A free tier that's genuinely useful, and two paid tiers for people who want Brief doing more of the work.
The catch-and-review core, on your own devices.
On-device filtering uses Apple Intelligence on your own hardware. It's private and free to run, and it's a little less precise than the cloud model.
Better catching, and the full morning brief.
Cloud filtering is the single biggest quality jump — it's what catches the awkward ones, like a task buried mid-thread in a group chat.
Everything, plus the daily content modules.
Commitments and Waiting-on are built and working, but they're off during the beta while we get them right. Premium subscribers get them at no extra cost when they land.
If you're testing Brief during the beta, you're a founding member.
You'll get plenty of notice, and an explicit choice. Nothing switches to a paid plan on its own, and no card is on file during the beta.
Something Brief caught and surfaced for you to review — a task, an appointment, a payment, a follow-up. Messages it filters out don't count against the cap.
On-device runs on your Mac's own hardware — private and free, but it misses more of the hard cases: a task buried mid-thread, or something phrased indirectly. Cloud filtering sends candidate messages to a stronger model and catches noticeably more. Free is on-device; Pro and Premium use the cloud model.
Yes. If you'd rather run on your own Anthropic or OpenAI key, you can — it's stored only in your Mac's Keychain and used from your Mac.
Not at launch. If enough people want one we'll add it — tell us at hello@justbriefme.app.
Install both apps and see whether it catches what you'd have missed.