Looking for a book cover maker? Here’s which free tool to open:
- AI book cover maker: type your title and genre and get a finished cover with the art and the text already on it. Free to try, no design skills needed.
- Online cover editor: layers, fonts and text effects like Photoshop, free in your browser. Open a template, swap the picture, type your title.
- Free 3D book mockup: already have a cover? Upload it and download a 3D book for your ads and social posts. No sign-up, no email.
- Free genre templates: six Word cover templates and seven short video lessons. Thousands of authors have downloaded these, so customize yours; don’t risk the same cover as everybody else.
- Need a real designer? If you’d rather not do it yourself: custom covers that look as good as any airport-store bestseller, from $349, with a money-back guarantee.
DIY book cover templates is about providing you with the resources, tools and templates you need to design your own book covers without hiring a designer. It’s always a good idea to hire a professional if you can, but we don’t think it should be a requirement to getting your story out there, and we understand some people are going to try designing their own covers… we want to make it easier.
We’re rebuilding this page – make sure to sign up on the homepage and you’ll get access to the free bundle of book cover templates and design tutorials. However since people keep landing here anyway, here’s some useful stuff:
3D book cover mockups, tutorials and tools
- Our awesome 3D book mockup tool has been used MILLIONS of times; it’s free and amazing – soon we’ll be making it even more powerful.
- “Does my book cover suck” is a recently rebuilt too that gives you instant feedback on your book cover.
- The book cover maker is like photoshop but free online. I’ve spent the past decade trying to make it work well enough to rebuild a huge package of templates… however AI is eating my lunch and I’m probably too late.
- Originally this site was for a package of book design templates in MS word – which is what you get when you sign up. They were useful for a time, but I think we have better options now.
- The brand new book cover generator. This is built from Ideogram, and it’s basically the tool I’ve been dreaming about for 20 years. A simple, instant, 1-click book cover maker.
Instant book cover generator (free AI cover creator)
There are conversations to be had about using AI images for book cover design. But I had the choice of either being completely replaced by better tools, or making my own. Since I’ve always been on a mission to let authors DIY their own book covers, and save money while still publishing professionally, I can see the promise and benefits of AI cover tools.
I was anxious watching other people build them, and while it’s true some AI image generations are ALMOST good enough to just make a great cover right now, they will probably get the text and fonts wrong. The trick is knowing HOW to prompt the AI and for that you need experience and knowledge – two valuable things I’ve gained in the past 20 years as a book cover designer.
I haven’t told anyone about it yet, not really, since I’m giving away free covers and I’ll probably spend a fortune before this tool makes a profit… for the moment I’m slowly testing it out. Feel free to try it – I’ll be improving it and adding tutorials soon.
Put your title on a cover. Then make it your own.
Six free Word cover templates and seven short video lessons on genre, images and fonts, so you’re not starting from a blank page.
Your next cover doesn’t have to start with a blank page.
My DIY Book Design bundle has 150 editable Word cover templates (80 fiction, 70 nonfiction), the formatting downloads and five courses. It’s $197; through this link it’s $39. The cheapest time to fix a cover is before you pay to promote the book.
If it isn’t useful, email support within 30 days for a full refund.