Updated October 2026 · BookNova's site, terms and reviews read on 17 October 2026
BookNova AI vs Inkfluence AI: Prices, Reviews and Terms
BookNova writes whole novels from a story idea and sells lifetime plans instead of subscriptions. Here is what it does, what it costs, what its few reviews say, the clause in its terms to read before you pay, and how it compares with our tool.
By Sam May, founder of Inkfluence AI
We make Inkfluence AI, the other tool on this page. Here is how we compared, and where BookNova is the better choice.
If you searched for BookNova reviews, you are probably close to buying, and a lifetime plan is a bigger decision than a monthly one. So this page sticks to what you can check: BookNova's own homepage, pricing page and FAQ, its terms of service and refund policy, and its Trustpilot page, all read on 17 October 2026. BookNova is linked throughout.
We did not buy BookNova or test it, so there are no scores or ratings here, and nothing on this page says its novels are better or worse than ours. Where it offers something we do not, the page says so.
The short answer
Fiction only, pay once, set the word count
BookNova
Lifetime tiers with monthly word credits, length and POV controls, voice learning.
Fiction and non-fiction, try free first
Inkfluence AI
Free plan with no card, then monthly plans or credits that never expire.
The book after the book
Inkfluence AI
Audiobook, translation, Etsy and Gumroad listings, A+ Content.
Social media kit for a novel
BookNova
Character cards, quote images and teaser texts made from the book.
Children's and picture books
Inkfluence AI
BookNova's genre list is novels, novellas and short stories, with no picture books.
Whichever you choose
Read the terms
A BookNova refund revokes your right to publish what you made.
How we compared
First, which BookNova. Searches for "book nova ai" lead to booknova.ai, the AI novel generator this page is about. Two look-alikes are not it: booknova.co is a parked domain listed for sale, and "Books Nova" (booksnova.com) is a separate publishing-services company with its own reviews.
- BookNova's own words. We opened its homepage, pricing page with the FAQ, terms of service, refund policy and contact page in a real browser on 17 October 2026. Every BookNova feature, price and term on this page comes from those pages. Where its pages disagree with each other, we say so.
- Prices in the currency we were shown. BookNova shows prices in your local currency, worked out on its server. Read from Canada, they came back in Canadian dollars and we could not get a US-dollar figure, so we quote the Canadian prices and label them. You will see your own currency.
- Reviews from a third party. The review figures come from BookNova's Trustpilot page on the same day.
- Our side from our code. Inkfluence plan limits, export formats and terms were checked against our own settings, help articles and terms of service.
What we did not do: buy a BookNova plan, generate a novel on it, or score either tool. A score we invented would tell you less than the facts below. BookNova publishes sample novels you can download from its homepage, and our free plan lets you read our chapters before paying; that pair is the honest hands-on test.
What BookNova is, and what it does well
BookNova is an AI novel generator made by IMAGE LLC in Riga, Latvia. Its homepage pitch is direct: pick a genre, give it a story idea, and "in under an hour" you have a finished novel with plot, characters, chapters, a cover and illustrations, ready for Amazon KDP. Its FAQ puts generation at 30 to 90 minutes, about an hour for an 80,000-word romance or thriller. It writes fiction only, across romance, thriller, mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, literary fiction, short stories and novellas, with subgenres such as dark romance, cozy mystery, epic fantasy, space opera, horror and YA.
It gives the writer more dials than most tools of its kind. You set the length, chapter count, point of view (it lists ten formats, from first-person present dual POV to omniscient) and tone. Its Sail Mode proposes where the next chapter goes, lets you keep or change the plan, and only then writes it. It can learn your voice from pages you paste in. And a "Story World" of people, relationships, places, objects, world rules and a timeline is built after every chapter and stays editable, so a fact you change carries into the chapters that follow.
The site describes several named systems behind the prose: a Story Thread Engine that tracks subplots and "who knows what", a Chapter Craft Engine that rotates chapter openings and endings and audits the finished book for twists revealed too early, and a Voice Engine that caps dashes and avoids common AI phrasing per language. Those are its claims; the fairest test is the three sample novels it offers as downloads.
Around the book it adds things a self-publisher will recognise: a KDP package with the paperback interior, a full cover with the spine, the EPUB, a description, seven keywords and categories (from the Pro tier); an Author Launch Kit of character cards, quote images and teaser texts; and a "Content Rights Certificate" and "Generation Audit Log" for each book. It writes in 24 European languages, with the app itself in English, and runs in a browser on Windows, Mac and iPad.
