BookboltReviews of bookbolt.io

Great research keyword tool and studio but its pretty much clearly vibe coded and buggy. The subscription system is dumb - your locked for a trail where you cant use the pro features and also the templates provided are very limited.

I use Book Bolt regularly for the creation of a number of my books. Their tools are easy to use and make the formatting and creation process great. The keyword and research tools are nice, but I do feel as though their accuracy is pretty suspect. If you compare it to other tools, you'll see that their results may show 95,000 searches monthly for a keyword when, in reality, it is more likely less than 1,000 per month.

Thank you Book Bolt for helping me live my dream to be a Book Publisher. I appreciate their attention to training and find the weekly call keeps me focused. Also, I like that I can reach out to them and they respond in a timely manner. There is a lot to learn but I like that they wash and rinse so we understand the importance of becoming a great publisher. Kudos to the Bookbolt Team!

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.

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.

Book Bolt is a great basic foundation platform to create interiors and book covers. You are able to use free stock images and resize them, with one click of the button. It automatically sizes up covers dimensions to your interior pages of your book. It has great software to create wordsearches etc. The bad bits: There is a limited help guide. You need to watch Youtubers who create books to do the basic. Its not like excel or word. You need to convert most of your outside interior pages onto PDF. But this is just like a screen shot of each page. Please SAVE each page or it loses it. The fonts are not in any category. Use CANVA to create the FONT etc then convert it to Book Bolt. Summary: Its not perfect but it gives you the basic platform to create interiors and does what it says on the tin....mostly. Used it for over a year and I would recommend BOOK BOLT.

I’ve been using Book Bolt for nearly two years, and it’s become a vital part of my creative process and branding strategy. The platform is thoughtfully designed and clearly built by people who understand the needs of independent publishers. Once you learn how to use it, the system works beautifully. I especially appreciate how easy it is to navigate and find helpful tutorials or support when I have questions. The tools available have enhanced my ability to design, publish, and market my books with confidence. Book Bolt delivers real expertise, and I rely on it regularly. While there’s always room for growth, I truly value the structure and resources they’ve put into place. It’s a great system for anyone serious about self-publishing.