CoverDesigner
Part of AuthorKit

Your book has a cover
people actually pick up.

Professional book covers in 60 seconds. Not 2 weeks. Not $500. Not "can you make the font bigger?"

Free tier. No credit card. 3 covers per month.

You finish your manuscript. Months of work. Maybe years. Then you realize you need a cover. And the cover is the first thing anyone sees.

So you go to Fiverr. $300-500. Two weeks of back and forth. Three revision rounds. "Can you try a different font?" "What about a darker background?" It still doesn't capture your book. But you're out of revisions.

Or you open Canva. Drag a stock photo onto a template. Slap your title in Playfair Display. It looks... like Canva. Like every other self-published book that readers scroll past.

Readers judge books by their covers. Literally. A professional cover doesn't guarantee sales. But an amateur one guarantees they won't even click.

Describe your book.
Get a cover that belongs on the shelf.

AI generation from a prompt

Tell it your genre, mood, and key imagery. Get multiple concepts in seconds. No design skills needed.

Genre-aware style control

Romance, thriller, sci-fi, literary — each genre has visual conventions. The AI knows them. Your cover fits the shelf.

Professional typography

Title, subtitle, author name — properly kerned, properly sized. Not 'drag a text box and hope for the best.'

Spine + back cover

Full wraparound covers for print. Auto-calculated spine width from your page count. Barcode placement included.

Print-ready export

300 DPI PDF with bleed, trim marks, and color profiles. Upload directly to KDP, IngramSpark, or your printer.

Every size you need

Ebook, paperback, hardcover, large print. One design, every format. Resize in one click.

AI that understands books.

Not a generic image generator with a text overlay. CoverDesigner was trained on what makes book covers work.

Multiple concepts

Don't settle on the first idea. Generate variations, compare them side by side, pick the winner.

Style consistency

Writing a series? Lock your colors, fonts, and layout. Every sequel matches.

Batch generation

Redesigning your backlist? Generate covers for 10 books in one session. Same quality, fraction of the time.

What you'd pay elsewhere.

ReplacesTheir priceAuthorKit
Fiverr designer$300–500Free tier
99designs$299+Free tier
CanvaFree (looks amateur)Free tier
Total$3,000+$0 to start

Authors who stopped hiring designers.

I spent $400 on a Fiverr designer and got something that looked like a middle school art project. CoverDesigner gave me a professional cover in under a minute.

Rachel T.

Self-Published Romance Author

I publish 4-6 books a year. At $300 per cover that's almost $2,000. Now I design all of them myself and they look better.

Marcus W.

Thriller Series Author

The genre templates are the real magic. I picked 'literary fiction,' typed my title, and the AI knew exactly what vibe to go for.

Priya S.

Literary Fiction Author

I redesigned my backlist covers in one afternoon. Sales went up 30% in the first month. Covers matter more than people think.

Tom H.

Sci-Fi Author

One cover used to cost $400.
Now you design unlimited for $12/mo.

Start free. Upgrade when you need more.

Free

$0

3 covers/mo, basic AI

AI cover generation

Ebook formats

Basic templates

PNG export

Start Free

Pro

$12/mo

Unlimited covers, all templates

Unlimited generation

Premium AI models

All genre templates

Print-ready PDF

Spine + back cover

Series templates

Get Pro

Max

$29/mo

Batch generation, commercial license

Everything in Pro

Batch generation (10+)

Commercial license

Custom CSS overlays

Priority rendering

API access

Get Max

Answers.

We can't guarantee a bestseller.

But we can make sure a bad cover isn't the reason it fails.

Design Your Cover
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