AI story planning

Start with your outline

Describe the characters, setting, story beats, and ending. Choose the reader band, six, ten, or fourteen pages, and a feel such as Cozy, Funny, or Adventurous. Planning creates an editable draft; you can revise every page before generating its media.

Give the story a visual starting point

Optionally choose a story anchor, such as a child’s drawing. The app can prepare an editable description of it. Check names, appearance, and relationships before planning, especially when several characters are pictured.

The current page planner receives the reviewed description as text, alongside your outline; it does not directly inspect the anchor image during planning. Selected references can separately guide illustration generation. If you change the description, keep it consistent with the visible reference or explicitly explain the change you want.

Choose Soft picture-book watercolor, Cut-paper collage, Warm crayon texture, or Cinematic 3D for generated artwork. Library matching can also suggest pictures you already have. Together, the anchor and the style keep the characters consistent from page to page.

Generate individual pages or a whole book

Save the reviewed draft, generate selected illustrations, or generate the whole storybook in one run. Results remain editable, and you review the complete project before exporting.

Watch: review the AI story plan

A plan costs 5 credits regardless of the selected page count. Suggested image descriptions normally cost 1 credit; artwork is charged separately. The app shows the applicable cost before you start.

Plan your book · Generate a whole storybook

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