UpNext Brief
Release Dates, Lists & Friends
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New: Friends. See friends' lists with their permission, recommend titles and watch together. Plus My List for everything you follow, and Did You Watch? reminders.
UpNext Brief keeps one list of everything you're waiting for: books, TV, Movies, music, games and live events. Follow something once and we tell you the day it lands.
NEW: FRIENDS
See what your friends are waiting for, with their permission. Invite someone by email, a link or a QR code. Each of you chooses what the other sees: which categories, and whether to include what you've watched, read and played.
• Open a friend's list and add anything from it to My Brief in a tap
• See "Taylor follows this" and "Taylor loved it" on titles you're looking at
• Recommend a title to a friend, with a quick note if you like
• Watch Together with a friend when you both turn it on
• An optional Feed of what friends add, finish and love
• Remove, block or report anyone at any time
NEW: MY LIST
Tap My List at the top of My Brief to see everything you follow in one place, grouped the way you think about it: TV in Coming Soon, Awaiting Next Season and Aired; Movies in Coming Soon and Out Now; books, music, games and events by what's coming up. Each title shows your progress ("Seen 3 of 4", "Caught up", "Watched") and who you watch it with ("With Sam").
ONE BRIEF FOR EVERYTHING
• Books: new titles from the authors you follow
• TV: the next episode and the next season of every show you follow
• Movies: theater and streaming release dates
• Music: new albums from the artists you follow
• Games: release dates for the games you're waiting for
• Events: live dates for the performers you follow, near you
My Brief puts what's out now and what's coming up first, and Quick Add lets you type a title or a name, or paste a link, and add it in a tap.
ALERTS ON RELEASE DAY
An alert reaches your phone the morning something you follow comes out, so you hear about it on the day, not a week later.
NEW: DID YOU WATCH?
The morning after a new episode airs, a reminder asks "Did you watch?" with Yes and Not Yet right on the notification. Yes marks it watched for you and anyone you watch it with, so your progress stays right without opening the app.
FAMILY AND WATCHING TOGETHER
Link your household and say who watches what. Who Watches? sorts shows and movies into the groups you watch them in, Still to Decide collects what nobody has claimed yet, and marking an episode watched updates it for everyone watching with you. Family alerts tell you when someone adds a show or movie, by phone alert, email, both or neither.
SHARE MY LIST
Send anyone a private, read-only link to your list. You choose the categories, and you can stop sharing at any time.
ALSO
• Show, movie, author and artist pages with where to watch, listen or buy
• Email digests of what's coming up, weekly or monthly
• Dark mode by default, with Light in Settings → Appearance
• Everything stays in step with upnextbrief.com
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and Live Activities that count down to the thing you're waiting for
FREE AND PAID
UpNext Brief is free to use, with up to 25 follows and release-day alerts. Friends, My List, Did You Watch? and Share My List are included free. UpNext Brief Paid adds unlimited follows, every kind of alert (delays, tickets on sale, trailers) at the times you choose, more places for live events, the Weekly Brief, calendar sync and export.
Release data from TMDB, IGDB, Google Books, Apple Music and Ticketmaster. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
UpNext Brief Paid is an optional auto-renewing subscription: monthly ($2.99/month) or annual ($24.99/year), each with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the trial ends, and the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://upnextbrief.com/privacy
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New in this version:
• Read Together: pick a book to read with friends or family, see Who's Reading, and follow your friends' books
• Made for iPhone Duo: two columns on the inner display, with lists and title pages laid out on either side of the fold, and you keep your place when you fold or unfold
• Title pages use two columns on iPad and other wide screens
• Your place in My List, For You and News is kept when the screen size changes
• A clearer home-screen widget: the medium size fits three titles with covers, with today's and tomorrow's releases in amber
• VoiceOver now names the Account button in My Brief
• Fixes and improvements
The developer, Wisdom Digital Media, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Wisdom Digital Media, Inc.
- Size
- 10.2 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Horror/Fear Themes
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Annual $24.99
- Monthly $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Wisdom Digital Media, Inc.