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- InDesign Flyer Templates
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- InDesign Newspaper Templates
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Free InDesign Templates
These are the picks you can get without paying per file: some are genuinely free downloads, the rest come with a marketplace subscription. Terms change, so check the price on the item page before you download. More free options appear in the category sections below, and the table under where to find more templates shows what each marketplace charges.
1. Clean & Stylish Magazine Layout
Showcase your content elegantly with this modern and clutter-free magazine template. Perfect for fashion, lifestyle, and art publications.
2. Modern Photography Portfolio
Present your captivating photographs in style. This portfolio template offers a sleek and contemporary design to highlight your visual talent.
3. Traveller Magazine
Embark on a visual journey with this travel-themed magazine template. Ideal for sharing exciting travel experiences and breathtaking destinations.
4. The Multipurpose Brogazine Layout
Unleash your creativity with this versatile template, combining the best of a brochure and a magazine layout. Perfect for any business or project.
5. Black and White Business Proposal with Lime Hues
Make a striking impression with this unique business proposal template. The monochromatic palette with a splash of lime exudes sophistication.
6. Black and White Magazine
Classic meets contemporary in this monochrome magazine template. Ideal for showcasing art, photography, and minimalist designs.
7. Dessert Cookbook
Satisfy your sweet tooth with this delightful dessert cookbook template. Easy-to-use and perfect for sharing your delectable recipes.
8. Nano Indesign Brochure
Small but powerful! This compact brochure template lets you pack a punch with essential information and captivating visuals.
9. Creative Business Project Proposal
Stand out from the crowd with this innovative project proposal template. Impress potential clients with a fresh and creative approach.
10. Universal Magazine
A flexible and adaptable magazine template for various topics and industries. Enjoy the ease of customization and design possibilities.
InDesign Resume Templates
11. Recipe Cookbook
Organize your favorite recipes in this beautiful cookbook template. Ideal for food bloggers, chefs, and anyone who loves to cook.
12. Be Bold
Amazing typography and an entire column about you. This resume is perfect for someone with a bold personality.
13. Add Showcases
Perfect for designer roles. It comes with a template to showcase your best preview jobs.
14. Elegant
Applying for an executive role? This is the right way to introduce yourself.
15. Tell A Story
Very clean and very easy to check. This resume tells your personal work story in the best way.
16. Minimalist
Minimal, with nice and bold typography.
17. Use Some Style
Elegant and with a strong style this resume template will make you stand out from all the other candidates.
18. Elegant Single Page
One page, one strong typographic idea, nothing else competing for attention. Probably the cleanest CV layout in this list.
Find The Right Resume Template
Nothing here fits? Our list of 100 InDesign resume templates is split into two sections, one of them dedicated to free InDesign resume templates.
InDesign Book Templates
19. Simple ePub
A simple and clean layout, easy to adapt to your content (source: Adobe Stock).
20. Easy to Read ePub
Easy to read typography. Nice use of the white space. This InDesign template probably is the best choice for your ePubs and books.
21. The Poetry Book
An elegant, small layout format for novels and works of poetry.
22. The novel
It looks like it came straight off a public library shelf, which is exactly right for a novel or a short-story collection.
23. Modern
Are you looking for something a little more modern? Here we are. Lots of space to images and clean, thin typography (source: Adobe Stock).
24. The Japanese Book
Are you publishing a Japanese book? Here you have the most iconic of all the templates.
25. Photography Book
With a lot of space for pictures. With some pages in black and some in white, this template is great for a photography or painting book.
26. Cook-book
Nice space for the pictures. White space. Terrific typography. This InDesign template has everything you need to create an amazing cook book.
More book and cookbook templates
Two longer lists go deeper here: 50 Best InDesign Book Templates and 50 Fresh InDesign Cookbook Templates.
InDesign Brochure Templates
27. Elegant, Pastel Brochure
Minimal, with pastel colors, this template helps you create the most elegant of the brochures.
28. Landscape Brochure
This brochure is the perfect fit to introduce a new product to the market. Nice use of the space, many different page templates and a lot of space for images.
29. Business Brochure
Suitable for many varieties of industries, use this template to talk about your business.
