Social media for restaurants, from the food clips you already shoot
Guests want to see the food you really serve. So BlightBee works from your own clips and photos: it adds captions, makes short videos from them, posts them, and drafts replies to comments.
Start free · 10 free credits · No card needed
How it works
Add your Instagram or website
BlightBee reads your page and learns how you talk to guests.
Upload your clips and photos
Add phone clips of dishes, the kitchen and the room to your Library. Each file can be up to 50 MB.
Pick what to make
Add captions to a clip. Put a short message, like today's special, over a dish photo. Or let Autopilot cut a new video from your newest clips each day.
Approve, post and reply
Nothing posts until you approve it. Then reply to comments from one inbox, with a reply drafted for you.
Example: a week at a taco place
A taco place uploads 10 phone clips from Friday service and 2 dish photos. It adds captions to 5 clips, puts this week's special over each photo, and runs one Autopilot rule that cuts a new video from its clips every day. It posts to one Instagram account.
| 5 clips with captions | 5 |
| 2 specials over a dish photo | 2 |
| 7 Autopilot videos from its own clips | 28 |
| Total | 35 credits |
|---|
Starter's 250 credits a month cover it, with 215 left.
What you get
- Captions added to your own clips.
- Wall of Text: a short message over your own photo or clip.
- Autopilot: a new video each day, cut from your 12 newest clips.
- A comment inbox with drafted replies, for every platform except X.
- Posting to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and more, now or on a schedule.
What it costs
- A clip with captions: 1 credit.
- Wall of Text over your photo or clip: 1 credit.
- An Autopilot video from your clips: 4 credits.
- Autopilot needs a paid plan. Starter is $29 a month with 1 rule and 1 social account. Growth is $49 with 5 rules and 10 accounts.
What it does not do
- Other formats, like slideshows, draw AI pictures. AI can show food that is not on your menu, so use your own clips for dishes.
- It does not add a location tag, a menu or a booking link to a post.
- It does not update your Google Business Profile.
- It does not send DMs. The inbox replies to comments only.
- It does not film for you. The videos are only as good as your clips.
Questions
Do I need to film?
Yes, a little. Short phone clips of dishes and service are enough. BlightBee does the captions, the text and the posting.
Can it make a video with no clips at all?
Yes, but then the pictures are AI or stock clips, not your food. For dishes, use your own clips.
Can guests book from the video?
Not from the video. You can ask viewers to comment one word, like TACO, and then reply to each of them from the comment inbox.
Does it post to Facebook?
Yes, to a Facebook Page. It also posts to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, LinkedIn and X. X needs a paid plan.