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  "description": "Blinkist is an app that provides key insights from thousands of bestselling non-fiction books, podcasts, and expert guides in 15-minute summaries, available to read or listen to, facilitating personal growth and knowledge acquisition.",
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  "updatedAt": "2026-08-23T00:05:40.850Z",
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    "website": "https://blinkist.com",
    "category": "e-learning",
    "what_it_does": "Blinkist provides key ideas from top non-fiction books, podcasts, and experts in 15 minutes through text and audio summaries (Blinks). It also offers expert-led Guides, social learning Spaces, and Blinkist AI for summarizing users' own content like videos, podcasts, documents, and articles. [website evidence, 2]",
    "primary_audience": "The primary audience includes individuals seeking personal growth, lifelong learners, busy professionals, freelancers, independent business owners, commuters, and gym-goers who want to acquire new knowledge on the go. [website evidence, 2]",
    "core_product": "The core product is the Blinkist app, which offers 15-minute text and audio summaries (Blinks) of non-fiction books and podcasts, expert-led Guides, social learning Spaces, and Blinkist AI for content summarization. [website evidence, 2]",
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      "kind": "freemium",
      "detail": "Blinkist offers a free plan that provides access to one pre-selected book summary per day. [website evidence, 7, 10] Paid subscription plans include Premium and Pro. The Premium plan offers unlimited access to the entire library of 9,000+ book and podcast summaries, audio versions, offline reading and listening, personalized daily recommendations, and the option to save and sort titles. [website evidence, 2, 7] The Pro plan includes all Premium features plus powerful AI capabilities that allow users to summarize their own videos, podcasts, documents, and articles. [website evidence, 2] A 7-day free trial with full Premium access is also available."
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    "parent_ownership": "Blinkist was acquired by the Australian continuing education startup Go1 in May 2023.",
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