30. Elegant
One of the strongest layouts in this list. The type pairings carry it, which makes it a good fit for fashion, photography, architecture and food work.
31. Local shop
Are you marketing a local business? Look no further. This product presentation has everything you need and can be easily personalized to any industry and products.
32. Fashion-ready
Lot of space for images, nice balance between titles, quotes and body-text, feminine – this InDesign template is the perfect brochure for any fashion product.
More brochure templates
There are 100 more in 100 Best InDesign Brochure Templates. If you are still picking a tool, we also compare 10 brochure design software options.
InDesign Magazine Templates
33. Food Magazine
Are you hungry, yet? Clear structure for ingredients and step-by-step instructions combined with a lot of space for images. Your readers will be very hungry when you publish your food magazine using this template (source: link).
34. Sofisticated
The colors and lettering used in this template give is quite a sophisticated look – it fits an art publication perfectly.
35. Minimalist Magazine
Clean, minimalist and modern, and a useful lesson in giving pictures room to breathe. The content stays the protagonist on every page.
36. Landscape Minimalist Magazine
Many different page templates, easy to read typography, a great solution for a landscape magazine.
37. Architecture Magazine
The lettering and the use of space are measured so that the reader attention is on the pictures. This template works great with art and architecture magazines.
38. Contemporary
The magazine as you know it. A very classic layout but with an original and contemporary look.
39. Multifunctional
Forty pages of layout combinations in this template. You can use it for almost any kind of publication.
40. For The Beauty Salon
Text-heavy in the way salon magazines are: long columns, short captions, plenty of small entry points. Good for a title with more to read than to look at.
41. Modern Magazine
If your target is young people, this might be the perfect choice for your magazine layout.
Find the Best Magazine Templates
Our list of 80 InDesign magazine and zine templates covers the same ground in more depth.
InDesign Portfolio Templates
42. Photography Portfolio
Amazing use of the page and the contrast between content and white space add movement to the entire design. The attention is completely directed to the pictures and the reader eyes are automatically glued to the content.
43. Photography Portfolio
A little more space for text in this layout. The feeling is less art-oriented, and more travel. Use this template to tell a story or about a place.
44. Lookbook
A layout with a strong personality. Add your text and black and white pictures for an amazing publication.
45. Designer Portfolio
Show what you can do. This template is perfect to display your past work.
The Best Portfolio Templates
Here you can find a new list of the best InDesign portfolio templates divided into three groups: portfolio templates for Designers/Creatives, Photographers, and Agencies.
Find The Best Architecture Portfolio Templates
Building an architecture portfolio? We have 50 InDesign architecture portfolio templates, plus guidance on how many pages and projects to include.
InDesign Business Card Templates
Business cards were not meant to be in this list. These two were good enough to earn a place anyway.
46. For The Local Business
Two variants, both built around a single photograph. If your work can be summed up in one image, this is the layout to pick: a barbershop, a shoe shop, a salon, a photographer.
47. For Freelance Professionals
This is actually a bundle of creative templates, and it contains 10 geometric business card alternatives that are perfect for any office worker or freelance.
More business card templates
There are 100 more in 100 Fresh InDesign Business Card Templates.
InDesign Flyer Templates
48. Real Estate Flyer
Well organized and clean, it also includes a roll-up banner.
49. High-End Real Estate Flyer
More dynamic, this is the perfect choice for promoting high-end estate.
50. Corporate Flyer
Great example of what a corporate flyer needs. Main value proposal in the center, three pluses or insights right below, and your contact information.
51. Flyer Layout with blue accents
Are you seeking a more unique appearance to your flyer? Creative layout in combination with distinctive color combination will give you that wow-effect.
52. Technology themed flyer
Another creative proposal, really nice use of the space and images, and impressive choice of colors.
53. Contemporary Art Flyer
Modern, elegant and on-trend. This flyer is a nice-fit to market an art exhibition.
54. Event Flyer
This template works great for any kind of event. Replace the text and the central image and you are ready to go.
55. Farmers Market
This template is perfect for your local market or many other green events.
InDesign Trifold Templates
56. Clean Trifold
A clean layout with nice geometric design elements ready to describe a new product or talk about your business.
