Cover Design & Mockups
Cover makers, templates and 3D mockups for KDP.
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| Tool | What it is | Price | KDP | Checked |
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| 99designs | 99designs is a design marketplace owned by Vista where authors run a book cover contest or hire one designer directly. | Price: From $299 | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Adobe Express | Adobe Express is Adobe's template-based online design app for quick graphics that KDP publishers use for ebook covers, ads and social images. | Price: Free tier, paid from $9.99/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| 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 | |
| Affinity | Affinity is Canva's free all-in-one photo, vector and page layout app for designers that KDP publishers use to build print covers and illustrated interiors. | Price: Free tier | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Book Brush | Book Brush is an online design tool for authors that makes book ads, 3D mockups and ebook or print-wrap covers sized to KDP trim sizes. | Price: From $149/yr | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Canva | Canva is a template-based design tool widely used for KDP ebook covers, simple low-content interiors and marketing graphics. | Price: Free tier, paid from $18/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Creative Fabrica | Creative Fabrica is a font, graphics and template marketplace for crafters and designers that KDP publishers use for cover and interior assets. | Price: From $47/yr | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Damonza | Damonza is a New Zealand book design studio for self-publishers that sells custom covers, interior formatting and full launch packages. | Price: From $495 | 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 | |
| Fiverr | Fiverr is a freelance services marketplace where KDP publishers buy cover design, formatting, editing and other gigs at seller-set prices. | Price: From $5 | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| GetCovers | GetCovers is a low-cost book cover design service for indie authors that sells fixed-price ebook and print-ready cover packages. | Price: From $10 | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| GIMP | GIMP is a free, open-source desktop image editor for Windows, Mac and Linux that publishers use to build and edit book cover artwork. | Price: Free | 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 | |
| Inkscape | Inkscape is a free, open-source vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac and Linux that can lay out covers and low-content pages and export PDF. | Price: Free | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| KDP Cover Calculator Official | The KDP Cover Calculator is Amazon's free web tool for paperback and hardcover publishers that gives exact full-cover dimensions and a downloadable template. | Price: Free | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| KDPEasy | KDPEasy is a credit-based web studio for KDP publishers that makes AI covers, puzzle, coloring and planner interiors, and listing drafts. | Price: Free tier, paid from $19/mo | KDP-ready filesTouches KDP account | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Krita | Krita is a free, open-source digital painting app for illustrators that publishers use to paint cover art and children's book illustrations. | Price: Free | 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 | |
| MiblArt | MiblArt is a book cover design studio for indie authors that offers custom ebook and print covers with payment after you approve the design. | Price: From $220 | 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 | |
| Photopea | Photopea is a free browser-based image editor similar to Photoshop that opens PSD files and can export PDF for print covers. | Price: Free tier | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Placeit | Placeit is an Envato-owned browser mockup and template site for sellers and authors that makes book mockups and simple book cover designs. | Price: From $7.47/mo | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Procreate | Procreate is an iPad drawing and painting app for illustrators that KDP publishers use to draw coloring pages, cover art and picture book illustrations. | Price: $12.99 one-time | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Reedsy Marketplace | Reedsy Marketplace is a curated freelance marketplace for authors that connects them with vetted editors, cover designers, marketers and translators. | Price: Paid | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Tangent Templates | Tangent Templates is a web app for low-content publishers that builds KDP interiors and covers from 130+ templates, sold for a one-time price. | Price: $59 one-time | KDP-ready filesTouches KDP account | Checked 2026-11-09 |