Video to Blog AI Review: Convert YouTube Videos to Blog Posts

What Is Video to Blog AI?

Video to Blog AI does exactly what the name suggests — it takes a video (either via a YouTube link or a direct upload) and converts it into a full-length blog post. The tool handles transcription, content generation, screenshot extraction, and even SEO metadata, all in one workflow.

If you've ever tried repurposing a 30-minute YouTube video into a written article, you know how tedious the process can be. Typically it involves transcribing the video, feeding that transcript into an LLM like Claude, then manually formatting, adding images, and publishing. Video to Blog AI aims to collapse all of those steps into a single tool with a one-time AppSumo price tag starting at $49.

Plans and Pricing

The AppSumo deal offers five tiers, and the pricing is straightforward. Each tier gives you a set number of blog post conversions per month. Tier one starts at $49, and the higher tiers scale proportionally — the cost per blog post stays roughly the same no matter which tier you pick.

That consistency is actually noteworthy. A lot of AppSumo deals front-load perks into the higher tiers to incentivize bigger purchases, but Video to Blog keeps it fair across the board. Just figure out how many posts you need each month and buy accordingly. It's a one-time lifetime deal fee with monthly usage credits that reset.

Onboarding and User Interface

The onboarding is minimal — sign up with email and password, skip the welcome tour if you want, and you're dropped into a clean, sparse dashboard. The sidebar gives you three options: Dashboard, Settings, and Create a Blog.

Under Settings, you'll find integrations for WordPress, Medium, Blogger, and Ghost. There's also a language setting (leave it on auto) and the option to add a custom footer that appears on every blog post. That footer field uses a basic WYSIWYG editor — handy for adding a standard affiliate disclaimer or FTC disclosure across all your content.

Blog Creation Options and Limits

Creating a blog post starts with pasting a YouTube link or uploading a video file directly. The tool only supports YouTube for URL-based imports — no Vimeo, Wistia, or other platforms. There's a three-hour video length limit and a cap of around 2,500 words per blog post.

Before generating, you get several useful options. You can embed the original video, add screenshots from the video, pull links from the YouTube description, and include a call-to-action card. The CTA builder lets you set a title, description, button text, and even upload an image for a side-by-side layout. There are also controls for blog length, writing style, point of view, table of contents, FAQ generation, and whether to use chapter markers as the article outline.

One particularly clever feature: you can set a time range to generate a blog post from just a portion of the video. If you have a long video with clear chapters, you could create multiple focused articles from a single recording.

Custom Instructions

The custom instructions field is where you can steer the AI's output. You can specify things like "add at least one screenshot per chapter" or "make the blog post similar to show notes for a podcast." That second instruction is particularly useful if you don't want the AI to rewrite your review in third person or turn it into a detached critique — you want helpful, first-person show notes that complement the video.

The tool also lets you toggle emojis on or off. Fair warning: if you turn emojis on, the AI tends to go heavy on them. Every heading gets decorated. It's a bit much for most professional content, so think carefully before enabling that option.

Generating and Reviewing the Blog Post

Hit "Create Blog" and the tool starts transcribing and generating. For a 32-minute video, transcription was impressively fast. The full generation process takes a few minutes, and you can navigate away to the dashboard while it works — it won't break anything, and you can even start generating a second post simultaneously.

The first attempt using a YouTube link produced a 1,862-word article (a seven-minute read). The embedded video appeared at the top, and the content was solid. However, the table of contents on the first attempt was rough — it repeated the article title as multiple headings instead of using distinct section names. Screenshots also failed because YouTube blocked the video download.

The second attempt, using a directly uploaded video file with chapters as the outline, produced much better results. The table of contents was detailed and well-structured, screenshots were captured successfully, and the overall article quality was noticeably higher.

The Editor Experience

The built-in editor feels similar to Ghost's editor — clean, block-based, and intuitive. Type a forward slash anywhere to access a menu of content blocks: AI writer, AI image, regular image, screenshots, stock images (via Unsplash), headings, lists, tables, table of contents, and FAQ.

The FAQ block is interesting — rather than giving you a blank template to fill in, it auto-generates FAQ questions and answers based on your content. The stock image integration works but has a quirk: images always insert at the top of the post rather than at your cursor position, which is frustrating.

