TrueRoyalties

TrueRoyalties is a royalty and net-profit dashboard for self-published authors. It pulls royalties from retailers and direct-sales stores, subtracts the ad spend it reads from Amazon Ads, Meta and TikTok, and shows what each book actually earned. The question it answers is one KDP and Amazon Ads each hold half of: is this book making money once the ads are paid for?

What You Get#

• Net profit per book: Royalties minus ad spend by book, marketplace and period, with optional deduction of KDP withholding tax and non-reclaimable ad VAT. Each sale is converted at its own transaction date's exchange rate, across all 17 Amazon marketplaces
• Ad analysis: True ACOS per book, a paid vs. organic sales split, and Amazon Attribution tracking for sales and KU pages driven by ads outside Amazon
• Kindle Unlimited and series data: KENP economics, series read-through, and review alerts. Manual entries cover sales no connector reads (book fairs, advances)
• Data access: Read-only REST API, Google Sheets script, and an MCP connector that lets claude.ai, ChatGPT or Cursor query your figures, on every plan

Who It's For#

• Ad-running KDP authors: The core use case. TrueRoyalties' servers check KDP about hourly with no browser open (Amazon's own royalty estimate only updates every 24 to 48 hours), and Amazon Ads spend syncs automatically
• Authors selling direct: Shopify, WooCommerce, Squarespace, Square, ThriveCart and Fourthwall sales land in the same profit view as retail royalties
• Not yet for audio- or Ingram-heavy authors: ACX, Voices by INaudio, IngramSpark, B&N Press and Google Play Books aren't imported yet

Pricing: Five monthly plans set by your monthly royalties: $2.99 (up to $300), $9.99 (up to $1,000), $19.99 (up to $5,000), $24.99 (up to $10,000) and $29.99 (no cap). Every feature is on every plan, and annual costs ten times monthly. Each month's royalties are checked on the 3rd. Go over your cap and you have 14 days to move up before the dashboard pauses, and billing continues while it's paused. 14-day free trial, no card. Fees are non-refundable, and there's no commission on royalties.

Strengths#

• Low entry price: At $2.99/month for authors earning under $300, it costs less than ScribeCount's $5.99 starting tier
• Profit, not just revenue: KDP withholding, non-reclaimable ad VAT and per-transaction currency conversion are built into the net-profit figure instead of being left to a spreadsheet
• Clear data handling: You sign in on each platform's own page, so TrueRoyalties never sees your password. Access is read-only, and deleting your account removes all stored data in one click
• Active development: The public changelog lists ten releases between April 2025 (v1.2.0) and June 2026 (v2.4.0), about one every seven weeks. None has been logged since June 23, 2026

Limitations#

• "31 platforms" overstates current coverage: The platforms page shows 15 connections that sync into your figures, 15 more marked "connect today, syncing soon" (no data imported until each connector ships), and Smashwords listed as coming soon
• Extension dependency: Platforms without an API need the Chrome extension to connect. Draft2Digital is still read from your own browser once a day, so Chrome has to be running and signed in
• Very new, with few users: The Chrome extension had 27 users and 3 ratings (October 2026). Capterra has no reviews, and there's no independent author-community feedback yet
• Not bookkeeping or tax software: No expense categorization, invoicing or tax filing. "After tax" means KDP withholding and ad VAT, not income tax. The terms say figures aren't tax or accounting advice
• Meta reconnects: Meta access expires and has to be re-authorized from time to time. If it lapses, ad spend stops importing and profit is overstated for the gap

Alternatives#

ScribeCount ($5.99–$34.99/month) is the established multi-platform choice and already imports ACX, IngramSpark, Google Play Books and Findaway Voices, plus BookBub Ads. TrueRoyalties is cheaper for low earners and goes further on net-profit arithmetic, but it currently covers fewer retailers.