Sparky's Woodworks review for Jolt: AI SEO Blog & Image
Jan. 30, 2026
Using the Pro plan... Not what I expected at all. I read the reviews and it seemed like this would be the perfect app for what I wanted to do: automatically generate one blog post per day by choosing an active product from our Shopify store. The app admin is rudimentary at best. I used the "additional info for AI" box in the Automation form to tell the AI specifically what I wanted: a blog post with a title of "Store Spotlight" and the date of the post, use the 2nd product image as the Featured Image on the post, and use the product description to write the blog content. What I got was a post about a featured product called "SmartHome Hub 2026." We're a woodworking company; we don't sell electronics or tech or anything close to a "SmartHome Hub." The featured image is not from one of our products, and is totally irrelevant to our business, just like the post itself. The post content has zero embedded images. The AI added links to the mystery product, too, which have a broken placeholder URL. Furthermore, it wrote a "Customer Testimonials and Success Stories" section about this phantom product, which included 3 testimonials from customers that have allegedly purchased the product. Not a real product, not real customers, not real testimonials. I'm giving this app zero additional time. I'm not interested in talking with support. Shopify's built-in AI works just fine for writing blog content. Since the automated blog writer portion fails incredibly, I see no point for this app to exist.
Hello, I want to sincerely apologize for the negative experience that you had with the app. We went ahead and issued a credit for your subscription charge. Also I think there may have been some confusion about the automated posting features within the app. Currently the automated posting cannot access your shop's products, only the advanced generator can do that (accessible from the blog posts page). Including custom instructions related to accessing your shop's products and images can confuse the automated AI as it doesn't have access to that content. This can certainly cause it to create subpar or irrelevant content. I do apologize that we did not communicate the capabilities of the automated posting well enough and we are going to make some modifications to make sure that is much more clear in the future. Thank you for your feedback.
