AI Brief — Help & FAQ

What AI Brief does

Better context. Better answers.

Turn screenshots, files, notes, and documents into one clear AI-ready brief.

What's included

Bring The Complete Context

• Add screenshots, PDFs, files, copied text, notes, or links. You choose what stays in the final brief.
• OCR, PDF reading, duplicate checks, fact extraction, and privacy detection use Apple frameworks locally.
• Choose one or more sources above. Processing begins only when you continue.

Verify The Facts Before Ai Sees Them

• Every fact keeps its source and confidence. Correct anything that needs context.
• Find facts, conflicts, and open questions
• Check every fact, source, and confidence before AI sees it.

Protect Privacy

• Detected details are never removed automatically. Keep, replace, or remove each item before export.
• Keep, replace, or remove each detection. AI Brief never promises anonymity.
• Replacements and removals are applied at export.

Clean Context For Any Ai Assistant

• Structured headings and source-ready formatting
• Build context once. Reuse it anytime.
• Copy AI Brief
• Version History
• Purpose-built templates

Your Context Stays Private

• AI Brief does not include third-party ads, tracking, analytics, or content telemetry.
• Review the brief before sending it to any AI service.

At a glance

Frequently asked questions

The camera preview is black

Check Settings → Privacy & Security → Camera and make sure the app is switched on. If it is already on, close any other app that may still be holding the camera (Zoom, FaceTime, another scanner), then force quit and reopen the app.

Where do my exported files go?

Exports go through the iOS share sheet, so the destination is whatever you pick — Files (On My iPhone or iCloud Drive), Mail, Messages, or another app. If you can't find a file afterwards, open the Files app and check Recents.

How do I delete the app and everything it stored?

Touch and hold the app icon → Remove App → Delete App. Deleting an iOS app removes its sandbox — the documents and settings it kept on the device go with it, so export anything you want to keep first. What the app stores and where is described in our privacy policy.

How do I make sure I'm on the latest version?

Open the App Store, tap your profile picture, and pull down to refresh the pending-updates list. If the app appears there, tap Update. Turning on Settings → App Store → App Updates keeps it automatic.

Which devices and iOS version does AI Brief need?

See the App Store product page — the Information section there is always the authoritative, up-to-date answer for compatibility, size and languages.

Troubleshooting

The app won't open, or closes straight away

Force quit it first: swipe up from the bottom of the screen and pause, then swipe the app's card away. Reopen it. If it still closes, restart the device — that clears the majority of one-off launch failures.

It feels slow, or freezes on a big job

Check free storage in Settings → General → iPhone Storage. iOS gets unpredictable below roughly 1 GB free, and anything that writes files (exports, scans, image processing) is the first thing to suffer. Also close other apps that are working in the background.

Something looks broken after an update

Update iOS itself (Settings → General → Software Update), then update the app. A mismatch between an old iOS and a new build is a common cause of layout or feature glitches.

Last resort: reinstall

Export anything you want to keep, delete the app, then reinstall it from the App Store's Purchased list. Paid unlocks belong to your Apple Account and survive a reinstall; data stored only on the device does not.

Still stuck? Email us

Write to hourstag.app@gmail.com. To get a useful answer on the first reply, include: your device model (Settings → General → About), your iOS version, the app version, and what you tapped right before the problem appeared. Screenshots or a screen recording help a lot.