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.The service provides summaries of over 5,000 bestselling non-fiction books, 15-minute reads, otherwise known as Blinks or book-in-blinks.Blinkist is available as a web-app and a mobile application. The summaries are available in English and German.Blinkist's competitors include Sumizeit, BUUK App, Booknotes, Snapreads, ReadingIQ, getAbstract, Instaread, BookRags and Quiddity. 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. References External links Official website . Discover the Instaread popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Instaread books.