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Cover art, real text

An AI book cover generator with real, editable text

This AI book cover generator paints the art from your story, then lays the title and author on top as real text, so nothing is misspelled into the picture and everything can still be changed.

No sign-up. 1,000 free credits every month.

How it works

  1. Start from a genre template

    The cover opens on a style for your genre, one of twelve templates that range from Romance and Thriller to Fantasy and Nonfiction. Nothing is saved until you change something.

  2. Create the art with AI

    Create image with AI opens a sheet with a description pre-filled from your premise, genre and tone. Choose a Look, where the title will sit, how many images and a Quality, then see the price before you start.

  3. Or upload your own

    Use your own artwork or a plain gradient instead. Every image you add or make stays in Your images, so switching back costs nothing.

  4. Edit the text

    Title and author follow your book's details until you type over them. Change the font, weight, size, colour, spacing, shadow, outline or band, and drag each line into place.

  5. Check it small, then export

    How it looks in a store shows a thumbnail so you can see whether the title still reads. The export card saves a 1600 by 2560 JPEG, and the same cover goes into your EPUB and PDF.

A book cover maker that never misspells your title

Image models are good at atmosphere and unreliable at spelling. Ask one to paint a title into the picture and you tend to get invented letters you cannot edit. NovelGPT keeps two layers apart: the art underneath never contains lettering, and the title, subtitle, author, series line and tagline are text drawn on top. They stay sharp at any size and stay editable for good.

There are twelve font families to choose from. The editor warns about low contrast and offers Add band, flags a missing author name, and warns if the cover's title or author no longer matches the book's details, a mismatch a store can object to.

Ebook cover creator: two qualities, the price shown first

The AI book cover generator offers Standard, the default, and High detail (2K), which is sharper at full size. Each shows its price per image on the button before anything is made, you can ask for one image or four, and you are charged only for an image that is delivered. Stop never charges. Free credits cover both qualities.

Standard images are smaller than the full cover, so the editor tells you when one may look soft in stores. High detail (2K) fills the export with almost no scaling. Change this image with AI edits the current picture from a short instruction, and Write descriptions with AI suggests three image ideas drawn from your people, places and motifs.

Book cover design for KDP: size, file and AI disclosure

Amazon KDP lists 2,560 pixels high by 1,600 wide as the ideal ebook cover size, in JPEG or TIFF. NovelGPT designs to that 5:8 shape from the start and exports an RGB JPEG at 1600 by 2560, kept under 5 MB, which is also comfortably within KDP's file-size limit.

KDP's content guidelines ask you to disclose AI-generated content when you publish, and they name cover images. If your cover art came from the AI, the export card reminds you. You make the declaration, so check KDP's current guidelines before you publish. An image you upload yourself brings no such reminder.

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Features that help

  • Export anywhere

    EPUB, DOCX manuscript format, PDF, Markdown and plain text.

  • Your writing is yours

    You own every word, including what the AI writes. Never used to train AI.

Questions writers ask

Can a cover from an AI book cover generator be used on Amazon KDP?

KDP's guidelines ask authors to disclose AI-generated content, and they include cover images. NovelGPT reminds you on the export card when your art was made with AI, but the declaration is yours to make, so read KDP's current wording first.

Can I put my own photo or artwork on the cover?

Yes. Upload an image, use Move image to pan and zoom it, and set the text on top. A deleted image goes to Recently deleted with Undo.

What does the cover designer cost?

Templates, uploads and text editing cost nothing. Only AI images use credits, and the price per image is shown before you start.

Can I design a paperback wrap with spine and back cover?

Not yet. The designer makes front covers for ebooks and for the first page of EPUB and PDF exports. Spine and back-cover wraps are not included.

Does the cover update if I change my book's title?

Yes, while the title and author lines are still linked. They follow the book's details until you type over them, and Use book title links a line back up.

Sources: Amazon KDP content guidelines · Amazon KDP eBook cover image criteria

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