Book Brush

Book Brush is a browser-based design platform built exclusively for authors, combining 3,000+ marketing templates, 3D book mockup generation, and promotional video creation in a single subscription. Where general-purpose tools like Canva require genre-specific setup from scratch, Book Brush ships pre-organized by book genre and format type.

What You Get#

• Custom Creator: 3,000+ author-focused templates for social media graphics, pre-sorted by platform, genre, season, and mood—no blank-canvas setup required. Backed by a 1.5+ million stock photo library and author-specific stamps.
• Instant Mockups: Place your cover in 3,000+ scene photos for 3D mockups. Sort by genre, mood, or season; download as transparent PNG or in formats ready for ads. Gold tier and above.
• Cover Creator: Browser-based design tool with hundreds of ebook, print, audio, and Kindle Vella-format templates. Not a substitute for professional cover design, but sufficient for non-fiction or draft mockups.
• Box Set Creator: Stack individual covers into a series box set image in minutes, with hundreds of spine options and transparent-background downloads. Gold tier and above.
• Trailer Creator: Animated vertical video builder (Platinum tier) for Instagram Reels and TikTok—pairs genre templates with commercial-free music, converting cover and mockup assets into short promotional videos without video editing software.
• Reader Hub: A shareable URL of images for reader magnets and ARC distribution, built into paid subscriptions without requiring a separate tool. The number of Reader Hub pages scales with tier.

Who It's For#

• Active self-published authors: Writers who release regularly and need consistent social content without paying a graphic designer for every post.
• Series authors: The box set creator and genre-sorted template library make series marketing significantly faster than building from scratch in a general design tool.
• Publishers and promoters: The separate Pro plan line lifts the one-author-per-account rule for anyone marketing books by multiple authors.

Pricing: Free plan includes 15 image downloads per month with full template and stock photo access, no credit card required. At checkout, Plus is $149/year, Gold $199/year (or $149 with coupon GOLD50OFF; adds Instant Mockups, Box Set Creator, 1-on-1 coaching, and a BookMARCon 3-day pass), and Platinum $246/year (~$20.50/month; adds the Trailer Creator, 600+ Platinum-exclusive mockups, quarterly Platinum Academy training, and 10 monthly AI background removal credits). Paid signups start with a 3-day free trial. Note that Book Brush also runs discounted landing pages — its "best deal" page lists Plus at $99/year and Gold at $146/year — so the checkout list price is often avoidable; check for an active offer before subscribing.

Publishers, promoters, libraries, and bookstores need the separate Pro plan line, billed monthly at $23.25 (Pro I), $39.25 (Pro II), or $79.25 (Pro III). These lift the single-author restriction to unlimited authors and pen names, but cap downloads at 100, 200, and 500 images per month respectively — the inverse of the author tiers, which are download-unlimited but single-author.

Strengths#

• Author-specific templates: Pre-organized by genre—fiction, romance, thriller, sci-fi, non-fiction—saves significant setup time versus Canva or Adobe Express, where authors must adapt general templates.
• Integrated suite: Mockups, social graphics, promotional videos, and reader magnet pages in one subscription, replacing several free tools authors typically cobble together.
• Low-risk trial: A 3-day free trial precedes paid signup, and the Terms offer a 7-day money-back guarantee on yearly plans. (Marketing pages advertise a 30-day guarantee; the Terms page governs, so budget for the 7-day window.)

Limitations#

• Not a cover design tool: Book Brush is a marketing graphics platform. Creating a press-ready print cover or a fully original ebook cover requires a separate tool (Atticus, Canva Pro, or a professional designer). The Cover Creator does not calculate print wrap, spine width, or bleed.
• Author tiers are annual-only: Plus, Gold, and Platinum bill yearly with no month-to-month option—a minimum $149 commitment to move past 15 downloads per month. Only the publisher-facing Pro plans bill monthly, and the 7-day refund window does not cover them.
• One author per account: The Terms prohibit using a single paid account for multiple authors' books, on penalty of termination without refund. Author collectives and small presses are pushed to the pricier Pro tier.
• Basic text formatting: The Custom Creator has limited typography control compared to dedicated design tools like Canva Pro or Affinity—suitable for social cards, insufficient for cover work requiring precise type composition.

Alternatives#

Canva offers a broader general design toolset with a more capable free tier, but its templates are not organized for authors. For pure 3D mockup generation without a marketing suite, Placeit.net charges per download rather than an annual subscription.