Bolt Reviews 181

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.

Only creates bugs and errors, reiterates over the same, wrong, solution intents. It costs millions of token trying to fix a little authentication bug. In the end bolt didn't manage to fix it, but consumed almost five million tokens and I had to fix it manually.

It works good for the first few sites but they've made it so that it stops doing certain tasks you ask it to do or starts deviating from it deliberately, resulting in you using more prompts therefore having to buy more credits. Morality over business model any day.

Such excessive token usage, constant errors and using so many tokens to fix simple errors then generates new ones.

I wasted over 5 million tokens trying to create a simple calendar. It constantly fixes errors and creates new errors. Great concept but it just doesn't work properly.

Good idea with a very bad realization! It is too buggy to ask for it such a high price. It wastes tokens for making childish mistakes. All the time you have to revert everything back and start over. Frustration, anger and no working code with lots of lost time - that is what will wait you in case of using bolt.new!
If things improve - I will change my review. But for now - even one star is too much!

Not even worth a single star, money wasted for nothing. First of all, when you ask for something, they do it well and it looks good, but if you come with an additional request, they mess everything up no matter what you ask for.

I’ve tried starting an app with Bolt.new multiple times now, but I keep running into the same frustrating issues. One of the most annoying problems is how the tool handles existing code fragments. Even though it often states "the rest of the code remains unchanged," in practice, the code either gets completely deleted or important parts are simply left out. This consistently breaks the app's functionality and forces me to start over.

Another recurring issue is the deletion of functions. The tool doesn’t seem to reliably recognize which parts of the code should remain untouched, and instead, it arbitrarily removes critical sections that I didn’t intend to modify. This makes the experience incredibly inefficient and prone to errors.

As a developer, I expect a tool designed to simplify coding to offer reliability and precision, especially when updating or editing existing files. Unfortunately, Bolt.new continues to fall short in this regard. Instead of focusing on building features, I end up spending most of my time fixing issues or reconstructing lost code.

Bottom line: The tool has potential, but until these fundamental issues are resolved, it’s not reliable enough for me to use on serious projects.

I'll admit sometimes it gives decent design but only when using typescript.
If you ask the AI to provide code in javascript instead of typescript. It changes your beautiful dream into nightmare. It gives so irritating plain broken design that I starts to pull my own hair! Not to mention the unnecessary bugs it creates while working on a perfectly fine codebase!

Terrible, the ai waste tokens by creating ai bugs in the code which you then need to ask to fix since its pratically impossible to try yourself, overall a big scam

While Bolt.new offers some innovative tools, the pricing is excessively high, especially with strict token limits that are inadequate for larger projects. For $200 per month, you'd expect more flexibility, but the platform seems primarily focused on profit rather than accessibility. Additionally, integrating a project created on Bolt.new with other platforms via APIs is a cumbersome and frustrating process, making it less practical for developers. A fully free version would make much more sense for fostering user growth and innovation.