Shortform 12+
World's Best Book Summaries
Shortform Inc.
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Join thousands of curious Shortform readers to get smarter, faster.
Get the highest quality book summaries and analyses available in the world. Shortform summaries contain the book's key ideas, plus analysis comparing those ideas to other books.
Remember the key lessons from books you’ve read, and discover new books you need to read.
Reinforce the key lessons with interactive exercises that challenge you to reflect on your past and improve your life.
Trust in writer quality. Shortform summaries are written by professional authors, PhD’s, and Ivy League graduates.
Check out Shortform summaries of this week’s NY Times bestsellers:
• Sapiens, by Yuval Harari
• Educated, by Tara Westover
• Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
• Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker
• 12 Rules for Life, by Jordan Peterson
Check out Shortform summaries of these all-time classics:
• How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
• The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey
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KEY FEATURES
• Quick 1-page summaries to understand the book at a glance
• Chapter-by-chapter comprehensive summaries and analysis
• 550% more ideas covered than other services
• Audio narrations so you can learn on the go
• #1 Bestsellers and all-time classic books
• Interactive exercises to apply the key lessons to your life
• Highlight your favorite passages and take notes
• Share key points with friends and co-workers
• 18 book categories, including Business, Health, Self-Improvement, History, and more
• Printable PDF downloads for your reading convenience
• Offline mode to read without Internet
• Features coming soon: publishing feed, reading tracker, and more...
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WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY
"Shortform has by far the best book guides available anywhere. They cover key points and have much more original analysis and content than other summaries.” -- Andy T.
"You guys really hit it out of the park with this summary! I’ve never seen such a complete yet concise summary of this book. The exercises are perfect – not overwhelming or meager, but just right. Thanks for making me smarter every day." -- Stacey M.
“If real books are like fine wine, and book summaries are box wine, Shortform is 100-proof vodka.” -- Gregg P.
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CONTACT US
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What’s New
Version 7.0.0
Upgraded billing system.
Ratings and Reviews
Great, but highlighter is poor
Shortform easily has the best summaries out there. However, the one problem that’s really bothered me is the highlighter. Sometimes I’ll highlight a sentence, and I can’t even mark it? Also, why aren’t I able to extend or shorten the highlight?
Please fix this feature!!!
Highest quality summaries
Shortform has by far the highest quality summaries. I'm a bit mental so I spent time comparing the original books with each of the summary companies and this one was by far the best. The summaries take a lot longer, but have distilled the books down as far as possible without losing the value you get from the book.
Most of the other services you come away from the summary with very little substance or understanding of the material in the book.
Give this a try first!
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You therefore need to be using the app to view when you will next be billed, which if you’re not planning on continuing with the service, you likely won’t be doing; a trap that I fell into.
When I raised an issue with this to their team, their feeble excuse was “we told you the date when you signed up”. Their idea of compensation was for me to make book recommendations, which is a service that’s free and available to all users anyway.
So, if you use the service and are thinking about cancelling, be aware you won’t be able to do it the same way you do for all other App subscriptions, and if they do trap you, their customer service is beyond useless.
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Information
- Seller
- Shortform Inc.
- Size
- 34.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Copyright
- © 2021 Shortform Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly $34.99
- Annual $289.99