57. With Space For More Text
Dynamic, with more space inside for text – it's a great fit to explain your business services (source: Adobe Stock).
58. Modern
Nice trifold, perfect to promote a course or an art exhibition.
59. Fancy Menu
Fresh and clean. A great choice for your bio café or small restaurant.
60. Business Trifold
This trifold looks very elegant and professional. A perfect start for illustrating your business and your services.
More Indesign Trifold Templates
Our 100 Best InDesign Brochure Templates list has a section devoted to trifolds.
InDesign Newspaper Templates
61. The Classic Old Style
Working on a newspaper? Use the most classical of the styles and download this old-school template for InDesign.
More newspaper templates
Only one newspaper layout made this list. There are 30 more in 30 Sleek Newspaper Templates.
InDesign Report Templates
62. Modern
Modern, with nice layout combinations. This template is a very nice start for an annual report or a business presentation.
63. Data Driven
Very elegant template. Nice use of the main color, the templates include many combinations of layout that will help you adapt this template to your content very easily.
64. Clean And Elegant
A very clean and elegant layout that makes your document easy to read. A perfect template to document the progress of your organization.
65. Geometrical and Trendy
Very interesting use of lines and geometric forms in this InDesign template. More dynamic than the reports above, it gives your document more of a magazine look.
Find the Best Annual Report Templates
For annual reports specifically, our list of 60 business report templates goes further and compares page counts and formats.
InDesign Catalog Templates
66. Dynamic
Dynamic, with several nice combinations of design. It's the perfect template to list your products and show them in context.
67. Clean And Professional
Suitable for food, fashion, lifestyle, adventure, property, and many other industries, this template works perfectly to show off your products in a wholesale catalog.
68. For A Quick Delivery
A very simple layout that adapts to any need. Its structure makes it easy to use with data merge. See here how to use Data Merge in InDesign.
69. Elegant And Fresh
This catalog template looks wonderful. Very clean, with nice use of space and typography, it can be adapted to many different industries.
70. For Fashion
A clean layout with many ideas on how to use your pictures. It's the perfect template to use in InDesign for creating a fashion catalog.
Find more catalog templates
You can find more Catalog Templates in our new post 50 Fresh InDesign Catalog Templates.
InDesign Workbooks Templates
71. Flexible And Modern
Another really nice template. It works perfectly as a workbook to train students and workers (source: Simple Classroom Workbook Layout).
InDesign Restaurant Menu Templates
72. Minimalist
Very minimal, quick to read, it adapts to any café or restaurant.
73. Country
This template is perfect for those restaurants that offer more traditional fare with a homemade taste.
Templates for Designers
The last two are for the designers rather than the clients. Both earn their keep if you freelance or work in an agency.
74. Web Design Brief
Creating a document that shows how a website or application will work is a very clever idea. This template has everything you'll need to create an astonishing presentation, make sure everybody agrees on the project and looks more professional.
75. Brand Identity Manual
Brand identity is very important, it ensures that your message will be consistent and have the same look. This template is a nice start for building your brand identity manual, and it gives you a few examples of what the document should contain.
Where to find the best InDesign templates
Nearly every template above comes from one of four marketplaces: Envato, Adobe Stock, StockInDesign and Creative Market. Two more are worth knowing about. What separates them is not quality so much as how you pay: a monthly subscription, a single purchase per file, or a pass that covers the whole catalogue for a fixed period.
Prices checked on 28 July 2026. Plans change often, so the marketplace page is always the final word.
A little more on each, plus two places worth browsing for ideas rather than files:
- Adobe Stock: Adobe’s own store, and the files tend to be technically clean, which matters more than it sounds when you inherit somebody else’s layout. Templates arrive as .indt files. You pay through a subscription with a credit allowance rather than a price per file; Adobe’s plans page has the current tiers.
- Envato Elements: one subscription, unlimited downloads, so it pays for itself if you take more than a couple of templates a year. Core starts at US$16.50 per month billed annually.
- Envato Market: the same publisher, sold per file instead of by subscription. Better value for a one-off job.
