Design your cover. Front, spine, back — all at once.
CoverForge is the first offline, book-aware cover designer built for authors. The entire cover spread on one canvas, with an automatic spine calculator and distributor-correct bleed guides built in.
Fully offline · One-time purchase · No subscription
Built for book covers, not everything
Generic design tools make you guess at trim sizes and spine width. CoverForge knows what a book cover needs — so you can focus on the design.
Unified cover spread canvas
Back, spine, and front on one continuous design surface — exactly as the printer sees it. Correctly sized for your trim and distributor from the moment you open a project.
Automatic spine calculation
Enter your page count and paper weight — or link to your ManuscriptForge project — and the spine resizes itself instantly. Every spine object repositions proportionally.
Link to ManuscriptForge
Open your .mfx project file and CoverForge reads the page count, trim size, and paper weight automatically. Title and author pre-populate from your manuscript metadata.
Full canvas editor
Text, images, shapes, and groups — all with full transform support. Double-click to edit text live. Every property exposed in the context-sensitive properties panel.
Layers, visibility & locking
Every object as a named layer. Toggle visibility. Lock layers to protect backgrounds. Drag to reorder, group and ungroup freely.
Asset library
My Images, My Fonts, and a built-in Textures library — linen, paper, grunge, geometric patterns. Drag directly from panel to canvas.
Print PDF, JPEG, PNG, SVG
Press-ready PDF with bleed marks, digital JPEG for ebook stores, lossless PNG, and vector SVG. Pre-export validation catches distributor rejections before they happen.
84 genre templates
Literary, Thriller, Romance, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Non-fiction, Memoir, Children’s, Academic, Miniature. Apply to any trim size — objects scale and reposition proportionally.
The spine calculator that ends cover rejections
A spine even 1mm too wide gets your file rejected. CoverForge calculates the exact spine width your printer expects — and resizes the canvas live as you change it.
Link to ManuscriptForge — click Link, open your .mfx file, and CoverForge reads page count and paper weight automatically. The spine updates in real time.
Manual entry — type your page count and select paper weight. Spine width calculated immediately. Distributor formula applied automatically.
Direct input — already have the figure from your distributor’s template? Type it directly and the canvas resizes to match.
KDP cream: 0.0635 mm. IngramSpark: 0.0508 mm. Plus 60–100 gsm presets for local printers.
Bleed, colour profile, and export validation rules set automatically per distributor.
Resolution, safe zone, spine width, font embedding, file size, and ISBN placeholder.
Truly offline.
Fully yours.
No subscription
One-time purchase, lifetime updates.
Single portable file
Every project is one .cvr file — cover, embedded images, and undo history.
25 trim sizes + custom
Every KDP, IngramSpark, UK, European, and children’s trim size built in.
50-step undo history
Full undo/redo persisted in your .cvr file between sessions.
The Forge Suite
Eight apps. One complete book creation and publishing ecosystem. All offline, all one-time purchase.
The cover designer that knows what a book cover needs
Fully offline · One-time purchase · No subscription · Windows 11 only at this stage
Windows 11 only at this stage · One-time purchase · No subscription
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