Shortform Daily Book Summaries

Read the 1 star reviews and you will notice the similar trend. They have bad service recovery and do not care about you at all. Do not sign up and avoid this company.

Whenever I open up the app, the app remains blank yet. In most cases I could overcome this by closing and reopening the app. In rare cases however, had to reinstall the app completely. A real hassle given the large subscription cost

Nice and concise summary, it allows me read through quite a number of books. It also tests our key takeaways from the reading. I love it.

Cannot get past the black screen

As a professor, I find this app valuable for my work, helping me identify relevant course materials. However, I’m disappointed with its limitations, such as the inability to download summaries as PDFs or copy and paste content with proper citations (as other similar services for fiction/literature allow). These restrictions make the service feel overpriced for my needs.

The support is well organized and clear about how to correct what needs to be to be corrected and a clear way to request what you want. I especially like the explanation of what had been done when my credit card failed. I still had access to the service but within certain upgrades. No anxiety about what now? Easy to work with and get back what I realize is an invaluable resource in today’s increasingly info dense internet. And real value is added by the content summaries. Thank you!!!

Was pleasantly surprised that ShortForm provides exceptional and very prompt service for inquires and requesting new titles! This platform is a keeper!

This company is pretty unethical. I tried the “free” trial but they make it very hard to stop the charge if you decide it isn’t for you at the end of the trial… which I did after emailing them… no easy button there. It wasn’t refunded. Had to deal with my credit card company. Ended up paying near 197… a fraction less, for less then a month. Will still keep fighting this with my credit card company. I am exhausted trying to deal with them - they are COUNTING on this. They are unethical and based on that alone - don’t do business with them.

As a lawyer I do a lot of analytical reading. I appreciate Shortform summaries which accurately review the authors ideas and arguments. They also present counterpoint ideas and arguments from other leading authors. These summaries are more like a mini college course on the subject. Most summaries are about 30 minutes, which gives more time for better analysis than the usual 15-minute summaries from other services. I gain a better understanding of many ideas in an entertaining capsule.

I cancelled and deleted this app within hours a year ago. Today, they charged me for a full year subscription without my consent. The only way to contact them is via email which you will only get an automated response. You will also notice that the response to my review is a boiler plate stating “confusion about your subscription “. Shame on Apple for allowing there greedy scammers onto the App Store!