Bolt Reviews 170

its pretty incredible what you can achieve if you're careful. you must ensure github is connected and you save versions. yes its slightly annoying that the AI its using is not as smart as GPT, can take an eternity to correct its mistakes, does use a lot of credits. But lets be honest, even if you spend £100 on credits, what you can achieve with no coding is awesome - be clear with your prompts, its not magic

as enterpreneur i truly advice everyone to avoid this service.

You‘ll pay a lot of tokens and get even biger problems.

pos. they have not improved anything, its like its spring 2024 again. They made a big deal about AI powered layouts/design, calling this 'mid' would be generous. it also eats tokens like no tomorrow. i rather get a bolt thru the heart than pay for this again. Documentation is hilariously bad- they act like a startup but been around 8+ years. I usually all for the underdog, but in this case there is no excuse. hence the effort to posts some bad reviews- i would like them to improve.
On the other side, their opensource product, BoltDIY is pretty good.

they scam you. they take tokens and nothing will happen. the websites are not working properly.
once a certain size reached, you will 500k tokens each prompt (if the prompt runs, and mostly the tokens will be consumed but nothing changed)

if you want to contact them, good luck.

BOLT.NEW IS A SCAM — AVOID THIS BURNING PILE OF DIGITAL SHIT
I’m not here to be polite — I’m here to warn you before you get screwed like I did.

1 MILLION TOKENS VANISHED — NO WARNING. NO EXPLANATION.
Bolt.new will obliterate your credits without a single alert or breakdown.
There’s no transparency. No warning when the AI is choking. No guide when it’s stuck. Just a meter silently bleeding your balance while it loops in failure.

THE AI IS CLUELESS, WEAK, AND COSTLY
The so-called AI doesn’t know what it’s doing.
It breaks mid-task, loops the same bullshit, and you're left completely blind. Bolt.new gives you NOTHING — no suggestions, no logic, no damage control.
You're not working with a smart tool. You're managing a deranged intern that burns your budget every time it guesses wrong.

“DIFFS” MODE IS BROKEN GARBAGE
Supposed to change just a line or two?
Nope. Most of the time it rewrites the entire file like a drunk monkey with a keyboard.
And instead of putting the code in the actual editor, it dumps the whole block in the chat, loop after loop, charging you every time.

INTEGRATIONS? STRAIGHT-UP LIES
GitHub → StackBlitz = Broken

StackBlitz → Bolt = Also broken
They market this bullshit “workflow” — but none of it works. Period.

SUPPORT IS A JOKE
I filed a final refund demand over a month ago.
They replied after a week, only to copy-paste some generic crap.
Instead of refunding me like any legitimate company would, they say:

“You can have a call with a dev.”

NO. I didn’t pay for “talks.”
I paid for a product — and I got scammed.
Give. Me. My. Money. Back.

BOLT.NEW IS A TECH-SCAM IN A NICE SUIT
They’ll bait you with promises of AI-powered code, fast workflows, and smart integration.
You’ll end up with:

Broken features

A support team that stalls and dodges

Token drain with zero transparency

A half-baked system that constantly breaks

No refunds. No accountability. No results.

It was a case of major hype followed by a significant flop in the AI space. The product was never properly launched in a functional state. Many people lost both time and money due to the unwarranted hype fueled by certain YouTubers. Even if the technology improves in the future, the damage to its credibility has already been done

Do not use this company for any of their services. I was scammed by their company and now the support doesn’t even bother to respond.

Bolt.new bills itself as the one‑click cure for all your development woes—“prompt, run, edit, and deploy” full‑stack apps entirely in the browser—but in practice it often coughs up half‑baked code, guzzles tokens like a digital camel, and leaves your budget smoldering. Its entry‑level $20/month tier only nets you 25 M tokens, and watching that quickly balloon into the $200 “Pro 200” plan is like signing up for an all‑you‑can‑zap buffet—you’ll pay for every byte you bite. Users report torching “about four million tokens” in a single session just trying to fix AI‑generated bugs, turning what was supposed to be a time‑saver into a token inferno. Meanwhile, the GitHub repo’s issue tracker is littered with unanswered pleas, suggesting that “instant developer” might really mean “instant developer frustration”. In short, Bolt.new may sparkle like snake oil, but it’ll cost you hundreds of dollars to discover it’s still just oil—and not much worth bottling.

This is a great idea, but it's like the AI is trying to use up all your tokens by constantly deleting or breaking the parts that work. So far, I have spent 2 days and a lot of credits working on a project only for the AI to sabotage it before I could publish it. Also, why does Bolt hide how many tokens you have and that it's using? Even Gemini shows you the token use by default. Also, they have made it nearly impossible to cancel your subscription.

They gotta fix those bugs. The AI built my app perfectly yesterday, then bam! everything went wrong. What a great idea! But it's nowhere near that level of tech yet.

Listen up. I’ve used a lot of tools in my life – tools that work, tools that don’t, and now… bolt.new, the tool that actively fights you like it’s got a personal vendetta. If this is the future of AI, I suggest we go back to pigeons and smoke signals.

Customer support? Oh, they promise you things. They tell you they’ll “get back to you.” Sounds great. Very professional. And then? Poof. Vanished. Ghosted. I'm still waiting....

