AI Tools
AI for text, art and covers, with what KDP does and does not require you to disclose.
16 listed, sorted by name. A tool can appear in more than one category.
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| Tool | What it is | Price | KDP | Checked |
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| Adobe Firefly | Adobe Firefly is Adobe's generative AI app for creators that makes images, vectors, video and audio from text prompts and edits existing images. | Price: Free tier, paid from $9.99/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Book2Color | Book2Color is a web-based AI coloring book generator for KDP sellers that creates line-art pages and exports interior PDFs in KDP trim sizes. | Price: Free tier, paid from $9.99/mo | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| ChatGPT | ChatGPT is OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant that publishers use to brainstorm, draft and edit text and to generate images. | Price: Free tier, paid from $8/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Claude | Claude is Anthropic's general-purpose AI assistant that publishers use for brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing feedback and book descriptions. | Price: Free tier, paid from $20/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| ColorCraft | ColorCraft is an AI coloring book app that draws the pages and exports KDP-format interior PDFs and spine-aware full-wrap covers. | Price: From $32/mo | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| DIY Book Covers | DIY Book Covers is a site by designer Derek Murphy for self-publishers that offers a free cover editor, an AI cover generator and 3D mockups. | Price: Free tier, paid from $19 one-time | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| ElevenLabs | ElevenLabs is an AI voice platform for creators and publishers that turns an EPUB manuscript into an AI-narrated audiobook and can publish it to ElevenReader. | Price: Free tier, paid from $6/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Google Gemini | Google Gemini is Google's AI assistant for writing, research and image generation, with paid tiers sold as Google AI plans. | Price: Free tier, paid from $4.99/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Ideogram | Ideogram is an AI image generator with typography tools, including editable text layers, useful for typographic book cover concepts. | Price: Free tier, paid from $20/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| KDP Coloring Book Studio | KDP Coloring Book Studio is an AI tool that turns a theme into line art, a print interior and a full-wrap cover for KDP coloring books. | Price: From $7/wk | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| KDP Tools (kdptools.io) | KDP Tools is a web toolkit for KDP publishers with free royalty, KENP and spine calculators plus credit-based AI niche, keyword and category tools. | Price: Free tier, paid from $9.99/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Leonardo AI | Leonardo AI is an AI image generator with a daily free allowance that publishers use to test cover concepts before paying for a tool. | Price: Free tier, paid from $12/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Midjourney | Midjourney is a paid AI image generator that many publishers use for cover art and coloring page concepts, but it outputs images only. | Price: From $10/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Novelcrafter | Novelcrafter is a browser-based novel writing app with a story wiki and optional AI that connects to the AI provider and key you choose. | Price: From $4/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Recraft | Recraft is an AI image and vector generator with custom styles, useful for decorative journal interiors and coloring page art. | Price: Free tier, paid from $12/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Sudowrite | Sudowrite is a subscription AI writing app for fiction authors that drafts, rewrites, expands and critiques prose using credit-metered AI models. | Price: From $10/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 |