LongShorts Stories alternatives

Start a free trial now! At Instaread we extract key insights from best-selling books. Our professional book-experts read and analyze books for you, so that you spend your time reading only the books that you really love.

Blinkist distills the key ideas from over 6,000 books and podcasts into 15-minute Blinks to help people grow their knowledge and access powerful ideas.

Lure features a huge collection of chat fiction; short stories told with text messages, like if you were watching somebody else’s conversation. From suspense fuelled thrillers and horror stories to hilarious group chats, Lure’s chat stories deliver traditional stories in a gripping, engaging new way.

We curate non-English books from China, Japan and Korea, translate and summarise them so that English readers can gain more knowledge in less time. We are currently gathering early-access subscribers. Our app is targeted to launch in early next year.