Drop in Word, Markdown or text. Pick from 55 templates. Export a print-ready PDF and a store-ready ebook. No design degree required.
Drop in a Word .docx, Markdown or .txt file. Your headings become chapters automatically, and any footnotes are picked up for you.
Pick a template, then push sliders — fonts, margins, drop caps, borders, a custom title page — with live print & ebook preview.
A real print PDF — exact trim, bleed, crop marks and embedded fonts, pre-flighted for KDP & IngramSpark — plus a clean, accessible EPUB for every store.
Your book looks like yours — not one of three stock themes every other author is using. A real fit for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoir, cookbooks and kids' books.
Make a strong first impression without hiring a designer — build a title page with your own subtitle, tagline and publisher in seconds, across seven layouts.
Publish with confidence: see exactly how readers will experience your book — reflowing on phone, e-reader and tablet, in light, sepia and night modes — before it goes live.
Catch that last typo without losing your flow. Fix a word, a heading or a scene break right here — no round-trip back to Word and re-importing.
Give readers clean, professional references — endnotes, page footnotes, or tap-to-view popups in the ebook. Nonfiction- and academic-ready.
No rejection emails. Embedded fonts, your cover and accessibility are built in, so Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo and the rest say yes on the first upload.
Send it to KDP or IngramSpark and know it'll pass — a true print PDF with exact trim, bleed, crop marks and embedded fonts, pre-flighted to catch low-res images and tight margins before they cost you a rejected proof.
Peace of mind: everything happens in your browser, so your unpublished book is never uploaded to anyone's servers. No account, no cloud, nothing to hand over.
Free tools save you money by taking away your choices — a handful of templates, fixed fonts, and your manuscript stored on their servers. Bookmint gives you the full design freedom and keeps your book on your own computer, for less than a single paperback proof run.
| Bookmint | Vellum | Atticus | Reedsy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | £20 once | $249.99 | $147 | Free |
| Works on any computer | Yes | Mac only | Yes | Yes |
| Nothing to install | Yes | Download | Yes | Yes |
| Print PDF + ebook | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Book templates | 55 | ~26 | A few | 3 |
| Your own fonts & layout | Yes | Yes | Yes | Locked |
| One-time, no sub | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Manuscript stays on your device | Yes | Yes | Cloud | Cloud |
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Pay once and Bookmint is yours for good — every template and every future update included, for every book you'll ever write. No monthly fee, no renewals, and your manuscript stays private on your own device.
Word (.docx), Markdown (.md), plain text (.txt). Google Docs / Pages / Scrivener? Export to Word first.
No. Bookmint runs right in your browser on any computer — Mac, Windows or Chromebook. Open the page and go.
Yes. Your manuscript is processed in your own browser and never uploaded to a server.
Yes — design and preview your whole book free. A key only unlocks export.
Footnotes, endnotes, sub-headings, callouts, images and a table of contents — all in.
Included. Buy once, keep the improvements coming — for every book.
Yes — your key works on any device, with no limit. Activation is saved per browser (nothing's stored online), so just paste your key in again on a new computer or browser. Keep the email with your key handy.
Bookmint started from a simple frustration: turning a finished manuscript into a proper book shouldn't cost $250, mean learning InDesign, or lock you into a monthly subscription. Independent authors deserve a tool that just does the job — beautifully, affordably, and without getting in the way.
So that's all we're trying to build: one genuinely useful tool that takes your Word, Markdown or text file and turns it into a real, print-ready and store-ready book — with your words staying private in your own browser the whole time. No bloat, no lock-in, no nonsense. If Bookmint helps you get your book out into the world, we've done our job.
Questions, bugs, or ideas? We'd genuinely love to hear from you — a real person reads every email.
bookmintsupport@gmail.com
Format your book in an afternoon — and only pay when you love how it looks.