For authors and indie publishers
Book trailerMake a BookTok trailer from your cover
Your book cover as a trailer for BookTok, Reels and Shorts. Upload the flat front cover and get an 8 or 10 second vertical clip that opens on it, brings its art to life, cuts through three shots of the book's world over a score, and holds your cover at the end.
from $4.80 a 8 s clip, pay per resultStart free, no card needed.
- 01Upload your flat front cover, with the title and your name on it.
- 02Pick the genre, or let the cover decide, and add the hook your book sells on.
- 03Get an 8 or 10 second vertical trailer in about four minutes.
Real runs
What it has made
Each one came back as you see it, from the photo in its corner where there is one. The books and their authors are invented.
The Last Ferry Out, thriller
Meet Me at the Laundromat, romance
Nobody Leaves Room 9, thriller
Death by Blueberry Scone, cozy mystery
The Cartographer's Daughter, Surprise me
The House on Alder Street, horror
what the tide leaves, literary
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Questions
Book trailer, answered
- Will it change my cover?
- No. The cover is the trailer's first and last frame, kept whole, so the title, your name and the art are your own at both ends. In our runs the last frames matched the uploads letter for letter.
- Can I put my hook or a review quote on screen?
- Not in the video. The hook steers the shots, and you add it as the caption or as text in TikTok or Instagram.
- What if my cover has a photo of a real person on it?
- It still works, on an older video model, and always comes back at 10 seconds.
- What does Book trailer make?
- Your book cover as a vertical trailer with a score: the cover comes alive, cuts through its world and ends on your cover, exactly as uploaded.
- What do I need to bring?
- The flat front cover as a JPEG or PNG, not a photo of the book. It opens and ends the trailer exactly as uploaded. A cover with a photo of a real person runs on an older model, always at 10 seconds.
- How does it work?
- Upload your flat front cover, with the title and your name on it. Pick the genre, or let the cover decide, and add the hook your book sells on. Get an 8 or 10 second vertical trailer in about four minutes.
- What can I choose?
- Genre: Read it from the cover, Thriller, Romance, Fantasy, Science fiction, Horror, Literary or Cozy mystery.
- How much does it cost?
- From $0.60 a second, and you see the exact price before you press go. A run that fails costs nothing, there is no subscription, and you can start free without a card.
- Can I use the result commercially?
- Yes. You own what you make on Leap, so you can use it commercially, and we never train AI on it. The people and brands shown in a result can still have rights in it; the Terms say more.
- Can I run it from code?
- Yes. Developers run it as leap/book-trailer through the Leap API, at the same price, with the same choices.
It runs on Seedance 2.5, with the prompting done for you. Rather write your own? Open a model's page and start from there.
Building an app? Run book trailer from the API
Your cover, moving, on BookTok.
Start free, no card. Every run shows its price before it starts.