Blinkist
Blinks Labs GmbH, commonly known as Blinkist, is a German book-summarizing subscription service based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 2012 by Holger Seim, Niklas Jansen, Sebastian Klein, Tobias Balling and has 18 million users as of 2021.[2]
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| Type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet |
| Founded | August 2012, 21 |
| Founder | Holger Seim Niklas Jansen Sebastian Klein Tobias Balling |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
| Products | Blinkist App |
| Total assets |  US$35 million (2018)[1] |
| Website | www |
The service provides summaries of over 5,000 bestselling non-fiction books, 15-minute reads, otherwise known as Blinks or book-in-blinks.[3]
Blinkist is available as a web-app and a mobile application. The summaries are available in English and German.[1]
Blinkist's competitors include Sumizeit, BUUK App, Booknotes, Snapreads, ReadingIQ, getAbstract, Instaread, BookRags and Quiddity.[4]
Features
Users can browse books within 27 categories which include Entrepreneurship & Small Business, Politics, Marketing & Sales, Science, Economics, History, Communication Skills, Corporate Culture and more. The free app lets the user read a random daily pick. Blinkist provides summaries of books and also provides audio versions of the summaries. The service allows users to sync highlights the book summaries to other services like Kindle and Evernote.[5]
References
- "Blinkist raises $18.8M for its condensed reading platform for non-fiction books".
- "Blinkist: Serving curious minds". Blinkist. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
- Cain, Sian (9 December 2018). "Blink and you'll miss it: can you really digest a whole book in 15 minutes?" – via www.theguardian.com.
- What are the alternatives to Blinkist?
- "What Is Blinkist?". Four Minute Books. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
