Organize and review covers
Keep a book project tidy: preview, favorite, hide, filter, and review every cover you generate so the concepts worth keeping stay easy to find.
Last reviewed against the product: October 23, 2026
The cover grid
Every generated version for the selected book appears in the cover grid. Newest results are loaded into the same project, and large projects offer Load More (N of M) rather than loading every image at once.
Each card has a caption: Version N, plus where the cover came from when it is not a plain new cover, such as "Typography restyle", "Edit of Version 3", "Reference image", "Series look" or "From chat". Under the image are three controls:
- Chat about this cover — brings the cover into the Cover Expert. It reads In chat while the cover is part of the conversation.
- Download high-res — the download icon.
- More (the three dots) — every other action for this cover.
While a cover renders, its card shows Rendering with the time so far. Most covers take 20 to 60 seconds.
On a phone, tap a cover to open its sheet: Chat about this cover, Download and More.
On a free account, a free preview shows as a blurred card with a lock and Free preview. Select Unlock Version N under it to see the unlock offer. A free preview has no heart or hide icon.
Favorite a cover
Select the heart icon in the corner of a card to mark a cover as a favorite. Select Favorites in the filter bar above the grid to focus on shortlisted concepts, and All covers to see everything again.
Select the heart again to return the cover to the normal list.
Favorites are organizational, with one visible effect: your newest favorited cover becomes the book's thumbnail on the Dashboard bookshelf (falling back to the latest cover when a book has no favorites). They do not change how credits, exports, or later generations work. A cover that you make while Favorites is open is saved as a favorite, so it becomes the book's thumbnail.
Hide a cover
Select the hide icon in the corner of a card when a version is distracting or clearly off direction. Hidden covers disappear from the normal grid.
Use Show hidden in the filter bar to reveal them. A hidden card reads "Hidden · click to restore": select it to put the cover back, without regenerating it.
Hiding is safer than trying to delete a concept during exploration because you can reverse the decision later.
This hides one cover inside one book. To take a whole book or an uploaded cover off the Dashboard bookshelf, use the eye icon on its shelf item instead — see the Dashboard bookshelf.
Review a larger preview
On a computer, select a cover to see it at a larger size. On a phone, a tap opens the cover's sheet instead. The larger preview is the best place to check:
- Title and author spelling
- Small typography artifacts
- Unwanted objects or anatomy
- Genre fit
- Color and contrast at thumbnail size
- Whether the composition leaves room for print trimming
For audiobook and marketing assets, their result windows also support larger previews before download.
Understand the cover actions
The More menu on each card holds every action for that cover:
- More like this (one credit)
- Print wrap
- Text-free cover (or See text-free cover once it exists)
- Edit title & author
- Advanced export
- Restyle typography
- Change elements or layout (one credit)
- Replace person (one credit)
- Try a different style
- Audiobook cover
- Marketing resources
- Open your Launch Kit, Build your Launch Kit or Book Launch Kit — see Book Launch Kit. An Enterprise account without a kit sees no row.
Actions your plan does not include show a Pro badge. See Edit and improve a cover for the editing tools and the export guides for the rest.
Keep a clean comparison set
A practical review process:
- Hide obvious misses.
- Favorite three to five plausible directions.
- Compare the favorites as small thumbnails.
- Choose More like this from the strongest one or two.
- Edit typography only after the artwork direction is stable.
- Export one final candidate and inspect it outside the browser.
Readers often encounter a cover as a small storefront thumbnail, so a design that only works when enlarged is not finished.
Team review
Enterprise books can be shared across the team. Team members see books created by the subscription owner and other active teammates.
Roles affect what appears:
| Role | Cover workspace access |
|---|---|
| Owner | Full team and production access allowed by the subscription |
| Editor | Can generate and edit covers |
| Reviewer | Can view and download covers; the Cover Expert, generation and editing controls are hidden |
Only the person who created the book can favorite or hide its covers. A teammate's change does not save and shows "Could not update cover. Please try again." Reviewers see no heart or hide icons.
Enterprise workspaces can also favorite or hide a cover through the API and the MCP server: PATCH /api/v1/covers/{coverId}, or the MCP tool set_cover_visibility.
To let the author choose, send them a concept review link: see Send an author cover concepts. Their pick and decisions then show as badges on the cover tiles.
Credits and dated balances
On a paid plan, the workspace header shows credit and download balances. A free account sees "Free plan · N credits" instead. Paid and bonus credits never expire, so they show no date. Only free credits that carry a date, such as trial credits, show one: "Bonus credits valid until" the date, or the number of credits and the date when that date is close. See "Credit expiry" in the account guide.
On a paid plan, select the credit counter in the workspace header to buy more credits. On a free account the counter is not a button. Basic accounts also have an Upgrade to Pro button in the header. Enterprise members who cannot purchase credits should contact the workspace owner.