Blinkist: Book Summaries Daily App Reviews

Love to read to learn but dont have time? I read six in one hour. Knowledge is power. Love it.

I loved this app but lately I cant get it to read anymore! It just gets stuck on the first screen! Please fix this as I am paying for something I cant use during my drive to work. :(((

I love this app so far. Great Content.

I love the idea of getting books read to me in just half an hour on my commute. The design is beautiful and not distracting. My difficulty with the app is that it doesnt have a simpler better usable way to highlight a sentence, its hidden in the selection submenu and needs unnecessary finger precision often ending up in deselecting accidentally and becoming annoying :-/ Can you add an easier selection button? Also would really appreciate a simple way of re-ordering the books I want to read, so that I can put them into a priority order :) Thank you!! And keep up the great work, its one of the apps that had a very positive and meaningful impact on my life! :)

Very time efficient review of books. Good summaries. No complaints.

The synopses are well written and the books are fantastic. Being an audible fan I was drawn to the listening option for this app. The voice talent do a great job reading the blinks. The player stalls frequently in between blinks and sometimes skips a blink when you get the playback to resume. Fortunately you can go back and read the blanks that you missed.

Much better than I expected. Love the free trial!

Great app. Just a suggestion: create a stream lined link that allows customers to purchase the full book or other recommended readings that are not available on your app.

Pud1899- Probably the absolute best app out of all the book apps out. It has options to read the books yourself, or listen to them as audio books. This app is my favorite app out right now if I could rate it as 10 stars, I would!

Honest to god, just fire the app developers. This app is terrible when compared to the last. You cant leave the app or turn off the phone otherwise the audio just stops. Will not be renewing my subscription. + 1 star. The response of the staff however is great. The write back quickly and want to improve. Wish the app would improve though. Its just frustrating to use at this point.

The audio cuts off after every blink.

I get a lot of great ideas from listening to the summaries but the app is terrible when it comes to listening to the summaries Ill get through one or two blinks and then the app stopped working. It is really frustrating. Also Ive tried to download the content but it still uses up my data after I download. I look forward to when you fix the app. If you dont fix the app I will not re-subscribe next year. If you do Ill be the first to resubscribe.

$50+ is too much to spend when you havent had enough time to warm up to an app. Id pay if it was charged by the month, like every other subscription-based app I know of. The point is to get a large amount of information in a short period of time, so reading one book summary a day is useless. This is doubly true if you dont use the app daily, which I certainly wouldnt. This is a good idea, but I dont see many people paying a large lump sum when monthly renewals are the norm. Ironically, I used the app to read through several marketing/sales books on the one day I utilized the free trial. Perhaps the developers could learn from their own content? ;D

Love the concept. But, book summaries too short.

Blinkist is a fantastic app: even as a free user. I would appreciate it if an entity such as amazons audible paired with blinkist, to enable a cheaper subscription option, as the large onetime fee is clearly a startup need that could be supplemented while supplementing audio books.

I bought a year aubscription for my whole management team and we all love it! :)

Its a good app. Like other reviewers said I wish it had monthly subscriptions because Im not ready to commit to the yearly app when Ive only used it once briefly when I downloaded it and now that I want to better learn about its features etc Ive used up the trial period. Ive been using getAbstract and at least get to save the abstracts I add. So it has great potential but still needs work. Another thing is maybe only I had this problem, but I couldnt listen to the entire summary from the first page I found it annoying to have to hit the audio for each page of the summary. Its especially annoying when driving. Hope you guys take our suggestions in which case Ill be a subscriber!

This app has helped me skim through 70% of the books i wanted to read which would have taken months to accomplish and it has directed me to which books I would actually purchase and read the fully as you understand much more about the book from these summarized blinks rather than the first pages of a sample! Definitely worth trying and very well deserving of 5 stars!

I be been waiting for such an app for a long time. This is a nice discovery. A lot of useful titles, good summary and very useful features. Nice design. Nice job guys.

Best app ever. I can only encourage people to download it. It provides excellent summary of books you would not have the time to read. The summaries provided are the quintessence of the book which helps you to memorize the key ideas way more efficiently as if you were reading the whole book. The best app on my phone.