diff --git a/OPERATIONS.txt b/OPERATIONS.txt
index 4ac44ee..54249d9 100644
--- a/OPERATIONS.txt
+++ b/OPERATIONS.txt
@@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ errors are displayed separately from expired consent.
 
 Only booked transactions are persisted. Each new account initially requests the
 selected number of calendar months (12 by default); the bank may provide less.
-Daily sync deliberately overlaps each account's last successful sync by 14 days.
+Automatic sync runs twice a day, every 12 hours from the last successful run,
+and deliberately overlaps each account's last successful sync by 14 days.
 Per-account cursors prevent another account's recent sync from skipping a new
 account's history. Reconnection preserves the saved history choice and existing
 cursors. Changing the choice or reconnecting does not backfill already-synced
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ae1d849..ee136b0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Open **Accounts → Connect your bank**:
 
 Finance Duck verifies the callback state, exchanges the returned code for a `session_id`, stores the session locally with restrictive permissions, and wakes the synchronization worker immediately. You do not need to copy the code or session ID manually.
 
-Initial synchronization requests the selected number of **calendar months of booked transactions per account**, defaulting to **12 months**. The bank may provide less history. The choice is saved with the bank connection and reused on reconnection. Subsequent daily synchronization overlaps each account's last successful sync by **14 days**. **Sync now** starts a manual synchronization. Existing accounts keep their successful-sync cursors: changing the history choice or reconnecting does **not** backfill them. Older history can be imported with CSV.
+Initial synchronization requests the selected number of **calendar months of booked transactions per account**, defaulting to **12 months**. The bank may provide less history. The choice is saved with the bank connection and reused on reconnection. Automatic synchronization then runs **twice a day**, every **12 hours** after the last successful run, overlapping each account's last successful sync by **14 days**. **Sync now** starts a manual synchronization at any time. Existing accounts keep their successful-sync cursors: changing the history choice or reconnecting does **not** backfill them. Older history can be imported with CSV.
 
 **HTTP 429 is a provider rate limit, not evidence that bank consent has expired.** Bank reads honor `Retry-After` and use bounded exponential retries. A longer or exhausted limit pauses further requests until the reported retry time; failed accounts keep their previous sync cursors and imported data. Session checks use the saved account metadata rather than fetching every account's details again. A failed session is reported once instead of also marking each of its accounts unavailable. After the cooldown, **Sync now** can retry; the warning clears after a successful sync. One-time authorization and code-exchange requests are never automatically replayed.
 
diff --git a/internal/app/import.go b/internal/app/import.go
index a1355cc..361d790 100644
--- a/internal/app/import.go
+++ b/internal/app/import.go
@@ -806,6 +806,12 @@ func (a *App) Sync(ctx context.Context) (State, error) {
 	return a.snapshot(ctx)
 }
 
+// syncInterval is how often connected accounts synchronize on their own. Twice
+// a day halves how long a booking can sit unseen while staying inside Enable
+// Banking's documented background allowance of roughly four fetches per day per
+// account, which a failing sync's hourly retries also draw from.
+const syncInterval = 12 * time.Hour
+
 // syncSchedule decides whether an automatic sync may run now, and how long to
 // wait otherwise. While a bank has named its own retry time, waiting is the
 // only useful action: retrying earlier spends session-status calls on a refusal
@@ -815,7 +821,7 @@ func syncSchedule(now time.Time, ops operational, force bool) (time.Duration, bo
 		return min(retry.Sub(now)+time.Minute, time.Hour), false
 	}
 	last, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, ops.LastSync)
-	if force || err != nil || ops.SyncError != "" || now.Sub(last) >= 24*time.Hour {
+	if force || err != nil || ops.SyncError != "" || now.Sub(last) >= syncInterval {
 		return 0, true
 	}
 	return time.Minute, false
@@ -823,13 +829,14 @@ func syncSchedule(now time.Time, ops operational, force bool) (time.Duration, bo
 
 // syncBackoff spaces the next attempt after a sync. A failure with a known bank
 // retry time waits for it; other failures retry hourly so transient provider
-// problems clear without waiting a day, while bounding unattended traffic.
+// problems clear without waiting for the next scheduled run, while bounding
+// unattended traffic.
 func syncBackoff(now time.Time, ops operational) time.Duration {
 	if ops.SyncError == "" {
-		return 24 * time.Hour
+		return syncInterval
 	}
 	if retry, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, ops.SyncRetryAt); err == nil && now.Before(retry) {
-		return min(retry.Sub(now)+time.Minute, 24*time.Hour)
+		return min(retry.Sub(now)+time.Minute, syncInterval)
 	}
 	return time.Hour
 }
diff --git a/internal/app/sync_test.go b/internal/app/sync_test.go
index 0658c13..bca7ec4 100644
--- a/internal/app/sync_test.go
+++ b/internal/app/sync_test.go
@@ -371,6 +371,9 @@ func TestSyncSchedulingRespectsTheBanksOwnRetryTime(t *testing.T) {
 	waiting := operational{LastSync: stale, SyncError: "N26: rate limited", SyncRetryAt: now.Add(3 * time.Hour).Format(time.RFC3339)}
 	broken := operational{LastSync: stale, SyncError: "Trade Republic: retrieval failed"}
 	healthy := operational{LastSync: now.Format(time.RFC3339)}
+	// Twice daily: still fresh at six hours, due again after thirteen.
+	fresh := operational{LastSync: now.Add(-6 * time.Hour).Format(time.RFC3339)}
+	overdue := operational{LastSync: now.Add(-13 * time.Hour).Format(time.RFC3339)}
 	elapsed := operational{LastSync: stale, SyncError: waiting.SyncError, SyncRetryAt: now.Add(-time.Minute).Format(time.RFC3339)}
 	cases := []struct {
 		name  string
@@ -384,6 +387,8 @@ func TestSyncSchedulingRespectsTheBanksOwnRetryTime(t *testing.T) {
 		{"deadline elapsed", elapsed, false, 0, true},
 		{"failure without a deadline", broken, false, 0, true},
 		{"recent success", healthy, false, time.Minute, false},
+		{"halfway through the interval", fresh, false, time.Minute, false},
+		{"interval elapsed", overdue, false, 0, true},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range cases {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -399,7 +404,7 @@ func TestSyncSchedulingRespectsTheBanksOwnRetryTime(t *testing.T) {
 	if backoff := syncBackoff(now, broken); backoff != time.Hour {
 		t.Fatalf("failure backoff = %s, want hourly retries", backoff)
 	}
-	if backoff := syncBackoff(now, healthy); backoff != 24*time.Hour {
-		t.Fatalf("successful backoff = %s, want daily synchronization", backoff)
+	if backoff := syncBackoff(now, healthy); backoff != 12*time.Hour {
+		t.Fatalf("successful backoff = %s, want twice-daily synchronization", backoff)
 	}
 }