What is TrueRoyalties?
One dashboard for your whole publishing business: royalties from 31 platforms, ad spend, Kindle Unlimited, series, reviews and links — and the real profit.
The problem
Running a self-publishing business means reading a different screen for every question you have — one per platform you sell on, one per ad account you run.
KDP shows your KDP royalties. Draft2Digital or Kobo Writing Life show what they paid you, separately. Amazon Ads shows your spend. None of them shows your profit — so you can sell more every month and still lose money, because the numbers live in as many dashboards as you have platforms, in different currencies, before tax.
And profit is only the first question. Are people finishing the book? Does book 1 carry readers into book 2? What did that new review say? Every one of those lives somewhere else again, and none of them is on the same page as the money.
What TrueRoyalties does
TrueRoyalties is the all-in-one dashboard for self-published authors and publishers: across 31 platforms, it combines your royalties from Amazon KDP, Kobo, Apple Books, Shopify and the others you sell on with your Amazon Ads, Meta Ads and TikTok Ads spend and the costs you add yourself, and computes the real net profit of every book after VAT and withholding tax.
Your Kindle Unlimited pages, your reviews and your links sit on the same page — in one currency, after tax. And the net profit underneath them is per book, per platform, per marketplace, per day.
What's inside
Four questions, four parts of the app. Every one of them reads the same imported data, so nothing has to be connected twice — the features section of the home page walks through all four in order.
| Answers | Where | |
|---|---|---|
| Profit | Am I making money? | Dashboard, Books, Marketplaces, Orders, Comparison, Retailers, Amazon Attribution, Manual entries |
| Readers | Is anyone reading, and how far? | Kindle Unlimited, Series & read-through |
| Visibility | What are readers saying? | Reviews |
| Sell & prove | How do I sell more, and prove it? | Smart links, Verified page |
Two of those are worth a sentence on their own, because they are not reports — they do something with the numbers. A smart link is one short link that sends every reader to their own Amazon store, with a QR code for your back matter and a click count that lands next to your royalties. Your verified page is a public page of your real figures that nobody can edit, including you — for proving an income claim without a screenshot anyone could have faked.
Your figures can also leave the app when you want them to: the read-only API and the AI assistant connector let a spreadsheet, your own code, claude.ai or ChatGPT read them — and change nothing.
What it handles for you
The parts of the arithmetic that are tedious, easy to get wrong, and applied everywhere without you asking:
| Multi-platform | 31 platforms in one view — Amazon KDP, Kobo, Draft2Digital, Apple Books, Shopify, WooCommerce and more |
| Multi-marketplace | US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, JP, CA, AU and the rest, in one view |
| Currencies | Every amount converted at the rate of its own transaction date |
| Taxes | Withholding tax and VAT on ad spend, applied automatically |
| Kindle Unlimited | KENP pages read and KU royalties counted as real income |
| Ad attribution | Which sales your ads actually generated, and what they cost |
Free tools, no account needed
Some of the arithmetic is useful before you are a customer, so it is public and free: the KDP royalty calculator, the Kobo royalty calculator, the KENP calculator, the Kindle Unlimited page-rate history, the book sales calculator, the ISBN barcode generator and the QR code generator. They run entirely in your browser.
What it never does
TrueRoyalties is read-only everywhere it connects — Amazon, Draft2Digital, Kobo Writing Life and every platform after them. It never changes your books, your prices, your campaigns or your bids. It reads your reports and does the maths.
Try it before signing up
The live demo opens the real app on a read-only sample account — no signup, no card.