12min: Book Summaries & Ideas

12min

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About this app

🏆 #1 app in Mexico by Google Play in 2019
🏆 Downloaded more than 4 million times in 30 different countries
🏆 Featured on “Forbes,” “Entrepreneur” and “CNN”

📖 Achieving self growth through book learning may be the best way to expand your skills and confidence, but getting through a book can be a real challenge. That’s why we exist. At 12min, we extract the best ideas and insights from bestselling nonfiction books and organize them in unique, self-sufficient narratives we call microbooks.

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MAIN HIGHLIGHTS

✅ 2500+ nonfiction audiobooks available in 3 languages
✅ 24 different categories
✅ A growing library of original content
✅ Curated playlists and personalized recommendations
✅ Available in text & audio
✅ Online & offline access
✅ Send your favorite аudiobooks to your Kindle™

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HOW WE DO IT

All of our writers are bookworms and bibliophiles. Hence, they don’t mind reading the books several times while turning them into book summaries. Moreover, they are well versed in breaking down multifaceted chronicles and complex concepts in an easily digestible manner, at the same time entirely relevant to the original book, and to your personal growth and professional development!
Each book summary or microbook as we like to call it, is written in a way that they can be read and listened to entirely independently of the book they summarize. In other words, they are not just a haphazard list of key insights and highlights, but meaningful, self-sufficient accounts connecting the ideas in question in engrossing narratives by way of arguments, anecdotes and original quotes.

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WHY 12min?

At 12min, we take pride in providing not just a well structured and easily digestible synopsis of more than 2500+ nonfiction titles, but also a comprehensive and actionable overview of the key insights of the book in question.
Not sure what you want to read? No worries, at 12min, you can explore more than 24 categories with titles ranging from, self help, motivational classics, summaries on economics, philosophy, entrepreneurship, business, investment and more. Embark on a self growth challenge, and turn everyday moments into learning experiences.

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GET STARTED (PAYMENT PLANS)

Why don’t you try 12min for free? Download the app right now, install it to your device and sign up for 3 free days of unlimited access – no attachments whatsoever!

Payment plans:
✅ Lifetime - Full access to our library forever
✅ Yearly - Full access to our library for 1 year.

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QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

Do you have any questions, concerns or suggestions? Or perhaps you'd like to have a chat with us! We’re very quick responders. Email us at [e-mail] and we’ll get in touch with you before you can say Jack Robinson! (You don’t know who Jack Robinson is? You can find the answer in one of our microbooks!)

Ratings and reviews

Sometimes the app freeze. Most books are between 14 mins to 20 mins. The summary is so so. They didn't get the main point. Not too many selections. They said they added 10 books per week, but there is no way you can know it. I can only see probably 40 or 50 books available. I have a technical problem. I sent them an email, but they never replied to me back. They said you can search for a title if it's not there then I can submit a title and amazon URL. URL is optional, but it's not. The app required you to have Amazon URL. You can't copy and paste. When I typed the whole URL. The system still doesn't accept it, so you can't really submit any title at all. I saw other users have the same problem, but nothing fix.

This is a pretty good service. It is a good deal, with decent summaries. With that said, note these two very important things: 1. On occasion, the app loads but doesn't bring back any books at all. I assume their server is down when this happens... This can be VERY frustrating, especially if you only have a few minutes to read - which happened to me yesterday. 2. Some of the summaries are great, but others have NUMEROUS spelling and grammar errors making them nearly impossible to get through.

I bought life time subscription. Often it does not play the audiobooks, even downloaded ones. Nothing happens on play. Buggy play controls. Also, app sends too many notifications. Update 24th Aug 2021 - It continues to NOT work, even after contacting support and providing them details of issues. Really frustrating. Don't waste your time and money.

What's new

Thank you for using 12min! We update the app every week to further improve your experience.

This version includes some minor bug fixes and performance improvements!

Send us a feedback, suggestions and ideas on [e-mail]! We will return as soon as we can. What would you like to see in the app? Tell us! We are here for you!