Blinkist

Blinkist is a Berlin-founded subscription learning app that condenses the key ideas of thousands of nonfiction books and podcasts into roughly 15-minute text and audio summaries called "Blinks." Launched in 2012, it is used by millions of readers to learn on the go across categories such as productivity, business, psychology, personal growth, and science, and it also offers Blinkist for Business for teams and organizations. The consumer product is delivered through the web and iOS/Android apps backed by a private mobile backend at api.blinkist.com; Blinkist does not publish a public developer API, SDKs, or a developer portal. Blinkist was added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-company lead (backed by Insight Partners) and enriched with the provider signals that could be verified from its public surface.

Blinkist is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Education, Learning, Books, and Audiobooks.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyEducationLearningBooksAudiobooksMicrolearningProductivitySubscriptionEdTechMobile App

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: blinkist
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/blinkist.png
name: Blinkist
description: Blinkist is a Berlin-founded subscription learning app that condenses the key ideas of thousands of nonfiction
  books and podcasts into roughly 15-minute text and audio summaries called "Blinks." Launched in 2012, it is used by millions
  of readers to learn on the go across categories such as productivity, business, psychology, personal growth, and science,
  and it also offers Blinkist for Business for teams and organizations. The consumer product is delivered through the web
  and iOS/Android apps backed by a private mobile backend at api.blinkist.com; Blinkist does not publish a public developer
  API, SDKs, or a developer portal. Blinkist was added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-company lead (backed by
  Insight Partners) and enriched with the provider signals that could be verified from its public surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/blinkist/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- insight-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Education
- Learning
- Books
- Audiobooks
- Microlearning
- Productivity
- Subscription
- EdTech
- Mobile App
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/blinkist-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.blinkist.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Blinkist

Kin Score

Security Posture 1

Blinkist Domain Security

Resources

Access & Security 1

Company 1

Source (apis.yml)