BriefingUpdated October 30, 2026
Briefing keeps what it needs to write your briefings and keep your devices the same, and nothing else. There are no ads, and the app has no analytics or tracking.
Your Account
You sign in with Apple. Briefing receives the identifier and email address Apple shares, which can be a private relay address if you choose to hide yours. It also keeps a token from Apple, used only to end Briefing’s access to your Apple ID if you delete your account.
What’s Kept With Your Account
So your devices stay the same, your account keeps:
- Your feeds, settings and briefing schedule
- Your briefings, and which articles you’ve read or seen
- Your saved links, with their notes, tags and collections (encrypted, as described below)
- Where you stopped reading each article and link
- Your devices, so they can be told when a briefing is ready
- How many briefings were made for you, and what they cost, to apply daily and monthly limits
This is stored in a database run by Supabase.
If your trial or plan ends and you don’t choose another, your feeds stop updating, and 14 days later the saved copies of your links’ pages are deleted. Briefing tells you when it ends, and the day before. Your account, feeds and links are kept. You can delete your account and everything kept with it at any time in Settings.
Your Library
Your links and collections are encrypted on your devices before they’re sent: their titles, notes and tags, the saved copies of links’ pages, and where you stopped reading each link. They’re encrypted with a key only your devices have, so Briefing stores them but can’t read them. It can see only that they exist and when they changed.
Collections you share with other people, and their links, aren’t encrypted yet, so the people you invite can open them. A collection is encrypted again when you stop sharing it.
Your feeds, settings, briefings, which articles you’ve read or seen, and where you stopped reading each article aren’t encrypted. Briefing’s server reads them to write your briefings.
The key is kept in iCloud Keychain, so your devices signed in to the same Apple Account get it on their own. Another device gets it when you approve it on a device that has it, after checking that both show the same code. Briefing’s server passes the request along and notifies your devices, but never receives the key. A recovery key in Settings opens your library too, for a device where iCloud Keychain is off and no other device can approve it. Briefing can’t recover it for you.
Copies stored before your library was encrypted, or while a collection was shared, may remain in the database’s backups until those expire.
How Briefings Are Written
Briefing’s server fetches your feeds and sends the text of new articles to Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, to write your briefing. Requests may go through OpenRouter. They contain articles from your feeds, not your saved links, notes or collections.
The server never reads your saved links, notes or collections, unless you choose to hear links in natural voices.
Listening in Natural Voices
When you listen in a natural voice, Briefing’s server sends the text being read to Inworld, which makes the audio. The audio of articles and briefings is kept, so anyone listening to the same text hears it without another charge.
Saved links are read in natural voices only if you turn this on, and never links in private collections. A link’s text goes to Inworld through Briefing’s server and isn’t kept there. What you hear is encrypted on your device with your library key and kept so only you can play it again.
On Your Device
New links are tagged by Apple Intelligence on your device. Links in private collections are never tagged, and private collections show only after Face ID or Touch ID.
Sites you sign in to in Briefing’s browser stay on that device.
Shared Collections
When you share a collection, the people you invite can see its links, and add and edit them if you allow it. A shared collection and its links aren’t encrypted yet.
This Website
This website counts its visits with Vercel Web Analytics: the pages viewed, the site you came from, and your country, browser and type of device. It uses no cookies and doesn’t identify you or follow you to other sites. The app doesn’t use it.
What Briefing Doesn’t Do
- Show ads or sell your information
- Use analytics or tracking in the app
- Keep tracking parameters like utm_source on links you save, unless you turn this off in Settings
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with its date.