Headway: 15-Min Book Summaries

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4.1
137K reviews
10M+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

More than 50 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

📖 1700+ 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
Jun 6, 2025
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Ratings and reviews

4.1
134K reviews
Paul Barks
October 5, 2024
Thought it was good to begin with, got bored very quickly. However it turned out id signed up for a 3 month contract with autorenewal. Realising it would auto renew soon and i hadn't used it for months, i went into the app and selected cancel my contract, but they took the money anyway. I raised it as a complaint, the response was some bs about having signed up via the website and not having completed all the steps to cancel (what, besides selecting cancel my contract?), and refused to refund.
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Books Made Easy Corp
April 9, 2024
Hello! Thank you so much for your positive feedback! We're thrilled to hear that you're loving our app. Best regards, Headway Team
Nikolay Zorov
May 27, 2025
Headway has some solid titles and is useful for quick summaries, but the experience is frustrating. The obvious AI narration is painfully dull, almost impossible to focus on, the loud “3 chapters... Great job!” notification is incredibly annoying and totally breaks immersion midway through listening a summary, and often makes me want to outright delete the app.
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Books Made Easy Corp
May 27, 2025
We’re actively working on improving the narration voice and hope to have it all set up soon. We're really sorry to hear that the notifications have been bothersome! You can easily manage them by adjusting your settings on the device or in the app under the Profile section. If you need further assistance, contact us at support@get-headway.com.
Cathy
March 20, 2025
when you sign up there is a loading screen that shows infographics. this is after the payment screen and the image has a price on it of £14. it is not clearly marked as a price due to the font and accessibility of the image. when you click the only button in the screen (other than a hidden X in the corner) it automatically charges your card and signs you up with no second payment page or confirmation.
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Books Made Easy Corp
March 21, 2025
Hi! We apologize for any misunderstanding, but we can only bill for offers that users opt-in for, with full details provided upfront. Please contact support@get-headway.com for more information. We'd be happy to assist!