BriefingUpdated October 30, 2026
These terms apply when you use Briefing: the app on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and the service that keeps your account, updates your feeds and writes your briefings. Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement covers your license to the app itself. These terms cover the service, and apply alongside it. Briefing is made and provided by Alexander Kim, an individual, and “Briefing” in these terms means him and the service.
By using Briefing, you agree to these terms and to the privacy policy.
Using Briefing
You need to be at least 13 to use Briefing, or older if the law where you live sets a higher age for using a service like it without a parent’s permission. Your account is for you; don’t share it or use someone else’s.
Your Account
You sign in with Apple, and your account is tied to your Apple Account. Keeping your Apple Account secure keeps your Briefing account secure. You’re responsible for what’s done with your account.
Plans and the Free Trial
Briefing’s plans differ in how long you can listen in natural voices each month:
- Briefing: 2 hours a month
- Briefing Plus: 8 hours a month
Both plans make up to 5 briefings a day. Scheduled briefings and ones you make both count, and a day is the calendar day where you are. With either plan, Timeline shows a summary of up to 300 of your feeds’ new articles a day, and your device reads articles, links and briefings aloud in its own voices without limit.
Each article, briefing or link counts once toward the month’s hours, at its full length, the first time you listen to it in a natural voice. Listening to it again is free. Once the hours are used, Briefing reads anything new in your device’s voices until the next month begins (in UTC). Saved links are read in natural voices only if you choose to.
Each plan starts with a 7-day free trial if your Apple Account hasn’t had one, with up to 30 minutes of listening in natural voices. Plans are bought through the App Store, at the price it shows you, and renew each month until you cancel. If you don’t cancel before your free trial ends, the plan you chose begins and you’re charged for it.
Apple handles payment, renewal, cancelling and refunds, under its own terms. To change or cancel a plan, choose Manage Subscription in Briefing’s Plans page, or go to your subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. To ask for a refund, go to reportaproblem.apple.com. If Apple refunds a plan, it ends within a day.
Accounts given a plan directly, without the App Store, keep it until it’s ended.
Limits
Writing a briefing has a cost, so each account also has a monthly limit on what its briefings may cost. Once the month’s briefings reach it, no more are made until the next month begins (in UTC). The limit is $3.75 a month on either plan, well above what a plan’s briefings normally cost, so it only stops unusual use.
Briefing may change these limits, or set a different one for an account, to keep the service working for everyone.
When a Plan Ends
If your free trial or plan ends and you don’t choose another:
- No briefings or summaries are made, and your feeds stop updating.
- Your devices still keep your feeds, links and briefings the same.
- 14 days after it ends, the saved copies of your links’ pages are deleted. Briefing tells you in the app and by notification when your plan ends, and the day before.
Your account, feeds and links are kept, so choosing a plan again picks up where you left off. You can export your feeds and links at any time in Settings, under Import & Export.
Written by AI
Briefings and article summaries are written by AI from the articles in your feeds. They can be wrong, leave out something important, or misread an article. Read the article before relying on anything in a briefing, and don’t treat a briefing as advice of any kind, such as medical, legal or financial advice.
Tags on your links are suggested by Apple Intelligence on your device, and can be wrong too.
Articles and Publishers
Articles belong to their publishers. Briefing fetches the feeds you add and shows their articles, and the pages of links you save, for your own reading. Briefing doesn’t own them and doesn’t give you any rights to them. Briefings and summaries are for your own use; don’t republish them.
Add only feeds you’re allowed to read. A publisher with a concern about how Briefing shows their work can write to the address under Contact.
Your Content
Your feeds, links, notes, tags and collections stay yours. You allow Briefing to store and sync them, and to read your feeds to write your briefings, only to provide the service to you. Your library is encrypted so Briefing can’t read it; the privacy policy describes what’s kept and how.
When you share a collection, the people you invite can see its links, and add and edit them if you allow it. You’re responsible for what you share and what you add to collections shared with you.
Acceptable Use
Don’t use Briefing to:
- Break the law or anyone’s rights, including copyright
- Share or distribute content you aren’t allowed to
- Get around plan limits, or reach another person’s account or data
- Overload, attack or disrupt the service, or fetch feeds and sites in a way that harms them
- Copy, resell or build a competing service from Briefing’s service
Briefing may suspend or end an account that does, and will tell you why when it can.
Ending Your Account
You can delete your account at any time in Settings. Deleting it deletes everything kept with it and ends Briefing’s access to your Apple Account. Collections you shared are deleted too, and the people you shared them with lose their links unless they saved their own copies.
Deleting your account doesn’t cancel your plan in the App Store. Cancel it in Manage Subscription first.
Briefing may end the service. If it does, you’ll be told at least 30 days before, so you can export your feeds and links and cancel your plan before it renews.
Changes
Briefing will change over time: features may be added, changed or removed. If these terms change, the new version will be posted here with its date, and a change that affects what you pay or what’s kept will also be shown in the app. Using Briefing after a change means you accept the new terms.
Liability
Briefing is provided as it is and as it’s available. It may be interrupted, a briefing may be late or not made, and feeds may fail to update. To the extent the law allows, Briefing isn’t responsible for indirect or consequential losses, or for losses from relying on a briefing or summary, and its total responsibility to you is limited to what you paid for Briefing in the 12 months before the claim.
Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under the law where you live that can’t be limited by agreement.
TODO (Alex): the governing law and courts for these terms, usually the US state where you live. Have a lawyer review this section and the liability limit.
Contact
TODO (Alex): the support email address. This one is a placeholder.
Questions about these terms, or a concern from a publisher, can go to support@example.com.