# Bookcraft: Book Formatter — Manuscript to print-ready book

> Manuscript to print-ready book (iPhone/iPad app by David Peterson.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bookcraft-book-formatter/id6821228978 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [David Peterson](https://appshunter.io/developer/6821228980)
- Category: Productivity, Books
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 13 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-06
- Data updated: 2026-11-08

## What is Bookcraft?

Turn your manuscript into a real, professionally typeset book — right on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.

Import a Word document, PDF or text file — or drop one onto the window on Mac — and Bookcraft finds your chapters, sets every page like a published book, and exports a print-ready PDF, an EPUB ebook and a Word file. No account, no upload: your writing never leaves your device.

TYPESET LIKE A PUBLISHER
• Running heads and page numbers in the right places
• Chapters that open on right-hand pages, with drop caps or small-caps first lines
• Widow and orphan control, so no lonely lines at the top of a page
• Title page, copyright page and table of contents generated for you
• Margins that grow with your page count, as print-on-demand printers require

47 TEMPLATES, THEN MAKE IT YOURS
Browse templates as real typeset pages — classic and literary fiction, thriller, mystery, romance, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, nonfiction, business, self-help, cookbook, poetry, children's, workbooks, journals, large print and more — then change anything:
• Fonts for body text, headings and titles, from a curated library of book typefaces or your own .ttf/.otf
• Size, line spacing, letter spacing, justification and hyphenation
• Indented or spaced paragraphs, chapter number styles, alignment and sink depth
• 40 decorative ornaments — squiggles, stars, flourishes, laurels, rules — above or below chapter titles or as scene breaks
• Running head and page number styles, text and accent colors
• Custom CSS for complete control
• Save any look as your own style and reuse it on every book

EVERY STANDARD TRIM SIZE
From pocket and mass-market sizes to 6" × 9" trade, square, landscape, workbook and UK, European and Japanese metric formats — or enter any custom size. Bleed, paper color and printer margin rules are checked as you go.

IMAGES, YOUR WAY
Drag and drop photos straight into your chapters, move them, size them full or half width, and add captions. Add a front cover for your ebook and an illustration above every chapter title. Bookcraft warns you if an image is too low-resolution to print sharply.

PROOF IT LIKE A PRINTED BOOK
Turn real two-page spreads with a swipe. Proofreader's marks flag widows, orphans, stranded short words and loose lines, and each one comes with a fix.

READY FOR PRINT
One check tells you whether your book will pass Amazon KDP or IngramSpark: page count, trim size, margins, fonts, image resolution, bleed and ink. Most problems fix themselves with one tap, and you get the exact settings and spine width to enter on the printer's site.

DESIGN YOUR COVER
Make a typographic front cover for your ebook and a print-ready wraparound cover — back, spine and front — sized to your book's real spine width, with layouts, colours, fonts, ornaments, your own photo and a back-cover blurb.

EDIT WITH CONFIDENCE
Edit any paragraph, find and replace across the book, and clean up quotes, dashes and spacing in one tap. Word footnotes come through as footnotes or endnotes. Update the manuscript from a revised file and keep your design. Bookcraft saves a copy before every big change, so you can go back to any earlier version.

YOUR WHOLE SHELF
Keep every book on one shelf, give a series one shared look, and fill “Also by” pages automatically. Optional iCloud sync keeps your books on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

EXPORT
• Print PDF at your exact trim size, fonts embedded, ready for print-on-demand upload
• EPUB ebook with a proper table of contents and your cover
• Word document at your trim size, to keep editing

PRICING
Bookcraft is free to download and try with every feature. Free PDF exports carry a “Bookcraft Preview” watermark. A one-time purchase unlocks clean PDFs plus EPUB and Word export for every book you make — no subscription.

Privacy: Bookcraft collects no data. Your manuscripts, books and fonts stay on your device, and in your own iCloud if you turn on sync.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlock Bookcraft | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is Bookcraft safe?

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## Is Bookcraft legit?

Bookcraft: Book Formatter has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Bookcraft is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-11-06

No release notes.

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