Create book cover ideas from your title, author name, genre, and style. Prepare the cover format your edition needs for eBook, paperback, or hardcover publishing, without rebuilding layouts or calculating print specifications yourself.
Tell us about your book and choose a genre style to get started.
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Use an image you own to guide style, layout, color, or character.
Don't upload photos of real people, celebrities, or stills and fan art from movies, TV, or anime. Those get blocked and the generation fails. Original art, textures, and color palettes work best.
Style Preview
Romance · Contemporary Romance
Example imagery updates based on genre and style.
Cover examples
See the ebook front covers this generator makes, then open a genre to start from that shelf.
Start with the core details of your book, generate an ebook front cover, then download it or continue into a print or audiobook file if that edition needs one.
Enter your book title, author, and a short description of your vision.
AI uses your prompt, genre, and style direction to create a cover preview.
Preview the generated artwork and verify it matches your expectation.
Download the ebook cover, or continue into a print-ready or audiobook path when you need a different file.
Cover files by edition
The generator on this page makes the ebook front cover. Paperback, hardcover, and audiobook editions need different files — not a stretched or resized version of the same image.
What you make here
A vertical front cover for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, and other ebook stores. Start from your title, genre, and style, then download the front-only image.
Front cover · 1600 × 2560
Create ebook cover
A different file
Print is not a resized ebook. A paperback or hardcover needs the front, spine, and back in one layout, sized to the trim, page count, and paper.
Full wrap · spine + back
Make it print-ready
A different file
Don't stretch the ebook into a square. Audible and ACX need a true 2400 × 2400 cover that keeps the title readable.
Square · 2400 × 2400
Make audiobook cover
A different file
Don't stop at a flat front cover. Turn it into a 3D book image for your launch page, ads, and social posts.
3D mockup · launch images
Create mockupLeave the designer invoice and the Canva template. Start from the book.
The old way
Photoshop, layers, and a crash course in cover design
Here
Describe the title, genre, and story
The old way
A Canva template everyone else is already using
Here
A cover direction made for this book
The old way
$300 and a week of back-and-forth
Here
Generate, pick a direction, and keep moving — same day
Publishing toolkit
Front cover is on this page. The rest of the toolkit is here too — everything you still need, on this site.
Storefronts
Same book, more files
Turn an ebook front into a print wrap with spine and back.
ACX-ready 2400 × 2400 square from an existing cover.
Matching covers so sequels sit together on the shelf.
Launch and marketing images from a finished cover.
What our customers are saying
Didn't expect it to be this easy. I just typed in my title and boom, cover done. saved me like $50 on fiverr.
Honestly I was skeptical about AI but the results are actually legit. The resolution is perfect for KDP, no issues uploading.
fast. simple. love it.
I've published 5 books this year and used this tool for all of them. The consistency is great and it handles the text placement way better than I could.
My cover looks pro.
Was struggling with the 1.6:1 ratio thing for hours until I found this. It just works. Highly recommend for any indie author starting out.
New users receive free credits to get started. Kindle eBook covers cost just 1 credit per generation. Free results carry a watermark, so you can check the design before you pay. Paid downloads have no watermark. For print-ready paperback or hardcover covers, generation costs 1 credit and downloading the high-res PDF costs 30 credits. Credit packs start at $3.99.
Not directly. An eBook cover is a front-only portrait image made to the target ebook store's requirements (ratio, pixels, format), while a print front cover is the front panel of a print cover, made to the trim ratio and print resolution. Same name, different image specs — the eBook cover can only be reused as front-panel material and must be reworked for print.
It may be accepted, but as-is it's not made to ebook specs. A print front panel follows the trim ratio (6×9 ≈ 1:1.5), while ebook stores suggest their own (KDP 1.6:1, Kobo 3:4). Re-export it as a clean front-only image to the target store's requirements to use it as an eBook cover.
Yes. You can use covers you download for your own book publishing, sales listings, and promotion. BookCoverAI does not claim ownership of those downloads.
Unlike general design tools that require you to manually assemble stock photos, our AI cover maker starts a fresh cover direction from your story's plot or mood. No design skills are needed to get a professional result.
The generator includes genre and style presets for common book categories, including romance, fantasy, cookbook, children's books, comics, sci-fi, poetry, mystery, and business books.
Start from your title, genre, and style, then choose the cover path that matches your publishing plan.
