Daily checklist
Add, check off, drag to reorder. Unfinished tasks carry to tomorrow, keeping their original date.
Local-first · for macOS & Linux
A daily work log built for humans.
100% offline. No cloud. Just your tasks and notes, stored in a single file on your computer.
Free · Notarized · Apple Silicon & Intel
What's inside
Everything you need to log the work — and nothing that gets in the way.
Per-day notes
Context, blockers, and links, right next to the day's work.
Month report
Copy as Markdown, or export a clean PDF to hand off.
Invoicing
Turn a month into a client invoice — per-client rate, currency, cadence, and terms.
Earnings
Billable, hours, and trends — by month or financial year, with CSV export.
Local-first & private
One SQLite file on your machine. Optional at-rest encryption.
Get paid
Your log becomes the invoice.
Tag a day to a client and Brief pulls that work straight into an invoice — dates, tasks, and totals filled in for you. Each client keeps their own rate, currency, cadence, and terms. Export a clean PDF and send.
INVOICE
Bill to Brief, LLC
Jun 3Auth flow, API review$270
Jun 11Billing dashboard$315
Jun 18Invoicing polish$225
Total$810.00
Questions, answered.
Everything else you might be wondering about Brief.
Yes — free to download and use. No subscription, no locked features.
In a single SQLite file on your own machine. No server, no cloud, nothing uploaded. Back it up by copying that one file, or export a full backup from Settings.
macOS and Linux today, as a small native desktop app — not a browser tab pretending to be one.
Optionally, yes. Turn on at-rest encryption and your notes are sealed with a key derived from your password. No recovery — forget it and the data is gone for good.