Storybench

Everything in the box

Every tool you need to make the book. Nothing that takes it out of your hands.

You write the words. The AI only draws them, and only your cast. Here’s a proper look at what’s actually inside: the cast that keeps your characters consistent, the illustrator that reads your story, the page editor that makes you the art director, and the finish that gets your book into the world.

Seven things it does. All of them keep you in the author’s seat.

The consistency engine

Build your cast once.

Your characters, settings & props (each with their own reference art and poses) are built a single time, then load into every page automatically, so your hero looks like herself on page one and page twenty alike.

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The Cast panel showing four characters, each with reference art and poses, plus a row of settings and props beneath them.

Nine looks, one decision

Pick the look. The whole book holds it.

See one scene drawn across nine illustration styles (watercolor, claymation, pencil, naif, knit, and more) and choose the feel once. Every page keeps it, with no style words to type, ever.

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A single house-and-tree scene shown rendered in several different illustration styles in a row.

You write, it draws

An illustrator that already knows your story.

Write the page the way you’d read it aloud. It detects your cast, world & props from the text, shows them as pills you confirm, and draws only what you wrote. It never invents a stranger.

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The art-prompt panel with the written page text, detected character and setting pills, and a reference-image popover.

You’re the art director

Art-direct every single page.

A real page editor, not a template: layer text, images & stickers, place every element to the pixel, and tell the AI where to leave room for your words before it draws. You set the frame; it illustrates inside it.

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The full page editor: a page thumbnail rail, a large illustration on the canvas, and a layers panel with text, image and sticker controls.

The shape of a real book

Your whole book, at a glance.

Every page in one grid (simple or chaptered, whatever your story needs) with the counts that matter always one glance away: pages, words, illustrations, your cast, your style. Click any page to drop into its editor.

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A book overview screen: the title and cover, a page grid, and an at-a-glance sidebar listing pages, chapters, words, cast and art style.

Not a one-off

Write a series, not a single book.

Recurring characters are the whole reason a kid asks for the same book again. So the second book is the easy one: the cast, the world & the style all carry straight into the next title. You’re just telling the next story.

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A series view titled Books, showing two finished titles that share the same cast, and a card to start a new book.

Before you publish

Read it like a real book first.

Flip through the finished thing, page by page, exactly the way a reader will. When it reads right, you publish: a print-ready PDF for KDP, an EPUB for the ebook stores, or image posts for Instagram & Facebook.

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A page-flip book preview: a finished illustrated left page facing its text page, with navigation arrows and a thumbnail strip below.

Every one of these exists for the same reason: to keep you the author and the art director, and to keep your cast looking like itself. That’s the actual job. Everything else is in service of it.

See the whole thing in your own hands.

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