BookNova pricing on 17 October 2026
All four tiers are one-time "lifetime" payments with a monthly allowance of credits, where one credit is one generated word. The table shows what its pricing page displayed to us, in Canadian dollars; its pricing page shows your own currency.
| Tier | One-time price shown | Struck-through price | Word credits | Files and extras |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lite | C$89 | C$445 | 50,000 a month | PDF only |
| Pro | C$149 | C$745 | 100,000 a month | PDF, EPUB, DOCX; KDP package; launch kit |
| Platinum | C$269 | C$1,345 | 200,000 a month | As Pro |
| Author | C$529 | C$2,645 | 400,000 a month | As Pro |
Its FAQ gives rough sizes in credits: a short story 8,000 to 15,000, a novella 25,000 to 40,000, a standard romance or thriller 60,000 to 90,000, an epic fantasy 120,000 to 180,000. So Lite holds about one short novel a month, and Pro "one to two" full-length novels, in its words. Credits refresh on the same day each month and unused credits do not roll over. Larger "SCALE" plans of 1,000,000 and 3,000,000 credits a month are available on request.
Two things on the page are worth reading calmly. The offer is labelled "limited-time", each tier shows a counter such as "14/100 left", and each price sits next to a struck-through figure five times higher. And the allowance refreshes, in the FAQ's words, "for as long as BookNova exists". A lifetime plan is a bet on the company as much as on the product.
Inkfluence AI prices, for comparison
- Free: 5 chapters to start and 5 a month, PDF export, no card.
- Creator: $9.99 a month or $89 a year, 35 chapters a month, EPUB, Word and the KDP package.
- Premium: $19.99 a month or $179 a year, unlimited chapters.
- Credit packs: 15 for $9.99, 25 for $12.99, 50 for $24.99, one credit per chapter; they never expire.
US dollars. Full details on the pricing page.
What BookNova's reviews say
On 17 October 2026, BookNova's Trustpilot page showed a TrustScore of 4.1 from 8 reviews, posted between 16 September and 10 October 2026. Seven were five-star and one was two-star. The page noted the company had not been inviting customers to review recently.
The five-star reviews praise the founder's quick replies, a feature added on request, the guided chapter-by-chapter mode, and the one-time price. The two-star review is the useful one for a buyer: the reviewer says the tool ignored her chapter-by-chapter instructions, revealed all the plot twists in the first chapter and gave characters inconsistent surnames, and that fixing it took longer than writing would have. BookNova replied that she had used Sail Mode rather than the Auto mode it recommends for that kind of book, and that her refund was issued in full.
BookNova's own homepage shows screenshots of posts from its Skool and Facebook groups and invites you to ask members directly, and quotes 5,610 authors and 22,651 books written. Those are its figures.
Eight reviews over four weeks is too small a sample to judge a novel generator either way. The pattern in the one critical review, long-range plot memory slipping, is the hardest problem for every tool in this category, ours included, which is why the sample novels and a refund window matter.
Four clauses in BookNova's terms to read before you pay
BookNova's terms of service are clear and worth ten minutes. These four sections change how you should use a refund window or publish a book.
- A refund ends your right to publish. The licence to everything you generate depends on keeping paid access. If you request and receive a refund it is "automatically and retroactively revoked", and you may no longer publish, distribute or sell that content anywhere, including KDP, "even if you have edited, rewritten, translated, or otherwise modified it". The 30-day guarantee is real, but it is a choice between your money back and your book, so decide before you publish.
- BookNova must not appear as author. You may not name BookNova or IMAGE LLC as author, co-author, publisher, imprint or rights holder, in the book, its cover, its store metadata or an ISBN record. You may say the work was made with AI help, and must where a store or law requires it.
- No promise of unique or protectable text. It does not warrant that output is unique, free of third-party rights, or eligible for copyright in a given country.
- Projects can be blocked. Automated screening can block or delete a project it flags, and credits already used are not automatically restored. Disputes go to the courts of Riga.
