From HTML to editable InDesign.HTML design in. Editable InDesign out.

A native .idml that opens straight in Adobe InDesign: real text frames, named paragraph and character styles, charts and tables as editable objects, images placed and linked. If your design has images, it arrives as a zip — keep the Links folder next to the .idml. The file also opens in Affinity Publisher.

A self-contained .html file — the kind AI tools hand you when they design a report, deck, or one-pager. If it opens in your browser and looks like your design, it's ready to convert.

Yes — and that’s the promise that matters most. Your file is converted, then deleted: no storage, no training, and no AI model ever reads it (the conversion is deterministic engineering, not a model). The site uses Google Analytics to count page views; it never sees your files. Full detail, including how we measure our own ads, in the privacy policy.

Try it free first: the two most detailed pages of any design, twice, before you pay. If a licensed conversion doesn’t give you a usable, editable file, email support@idmly.com within 14 days with the design file and we’ll fix it or refund you. Refunds go back through Creem to your original payment method. Refund terms →

No — the text in the .idml is intact; your InDesign is drawing it with a mismatched font. The cause we've seen: two versions of the same typeface active at once, usually one from Adobe Fonts and a newer copy installed from Google Fonts. InDesign pairs one version's character map with the other's outlines, so a heading reads like ĔįõỸ while the body text, set in a different font, looks fine. To check, type a line in that font in a blank InDesign document: if it scrambles there too, it's the font setup, not the conversion. To fix it, keep one copy — deactivate the family in Creative Cloud under Fonts, or remove the local files — then reopen the .idml. Quick workaround: put the font files in a folder named Document Fonts next to the .idml; InDesign uses those first.

Yes — that's exactly what idmly does. Drop a self-contained .html design and get back a native .idml: editable text frames, named styles, and charts as real vector objects. Not a flattened PDF. Full guide and method comparison →

Yes — that's exactly what it's for. AI tools hand you an HTML design, and idmly converts that into a native, editable .idml: real text frames, named styles, charts as editable vectors. It doesn't matter which AI tool produced the HTML. Full guide →

No — they're complementary. MCP connectors (Sidekick, Duet, Adobe's Claude connector) let an AI control InDesign live. idmly does a different job: it takes the finished HTML design your AI already made and converts it into an editable .idml file, and it now ships its own MCP server, so your agent can hand the file over itself. Many people use both — generate in Claude, convert with idmly, then refine in InDesign.

All of them. idmly reads the rendered browser layout, not the tool that made it, so it converts the HTML output of Claude, ChatGPT, v0, Lovable, Bolt, Gemini, Figma Make, and plain hand-written HTML alike. If it saves as a self-contained .html that opens in a browser, it converts.

Yes. Export your design as a self-contained HTML file from any tool, then convert it — idmly reads the rendered browser layout, so the tool that made the HTML doesn't matter.

No. There's no PDF anywhere in the chain — idmly builds the InDesign file directly. That's the whole point: frames you can reflow, styles you can restyle, charts you can recolour. A PDF import gives you outlines and regret.

Yes — any of them. idmly renders your file in a real browser and reads the computed layout; it never parses your CSS. Tailwind (CDN script or compiled styles), Bootstrap, plain CSS — if Chrome can render it, it converts.

Yes. Partners earn 30% of every sale their link refers, paid out by Creem, with a 60-day attribution window. Anyone can join in a minute at affiliates.creem.io/join/idmly — no approval queue. If you teach InDesign, sell templates, or run a studio that fights the rebuild-by-hand problem, that's who it's for.