Your AI design, in InDesign.Actually editable.
AI design → editable InDesign
Your AI design, in InDesign.
Actually editable.Drop in an AI-generated layout. Get back a native `.idml` with the right fonts, real paragraph styles, and charts you can still edit. Not a flattened PDF. A file you keep working in.
Try it on your file — free → $49 lifetime license
Built by a designer who got tired of rebuilding layouts by hand.
Watch it convert · 80s
Fig. 1 — a real conversion, unedited: an HTML design dropped in, opened straight back in InDesign. Every table, chart and style still editable.
The converter
Drop a design. Get the `.idml`.
A self-contained .html design bundle in, a native InDesign file out. Usually under thirty seconds. The first two pages are free — drop a file and open them in InDesign. One $49 license unlocks the full document.
Drop your design .html here
or click to choose a file · max 15 MB
Converting your design…
Have a license key? Activate it · No file? Try the stress test · Convert looked wrong? Send it
Paste the license key from your purchase email, then drop your file — it'll convert in full.
Activate & convert Get a license — $49 → Key arrives by email right after checkout. Lost it? support@idmly.com
Send us the file and we'll fix what broke. It goes straight to a human, nowhere else.
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Send the file
The .html design file you converted, by email, to the person who builds this.
The tax
AI builds gorgeous layouts now. Getting one into InDesign still means rebuilding it by hand.
Box by box. Font by font. Hours per deliverable, and you pay it every single time. That tax is one of the dumbest costs in design. This kills it.
What the tax costs you
Hours rebuilding by hand, per week
1 hr5 hrs20 hrs
Your hourly rate
$30$75/hr$150
Annual cost of the tax
$19,500
5 hrs × $75 × 52 weeks
idmly — lifetime license$49
01
Drop your file
The AI-generated design bundle you already made.
Input
02
It converts
Native InDesign markup. Fonts bound, styles named, charts redrawn as real vectors.
Engine
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Open and keep designing
A clean `.idml`. Everything editable. No rebuild.
Output
What lands in the file
An `.idml`, not a PDF with movable boxes.
→Correct fonts, bound properly. No Minion substitution.
→Real named paragraph styles, not loose overrides.
→Charts as native, editable vector objects.
→Exact page geometry. It opens clean.
→Editable text frames you can reflow.
→A true `.idml` file you keep working in.
Pricing
One license. No subscription.
One number, once — and it's less than an hour of rebuilding by hand.
$49one-time · lifetime license
→Unlimited conversions →Activate on up to 10 browsers or devices →Every engine improvement as it ships →14-day refund if it can't convert your file
Buy a license — $49 Try 2 pages free ↑
Your license key arrives by email right after checkout — paste it once and convert from any browser. Payments handled by Creem.io as merchant of record. Refund policy.
FAQ
Questions designers actually ask.
Can I convert HTML or CSS to InDesign?
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 →
Does it work with Figma, Canva or AI-tool exports?
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.
What do I upload?
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.
What do I get back?
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.
So it's a converted PDF?
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.
How does the free trial work?
Drop any file. The first two pages convert free — no signup, no card. Open them in InDesign, poke at them, then decide. Files of one or two pages convert whole.
What does the $49 cover?
One payment, lifetime license, unlimited conversions, up to 10 devices. The key lands in your inbox right after checkout — paste it once per browser and it's remembered.
Do I need the fonts?
Yes — same as opening any InDesign document. The converted file asks for the right fonts by name, and we list them after every conversion. Activate them (most live on Google Fonts or Adobe Fonts) and the layout snaps in.
Is my design private?
Yes. Your file is converted and then deleted — no storage, no training, and no AI model ever reads it. The conversion is deterministic engineering, not a model. The site runs no analytics either. Details in the privacy policy.
What if it mangles my design?
Some designs convert perfectly, some need touch-ups — that's exactly what the free trial is for. If a file converts badly, send it to us with one click right from the converter (or email support@idmly.com) and we'll fix what broke — within 14 days of purchase, it's a fix or a refund. Either way the engine gets smarter.
Does Tailwind work? Other CSS frameworks?
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. Images can be base64 or any https URL; remote images are downloaded into your Links folder, properly linked for InDesign.