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Blinkist Overview

What is Blinkist?

Blinkist empowers busy professionals with powerful ideas, so they can broaden their perspectives, be more creative, make better decisions and ultimately grow and thrive in all areas of life. We distill key ideas from 5,500+ nonfiction books and podcasts from 27 categories in an engaging format you can read or listen to in 15 minutes. Our self-directed learning app, used by over 23 million people worldwide, will empower your employees at their point of need — anytime, anywhere.

Blinkist Details
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Product Description

We are the quick-hit nonfiction learning app that's made in Berlin! Blinkist offers the best selection of nonfiction knowledge, all in an app that makes it easy to fit learning into your life. Through audio and text explainers called Blinks, original podcasts, and author-driven content, Blinkist is on a mission to help people turn ordinary moments into extraordinary learning opportunities—anytime, anywhere. We believe in innovation, collaboration, and diversity.


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BLINKIST
Year Founded
2012
HQ Location
Berlin, Berlin
Twitter
@blinkist
139,389 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
188 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Blinkist is an award-winning app that finds the most relevant, impactful books and podcasts and distills them down to their key ideas, which can be read or listened to in 15-minute explainers called Blinks.


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Recent Blinkist Reviews

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4.0 out of 5
"Good for surface level summaries"
The fact that they do some work to review almost all the books you'd consider reading
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"Read books with preferred by AI"
The most I like in Blinkist is their collecting interest of any people and then suggest a best interseting books or magzine as per their needs and ...
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Jewel D.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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"Amazing platform to prepare myself for new opertunity"
The user interface of their websites is top notch quality because they give ease to use user friendly interface that provide custom prefrence as pe...
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Blinkist Media

Blinkist Demo - Blink Cover
Get the key insights from the Blink and choose if you want to read of listen to them.
Blinkist Demo - For You Page
Personalized selection of Blinks, Shortcasts, Guides and Collections based on your preferences. Fully customizable for Enterprise customers.
Blinkist Demo - Shortcast
Listen to the key insights from the most popular podcast in less than 15 minutes. Produced in collaboration with the podcast hosts.
Blinkist Demo - Guide
Experts guide you through a specific challenge through curated selection of Blinks and Shortcasts, and additional content such as exercises, infographics, case studies and more.
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Blinkist Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about Blinkist?

Recommendations, Easy to use, Large library Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blinkist?

The summaries are simplistic, I wish there was subject matter outside of self-help, Lack of diversity of authors summarized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blinkist solving and how is that benefiting you?

It does not solve a problem, when I am in a self-help book kind of mood I can see what blinkist has recommended based on previous recommendations i have gone through and see if there is a book I want to dive into. however, be aware that there aren't a lot of diverse reads recommended. For example, there is a whole spirituality section but you won't find Iyanla Vanzant, Howard Thurman, Michael Beckwith or any other black spiritualist - but you will find Wayne Dyer or Louise Hay. This is a bias that is glaringly noticeable and mildly offensive. The same goes for financial self-help they only recently got We Should All Be Millionaires. Blinkist fails to understand that people of color need to take advice from people of color because other self-help books are not taking into account privileges and biases that work in the author's favor. Also, you will not really learn anything from their summaries, use their summaries as recommendation guides to see if you want to read the book. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blinkist?

The most I like in Blinkist is their collecting interest of any people and then suggest a best interseting books or magzine as per their needs and requirement. The platform is very ease to use and user friendly that gives wonderful experience to gain more knowledge with very ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blinkist?

We can easily implement their platform with laptop or mobile phones also and they have audio books also that gives a more interet to complete any books withoy getting boered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blinkist solving and how is that benefiting you?

Blinkist increase my curiosity in learning of new things with their awesomes prefrece what they suggest to me and also their collections of books are very cool and good to go, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blinkist?

The user interface of their websites is top notch quality because they give ease to use user friendly interface that provide custom prefrence as per my needs and interest. The working stretegy with AI is really abrodable because with automation they suggest exact what we need to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blinkist?

I frequently use this platform for increase my new skill set and make my carrear with new opertunities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blinkist solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am looking for some suggestion where i can start my learning for future and here Blinkist help me out with my stuck carrear and suggest me a very interseting books and series that perfectly match with my interest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blinkist?

Amezing way to sumarrize every books, this helps me in filter books and choose best one that matches to my interest Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blinkist?

Not that much of interest it can bring compared to reading whole book, mainly when reading novel or fictional books Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blinkist solving and how is that benefiting you?

To decide which book should I read Full, it's helps me in filtering books and getting to know my interest Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blinkist?

The fact that they do some work to review almost all the books you'd consider reading Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blinkist?

It's surface level at best. Some will be dooped to think you've "read the whole book" but certain genres like biographies or science books have a lot of details and stories you're missing completely with any type of summary Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blinkist solving and how is that benefiting you?

More so what books to dive into and read fully rather than trying to "read the whole book with a summary" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blinkist?

Blinkist lets you listen to or read the key ideas from nonfiction bestsellers in around 15 minutes with their "Blinks." You can also get the main takeaways from podcasts in 15-minute listens with Shortcasts, or dive deeper with full-length audiobooks—all in one app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blinkist?

I can't think of anything. It does exactly what it says it does. You can get a quick list of key points from so many non-fiction books. Mabey the only thing would be that more titles would be rad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blinkist solving and how is that benefiting you?

I don't have time to read these books. Blinkist gets me the info I need to better myself and in the quickest bite-sized ways possible. I love it for siting at my desk or driving in the car. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blinkist?

The best part of Blinkist is that everything is available in text and audio, so you can choose the medium that suits you best every time you log in. Unlike a whole-book summary, the "blinks" tries to give you the essence of the book in key take-away points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blinkist?

For someone who likes to read long-form content, "blinks" are too condensed to give you broader understanding. In addition, the free plan is so crippled that you absolutely need to have the paid plan to really see the value of the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blinkist solving and how is that benefiting you?

When you don't have time to read the full book and want the key takeaways from a book, this is great. It's also a really good way to pre-screen books - if you appreciate the blinks or have deeper questions, you can see that it's worth taking the time to read the full book. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blinkist?

The book summaries are super complete - the ideas or important concepts from a book,

Super easy to consume content and learn. Love the app - simple to use and to star the learning journey!

Highlighting is also a great asset, remembering facts from summaries. I also use Readwise to bring all these highlights.

The weekly badges are fantastic!

Perfect for learning during long distances of commute to work, or walking [my favourite] Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blinkist?

The same intro and outro music for each book!

The reports on time spent listening would be awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blinkist solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allowing me to be a lifelong learner! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jorge L.
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What do you like best about Blinkist?

the variety of books and articles, as the way they compress the learning insights for the users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blinkist?

That theres some books that i couldn´t find. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blinkist solving and how is that benefiting you?

Content curation, learning content from insights, quotation, learning resume Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blinkist?

Being able to learn from the best books in very little time. It extracts the wisdom from the best books and removes all the fluff. If you don't have time but want to learn, Blinkist is for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blinkist?

I would love for Blinklist to be in Spanish. If it had a version in Spanish, it would be perfect to be able to learn in my native language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blinkist solving and how is that benefiting you?

Learning when you don't have much free time.

Many of the books I like are very long and I don't need all the content. With Blinklist, you get straight to the point and only keep the good stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.