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The AI news app that replaces your morning newsletter. Brief Digest turns hundreds of articles into one clean, curated news briefing.
What is an AI news summary?
An AI news summary is a concise news digest generated by artificial intelligence. Instead of reading dozens of articles, you get a curated news briefing — the key facts from every story, clustered by topic. Brief Digest is a news aggregator that delivers a quick news briefing you can scan in minutes.
How does Brief Digest save you time?
Brief Digest groups related articles from multiple sources into a single story, then summarizes each cluster into a concise news briefing. No duplicates, no noise — just a curated news digest of what matters.
All Features
- AI-Powered Clustering — Our AI groups related articles from different sources into a single story — from breaking news to world news. No more reading the same headline five times — just one concise news summary per event.
- LLM-Generated Summaries — Each cluster is summarized into a short news briefing you can scan in seconds. Get the latest headlines and key facts instead of reading dozens of full articles.
- Full-Text Search — Search across all your stories by title and summary. Press Cmd+K to find anything instantly, with highlighted matches across all categories.
- Bookmarks & Saved Stories — Save stories for later with one tap. Your bookmarks sync across devices and survive cache expiry, so you never lose an important article.
- Reader Mode — Read full articles inline without leaving your digest. Extracts clean text from most sources — paywalled sites may require the original link.
- Multilingual Feed Support — Subscribe to feeds in any language. Summaries arrive in the source language by default. Pro users can translate the app interface (works in PWA install too) and force headlines & summaries into a single chosen language.
- Smart Categorization — Stories are automatically sorted into categories — Politics, Tech, Sports, Business, and more. Pro users can rename, reorder, and add custom categories to organize their digest exactly as they want.
- Keyword Rules & Blocklist — Set saved rules to permanently boost or hide content. Priority keywords surface matching stories to the top — blocklist keywords remove them from your feed in real time. Your rules persist across sessions. Pro feature.
- Clustering Sensitivity Control — Slide the sensitivity to control how the AI groups stories. Lower values merge more aggressively into fewer, broader clusters — higher values keep more stories separate for a more granular digest. Direct control over AI behavior. Pro feature.
- Email Delivery — Free: daily snapshot of your in-app digest. Pro: fresh digest delivered daily, weekly, or monthly — like a personal morning newsletter on your schedule.
- Share Stories — Share any story via your device's native share sheet or copy a formatted summary to your clipboard. Great for sending articles to friends or colleagues.
- Light, Dark & System Themes — Choose between light, dark, or system-matched themes. Your preference syncs across devices and applies instantly with no flash.
- Any RSS or Atom Feed — Subscribe to news sites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels — anything with an RSS or Atom feed. Import from other readers via OPML.
- Installable PWA — Add Brief Digest to your home screen on any device. It launches instantly like a native app — no app store, no updates to manage.
- Sentiment Filtering — Every story is automatically tagged as positive, neutral, or negative. A colored accent bar gives you an instant visual cue — and you can filter your entire feed by sentiment in one tap: show only positive news, exclude negative, or anything in between.
- Time Scrubber — Drag the time scrubber to jump to any point in your digest history. Navigate hours or days back instantly without endless scrolling.
- Guided Onboarding — A step-by-step interactive tour walks you through every feature when you first sign in. Replay it anytime from Settings.
Free vs Pro
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| RSS feeds | 25 | 200 |
| Ads | None — ever | None — ever |
| Digest refreshes | 1 / 12 h | 30 / day |
| AI story briefings / day | 20 | Unlimited |
| Digest history | 3 days | 1 month |
| Saved stories | 50 | Unlimited |
| AI clustering & summaries | Yes | Yes |
| AI processing speed | Standard | Parallel |
| Sentiment analysis | Yes | Yes |
| Sentiment filtering (positive / neutral / negative / no negative) | Yes | Yes |
| Read/unread tracking + mark all as read | Yes | Yes |
| Story feedback (Like / Not for me / Wrong category — improves AI) | Yes | Yes |
| Full-text search | Yes | Yes |
| Reader mode | Yes | Yes |
| Time scrubber | Yes | Yes |
| Bookmarks & sharing | Yes | Yes |
| Light / Dark / System themes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom categories (reorder, rename, add) | — | Yes |
| Clustering sensitivity control | — | Yes |
| Keyword blocklist & priority rules | — | Yes |
| Email digest | Daily (snapshot) | Fresh + custom cadence |
| Subscribe to feeds in any language | Yes | Yes |
| Browser-native translation (works in any browser tab) | Yes | Yes |
| App interface translated to your language — menus, buttons, categories — works in PWA install too | — | Yes |
| AI briefings in Primary language (title + summary on refresh) | — | Yes |
| OPML import/export | Yes | Yes |
| Installable on any device (PWA) | Yes | Yes |
Pro starts at $2.99/month — 30-day free trial · cancel anytime.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Brief Digest?
Brief Digest is an AI-powered news reader that delivers short form news from your RSS feeds. It clusters related articles, generates short news summaries, and presents the latest headlines in one clean briefing — world news, tech, sports, and more.
Is Brief Digest free?
Yes — Brief Digest is free for personal use with up to 25 feeds, 1 refresh every 12 hours and 20 AI story briefings per day. Headlines, reader mode and original articles are unlimited, and there are no ads on any plan. Pro plans start at $2.99/month for power users who need more feeds and faster processing.
What languages are supported?
Subscribe to feeds in any language. By default, summaries are generated in the original language of the source. In a browser tab, your browser handles UI + summary translation natively. Pro users get the app interface translated into their language (works in PWA install too) plus the option to force all story headlines and summaries into a chosen language. Note: full article body in reader mode stays in source language unless you use Pro reader translate (experimental).
Do I need to install an app?
No app store needed. Brief Digest is a Progressive Web App (PWA) — just visit briefdigest.news and add it to your home screen for a native app experience.
How does AI clustering work?
Brief Digest uses AI to measure semantic similarity between articles. Related articles are grouped into clusters, and each cluster is summarized by a large language model into one concise briefing. Pro users can adjust clustering sensitivity — controlling how aggressively the AI merges stories.
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