About this app
Brief turns any article, YouTube video, or PDF into a 5-bullet TL;DR plus 3 action takeaways — in about 30 seconds, right on your iPhone. ON-DEVICE & PRIVATE Brief summarizes on your device using Apple's on-device intelligence. No account, no cloud upload, works offline. Your reading never leaves your phone. NO SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED Unlock everything once with a $14.99 Lifetime purchase. Prefer to pay smaller? HOW IT WORKS 1. Paste a link, share from Safari/YouTube/Files, or drop a PDF. 2. Brief reads it on-device and returns a clean 5-bullet summary. 3. Save it to your searchable library, tag it, listen to it, or export it. FREE - 3 summaries per day - On-device summarization - Searchable local library PRO (Lifetime $14.99 — one-time) - Unlimited summaries - Bring Your Own Key (BYOK): use your own OpenAI or Claude key for long-form and multi-document work — your key, your endpoint, no middleman - Audio summaries read aloud - Export to Apple Notes and more - Unlimited library tags WHY BRIEF - Built for people who read 10+ articles, videos, or papers a week. - A flat, fast, reverse-chronological library — no clutter, no backlog nagging. - Share Extension accepts batch URLs and PDFs, not one file at a time. PRIVACY Brief collects no data by default. On-device summarization means your content stays on your device. If you enable BYOK, your API key is stored in the iOS Keychain and used only to call the endpoint you configure — never sent to Brief.
Latest release
What’s New
Performance improvements and minor fixes.
Audience growth
Ratings growth
Baseline captured. Growth appears after the crawler observes a changed rating count.
Momentum comes from crawler snapshots for the tracked storefront. “Viral growth signal” means unusually fast recent rating gains; it is an indicator, not download data.
Price tracking
Price intelligence
First snapshot captured. The trend line starts after the next crawler price observation.
- First observed Aug 26, 2026 · 11:32 PM Free
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