TL;DR for the AI age

One bit is all you need.

Copy anything. Briefbit hands back the point in plain words — instantly, over whatever you're doing.

Download for Mac Free · Universal · 4 MB

No extension. No integration. If you can copy it —

SafariChromeMail SlackNotionPreview ChatGPTClaudeMessages TerminalFigmaanything else

Three steps, then you forget it exists.

Briefbit sits in the menu bar. Nothing to open, nothing to paste, nothing to set up.

  1. Step one

    Copy anything

    An email, a contract, a thread, a wall of docs. Select it and hit copy, anywhere on your Mac.

  2. Step two

    Briefbit reads it

    The moment it hits your clipboard. It reads the whole thing and works out what actually matters.

  3. Step three

    Read the point

    One plain sentence, with the words that matter in bold. Tap it to ask anything about what you copied.

Small app. Very few opinions.

It does one thing and gets out of the way. This is the whole of it.

It leads with the point

No preamble, no “this document discusses”. The first thing you read is the thing you needed — in plain language, with the two or three words that matter in bold.

1,240 words in → Your lease auto-renews unless you cancel 60 days before March 1.

Ask follow-ups

Tap the summary and just ask. It already knows what you copied.

Floats over anything

Even a fullscreen app. It appears on top of what you're already doing, takes your typing when you want it, and never steals your window.

Fast and light

A menu-bar app, not a browser in a trenchcoat. You'll forget it's running.

~4 MBDownload UniversalEvery Mac

On only when you say so

One switch, always visible. Off means off — it reads nothing.

Stop reading things twice.

Free, and about four megabytes. Copy one thing after installing it and you'll know whether you're keeping it.

Download for Mac

Universal — Intel and Apple silicon

The first time you open it

Briefbit isn't signed with Apple yet, so macOS will block the first launch. Right-click Briefbit in Applications, choose Open, then Open again. Your Mac remembers after that.