How our terms differ, in fairness both ways
Inkfluence AI does not offer BookNova's 30-day money-back window: our subscriptions are non-refundable, and credit packs are non-refundable once used, which is why the free plan exists. In return, there is no clause that takes your book back. Our terms say you retain all rights in what you create, including the exported files. Both tools leave the AI disclosure on KDP to you; our KDP AI disclosure guide explains it.
BookNova and Inkfluence AI side by side
BookNova column from its own pages on 17 October 2026; Inkfluence column checked against our settings, help articles and terms. Scroll sideways on a phone.
| BookNova | Inkfluence AI | |
|---|---|---|
| What it writes | Fiction only: novels, novellas, short stories, with romance, thriller, mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, literary, horror and YA subgenres | Fiction and non-fiction: novels, guides, business and self-help books, workbooks, cookbooks, plus picture, colouring and ABC books |
| How you pay | One-time lifetime payment per tier; monthly word credits refresh "for as long as BookNova exists" | Free plan; Creator $9.99 or Premium $19.99 a month ($89 or $179 a year); credit packs that never expire |
| Free way to try | No free plan or trial on its site; 30-day money-back guarantee | Free plan, no card: 5 chapters to start and 5 a month, PDF export |
| Refunds | 30 days, no questions asked, but a refund revokes your licence to publish anything you made with it (Terms, section 4) | Subscriptions are non-refundable; you keep all rights in what you create (Terms, sections 4.1 and 7.3) |
| Length control | You set length, chapter count, POV (10 formats) and tone | Length follows the number of chapters you ask for; no word target |
| Story memory | Story World and "Story Thread Engine": people, places, objects, rules, timeline, who knows what | Story record and ledger: what has happened, who knows what, where everyone stands; chapters written in order |
| Steering each chapter | Sail Mode: it proposes the next chapter, you keep or change it, then it writes | Review and edit the outline before writing (manual setup), then edit, rewrite or regenerate any chapter |
| Your own voice | Learns from pages you paste, a taste test or a preset style | Tone and style from your description; no voice learning from your samples |
| Finish a half-written book | .docx import; reads it and writes the rest chapter by chapter (plan gate stated differently on its pages) | Import DOCX, PDF, EPUB or TXT on any plan without using chapters, then continue or rewrite |
| Files | PDF on Lite; PDF, EPUB, DOCX and a KDP package (interior, full cover, EPUB, description, keywords, categories) from Pro | PDF on every plan; EPUB, Word and a KDP package (interior, wrap cover with spine, EPUB, cover JPG) on paid plans or credits |
| Covers and art | Genre covers, chapter illustrations and character art included | Cover designer on every plan; AI covers and in-chapter images on paid plans or credits (20 or 50 images a month) |
| Marketing | Author Launch Kit: character cards, quote images, teaser texts | Amazon listing kit, A+ Content pack, launch posts and share images |
| Series | Series writing (plan gate stated differently on its pages) | Continue as a series on any book you own; fiction carries the story record into book two |
| Audiobook, translation, stores | Not offered on its site | Audiobook narration, translation into 59 languages, Etsy and Gumroad listings (Creator and Premium) |
| Languages | 24 European languages; app in English | Writes natively in many languages, translates into 59; app in English |
| Where it runs | Browser on Windows, Mac, iPad | Browser, plus an iOS app |
"Plan gate stated differently": BookNova's homepage says manuscript import and series writing come with Platinum and Author, while its pricing cards list both under Pro as well. Check at checkout which tier you need.
Size your writing: which tier or plan would you need?
Enter how much you plan to write in a month. BookNova counts words; Inkfluence counts chapters. The tool shows the smallest BookNova tier whose monthly credits cover it and the smallest Inkfluence plan that does, without converting currencies.
BookNova
Pro
Inkfluence AI
Creator
BookNova: one credit per generated word, tiers of 50,000, 100,000, 200,000 and 400,000 a month (prices shown to us in Canadian dollars), first generation only. Inkfluence: chapter length is not set, so only the chapter count matters here; our two sample prose books ran about 1,900 to 2,000 words a chapter. Rewrites use more on both.
Where BookNova is the better choice
- You want to set the word count. BookNova takes a target length, chapter count, POV and tone. We have no word or page target: length follows the number of chapters you ask for. If "an 85,000-word dual-POV romance" is your brief, its controls match it more directly.
- You want it to write in your voice from samples. BookNova learns from pages you paste in. We take tone and style from your description, and do not learn a voice from sample pages.
