Shortform Daily Book Summaries

The service is very good but soo expensive. 3 times as expensive than Blinkist.

There seems to be no Google/Facebook sign in options

The app is useless, there is no way to register

What the heck? It lets you read two or three sentences and tells you to subscribe to read more! It should allow at least one or two free full summaries for us to gauge the standard of the summaries. What a waste of time!

1. When reviewing the highlight pages it would be better for them to be listed in order of where they appear in the book - the first highlight should be from page 1, the second from page 2, etc., rather than in order of the date you made the highlight. 2. When I’m on the highlight summary page and click “goto highlight” it does not take me to the highlight. What am I doing wrong?

Good product. I reluctantly purchased after signing up for a free trial and immediately canceling so I would not forget and get charged, only to find out my free trial was cancelled too. I messaged support and they said to get a second trial with a different email address. When I purchased I signed up with a promo code and was billed for that amount + the full amount without the promo. They said they would refund the difference. Love the summaries, disgusted by the company. Would not recommend. Find any excuse you can to not put your credit card number in.

The very first summary I tried, Eichmann in Jerusalem, was laughably bad. First off, the AI generated voice actor pronounced Eichmann “eech-men.” They literally did not do one single quality pass before publishing this monstrosity. And I’m suspicious that the content itself is AI generated. How else can you explain the inclusion, in the first 3 minutes of audio, of former Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denying propaganda claims that Zionist Jews were equally responsible for the Holocaust? Hannah Arendt is rolling in her grave and Shortform ought to be ashamed of itself.

They have not gotten back to me so I had to file. I will update here accordingly.

I signed up for monthly and was charged $197 for an annual membership. I sent two emails through the app (no phone #) and never received a response. So, I cancelled my membership all together and will dispute the charge with my bank. Disappointing there is zero customer service to assist with these issues.

I had enjoyed Shortform for about a year but was not using it enough to justify the roughly $200/year cost. When I went to cancel in the application I made a mistake and accidentally resubscribed. I realized my mistake and immediately (within a few minutes) emailed the company to ask for a refund. They denied my request on the grounds that since I confirmed the renewal they didn’t have to provide a refund. To be clear, I realize that I made the mistake and that they are within the rights to refuse the refund. However, this is a terrible business practice and one that I wanted others to know about. I will never use Shortform again because of how they acted in this situation. The content is wonderful but the poor quality of customer service far outweighs the quality of content.