Bookbolt is a scam. I cancelled my account before the trail ran out and I was still charged for subscriptions. Stay away!
Bookbolt are now saying I have 2 accounts. One was cancelled during the trail period but another one was apparently active. How can I have an active account with an e-mail that doesn't belong to me. Surely I would have to vet the e-mail address before an account is opened. I've asked several times for the IP tags, but they wouldn't supply it.
They are not budging and would not refund my subscriptions.
I'm sure other have had great service, but I would not trust this business and wouldn't sign up for their services again,
Response from BookboltJul 14, 2025
Hello,
We requested more information from you about your account but unfortunately have not heard back as there is not an account that matches your username here.
When a Book Bolt account is canceled during the trial period, it cancels immediately so it is not possible that the account was charged if canceled during the trial period.
If you would like more clarification and for us to take a look at your account, please contact us at [email protected].
Thank you
SK
Simon K.
A legitimately useful tool for Amazone KDP book creation
Not sure what the 1-star reviews are going on about? Maybe competitors attempting to sabotage the site? I recently paid for the lifetime Pro subscription. Yes it's not cheap, but I know my investment will motivate me to do the work to get my money back out of it.
So far, Bookbolt has worked as I had expected. It was easy to use and I've now created word search puzzles with solutions for 7 books. I didn't use the cover creation tools as I want more creative control and options, so I made my covers using Affinity Designer, but it was easy to import the completed cover art back into my BookBolt project and then save the entire thing as a print ready PDF. Oh, I should mention that the BookBolt cover template was super helpful as I was setting up my design template in Affinity Designer. All of the critical page dimensions, fold lines, bleed, and trim lines are clearly marked so my cover met all of the Kindle KDP requirements and perfectly matched the BookBolt dimensions when I imported it back in.
Issues? There were a couple of times when I was working late at night that BookBolt took a LONG time to process and download a project's PDF. I suspect it was due to server maintenance or perhaps too many users on the platform at the same time?
Also, I think the BookBolt team could improve the font size consistency and alignment of the way the word answers are generated below the word search puzzles. The puzzles themselves are perfect, but sometimes some answer words can be in a much larger font size than the other words, and their alignments are not as neat as I would prefer. It's all editable inside the document, but it is all manual and you have to eyeball things as there appear to be no guidelines or anything to snap to. It's a time consuming process that could be improved.
Along those lines, it would be great if the exported pages would have editable text, but the PDFs are really just screen captured / PNG versions of the pages from your project. If I want to edit any text in the PDF outside of the BookBolt platform, I have to then OCR scan the pages using another third party tool, and most of those do NOT know how to handle text within the puzzles, so they all get messed up.
All that being said, so far, despite a few glitches and some annoying editing issues, in my use, BookBolt has proven its ability to help me quickly create complete books for KDP. The interface is pretty user friendly and intuitive once you get the hang of it, and there are plenty of tutorials on their site and on YoutTube. I haven't even really made much use of the research tools, as I also have a BookBeam subscription, but if I didn't have any other tools, I think BookBolt would be a great single tool to enable me to start my publishing journey.
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Karolina H.
very satisfied customer
I've been a BookBolt user for several years, and I'm very satisfied with this software.
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Ioana J.
i really like the app and what…
i really like the app and what functions it has, i would like it to include more and more diverse games and to make it much easier to work on the book: to save anything you do faster, to be able to do more things on the page, easier - i know you probably won't like it but it should be more like the Canva app, which has instant response and a very friendly interface. Bookbolt has pluses that you don't find anywhere else, such as being able to put an illustration on all pages, or on certain pages (i would like to put the illustration and that's it, not delete the page completely, that's if I don't want to duplicate the page), i would like to be able to save a certain section of what I'm working on and here I mean saving, for example, pages 5-7. I like that I have all the benefits on the same platform, searching for the 100 best-selling books, searching for keywords, searching for information about a specific book, etc.
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Viktor
Book Bolt is a great platform!
Book Bolt is a great platform!
I love the ease of use of Book Bolt Studio. I had no prior experience with designing software and BB Studio was super intuitive and easy to get used to.
I also love the keyword and competitor research features. I haven't seen a platform that offers such extensive data on the KDP market.
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JODI V.
I appreciate Book Bolt for its user-friendly interface and support options
I appreciate Book Bolt for its user-friendly interface and comprehensive support options, including instructional videos that guide users through various processes. As a high-content author, I transitioned from traditional publishing, which my brother previously handled, to self-publishing due to financial constraints. Book Bolt has significantly facilitated this shift by simplifying the uploading process to Amazon, handling much of the technical workload. I also utilized Book Bolt to design my book covers, streamlining the entire publishing workflow. Creating puzzles with Book Bolt is engaging and addictive, often leading to extensive production sessions. Overall, I highly recommend Book Bolt to authors seeking an efficient and accessible self-publishing tool.
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Jose O.
Great software and great support team
Great software and great support team, thank you.
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Gema SAnchez R.
Lo Recomiendo
Me gusta, fácil para diseñar libros de bajo contenido, libros de colorear , sopas de letras, sudoku y mucho más, solo le falta la letra ñ para sopas de letras en español, por lo demás perfecto.