CatchUp - Bite-Sized Summaries Reviews

The idea / concept is great. Provide summaries either written or audio on well known books that people want to read. Works well as a substitute for reading if you are happy with a very light version or as a good precursor so you have awareness of the concepts as you are reading the book itself.

BUT, CatchUp itself is unusable. It tries to prompt me to repurchase a subscription every time I try to read a note (even when I’m signed in) and I have not been able to successfully read a note on CatchUp yet. I am able to use the mobile website to read them but that is not a desirable way to access the content.

I would not have written a negative review regarding this except for what I consider the biggest flaw of the entire service. There is no way to contact support or provide feedback based on user experience. The developer needs to find a way to let people notify them of bugs so they can develop fixes for the issues and improve the UX.

I liked the idea of CatchUp when I came across it on an Instagram ad, but was charged $69 for absolutely no reason. I would consider redownloading, but there was absolutely no reason that I should have been billed, because I hadn’t even used CatchUp yet when I noticed I was billed.

I accept that I may have made a simple mistake, but my interpretation was that CatchUp is scamming people out of money by getting them to download it without the consumer truly knowing what they’re getting. This is obviously deceptive ethics, which is why I am willing to give CatchUp creators the benefit of the doubt, but I really need a refund because I didn’t consent to payment.

Give me a refund!!!!

I bought lifetime subscription online and created the account. Online, I am able to access the books fine. But when I used the same account inside CatchUp , it says you need to subscribe and pay $149. What’s going on?? I don’t want to pay multiple times. Please fix your backend account administration so that people are not scammed into paying twice. There is not even a support email or phone number listed to address this.

This might be the worst app ever for summaries. It’s a cross between frantic Snapchat and Instagram stories. The book summaries are decent, but they don’t let you go back as you’re reading from screen to screen, and if you exit out and try to go back in, you have to watch an ad. This is all “free” but I say that in quotes because you have to watch a ton of ads. You’ll waste all the time you’ve saved reading summaries by watching ads. It's incredibly disappointing.

Though CatchUp is very useful in some situations, some books are not found. I tried looking for a few books and it said no result. Now, I don’t know if it’s supposed to work like that or maybe it’s just me. But I didn’t enjoy CatchUp as well as I thought I would, but I think if you really don’t understand a book you should try CatchUp . In my opinion, CatchUp wasn’t the best.

The ios app is unusable! i bought a lifetime subscription on stacksocial and their login works on browser but it doesnt work in the ios app! The ios app just prompts you to pay again. The ios app has a login area and i put in my lifetime account. The login passes but it just prompts to pay again. I tried to contact stacksocial where i bought it but CatchUp has no support page. ZERO stars

Great app...with a busy life CatchUp provides an efficient way to read more books in a short of time! It is easy to find 15 mins a day to read, to learn more and to enjoy it!!! Definitely recommend it ;)

Have only been able to read one at this point. It still requests that I sign up although I have done that multiple times. Love the idea but cannot seem to have it work for me. Always takes me to the “sign up for a 7 day trial period.” Getting very frustrated and can only hope I haven’t been charged $89 multiple times.

I got lifetime servixe to support it, and they changed their business models bow inonly get 2 credits means can only listen 2 times.

Worst thing is you cannot mover forward or back .
I had to close CatchUp , and when I came back it used the 2nd credit to let me listen.
So used 2 credits. Fir half a book summsry. Awful.

Despite paying a weekly subscriptions CatchUp would not let me access any of the mstietals. It kept on asking me to subscribe to their premium contents, despite the fact they I’ve been paying for it and have access to it till the 20th. CatchUp is up to date and when I hit restore purchases,
It said no purchases found. I have screenshots of all this

Literally every time I open CatchUp, I learn something that changes my life. No matter what problem I’m facing, CatchUp has the answers. Keep up the good work!

CatchUp is not even review-able because I am not able to scroll down one chapter without the aggravation of flipping the page. The apps IMO need to have back page and next page arrows and allow scrolling to simply page up and down.
Would’ve really liked to have enjoyed CatchUp

This is the best app, I don’t know what all the bad reviews are for. 10/10 recommend! :)

I downloaded CatchUp and selected the free one week trial and yearly subscription however after one day CatchUp will not open any books nor let me use the trial. I even canceled the trail and tried to purchase another subscription option.. still no books??? What’s going on?

App description says there are 800 titles but in reality there are 50 at best. There is no search bar that I could locate, no settings, nothing. Few books in every section, that’s it! Definitely not worth paying for! If there is a search bar I couldn’t locate, please let me know, I’ll correct my review.

As I looked through the content of CatchUp I was shocked at what I found on an app rated four and up.
There were articles containing content that shouldn’t be read even by grown adults.
CatchUp contains content on things I don’t even like to talk about to a close friend

CatchUp continues to ask me to buy a subscription after I already have. Must delete and reinstall each time to use. Then, it only plays 1 chapter of the audio narration before buffering and freezing up.

Besides 3 fiction books you’ve already read in high school, this is basically just summaries of self help books.
If you need some life advice just google “how to save money” or “how to find love” and you’ll get the exact same thing.

What a dope app! Huge book selection and pretty easy to use. I open it up a few times a day!

Decent app but as a person who minimizes the amount of apps on my device I never downloaded CatchUp onto my phone and whenever I found the subscription they somehow locked me in for a YEAR. I want my money back...

App will not let me sign in on my phone. After back and forth with customer service still unresolved. New update made it worse. Can’t even sign in at this point. So much for a lifetime membership. Go check out Blinkist and 12 Min Read! There stuff actually works!

But not reading them. Booknotes book, so you don’t have to. Five stars.

STEAR CLEAR Of App ... Its a fraud if not it is out right criminal activity when you u select a title it prompts you to to make an in app purchase always upping how much I starte with a 7 day trial and before long it was 169 dollars i tune will not help with refund or help contacting publisher