Qolaba Reviews

Bought the Qolaba AppSumo LTD. The deal sold lifetime access plus all future Individual / Organization plan updates, including mapping if the plan name changes. That is still on the deal page.

Qolaba later added a separate Premium Credits system and moved many newer models off the included monthly LTD credits (including models such as Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.8). Discord support defended it like this:

“We replace older models with newer versions wherever appropriate, so LTD users continue to benefit from an evolving model library… The intention has never been to stop LTD users from getting access to newer models.”

“The distinction is with a limited set of new Premium models and features that have high ongoing costs… your original LTD benefits remain intact.”
“That’s why we chose a separate Premium Credit system: to keep the original LTD allocation intact while sustainably supporting these newer capabilities.”

That answer is not right on the representations that sold this deal.

1) Founder team, Annapurna_Qolaba, 15 Jul 2025, when asked whether LTD buyers would be stuck while new models went to other customers:
“When we add new models, they’ll be available to all eligible plans.”
https://appsumo.com/products/qolaba/questions/q-newer-models-1394637/
A Premium-only bucket for many latest models is not “available to all eligible plans” on the credits we bought.

2) Co-founder Samarth, 3 Jun 2025:
“LTD users are on the same cloud instance and credit system as our regular subscribers — no separate infrastructure or limitations.”
https://appsumo.com/products/qolaba/questions/will-future-credit-inflation-impact-the-1372679/
A second Premium credit system that LTD monthly credits cannot spend on locked models is a separate limitation. Saying the old allocation is “intact” while the models that matter now sit behind a new currency is wordplay, not the deal.

3) AppSumo itself, 24 Nov 2025, after an earlier limit scare:
“no features are changing for AppSumo lifetime deal users” and “Your LTD access will remain exactly as originally offered, with no new restrictions.”
Premium Credits that cut LTD off from many current models is a new restriction.

Support says they considered burning more LTD credits or forcing a recurring sub, then chose Premium Credits for “sustainability.” Cost pressure does not rewrite what was sold. Keeping the old credit number while moving the valuable models into a paid add-on is still locking LTD buyers out of plan updates they were promised.

This is worse than the Writingmate catalog-cutoff pattern because Qolaba’s own team and AppSumo already answered the exact fear in writing: same credit system, no separate limitations, new models on eligible plans, no new restrictions. Premium Credits contradicts those statements.

What would fix it: put current models, including the ones now labeled Premium, back onto the included LTD monthly credits under the sold tiers, or give an AppSumo-backed remedy that matches “exactly as originally offered.” Sustainability talk after the refund window is not consent.

Qolaba has made a significant change to how newer models are accessed, and I think LTD buyers should be aware of it.

When this deal was being sold, Qolaba’s Founder Team made several very clear statements on AppSumo about what Lifetime Deal purchasers would receive.

On June 8, 2025, they stated:
“All future features and model updates will be included for all users, without exception.”

On June 27, 2025, they stated:
“Yes, all future models will be included for users who purchase this deal.”

Then on July 19, 2025, they also said:
“We don’t believe in feature paywalls that lock LTD users out of core updates.”

Those statements were important because they gave buyers a clear expectation that future models added to Qolaba would continue to be available under the Lifetime Deal.
Qolaba has now introduced a separate Premium Credits system.

My account currently shows two different balances:
Plan Credits and Premium Credits

There is also now a separate Buy Premium Credits option.

More importantly, some newer models are being placed into this Premium category. For example, in the current model selector, Gemini 3.7 Flash is available through the normal system, while the newer Gemini 3.8 Flash is marked with the Premium designation.

That is difficult to reconcile with the earlier statement that “all future models will be included for users who purchase this deal.”

I completely understand that AI models cost money to operate and that companies sometimes have to adjust their business models. However, that is different from what was communicated when this Lifetime Deal was sold.

If the original terms had said:

“Some future models may require separately purchased Premium Credits,”
then buyers could have taken that limitation into account before purchasing.
Instead, buyers were explicitly told:

“All future models will be included.”

I also find the July statement particularly important because Qolaba specifically said they did not believe in feature paywalls that lock LTD users out of core updates.

I have kept screenshots of these Founder Team statements as well as screenshots showing the new Premium Credits system.

I’m sharing this update so existing and potential customers can see the difference between what was originally communicated and how newer models are being handled today.

I hope Qolaba reconsiders this approach and honors the expectations created by its original Lifetime Deal statements.

I use to use Qolaba religiously but past 4-6 months things have turned so bad I barely open it anymore. Main issue is errors whenever you try to use certain models like Runway and my past fav Leonardo but don't see that one available at all anymore.

I've yet to be able to generate not 1 video ever on this platform it always makes you wait just to throw an error. I tested a few other text to image models and they appear to work ok but soon as you try image to video or image to image expect headaches and wasted time with constant crashes.

I sure hope the team is working on this because the tool was very promising. But right now it's barely usable other than simple text to image stuff

The support was terrible. It was only after the friendly AppSumo team stepped in that we received a response confirming the suspected error in the billing system.

I'd just like to say I'm very happy with how this platform is progressing, how responsive their support team is, and its overall usefulness.