Create
Write, design and format the interior and the cover.
Listings are sorted by name. A tool can appear under more than one category and stage.
Low-content & Puzzle Books
Journals, planners, puzzle, activity and coloring book makers.
| Tool | What it is | Price | KDP | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Bolt | Book Bolt is a subscription app that combines niche research with a KDP-sized cover and interior designer for low-content and puzzle books. | Price: From $23.99/mo | KDP-ready files | 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Low Content Profits | Low Content Profits is a blog and course site for low-content and medium-content KDP publishers, with free interior templates. | Price: Free tier | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| PLR Planners | PLR Planners is a template shop for low-content publishers that sells editable planner and journal files with private label rights for KDP and Etsy. | Price: $3 one-time | 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 | |
| Puzzle Maker Pro | Puzzle Maker Pro is Windows software for puzzle book publishers that batch-generates 60+ puzzle types and assembles print-ready PDF interiors. | Price: From $47 | KDP-ready files | 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 | |
| Self Publishing Titans | Self Publishing Titans is a KDP training brand that also sells a Chrome research extension, puzzle and coloring makers, design tools and the KDP Masterclass. | Price: From $20/mo | KDP-ready files | 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 |
Cover Design & Mockups
Cover makers, templates and 3D mockups for KDP.
| Tool | What it is | Price | KDP | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Writing & Formatting
Writing apps and formatters that export KDP-ready EPUB and print PDF.
| Tool | What it is | Price | KDP | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe InDesign | Adobe InDesign is a professional page layout app for Windows and Mac that exports print PDF with bleed and EPUB, sold only by subscription. | Price: From $22.99/mo | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Atticus | Atticus is a cross-platform book writing and formatting app that exports print-ready PDF and EPUB, sold for a one-time price. | Price: $147 one-time | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Book Design Templates | Book Design Templates sells pre-designed book interior templates for Word, Pages, InDesign and Affinity Publisher, sized to standard print-on-demand trims. | Price: From $39.99 | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| calibre | calibre is a free, open-source ebook manager for Windows, Mac and Linux that converts Word and other files to EPUB and includes an EPUB editor. | Price: Free | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Dabble | Dabble is a browser-based novel writing app with plot grid, character notes, co-authoring and offline sync, sold by subscription. | Price: From $180/yr | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| DIY Book Formats | DIY Book Formats is a site by author Derek Murphy that gives away 6x9 Word and InDesign interior templates and sells a larger premium template pack. | Price: Free tier, paid from $47 one-time | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Draft2Digital | Draft2Digital is an ebook and print-on-demand distribution service for publishing wide that also formats Word manuscripts into EPUB and print PDF. | Price: Free tier, paid from $20 one-time | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Google Docs | Google Docs is Google's free browser-based word processor for drafting and sharing manuscripts, with comments, suggestions and EPUB, DOCX and PDF downloads. | Price: Free | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Jutoh | Jutoh is a desktop ebook editor for Windows, Mac and Linux that imports Word files and compiles EPUB and Kindle-ready books, sold for a one-time price. | Price: $45 one-time | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Kindle Create Official | Kindle Create is Amazon's free desktop app for KDP publishers that turns a finished Word or PDF manuscript into a Kindle eBook or print interior file. | Price: Free | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Kindle Previewer Official | Kindle Previewer is Amazon's free desktop app for KDP publishers that shows how an eBook will look on Kindle tablets, phones and E-readers before publishing. | Price: Free | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Microsoft Word | Microsoft Word is a word processor that KDP accepts directly for ebooks and that can set custom page sizes for print interiors exported to PDF. | Price: Free tier, paid from $99.99/yr | KDP-ready files | 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 | |
| Pandoc | Pandoc is a free, open-source command-line converter that turns Markdown, Word and other formats into EPUB, DOCX and, through LaTeX, PDF. | Price: Free | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Plottr | Plottr is a visual outlining app for novelists and series writers that maps plot lines, scenes and characters on a timeline, with no AI features. | Price: From $60/yr | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Reedsy Studio | Reedsy Studio is a free browser-based writing and formatting tool that exports EPUB and print-ready PDF, with real-time collaboration. | Price: Free tier, paid from $4.99/mo | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Scrivener | Scrivener is a desktop writing app for long manuscripts that organizes drafts and research and compiles them to EPUB, PDF and Word. | Price: $59.99 one-time | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Sigil | Sigil is a free, open-source EPUB editor for Windows, Mac and Linux that lets you edit an ebook's HTML, CSS and structure directly. | Price: Free | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
| Vellum | Vellum is a Mac-only book formatter known for polished ebook and print output, sold for a one-time price. | Price: $199.99 one-time | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |
AI Tools
AI for text, art and covers, with what KDP does and does not require you to disclose.
| Tool | What it is | Price | KDP | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Editing & Proofreading
Editing software and services.
| Tool | What it is | Price | KDP | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Editorial Freelancers Association | The Editorial Freelancers Association is a US association of freelance editors whose free directory and job list help authors hire editors and proofreaders. | Price: Free | 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 | |
| Grammarly | Grammarly is a grammar, spelling and style checker that works in browsers, desktop apps and phones, with a free tier and a paid Pro plan. | Price: Free tier, paid from $144/yr | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| Hemingway Editor | Hemingway Editor is a readability checker that highlights long sentences, passive voice and weak words, with a free web version and paid AI rewrites. | Price: Free tier, paid from $19.99 one-time | Checked 2026-11-09 | |
| ProWritingAid | ProWritingAid is a grammar and style editor aimed at fiction and long-form writers that runs line-editing reports on whole manuscripts. | Price: Free tier, paid from $120/yr | 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 | |
| Reedsy Studio | Reedsy Studio is a free browser-based writing and formatting tool that exports EPUB and print-ready PDF, with real-time collaboration. | Price: Free tier, paid from $4.99/mo | KDP-ready files | Checked 2026-11-09 |