Blinkist - Nonfiction Books

Epic idea well implemented and nice app. 1 star rating though because the stupid app won't let me upgrade. You would think they would want to take people's money, but apparently it's just a joke.

What a great service but sadly it is supported by the worst app in the world. REALLY buggy. Shocking in fact. Paid my premium subscription and as yet havn't been able to listen to a complete audio. Can't even access the service from a desktop. Come on guys.....you can do better than this.

Just good marketing for this app. Otherwise it's a very poor App. You pay and you get nothing in return. Waste of money and time. Basic account has nothing to make it interesting. Paid account is not practical.

Super buggy. It's impossible to finish a book (audio) without interruptions. It will always stops in the middle of the book for no reason.

For some reason, the app no longer plays through a whole book anymore... I have to hit forward and backwards in order go 'trigger' it (and I'm pretty sure that is not now it has been designed to work'. The developers really need to fix this otherwise I honestly want my money back!

Audio playback is not reliable.

Bought the plus membership - worth it.. For a nerd like me..

The best idea but the worst app

Please add dictionary into the app.

I was really interested in this as daily audible listener and someone having trouble clearing my stack of ever growing books. The annual subscription was a dealbreaker, it is easy providing good content for a month or two but then what? First prove yourself before demanding that I make a year commitment and even then I should still have the option to go monthly at a higher premium just to reduce the one off payment impact. In short your billing model showns me that you don't think you can keep me as a monthly customer.

Good content but the player is super buggy. It will stop for no reason in the middle of the book while I am driving and I have to fiddle with my phone because the lock screen controls don't work. Then when I try to skip it starts mixing up the tracks from different books. I was hoping for a good commute app but this needs a lot of fixing. Also they charged me $80 when I was 6 days through my free 7-day trial. Not pleased about that.

It would be great IF it let me sign in. I have a paid account which is about $100 AU per yr and the app won't let me log in via FB or by email... I want a refund or a fix. I can sign in under a new email for a free account, its just my paid version I am unable to use.

The idea is great and the content is great but the app has problems. It stops randomly and sometimes won't even restart if I try to restart manually which I really don't want to do when driving. It doesn't matter if I'm on Wifi , if i have downloaded or synced the content to my device. Sometimes it will even jump to a book that I couldn't finish because the app froze up. Based on other reviews this seems to be a common problem and needs to be resolved. If that happens I'll renew my membership because I really enjoyed it-when it worked.

Theoretically a good idea but I can't login. After installing the app, I attempted to login with Google credentials and received the "something went wrong" message. However, I did receive an email to confirm the email address, so it obviously communicated with the server. Uninstalled.

I love the app and the idea of it, but they charge you $80 all at once for the year for audio books. I don't want to pay $80 all at once I want to pay $6.50/month like it says. This is a little upsetting and misleading.

The audio playback constantly stops and can only be resumed by restarting the app. It needs to be restarted several times to get through one book. I'm not paying $80 for an app that doesn't work.

The content is really good but it really annoys me when I have to think of ways to to make the audio play or respond, I almost always have to restart the application just to make the play button work hoping it still remembers where I left or will it tell me I'm on blink no. 5 but the audio is on blink no. 2.

The content is good... but the player lags so much that even to start a book it takes 10 minutes or sometimes it just won't start. I would have loved to purchase the subscription but it's too costly.

Excellent idea but app is so buggy it reminds me of "Windows Me". This app has even forced to perform the crude act of restarting my phone #shudders I would have subscribed in an instance but since the app hangs so much, I'm looking for alternatives. It is really sad that they can't seem to make the app work.

Seems cool, but you have to pay a yearly fee off the bat. Unfortunately will have to uninstall and try to remember to check back down the road to see if there are monthly payment options. I'm sure it's worth the price tag, but a one-day trial isn't really enough to tell. Don't want to pay a yearly fee and get an app that may be full of bugs and issues.

Love the concept and "blinks." App doesn't react as well as it should, hangs sometimes and it does not recognize my headphones play/pause button. And I'd like a monthly subscription option.

Great service overall, but the audio playback is incredibly frustrating since it constantly freezes. Not convenient when driving!

I think the 1 year payment is too much to ask for. Break it down into monthly payments. But the content is great and the support team was amazing as well. Thanks

I'd like to report an issue - thé audio autoplay is extremely faulty, with the audio almost never moving from one blink to the next, and very often struggling against my efforts to skip to and play the next blink. I love the concept, and I have no problems reading the blinks, but the audio option is very frustrating.

What an insult!!! The 'trial' expired in fewer than 4 hours. How to win new customers? I think not!!!!!!!!!!!!! If they were looking for email addresses to spam, I suspect they'll be very successful. DEFINITELY... UNINSTALLING!!

App needs improvement. Had to uninstall, which sucks b/c I paid for an annual membership, so I'd like to be able to use the app instead of being restricted to the browser. Ironically I can't log in to the site with my phone because of the way the login modal pops up.

Totally useless app. I tried to sign in with my Gmail account 50 times but everytime it says unexpected error occurred. I have even confirmed my email address. But still I am unable to sign in. Waste of time.

I want audio in the browser app, so I can listen on the htpc. Or Chromecast support. Also, the audio is stopping every 5 minutes when the screen is off. Makes it unusable.

Can't login with pixel XL 2. When I initially logged in it was logged in with a random Gmail account somehow. Playing audio doesn't work. Nothing happens

My only regret is not paying for the premium package. The basic package is so perfectly priced though

This app in android is not working well. Keeps on saying error.

Buggy, considered going pro but app constantly fires errors at me ????

All I get is erro messages once I press either read or listen. Nothing happens, just an error message. I'll check back in a few months and hope this is fixed. I'm on a Galaxy S8.

Asks me for subscription right from the start. Lame. Without subscription app is almost non-functional.

I love the idea behind the app, but every time I try to listen, it automatically stops like it has no signal even in WiFi.

You do not get to choose the daily free book.

Fix it.

It's all about money ....... You can simply download all this app book in google for totally free...... If i know there is purchase in app , then i don't install it....

Great way to stay current on nonfiction book summaries. It's the first time as a leader that I feel like I can keep on my reading list.

Fantastic selection, easy listen! Perfect for work commutes or just some downtime at home.