YOUR BOOK, YOUR DETAILS

EPUB Metadata Editor

Refine your eBook's title, creators, publishing details and cover in a clean, private workspace. No account. No uploads.

✳ EPUB 2 & 3✳ Edit cover artwork✳ Export original EPUB

THE WORKSPACE

Book metadata studio ✳

Import an EPUB to start editing. The book itself stays on your device.

◇   Your files never leave this browser
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Import your eBook

EPUB packages up to 90 MB

Drop an EPUB hereor choose a file from your device
02

Edit book information

Changes apply to your downloaded copy.

Awaiting EPUB
Multiple authors: add one name per line.
Use a BCP 47 language tag.
Additional metadata Identifier, date, subjects, rights
Leave the original identifier intact if another system relies on it.
Each line becomes a separate subject element.
Import a file to begin
LIVE BOOK PREVIEW

At a glance

EPUB
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Your book title
Author name
Import an EPUB to preview its metadata

Cover artwork

JPG or PNG · 15 MB maximum

For existing PNG/JPEG covers, replacements preserve the original resource path and media type when possible.

Inside this EPUB

◇ Package overview
Chapters / spine items—
Manifest resources—
Original file size—
Resource breakdown
  • Import a book to inspect resources.
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Export your updated EPUB

Your original file remains unchanged.

Import a book to enable export.
Encrypted, digitally signed and multi-rendition EPUBs are intentionally not edited. For publisher distribution, validate the exported book with EPUBCheck.

MORE CONTROL, LESS COMPLEXITY

Designed for your digital library.

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Keep the book intact

Modify package metadata without rewriting chapters, navigation or stylesheet contents. The edited EPUB is packaged with a standards-compliant mimetype entry.

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Your book stays yours

Files are processed within your browser. No cloud service or account is required; your eBooks are not sent to PixelOkay.

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Reader-friendly metadata

Update creator details, publisher, language, book summary and cover for the EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 metadata conventions.

HOW IT WORKS

Refresh your eBook
in three steps.

  1. 01Open an EPUB. The editor inspects its package metadata locally.
  2. 02Edit the details. Change title, author, publisher, language, tags and cover.
  3. 03Download the result. Keep your original while exporting the updated EPUB.

Before you export

EPUB is a collection of publication files inside a ZIP package. Metadata lives in the OPF package document, while book covers are linked from the package manifest.

This editor does not remove DRM, decrypt books, update embedded cover pages, or make textual edits to chapters. Some storefronts may keep their own metadata separately.

EPUB 3.3 specification · EPUBCheck validator

Frequently asked questions

Does PixelOkay upload my EPUB file?

No. The EPUB is read and processed in your browser. The only external links on this page are optional links to standards documentation.

Can I edit a book with DRM?

No. This tool rejects EPUB archives with encryption metadata because modified package identifiers or resources could break font obfuscation or protected content. It also rejects digitally signed publications.

Will the cover change inside the first chapter too?

Not necessarily. When the EPUB has a valid PNG or JPEG package cover, the editor preserves its file path and converts the replacement to the original image type if necessary. This keeps embedded cover-page references intact, but JPEG conversion can be lossy and transparency may be flattened. If no compatible original cover exists, a new package cover is added and embedded XHTML cover pages are not rewritten.

What formats work?

Standard EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 files with one package document, an unencrypted ZIP archive and valid OPF XML. Cover replacements must be JPEG or PNG.

Using EPUB Metadata Editor

Edit supported EPUB 2 or EPUB 3 metadata and recognized cover artwork, then rebuild a new archive while leaving the input file unchanged.

Workflow

  1. Open an EPUB and inspect its metadata and rootfile
  2. edit supported fields and replace a recognized cover if desired
  3. build a new EPUB and validate it independently before distribution.

Example

Correct the title and author in an EPUB, replace a recognized cover, then save a new archive and compare it with the original in a separate reader and validator.

Limits and data handling

Editing is limited to one OPF rootfile. It does not handle DRM, encryption, signatures, ZIP64 or multi-rendition packages. Cover replacement follows recognized references; it does not rewrite arbitrary XHTML. JPEG replacement can be lossy and flatten transparency. Rebuild changes ZIP metadata/compression, so run an independent EPUB conformance check. The original file is not overwritten.

FAQs

Will it preserve the exact original ZIP bytes?

No. It rebuilds a new archive; compression and archive metadata can change even when resources are preserved.

Can it update every cover reference in arbitrary XHTML?

No. It handles recognized cover metadata/resources and does not rewrite arbitrary document markup.

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