If your idea of unwinding after a hard day of work is by cracking open a fresh new book to get sucked into, youβre probably familiar with the likes of Blinkist and Headway. You might have seen their Instagram ads. Both apps exist to summarize books quickly into bite-sized pieces so you can get key insights quickly. Thereβs just one thing missing β they only work with nonfiction.
Rade Joksimovic has been bootstrapping SaaS products for the past 18 years. In his downtime, he likes to read fiction. Throughout the books he read, he discovered the plethora of life lessons that can be taken from them. However, after searching online, he couldnβt find a suitable app that would extract these lessons. Thatβs why he decided to build Wisebits over the course of a year.
Wisebits is similar to Blinkist and Headway, but it focuses on fiction and has a few neat twists and turns along the way. It currently ships with over 670 different fiction stories, all of which you can immediately transform into bite-sized short stories based on lessons you can learn from the books.
If youβre a read-on-the-go kind of person, you can also quickly transform the books into summarized audiobooks. Play, the conversational AI startup is used to narrate each of these stories in a more visual way than the traditional sense. Whichever route you choose, you can track your reading goals and progress within the app, partly for self-reflection or, in my case, partly to boast to my friends.
Alongside that, Wisebits comes with some features to spark joy. One in particular is the addition of personalized letters. As you use the app, you can find personalized, AI-crafted letters from your favorite characters in the book that will offer wisdom and life lessons in the tone of your chosen character.