Free
Two briefings a month, delivered to the podcast app you already use.
$0 Free
- 2 briefings a month
- Narrated in a natural voice
- A private feed in your podcast app
A curiosity engine
Get curious on the way out. Get the briefing on the way home.
Feed your curiosity on demand, in a medium you already love, without changing your habits.
Free to start. Add it to your podcast app once; briefings land in your feed, ready for your next listen.
A painting you can't stop thinking about. You want to know more — not enough to buy the book or lose the evening. Ask Hilo. By the time you're home, the briefing's waiting in your podcast app.
No new app. No new habit. It arrives where you already listen.
Add your private Hilo feed to your podcast app once. After that, every briefing lands next to the shows you already follow — on your commute, your walk, your dishes.
Works with the app you already use
- Apple Podcasts
- Overcast
- Pocket Casts
Why Hilo
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Start from a curiosity
Type what you got curious about, the way you'd say it out loud. No format to learn, no settings to tune.
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Ten minutes, not an afternoon
About ten minutes — enough to get your bearings on what's known, what's contested, and what's still open. Enough to decide whether to pull harder.
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The reading's already done
Sources gathered, weighed, and narrated into something you can listen to. You get the orientation; every claim sourced.
How it works
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You type what you got curious about
One line, however it occurred to you. "Why did that bridge collapse?" or "What's the story behind this painting?" — both work.
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Hilo looks into it and narrates a briefing
It reads around the question, weighs what it finds, and turns it into a short, narrated briefing — sourced, and honest about what's still open.
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It shows up in your podcast app
The briefing lands in your private feed, where you already listen. It expires on its own after a while — no backlog to manage.
Plans
Start free. Paid plans open up when you want more briefings each month. Every plan delivers to your private feed.
Personal
Everything in Free, plus more briefings each month and memory across episodes.
$5.00 / month Monthly
$50.00 / year Yearly billed once a year
- 4 briefings a month
- Narrated in a natural voice
- A private feed in your podcast app
- Each briefing builds on your earlier ones
Pro
Everything in Personal, with the most briefings each month.
$12.00 / month Monthly
$120.00 / year Yearly billed once a year
- 10 briefings a month
- Narrated in a natural voice
- A private feed in your podcast app
- Each briefing builds on your earlier ones
What Hilo isn't
Hilo gets your foot in the door — the start of looking into something, not the last word on it.
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Not a substitute for real study
A briefing orients you; it doesn't make you an expert. When a topic deserves the book or the afternoon, Hilo tells you it's worth them.
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A starting point, not a syllabus
A way into a topic, not a course through it. You decide where to go next; Hilo just makes the first step short.
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It orients, it doesn't conclude
It won't tell you what to think. It gives you enough to decide for yourself.
Pull on the thread.
One curiosity in. A briefing waiting in your feed, for the next time you have a moment.
Briefings are researched and narrated by automated agents from the question you submit. Hilo orients; it does not advise — what's contested is kept, not smoothed over.