AI Book Cover & Album/Podcast Cover Generator (Print-Ready Covers with Real Typography)

About the AI Book Cover & Album/Podcast Cover Generator (Print-Ready Covers with Real Typography)

Type the title, an optional subtitle, the author and the genre — romance, thriller, fantasy, self-help, Hindi literature, a music style or a podcast — add a few mood words, and get 12 cover designs with real typography at once: big stacked titles, framed classics, script romance titles, title bands, a sun or moon, diagonal blocks and more, in fonts and colours that suit the genre. Use typography alone, your own photo or illustration, or optional AI cover art.

Choose the format: an eBook front at 1,600 × 2,560 px, a paperback full wrap — back cover with your blurb, spine and front — at the trim size, page count and paper you enter, with 0.125 in bleed, safe areas and the barcode area from the Book Cover Size Calculator, or a square album or podcast cover at 3,000 × 3,000 px. Every text is checked for contrast, pictures for print resolution, and the PDF has the text in outlines. Without a pass every cover is a watermarked free preview; the files unlock with a Pro pass, or one cover at a time.

Designs that suit the genre

Each genre brings its typical layouts, fonts and colours: thrillers get big stacked capitals and dark photos, romance a script title, fantasy a framed classic, business diagonal blocks, children’s books a symbol in a circle. Twelve layouts in five colour treatments — dark, light, gradient, pattern and your picture — make 60 designs; the twelve shown are the best for your genre and mood words. Fonts are self-hosted open-licence families (Anton, Bebas Neue, Montserrat, Inter, Poppins, Noto Sans, Great Vibes, Dancing Script, Caveat), and Hindi titles are shaped correctly.

Match by meaning is the optional AI step: an AI model on your device (one for English, another for other languages) re-ranks the same layouts, fonts and palettes by meaning; it never invents a design.

Paperbacks: spine, bleed and barcode

The wrap follows Amazon KDP’s rules through the Book Cover Size Calculator: spine width = pages × paper thickness (0.002252 in per page on white paper, 0.0025 in on cream), 0.125 in bleed on the top, bottom and outside edges, text at least 0.125 in inside the trim, and the 2 × 1.2 in barcode area at the bottom of the back cover left clear. Spine text appears only on books with more than 79 pages, as KDP requires. The PDF is the full wrap at its size with the trim and bleed boxes set; crop marks are optional for printers that want them — leave them off for KDP, which asks for covers without crop marks (KDP: create a paperback cover, KDP: barcodes). Other printers use the same layout — check their template too.

Pictures and AI cover art

Add your own photo or illustration: the cover crops it to fill the front and lays a dark or light shade under the text so it stays readable. The page warns when a picture gives less than 300 dpi in print (1,838 × 2,775 px for a 6 × 9 in front with bleed). AI cover art sends only your description of the art to MySmartCoPilot’s cloud AI, and the art keeps a small “AI-generated” mark; the title and author are always set by the page in real fonts, never drawn by the model. Requests for famous characters, real people, children, religious figures or an artist’s style are refused, and children’s and devotional books use typography or your own pictures. AI art is available only while MySmartCoPilot’s image AI is switched on; the page tells you when it is not.

Store sizes

• eBook: KDP gives 1,600 × 2,560 px as the ideal size (a height/width ratio of 1.6:1), as JPEG or TIFF (KDP: cover image guidelines).
• Paperback: a PDF of the full wrap at the trim size plus spine and bleed, images at 300 dpi.
• Album and single: square artwork at 3,000 × 3,000 px for the music stores.
• Podcast: Apple Podcasts takes square show covers from 1,400 × 1,400 to 3,000 × 3,000 px as PNG or JPG, with no transparency, and prefers the largest size (Apple Podcasts: show cover); use the JPG, and keep the title large enough to read as a small thumbnail.

Limitations

• Check your printer’s or store’s cover rules before you publish; this page follows KDP’s paperback rules, and other printers can differ.
• AI art keeps a small “AI-generated” mark and can resemble existing works. In the US purely AI-generated material is not protected by copyright, and in India the position is unsettled.
• Pictures are not enlarged with AI: a small picture prints soft — use one of at least 300 dpi at the cover size.
• Hardcover dust jackets and case laminates need extra wrap and hinge areas; use your printer’s template for those.
• Fonts cover Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese and Devanagari; other scripts are left out with a note.
• MySmartCoPilot claims no ownership of what you make.

Privacy

Cloud AI only if you choose it: you see what is sent first

Your covers are made in your browser: fonts, icons and the cover engine load from MySmartCoPilot the first time they are needed, and your title, text and pictures never leave your device. “Match by meaning” runs an AI model on your device, which gets ready the first time (its files come from MySmartCoPilot and stay in your browser). Only if you choose AI cover art is your description of the art — nothing else — sent to MySmartCoPilot’s cloud AI.

Open-source components

This page can load these open-source components, each only when a task needs it:

• It uses libheif and libde265 under the LGPL v3, through libheif-js: licence and source code.

You may replace them with your own builds. Their licences and the credits of every library the site uses are on the open-source credits page.