Buggy app, beware – Blinkist: Book Summaries Daily Review

In the free trial I downloaded this evening, I’ve found the following: easily reproducible highlighting bug that crashes app and forces restart (I’ve hit this bug six times tonight), repeats of content (Dr. Gregor’s book How Not to Die has double “blinks” - every chapter is repeated), and a filtering bug where sorting by progress doesn’t work. Oh, and it doesn’t sync between my iPhone and iPad, even though I’m logged into the same account on both. I’m impressed by the idea, as I spend mountains of cash on non-fiction, but really unhappy with their execution. I can’t focus on the content when the app keeps crashing or not working. Tried a competitor, found different problems that amounted to the same feeling: Seems like no one has really nailed the dismount on this idea. I’ll keep hoping, but I’m not buying anything yet.
Review by sewbiwan on Blinkist: Book Summaries Daily.