- You would rather pay once. If you write fiction steadily for years and trust the company to keep running, a one-time tier can cost less than a subscription over time.
- You want a social media kit for each novel. Character cards with portraits, quote images and teaser texts come with Pro and up. We make launch posts and share images from your cover, but not character cards.
- You want a money-back window. BookNova offers 30 days; we do not refund subscriptions, though our free plan lets you try first. Remember what a BookNova refund does to your licence.
If those are your priorities, visit BookNova and download one of its sample novels first. If you are still comparing novel tools generally, the AI novel writer comparison and Sudowrite vs Novelcrafter cover the other main options.
Where Inkfluence AI fits better
More than novels
Most books made on Inkfluence are non-fiction: guides, business and self-help books, workbooks, cookbooks. It also makes picture books and colouring books. BookNova lists fiction only.
Try before paying
A free plan with no card and no clock: 5 chapters to start, 5 more each month, PDF export.
The book becomes more
An audiobook in many voices, a translation into 59 languages, and listings on Etsy and Gumroad, on Creator and Premium.
No clause takes it back
You retain all rights in what you create, whatever happens to your plan later.
Amazon listing help
Besides the KDP package, a listing kit with description, seven keywords and categories, and an A+ Content pack made from the book.
Credits that stay
Credit packs never expire. BookNova's monthly credits do not roll over.
What an Inkfluence AI novel looks like when exported
These are three pages of a mystery novel made on our test account, exported through the same code that builds a customer's PDF, printed by a browser and saved as an image. Nothing was retouched. BookNova offers three of its own novels as downloads on its homepage, so you can set them side by side.
How the novel was written
Fiction chapters are written in order, so each one can read what came before. A story record tracks what has happened, who knows what and where everyone stands, and before each chapter its plan is checked against that record, so a reveal planned for chapter six is not told in chapter three. On manual setup you review and edit the outline before any chapter is written.
What it took
Eight chapters came out at about 2,000 words each. A longer novel means asking for more chapters, which is the honest limit next to BookNova's length setting. The export added the cover, contents and chapter openings; the KDP package adds the wrap cover and EPUB. The novel writer page shows the workflow.
The fairest comparison is your own premise in both tools. Write the first five chapters of yours here for free, then read them next to one of BookNova's sample novels, looking at the same things: does chapter five remember chapter one, and does the dialogue sound like people?
Write my first chaptersFrom story idea to KDP upload, on each tool
Feature tables hide the order you actually work in. Here is the same novel, a romance or a thriller you mean to sell on Amazon, walked through both tools from their own descriptions.
On BookNova
You pick a genre and a subgenre, write the story spark, and set the length, chapter count, POV format and tone, with your own voice if you pasted sample pages. Then you choose: Auto mode writes the whole book, while Sail Mode stops before each chapter to show you where it plans to go, so you can keep the plan, rewrite it or ask for other ideas. Its Story World fills in as chapters are written, and you can open it and correct a fact. When the book is done you pick a cover, and on Pro or above you download the KDP package with the interior PDF, the full cover, the EPUB, a description, seven keywords and suggested categories, plus the Author Launch Kit for social media.
On Inkfluence AI
You describe the novel in a few sentences, including the number of chapters you want, since that sets the length. On manual setup the outline appears first, and you rename, reorder, cut or add chapters before anything is written. The chapters are then written in order against the story record, and the book opens in an editor where you can rewrite a passage, ask the assistant for changes or an editorial review of a chapter, and regenerate anything that misses. The cover designer sits in the same project. On a paid plan or with credits, the KDP package gives you the interior, the wrap cover with its spine sized from the real page count, the EPUB and a cover JPG, and the Publish page adds the listing kit and an A+ Content pack.
On both
The upload itself happens in your own KDP account. Amazon asks whether the book contains AI-generated text, images or translations; its content guidelines say a text an AI tool created counts as AI-generated even after you edit it heavily, and declaring it does not stop you publishing. Proof the paperback before you press publish: our guides to formatting a book for KDP and publishing AI-generated books on KDP cover the file checks, and the KDP self-publishing guide covers the upload screens.
The practical difference shows up in two places. BookNova gives you more control before writing (length, POV, voice) and a social kit after. Inkfluence gives you more control over the structure before writing (the outline review) and more places for the book to go after: an audiobook, a translated edition, an Etsy or Gumroad listing. If you are planning a world before either, the free story bible generator and character bible generator work for both tools.
