Choose the print job
Select Amazon KDP or IngramSpark, paperback or hardback, then enter the exact trim, paper and page-count details.
Book-cover production without the pain
Turn finished artwork into a print-ready book cover
Rogue Cover Foundry builds the back cover and spine around your existing front artwork, calculates the exact geometry, shows you the complete spread, checks it and exports a print-ready PDF or PNG—in five minutes or less.
Current beta: Windows and macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 or newer). Apple Intel is not supported.
Amazon KDPProduction workflow
IngramSpark BetaProduction workflow
Paperback + hardbackCorrect format-specific geometry
Windows + macOSNative desktop downloads
Rogue Cover Foundry makes it super easy to create beautiful and KDP-ready paperback and hardback covers in minutes. It's intuitive and doesn't require days of learning to be used - I made my first cover in a matter of minutes without help from tutorials.
One focused workflow
From a finished front cover to the file Amazon KDP and Ingram Spark actually needs.
No giant blank canvas. No manual spine calculation. No assembling three panels by eye and hoping the upload preview forgives you.
Build the full spread
Upload the front artwork and construct the back, spine, wording, branding and barcode clearance while watching the live preview.
Preflight and export
Run print-specific checks, read plain-English guidance for anything flagged, then export the completed cover as PDF or PNG.
This takes one of the fiddliest parts of indie publishing and makes it remarkably straightforward. I was able to turn my existing front cover into a professional, KDP-ready paperback wrap, complete with spine, back-cover copy, publisher logo, barcode space, and bleed.
The live preview and preflight checks gave me confidence that everything was where it needed to be. A genuinely useful tool that I can see myself using across multiple series.
Susan Odev, indie author
The current beta
A serious list of features - because this is now a serious app.
Rogue Cover Foundry has grown far beyond the first paperback prototype. These are the tools already built into the current Standard beta.
Print services and formats
- Dedicated Amazon KDP workflow
- IngramSpark support Beta
- Paperback cover production
- Hardback cover production Beta
- Format-specific bleed, wrap, hinge and safety geometry
- Trim sizes in inches or centimetres
- Paper and stock choices matched to the selected service
- Automatic spine-width and full-spread calculations
Front-cover artwork
- PNG, JPG and WebP input
- Choose trim-size artwork or artwork that already contains bleed
- Fill-and-crop and fit placement modes
- Independent horizontal and vertical positioning
- Clear trim and safe-area guides
- Effective-resolution calculation at printed size
- Brightness, contrast and saturation adjustments
- Non-destructive editing—the original artwork is left untouched
Back cover and spine
- Extract a usable back-cover colour from the front artwork
- Build a blurred back-cover treatment from the front artwork
- Choose a custom back-cover colour
- Match or independently colour the spine
- Add a back-cover headline and body copy
- Add title and author wording to the spine
- Add a series number at the top or bottom of the spine
- Protected barcode-reserve area on the back cover
Typography and branding
- Expanded alphabetised font library
- Separate back-cover and headline/spine typefaces
- Custom TTF and OTF font loading
- Text colour controls
- Headline, body, spine and series-number sizing
- Back-text line-spacing control
- Independent text alignment controls
- Adjustable spacing between spine title and author
- Publisher logo or author image with size and placement controls
- Transparent PNG logos preserved correctly
Live precision preview
- Complete back-spine-front spread updates as you work
- Exact trim, bleed, wrap and safe-area overlays
- Print service, format and paper shown in the preview
- Calculated spine and full-file dimensions always visible
- View Larger control for close inspection
- Visual barcode-reserve guide
- Preview typography uses the same wrapping logic as export
- Light and dark interface modes
Preflight that explains itself
- Exact dimensions and bleed check
- Front-cover effective-resolution check
- Logo and author-image resolution check
- Transparent-image information without false alarms
- Back/spine wording, font and safe-area checks
- Front-cover safe-area guidance without pretending to read baked-in text
- Spine requirement and clearance checks
- Barcode-reserve check
- PDF construction and file-size checks
- Plain-English explanations and corrective guidance for flagged items
Export and project workflow
- Single-page print-ready PDF export
- High-resolution PNG export
- Selected fonts embedded in the generated PDF
- No crop marks, annotations or template layers
- Save editable RCF project files
- Reopen projects and revise them later
- Start Again control clears the current job without restarting
- Preflight is invalidated when relevant settings change
Desktop app and licensing
- Native Windows and macOS downloads
- Cover artwork remains on the user’s computer
- No browser upload required to construct a cover
- Automatic update checks and in-app release notes
- Install-and-relaunch update workflow
- Existing licences survive application updates
- Unlicensed trial mode with watermarked cover output
- Automatic interface-language detection for English, German, French and Spanish
For anyone who’s ever battled with KDP templates and putting together a paperback cover, this is a total gamechanger.
No more fiddling around with wrong-size templates. No more getting frustrated with bleeds. No more skirmishes with fonts and alignment. This app really does do it all. And what’s more, no technical know-how is required and no design skills needed. It couldn’t be simpler – or more intuitive.
Ideal for any indie author who wants to save time and effort putting together a professional, tailored paperback without the hassle or the headaches.
I only wish this app had been around 10 years ago when I first started publishing books. It would have saved my desk from the countless times I had to bang my head against it.
See the whole cover
Make decisions while looking at the finished spread.
The preview is not an afterthought hidden behind an export button. It changes with the settings, shows the real geometry and can be enlarged for a closer inspection.
- Back, spine and front visible together
- Safe areas shown as guides, not mystery errors
- Exact spine and output dimensions displayed
- Dark mode for late-night cover wrangling
Check before upload
Preflight tells you what it checked—and what to do next.
The app checks the generated cover itself. Informational notices are separated from genuine problems, and anything actionable comes with an explanation instead of an obscure warning symbol.
- Resolution measured at the actual printed size
- Transparent logos handled honestly
- Barcode, spine and safe-area clearance checked
- PDF construction and file size verified
A desktop production tool
Your cover artwork stays on your computer.
Rogue Cover Foundry is built for a focused local workflow. It does not require you to feed unpublished artwork into a browser-based cover builder just to assemble a spine and back cover.
- Work with local front-cover and branding files
- Save editable projects wherever you choose
- Generate the final PDF and PNG directly on your computer
- Use the same licence on the supported personal activation
- Receive update notifications inside the app
Founding beta
Help us catch the awkward edge cases before public release.
Rogue Cover Foundry is still in active beta. We are testing real production jobs—especially IngramSpark and hardback covers—and using direct feedback to fix anything confusing, inaccurate or needlessly painful.
Ask about beta accessCurrent beta: Windows and macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 or newer). Apple Intel is not supported.