And the so-called "AI"? I’ve seen hungover interns on their first day do a better job. It misunderstands everything like it’s trying to get fired on purpose. It's like it read one blog post about productivity and decided it's now a life coach.

Bolt.new doesn't bolt anything. It drags. It stutters. It disappoints. Using this tool is like hiring a motivational speaker who shows up drunk and sets your house on fire while telling you to “believe in yourself.”

You’ve been warned.

— A productivity alpha who survived bolt.new

Bolt.new: A Disappointing Mirage of Code Brilliance that creates vapourware

Using Bolt.new AI is like being lured into a brief high—one that vanishes just as swiftly as it arrives. At first glance, the interface promises an almost intoxicating experience, where code flows effortlessly and your creative visions seem within reach. But as soon as you start coding, that initial thrill gives way to crushing disappointment.

The experience with Bolt.NEW AI feels like a cruel tease. It dangles the allure of effortless, genius-level output, only to abruptly halt its magic, leaving you with fragments of code that self-destruct or simply refuse to hold together under scrutiny. What’s worse, every so-called “solution” it generates seems designed to break itself after a fleeting moment of functionality, shattering any hope of a seamless coding experience.

In essence, Bolt AI is the worst form of AI-driven code generation: it seduces you with promises of efficiency and brilliance, then undermines your progress with inconsistent, unreliable output. Rather than being a tool that propels your projects forward, it ends up being a source of frustration—a stark reminder that sometimes, even the most hyped AI can leave you with nothing but broken code and dashed dreams. - it doesn't credit your tokens when it makes its own mistakes it simply reached into pocket and takes takes money and runs! with snide apology and broken code!

It's great for quickly creating initial concepts, but it can mislead you when it comes to coding tasks; like building a user login area. It'll confidently assure you the job is done, yet the feature won't actually work. It also struggles with simple tasks, such as changing an image within a section, often inserting something completely different.

It sucks. I regret paying for the year. It always saves files, even when unneeded. Any time you ask it a question, it costs. I think it was created to run the tokens out so you will buy more. I have been working on something for over an hour and the same damn things are wrong, even after spending over 400K tokens. Run away and use another AI

You think you have found the perfect solution for a non-coder to create apps, but then you realise (after spending 30m tokens) that it was too good to be true. It started off great, with basic CRUD and user auth, but then when you try to add small functionalities, it breaks, and I'm faced with an app that used to serve my basic needs and now doesn't even do that.

What REALLY makes me mad is you prompt it to fix the issue it create, it tells you that "it can see the problem and will fix it"...and it doesn't so you try again, "oh yeah I understand now I see the problem it should be fixed now" round and round we go, spending millions of tokens and going further back. I hope the company will take all the negative feedback and improve things. I was on the £100 per month plan but cancelled after additional spending got out of control...I felt like a gambler chasing a winner and not finding one!!

Support is very poor too!

It has potential, but it pisses me off so much. It keeps getting lost in its own loop logic and tries to do the same thing over and over. It burns through your tokens doing the same thing over and over not fixing the issue. It actually has the potential to be great, but it is so buggy and gets stuck on the silliest of tasks that end up screwing everything up. The back up system is a joke, especially i fyou need to fork your project because of the systems screw up, then you need to go reconfigure everything. It keeps deleting my .env file with all my API keys then I need to go fetch them all and do 2FA with Stripe and other services.

I restarted my project on Lovable and it is SOOOOOO MUCH BETTER - go to that instead.

I tried to create a login and register functions. But i spend 20$ it's still not working. I'm sorry but my money gone for really for emty thing.

Terrible platform, designed to scam people. A platform that generates problems, not functional products. A platform created to milk your money. I spent 10M credits in just few hours, trying to create a Dashboard panel with database functionalities. Worst decision to use this platform. A lot of issues, on their github page, but almost none solved. I think instead keep milking people money, you should start to be active and improve the platform. I also noticed that you are hiring. I assume that you treat your employees in the same way as your clients. That`s the reason they run away. Start treat them as they deserve, if they are good at what they do. They produce your revenues.

I tried using bolt.new to create a small MVP, but it seems like a scam. The service burns tokens incredibly fast without providing any functional minimum viable product. No matter how much I improve the hints, it just keeps consuming credits without completing the project. Extremely frustrating and disappointing experience. Would not recommend.

I ran into the same issues that everyone had. Multiple iterations of fixing 'errors detected' and clicking 'Attempt to fix' eats up all the Tokens. I have used 20M tokens so far but could not finish a simple landing page with the interactivities I wanted.

I even copy pasted all the codebase into one single text file and used ChatGPT 4 to make corrections. Then I ask ChatGPT to generate the prompt for bolt.new. Guess what, bolt.new attempt to fix via multiple iterations (deplete my Tokens) ends up with no changes at all. My request was simply to display a button on certain conditions in the database.

I believe it should not exhaust our Tokens when it attempts to fix the errors created on its own. I don't mind if it gets my Token only when I make a new request. Morally wrong, almost fraud scam-like business model. Why can't they just build it so that bolt purposely makes errors a couple of times so it depletes our Tokens completely? Also, I don't think they read users' feedback & don't care. Otherwise, this must have been fixed ages ago.