Headway: 15-Min Book Summaries

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4.5
101K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Teen
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About this app

More than 25 million people have already joined Headway on various platforms to become the best versions of themselves. How about hopping along on this self-growth journey?

What you get with Headway

📖 1500+ book summaries with the world’s best ideas

Learn the main ideas from any nonfiction title in less than 15 minutes. Whether you want to listen or read, we have you covered with concise summaries on any topic.

📈 Personal growth plan

Set your goals and start a 30-day personal growth plan. Track your progress, learn new skills at your own pace, and enjoy the process of becoming a better you!

🧩 Gamified challenges

Boost any life area with our gamified challenges: Success, Wealth, Healthy Relationships, Modern Parenting, Self-Confidence, Emotional Intelligence, and many more. Choose the area you want to improve and follow the challenge to see excellent results in less than a month.

🌅 Daily insights

Start your day by tapping through quotes with daily wisdom. Microlearning can enhance your morning routine and help create a learning habit.

🔁 Spaced Repetition feature

This recall technique helps turn your favorite insights into flashcards and go through them whenever you want. It’s also an excellent tool for those learning English, as you can turn any unknown word into a flashcard and quickly memorize it.

🧶 Highly personalized approach

We pick every piece of bite-sized content according to your goals and needs.

🏅Quality of summaries

Our professional writers and editors polish every key idea in our hand-crafted content to create the best learning experience.

What our users love about Headway

🌌 Inspiring & motivating

📚 Huge library of book summaries

🏃 Easy to read & listen on the go

🏖️ Helps with information overload

WHAT MEDIA SAY ABOUT US

“Headway is a bite-sized learning app for those who strive to grow. Helping users worldwide to become happier and more confident, their subscription-based service is designed to be worked into a busy schedule.”
🗣️ Daily Mail

Professional writers and editors of the Headway team up with the best voice actors, moderators, and other team members to deliver an experience that is unmatchable in terms of quality.”
🗣️ Mobile App Daily

Whether you’re taking a 15 minutes break, commuting to and from the workplace, or stuck in traffic, you can use the app to learn productivity or leadership hacks.”
🗣️ MakeUseOf

✒️ Got an idea about how to make your growth with Headway better? Please email support@get-headway.com, and our Support Jedis will pass it on to the rest of the team.
Updated on
May 29, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

4.5
98.6K reviews
Madison x
May 30, 2024
The app itself works well, reliably. Concept is sound and useful, and I walk away with the intro/overview intended. Selecting interest areas sets up a big list of options to "meet your mood" and the larger library is vast. I like being able to adjust speed and to toggle between just listening and reading along. But you can not choose or adjust the AI narrator voice and there are a few I literally cannot listen to. Tinny, clipped, robotic, abrasive. Too bad actual humans are just so expensive /s
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Bryan Wilson
May 29, 2024
The content here is great. I specifically like the personal challenges. I do feel the app needs some work though. If I am without internet I can sometimes not get my downloaded episodes to play. When pausing audio, if I return to the app it resumes playing automatically which can become annoying. If you remove a downloaded book from bookmarks it remains downloaded and there is no list to show what you have downloaded. Books should also delete when finished or prompt you to do so.
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Books Made Easy Corp
May 30, 2024
Hello! Thank you for sharing your ideas with us. We will definitely take it into consideration to improve our app in the future. If you have any other suggestions on how we can become better, please share them with us via support@get-headway.com. Kind regards, Headway Team
Jason Metzger
May 23, 2024
The app functions well for what it tries to do. No bugs, smooth operation. But all of the summaries read like they were written by AI or a high schooler. The voice is odd and the sentences within a paragraph rarely flow together smoothly. It's often so bad that it detracts from the process of injesting the material. I cannot recommend paying for high school level book reports.
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Books Made Easy Corp
May 23, 2024
Hi! Thank you for sharing your thoughts about the quality of our content. If you have any particular summaries in mind or want to share more thoughts with us, please reach out via support@get-headway.com. That’d help our team to improve the app. 🙏 Regards, Headway Team