Daily brief
The daily brief is one short read each morning: Safe to Spend and how it moved, yesterday's spending, bills due in the next 3 days, how the month is pacing, and anything that needs you. It arrives as one notification at 7:30 AM your time by default, and every brief is kept, dated, so you can look back at what it said.
On a computer, Daily Brief is in the sidebar. On a phone, tap More, then Daily Brief. Tapping the morning notification opens it too.
What is in it
- Safe to Spend
- Your included cash, minus what your goals hold, minus this month's unspent budget (when that option is on in Goals). It does not subtract upcoming bills; those get their own line. The brief says how much it moved since your last brief and what moved it.
- Yesterday
- What you spent yesterday on everyday spending, how many transactions, and how that compares with your usual day. Bills paid yesterday are listed separately.
- Coming up
- Bills due today and over the next 2 days, with amounts, and whether your cash covers them. Paychecks expected in the same window.
- Pace
- Everyday spending this month against your usual pace, and the one budget category furthest over its pace.
- Needs you
- A bank that needs reconnecting (shown every day until it is fixed), new alerts since your last brief, a refund that landed, a recurring charge whose price changed, and new merchants or transactions without a category.
- Mondays
- Last week's everyday spending against your usual week, your net worth change since last Monday, and how far your Freedom Date moved.
A normal day shows at most 6 lines, most important first. A bill your cash does not cover, or a broken bank connection, goes to the top. Anything that is not news that day sits under More. When nothing notable happened, the brief is one line, for example "Quiet day. Safe to Spend is $1,240, nothing due until Friday."
A green chip means the change is good for you and a red one means it is not. The arrow shows which way the number moved, so Safe to Spend going up is green and spending going up is red. Tap any line to open the page it is about.
Change the time or turn it off
- Open Settings, then Daily Brief.
- Use the switch to turn the brief on or off.
- Pick a time between 5:00 AM and 11:00 AM. The brief uses the time zone of the device you last signed in on.
The notification uses the same permission as alerts. If notifications are not enabled on a device, the brief is still made each morning and shown in the app.
Common questions
Why did my brief not arrive this morning?
Check that the brief is on in Settings, Daily Brief, and that notifications are enabled on your device. A brief is only made when you have linked accounts and an active subscription. If FIYR could not send it within 3 hours of your chosen time, it is saved without a notification.
Are the numbers in an old brief still true?
Each brief shows the numbers as of the morning it was made, and is dated. Open the page a line links to for the current figure.
Does it include my partner's accounts?
It covers every account that counts in FIYR, the same as the rest of the app. Joint accounts are not listed separately.
Still stuck?
Email us. A real person who builds FIYR reads every message.