One notable gap: there's no Command+Z undo support. If you add something you don't want, you'll need to manually delete it rather than undoing the action.

AI Images and AI Writer

The AI image generator produces decent results. The images are clearly AI-generated, but they're serviceable for blog content. The tool shows you have a certain number of image credits, though in testing, generating images didn't seem to deduct any credits — the system around credit tracking is unclear.

The AI writer feature lets you type a prompt (like "write a compelling CTA to get the tool") and generates a paragraph. Unfortunately, the output lacked context awareness — it didn't mention the specific product, AppSumo, or the lifetime deal. You can regenerate for 0.1 credits, but the lack of contextual understanding limits its usefulness.

The Credit System Confusion

The credit system is one of the tool's weakest points right now. The AppSumo page mentions a set number of blog posts per month, but the tool's own pricing page references 125 credits per month with blogs costing 1 to 15 credits each. It's unclear how image generation, AI writing, and regeneration factor into that credit budget.

Regenerations are listed as unlimited, which is good — if screenshots fail on the first attempt, you can regenerate without penalty. But the overall lack of transparency around what costs what is frustrating. You can't easily see a running credit balance or understand how your actions map to credit consumption.

Links and Call-to-Actions

Despite the option to pull links from the YouTube description, the generated blog posts didn't include any inline links. The only link present was the manually created CTA card. For content creators who rely on affiliate links, this is a significant gap.

The workaround is manual: select text in the editor and add links yourself, or duplicate the CTA card by right-clicking and copying it to other locations in the article. It works, but it adds friction to what should be an automated workflow.

Content Analyzer and SEO Metadata

The content analyzer scores your blog post across readability, AI content detection, word count, paragraph length, section length, and sentence length. The test article scored 91% with all individual metrics at a perfect 10. The AI content detector rated it as 100% human-written, which is a strong result.

SEO metadata generation is automatic — you get a meta title, meta description, slug, and tags. The auto-generated slug was excessively long (around 50 characters), but you can manually edit it. The tool also generates social media promotional posts for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, which is a genuinely useful bonus that saves time on content distribution.

WordPress Export

Exporting to WordPress requires setting up an application password in your WordPress admin panel (under Users > Profile > Application Passwords). Once connected, the export process is straightforward — you set a slug, choose to create as draft, and hit publish.

The export worked, including screenshots and the embedded video. However, there are a few caveats: the content uses the Classic Editor format rather than Gutenberg blocks, your theme's table of contents feature may create a duplicate if Video to Blog already generated one, and the embedded video player appeared blank with no playback functionality. You'll want to replace that with a proper YouTube embed.

Video to Blog AI vs. Claude: How They Compare

The Claude workflow requires more setup — you need to transcribe the video yourself, maintain custom prompts, and manually copy content into your CMS. But Claude gives you more control over output quality, handles inline links well (with prompting), and produces longer, more detailed sections.

Video to Blog AI wins on convenience. It handles transcription, screenshots, CTA cards, SEO metadata, social media posts, and direct CMS publishing in a single workflow. The screenshot extraction alone is something no LLM can do natively. For creators who prioritize speed and don't want to maintain a custom prompt chain, Video to Blog is the more practical choice.

The ideal workflow might actually combine both: use Video to Blog for the initial generation with screenshots, then refine the content and add affiliate links manually or with Claude's help.

Final Verdict: 7.9 out of 10

Video to Blog AI is the most feature-rich video-to-article tool available on AppSumo right now. The screenshot extraction, CTA builder, SEO analyzer, social media post generation, and direct WordPress publishing make it a genuinely useful content repurposing tool.

What's holding it back from the eights: the YouTube download failures that force you to upload videos manually, the missing inline affiliate links, the confusing credit system, and a few editor quirks like images inserting at the top instead of at the cursor. If the team can nail consistent YouTube video downloads so you get both description links and screenshots in a single generation, this tool would be an easy recommendation.

At $49 for a lifetime deal, it's worth picking up if you regularly repurpose video content into blog posts. The time savings on transcription, screenshots, and SEO metadata alone justify the price — just be prepared to do a manual pass for affiliate links and CTA placement.

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