a/dataans/src-tauri/src/main.rs
+++ b/dataans/src-tauri/src/main.rs
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ fn toggle_app_visibility(app: &AppHandle) -> Result<()> {
 }
 
 fn init_tracing(app_data: &Path) {
-    use std::fs::OpenOptions;
     use std::{fs, io};
 
+    use tracing_appender::rolling::{Builder, Rotation};
     use tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter;
     use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
 
@@ -82,14 +82,21 @@ fn init_tracing(app_data: &Path) {
         }
     }
 
-    let log_file = logs_dir.join("dataans.log");
-    match OpenOptions::new().create(true).append(true).open(&log_file) {
-        Ok(log_file) => {
-            let log_file_layer = tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer().pretty().with_writer(log_file);
+    // Rotates weekly and keeps at most 2 log files (the active one plus one previous week),
+    // deleting older ones automatically.
+    match Builder::new()
+        .rotation(Rotation::WEEKLY)
+        .filename_prefix("dataans")
+        .filename_suffix("log")
+        .max_log_files(2)
+        .build(&logs_dir)
+    {
+        Ok(file_appender) => {
+            let log_file_layer = tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer().pretty().with_writer(file_appender);
             registry.with(log_file_layer).with(logging_filter).init();
         }
         Err(e) => {
-            eprintln!("Couldn't open log file: {e}. Path: {log_file:?}.");
+            eprintln!("Couldn't init the rolling log file appender: {e}. Path: {logs_dir:?}.");
             registry.with(logging_filter).init();
         }
     }