Last updated: 28 September 2026
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Brief, the macOS application published by Runbear Inc. (“Runbear”, “we”, “us”), together with the website at dobrief.app and any associated tools (each a “Service”, together the “Services”). Please read them carefully.
By downloading, installing or using Brief, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use it.
Our Privacy Policy is part of these Terms.
You must be at least thirteen years old, or the minimum age of digital consent where you live, to use the Services. If you use Brief on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you are authorised to accept these Terms for it, and “you” means that organisation.
Subject to these Terms, Runbear grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use Brief on Macs you own or control, for your own purposes, personal or commercial. Brief is licensed, not sold.
You may not: reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App except to the extent that restriction is unenforceable by law; remove or alter any proprietary notice; sublicense, rent, sell or redistribute the App; or use it to build a competing product.
Brief requires no registration and we issue no accounts or credentials. Any credentials Brief uses — an Anthropic API key, a Claude Code login, a gateway configuration — are yours, held on your machine, and your responsibility to keep secure.
Brief reads the window you are looking at when you press the hotkey and sends that text to the engine you selected. You control both. Accordingly you are responsible for ensuring that:
Do not use Brief on content you are contractually, legally or professionally barred from disclosing to a third party. Brief cannot know what is on your screen, and the on-device and extractive engines exist precisely so that there is a local option when the content must not leave the machine.
Brief is a client. It does not include model access, and we resell none. Depending on the engine you choose, your briefs are produced by Anthropic’s API under your own API key, by the Claude Code program on your Mac under your own subscription, by Apple’s on-device model, or by a local extractive algorithm.
Any charges, rate limits, quotas or service interruptions arising from those engines are between you and the provider. Runbear does not bill you, guarantee availability of any engine, or reimburse model costs. Use of an engine is also subject to that provider’s own terms — including Anthropic’s and, where applicable, Apple’s.
This is the product’s central claim and its central limit. Brief produces machine-generated summaries. They may be incomplete, may be built from only part of a window, and may be wrong. The panel says which: the ~ mark is green, amber or grey according to how much was read, and the footer states the scope and the character counts in words.
You must not rely on a brief as a substitute for reading the source where accuracy matters, and you must not use Brief as the sole basis for any medical, legal, financial, safety or employment decision. Nothing Brief outputs is advice from Runbear.
You retain all rights in the content you brief and in the briefs produced from it. We claim no licence over either, and we never receive them — briefs are produced on your machine or by the provider you chose, and stored only on your machine.
Runbear and its licensors retain all right, title and interest in the Services, including the App, the Site, the name “Brief”, the ~ mark and all associated intellectual property. These Terms grant you no rights in them other than the licence in section 3.
Brief checks for updates and can install them, using Sparkle. Updates may add, change or remove functionality. We may discontinue the Services, or any engine option within them, at any time. Where an update is required for security or to keep the App working, continued use may depend on installing it.
You agree not to use the Services to break the law, infringe anyone’s rights, access systems or content you are not authorised to access, circumvent a provider’s rate limits or terms, or interfere with the Services’ operation.
You may stop using Brief at any time by quitting and deleting it, along with the files listed in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or terminate your licence if you materially breach these Terms. Sections 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 and 16 survive termination.
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT ANY CAPTURE WILL SUCCEED ON ANY GIVEN APPLICATION, OR THAT ANY BRIEF WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you. Where mandatory consumer law gives you rights that cannot be waived, nothing in these Terms limits them.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RUNBEAR AND ITS OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL OR BUSINESS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES — INCLUDING ANY DECISION MADE IN RELIANCE ON A BRIEF, ANY DISCLOSURE OF CONTENT TO A MODEL PROVIDER OR GATEWAY YOU CONFIGURED, AND ANY CHARGES INCURRED WITH A PROVIDER.
OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID RUNBEAR FOR THE SERVICES IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, AND (B) USD 50.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Runbear from any claim, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the Services, your breach of these Terms, or your infringement of any right of another party — including any claim that content you briefed was disclosed to a third party without authority.
The Services interoperate with software and services we do not control, including Anthropic’s API, the Claude Code program, Apple’s on-device models, PostHog, Sparkle and GitHub Pages. We are not responsible for them, and their terms govern your use of them.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. We retain the right to bring proceedings against you for any threatened or actual breach of these Terms in your country of residence, registration or business, or any other relevant country.
We may update these Terms. The current version is always at this address with its date at the top. Material changes will be flagged here and in release notes; continued use after they take effect is acceptance.
These Terms, with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Runbear regarding the Services. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may, in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.
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