SocialMint AI help

User guide

This guide walks through every part of SocialMint AI, in the order of the menu on the left. The last section shows what each plan includes. Everything you make (brand kits, drafts, templates) is saved in this browser on this computer.

Before you start

Sign in and add your API key as shown in the quick start.

Important: your brand kits, drafts and keys live in this browser. If you clear your browser data or switch to another computer, they will not be there. Copy anything important somewhere safe.

Scheduler: write a post

This is where you write posts. The screen is called Create a Post.

1. Type a Topic for your post.
2. Click Suggest Content to have the AI write the post in your active brand kit's voice.
3. Use Hashtags to add hashtags, or Rewrite to get a new version of what is in the Content box.
4. Click Create Image for a matching picture, or Create Video for a short clip. Under Attach Media you can Download the image or Copy image.
5. Under Write for, pick the platforms you plan to post on: Facebook Page, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn Page, YouTube, TikTok, X, Pinterest or Blog (WordPress).
6. If you like, add a Title (used by YouTube, the blog and Pinterest) and a Link.
7. Click Copy post text and paste it into the platform yourself.

SocialMint AI does not post for you. It writes the post and the media, and you copy or download them and post them yourself. This keeps your social media accounts fully in your hands.

Drafts and templates

• Save draft to library keeps the post (with its image) under Your drafts so you can come back to it.
• Save as Template saves the post layout under a name, for example "Weekly Update". Find it later under My Templates and click Apply.
• In Post Library, click Reuse to start a new post from an old one.

Calendar: plan the month

The Calendar shows your saved drafts on a month. It helps you see which days have a post and which days are empty.

1. In the menu on the left, click Calendar. You see this month, with today marked.
2. Under Unplanned drafts you see the drafts you saved in the Scheduler. Drag one onto a day. On a phone, pick a day in the date box on the draft instead.
3. The draft now shows on that day. Use Previous, Next and Today to move between months.
4. When a post is ready, click Mark ready.
5. On the day, click Copy post text or Download, and post it yourself.
6. To take a post off the calendar, click Remove date.

Export the month

Under Export, click Download page (print to PDF) for a page you can print or save as a PDF, or Download CSV for a spreadsheet. Both list the date, platform, status and text of every planned post that month. On Agency, Agency Lite and Bundle plans, type your business name in Business name on exports: the export then carries only your name. On other plans the export has a small "Made with SocialMint AI" line at the bottom.

Projects

Projects keeps the images and videos you make in folders. Make something in Content Studio and save it to a new or existing project. Click a project to see what is in it, and Back to Projects to return.

Content Studio: images and video

Content Studio has three tabs.

• Image Generation: describe a picture and click Generate. Then Use in Post, Save draft to library or Download.
• Image Editing (Edit Image with AI): change an image with a written instruction, for example "Add a retro filter".
• Video Generation: the Create Short Clip tool, below.

Make a short clip

1. Open Content Studio, then the Video Generation tab.
2. Paste a post into Post or Brief to Turn Into a Video.
3. Choose the Format (9:16 for Reels and TikTok, 1:1 for the feed, 16:9 for YouTube), the Length and the Number of Images.
4. Click Generate missing images. You can Regenerate any frame you do not like.
5. Check the Voice-over script, then click Build Clip with Voice-over.
6. Under Result, click Download or Use in Post.

Motion video (Pro and Bundle plans, needs a Claude key): pick Claude motion instead of OpenAI or Google Gemini. Claude writes an animated scene with your brand colours, fonts and moving keywords instead of still images, and the app records it as a video. Click Write the motion scene, then build the clip as above. On other plans the button shows "Part of Pro. Upgrade to unlock."

AI Assistant Chat

Ask questions and brainstorm ideas with the AI, for example "Give me 10 post ideas for a bakery in December".

Brand Kit

A brand kit tells the AI how your business sounds and looks. The Active kit shapes every post the app writes.

1. Click New kit.
2. Fill in Brand or client name (required), then as much as you can of Target audience, Brand voice, Tone rules, Preferred words and phrases, Words or phrases to avoid, Colour palette, Fonts and Example posts.
3. Add your Logo if you have one.
4. Have a brand guide or brochure as a PDF? Under Brand guide PDF, click Choose PDF, then Summarise with AI.
5. Click Save kit, then Set as active.

To switch brands, click Set active on another kit under Your brand kits.

Settings

• AI provider: save, test and clear your API keys. See How to get your API key.
• Provider by activity: choose which AI company does each job (text, images, video frames, voice-over, image editing).
• Your plan: shows the plans you bought, how many brand kits you can save, and each feature as Unlocked, Unlocked, coming soon or "Part of ... Upgrade to unlock". The Sign out button is here too.

What each plan includes

If you bought more than one plan, you get everything from all of them.

"Coming soon" features are already part of your plan: they switch on in the app when they are ready, at no extra cost.