Book Brush review

Book Brush is an online design platform for authors who need promotional graphics, covers and book mockups. Its Custom Creator provides editable social media templates sorted by platform and genre, while Instant Mockups places a cover into a photo scene or turns it into a 3D image. The Cover Creator makes templates for print, eBook, audio and Kindle Vella covers; the Box Set Creator handles box set images using spine options or uploaded designs.

The platform also makes animated mockup videos from vertical templates. Its Reader Hub gives authors a branded URL for sharing images with readers, and can import designs from Custom Creator. Beyond the software, Book Brush offers paid design and social media services.

The pricing page lists three plans, billed annually, with prices equivalent to $12.42 or $20.50 per month. There is no free plan, and the page shows no monthly billing option. Book Brush is aimed at authors, not a general-purpose design suite for every marketing team.

The main advantage is how specifically Book Brush is built around book promotion. Templates are author-focused and sortable by genre and platform, and the tools cover several jobs that otherwise require separate design work: social graphics, cover variations, box set images, mockups and short animated promos.

The pricing page lists more than 3,500 author-specific templates on both Plus and Gold, plus unlimited image downloads. Plus also includes more than 4 million stock photos and 250-plus 3D cover templates. Gold adds Box Set Creator and Instant Mockups, along with two Reader Hub pages. For authors who regularly need book-in-scene images or box set artwork, those are concrete differences rather than vague “premium” features.

The product description also lists cover formats for print, eBook, audio and Kindle Vella, and transparent-background downloads for box set images. Platinum adds Trailer Creator, Platinum Mockups and three Reader Hub pages. That makes the tier structure easy to map to a real workflow: static promotion first, more mockups and box sets next, then video and the listed premium tools.

The biggest drawback is the commitment: the pricing page lists annual billing only, with no monthly option. Plus and Gold are each listed at $12.42 per month on annual billing; Platinum is $20.50 per month on annual billing. The page lists no free plan, and a free trial is not published on the vendor's site. Monthly prices and add-on prices are also not published.

The plan caps matter if you share assets with multiple reader groups. Plus includes one Reader Hub page, Gold includes two and Platinum includes three. Platinum’s background removal allowance is 10 free credits per month, so that feature is not unlimited. Authors who need more reader pages or background-removal credits should confirm the cost or availability before committing; the published pricing details do not say.

There is also a tier boundary to watch: Box Set Creator and Instant Mockups are listed with Gold, while Trailer Creator and Platinum Mockups are listed with Platinum. If you only need basic graphics, the specialized tools may not justify an annual subscription. Book Brush’s pricing page does not list a lower-cost monthly way to try it.

The pricing page lists annual billing only: there’s no monthly option, free plan or trial listed. Plus and Gold are both listed at $12.42 per month with annual billing. Plus includes one Reader Hub page, while Gold adds Box Set Creator, Instant Mockups and a second Reader Hub page. That makes Gold a feature upgrade at the same listed price, not a price step up.

Platinum is $20.50 per month with annual billing, or $8.08 more per month than Plus or Gold at the listed rates. It includes three Reader Hub pages, Trailer Creator, Platinum Mockups and 10 background-removal credits per month. The price listing does not state the total annual charge, so check the checkout page before committing. It lists no add-ons. The main pricing catch is commitment: if you need monthly billing or want to try a free plan first, neither option is listed.

The published material does not specify an import path for existing designs or whether editable project files can be exported. Plus and Gold include unlimited image downloads, but that only confirms downloads of finished images—not portable, editable source files. If you leave, keep copies of the graphics you need; whether you can move the underlying projects is not published.

For sharing, Reader Hub provides a branded URL, and Book Brush says designs can be imported into it from Custom Creator. That makes the hub part of the workflow to check before switching away, though the available migration options for its pages are not documented here. Switching in may be straightforward if you’re starting with cover files and building new graphics, but the effort for transferring a catalog of existing work is unclear. We weren’t given Reddit posts or comments about why users leave, so we can’t verify common complaints or present them as a trend.