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Grow Smarter in 15 Minutes a Day
The Headway app turns 2,500+ bestselling nonfiction books into 15-minute book summaries you can read or listen to. Follow through on personal growth, even on your busiest days!
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Each nonfiction book summary takes 15 minutes. Listen while driving or switch to text. Works with CarPlay and Android Auto.
Interactive Shorts put you inside real scenarios, a tough conversation, a confidence problem, and adapt accordingly.
Headway highlights boost spaced repetition, so daily insights stick. Bite-sized learning becomes lasting knowledge.
A 3-minute daily microlearning session with streaks and progress tracking helps your learning habits stick.
That's what the Headway self-improvement app was built to fix. It's a microlearning app for self-improvement that takes key ideas from bestselling nonfiction books and distills them into 15-minute book summaries, available in both audio and text. You pick a topic (productivity, confidence, emotional intelligence, communication skills, leadership), and Headway builds a personalized learning plan around it.
What makes it different from a generic book summary app? Headway is a self-improvement app that helps you retain what you learn. Spaced repetition brings back your highlights over time. Interactive Shorts put you in real-life situations and adapt to your choices. Streaks and progress tracking keep your daily microlearning consistent. It's a learning app for busy people who've tried everything else and couldn't stick with it.
55 million people have already downloaded the Headway app. It's been named App of the Day on the App Store, ranked among TIME's top 5 EdTech companies, and holds 172,000+ five-star reviews. If you're looking for a personal growth app with book summaries that you'll open every day, this is the lifelong learning tool worth trying.
“Headway fits in as a way to keep my brain ticking during both the busy and quieter phases. It’s an easy, low-effort way to stay inspired or shift gears when I need a quick reset.“
“Headway has helped me move from assumptions of how best to approach today's business world to real-life scenario applications.”
“Before Headway, I barely finished books. Now learning is a steady part of my day. I just swapped Instagram for insights, and it stuck.“
“I wanted to read more widely, but didn't have time to commit to every interesting book. Summaries let me grasp a book's core ideas quickly.“
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