Lifetime plan or subscription: what to weigh
The lifetime model is BookNova's biggest difference from us, and its reviewers' favourite thing about it. It is a reasonable choice, with trade-offs that apply to any lifetime deal, not just this one.
- It pays off with time. One payment against months of subscription: the longer you write, the better it looks, as long as you keep writing in what the tool does, which here is fiction.
- It depends on the company. The allowance refreshes "for as long as BookNova exists". Running AI models costs money every month, so lifetime revenue has to be replaced by new sales. That is a risk to weigh, not a prediction.
- Monthly allowances do not stack. BookNova credits reset each month without rolling over, so a quiet month is lost. Our credit packs never expire; our monthly plan allowances also reset.
- Tier choice is fixed at purchase. Buy the tier that covers your busiest month, or plan to top up. The sizing tool above helps.
If you prefer to pay once with us, a credit pack is the nearest thing: 50 chapters for $24.99, no expiry, and any pack unlocks EPUB and Word export for good. For the full cost picture of publishing, see the real cost of publishing an AI book.
Inkfluence AI's limits for novelists
- No word or page target. The chapter count in your prompt sets the length.
- No voice learning from samples. Describe the tone you want; the tool does not study pages of your writing.
- No lifetime plan and no refunds on subscriptions. The free plan is the trial; credit packs are the pay-once option.
- The free plan is small. 5 chapters to start and 5 a month, PDF only with a small footer credit. EPUB and Word need a paid plan or credits.
- Creator has a monthly cap. 35 chapters a month; Premium has none.
- The app is in English. Books can be written in many languages; menus are English.
- It is a first draft. Read every chapter. Long-range plot memory is the hardest problem for every novel tool, and the review above shows why it is worth checking.
More detail on fiction specifically: romance, fantasy, mystery and thriller and series each have their own page.
7 things to check before buying any AI novel tool
- Read a whole sample novel, not a sample page. Plot memory fails late, so read the last third.
- Try your own premise. A free plan or the first days of a refund window, on the book you actually want to write.
- Read the refund and licence clauses. Know what happens to your book if you stop paying or ask for your money back.
- Check the files at the end. EPUB for Kindle, a print PDF at your trim size, a wrap cover with the right spine.
- Price your real month. Words or chapters at your busiest, with rewrites, not the headline.
- Check the language you write in. Read a chapter as a native reader would.
- Plan the disclosure. KDP asks about AI-generated text and images; answer it truthfully.
Our guide to judging an AI novel writer's output goes deeper on the first two.
How this page was made
Who: Sam May, who founded and runs Inkfluence AI. More on the about page.
How: BookNova's homepage, pricing page and FAQ, terms, refund policy and contact page were read in a real browser on 17 October 2026, and its Trustpilot page the same day. Inkfluence facts come from our plan settings, help articles and terms. The novel pages are a real export; the three photographs are illustrations made for this page. AI tools helped with research and drafting, and every price, clause and number was checked against its source.
Why: people searching for BookNova reviews also find our pages, and a lifetime purchase deserves a plain account of the terms. Some of them are better served by BookNova, and we say so.
If BookNova's prices, features or terms have changed, or we have something wrong, tell us through the contact page and we will correct it.
Related comparisons
Compare
Inkfluence AI vs Sudowrite
The fiction co-writer with built-in AI.
Compare
Inkfluence AI vs Squibler
Full manuscripts and screenplays.
Compare
Inkfluence AI vs Automateed
Another tool sold on lifetime plans.
Compare
Inkfluence AI vs Novelcrafter
Bring-your-own-key novel workshop.
Roundup
Best AI for writing novels
The wider field of fiction tools.
Compare
Every comparison
Inkfluence AI against each tool.
Frequently asked questions
What is BookNova AI?
Is BookNova AI legit?
What do BookNova reviews say?
How much does BookNova cost?
Does a BookNova refund cancel my rights to the book?
Is BookNova better than Inkfluence AI?
Can I use BookNova or Inkfluence AI books on Amazon KDP?
Does BookNova have a free trial?
Start the novel, then choose the tool
Write the first chapters free on Inkfluence AI and read BookNova's sample novels side by side. If BookNova suits you better, the links above take you there.