Pooks

Pooks is an AI book generator tool. Pooks has closed and no longer accepts new orders. Its homepage redirects book makers to two sister services: BookBud.ai for planning, writing and exporting full length ebooks, and StarringMyKid.com for photo based picture books starring a child, with a free preview and ebook or printed output.

Pooks was a service for making personalized books with AI, and the site now stands as a signpost rather than a working product. The homepage states plainly that Pooks has closed and no longer takes new orders, so anyone arriving with the intent to create a book here will not find a builder, an editor, or a checkout. What remains is a short handoff page pointing readers to two successor projects run by the same team, each aimed at a different kind of book. The first successor is BookBud.ai, positioned for people who want to write their own full length book with an AI writing partner. According to the site, it covers planning, writing and editing, then moves into cover design and export of publish ready ebook files, and it is free to start. The second is StarringMyKid.com, a picture book service where a user uploads a photo, selects a theme, and receives an illustrated storybook with their child cast as the hero. That service offers a free preview, after which the book can be kept as an ebook or ordered as a printed keepsake. Existing Pooks customers are not stranded: a sign in link on the homepage leads to a personal library where previously made books can be downloaded. In practice, the useful thing Pooks now does is route people by intent. Long form authors and self publishers belong on BookBud, while parents and gift buyers looking for a child centered picture book belong on StarringMyKid. Readers who want a printed object rather than a digital file should note that only the StarringMyKid path is described as offering print. The team also points to PrivateChief, a personal AI chief of staff, for those interested in other work from the same group. Compared with active AI book generators, Pooks is not a viable alternative: there is no product to evaluate, no current pricing to compare, and no roadmap published on the page. It is worth a look only as a referral page or as a recovery route for anyone who already bought a book and needs the file.