- StockLayouts: business layouts at US$12 to US$19 each. The All Access Pass is US$29 for a month or US$99 for a year, both one-off with no auto-renewal. There is a free templates category too.
- StockInDesign: InDesign only, which shows in the file quality. Thirteen of the templates above come from here. Start with the free tag; paid items go up to US$35.
- Creative Market: independent authors selling one file at a time. That is both the appeal and the risk, so read the reviews on the item page before you buy.
- Inkd: a smaller print-template marketplace, still trading. Worth a look for business stationery; compare its prices against the table above.
- Dribbble: some paid, some free, and a fast way to see what a category looks like when somebody has really thought about it.
- Behance: not a store. You will not download a template here, free or paid. Go for the ideas.
Search for more InDesign templates
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What is inside an InDesign template file?
A template is an ordinary InDesign layout with one difference: opening it creates a new untitled copy, so the original file stays untouched. Most downloads also include an IDML version of the same layout, with master pages and paragraph and character styles already built.
Three file extensions do all the work.
- .indd is a normal InDesign document. It carries the version of InDesign that saved it, which is why an older copy of InDesign will refuse a newer file.
- .indt is the template. Open it and InDesign hands you a new untitled document based on it, which protects the template from accidental edits. To change the template itself, use File > Open and choose Normal.
- .idml is InDesign Markup, an XML-based format that opens in older releases of InDesign, back as far as CS4. Sellers include it so the layout works whatever version you run. It is also the format that makes a layout translatable without rebuilding the pages.
How do you open and use a downloaded InDesign template?
Open the .indt file and InDesign creates a new untitled document from it. Save that copy under your own project name and the template stays clean for the next job. Five steps cover almost every download.
- If the download is a .zip, unzip it and keep the folder together. Any licence file, font list or linked image belongs with the document.
- Open the .indt file. You get a new untitled document, not the template itself.
- If InDesign refuses the file because it was made in a newer release, open the .idml instead. IDML reads back to CS4.
- If InDesign reports missing fonts, look for a font list in the download first. Then activate the fonts you are entitled to, or substitute type you already own. Re-check the pages afterwards, because a different font changes where the lines break.
- Relink any missing images, then use File > Save As to save your version as an .indd file under your own project name.
To edit the template file itself rather than a copy of it, use File > Open and choose Normal.
Create your own InDesign template
If you keep rebuilding the same layout, save it once as a template instead. Opening a template produces a new untitled document, so the master copy never picks up somebody else’s edits.
Build the document in InDesign, then choose File > Save As and pick InDesign Template (.indt). Recent releases label the option with the version year, so it may read InDesign 2026 Template.
Build it properly the first time. Somebody else will inherit this file, possibly on an older version of InDesign, so save an .idml alongside the .indt.
Two things are worth getting right before you save anything as a template: master pages and paragraph styles. A template with sloppy styles is slower to reuse than a blank page.
Translating a template-based InDesign document
A template makes the first language easy. The second one is where layouts come apart. Pasting translated text into InDesign shifts every frame the template was built to hold, and German runs longer than English almost every time.
That is the job Redokun does. It pulls the text out of your IDML and sends it to your translators, or through AI pre-translation. The translated copy goes back into the same layout, so the template still looks like the template. Our guide to translating an InDesign file walks through it, and you can try Redokun free for 14 days: 10,000 exportable words, no credit card.
InDesign template FAQs
Where do I find templates for InDesign?
The 75 templates on this page come from Adobe Stock, Envato Elements, Envato Market, StockInDesign and Creative Market. Add StockLayouts if you need business stationery. The table above sets out what each one charges.
Are these InDesign templates free or paid?
Both. The first section collects the picks you can get without paying per file, and StockInDesign and StockLayouts each publish a free category. Everything else is either a single purchase or part of a subscription. The price on the item page is the only number that is never out of date.
Does InDesign have built-in templates?
Adobe Stock is Adobe’s own template store and it carries free and paid InDesign templates. They download as .indt files you open in InDesign, and Adobe documents the workflow in working with files and templates. Some releases surface Adobe Stock templates in the New Document dialog; if yours does not, download from the Adobe Stock site instead.
What is the difference between INDD, INDT and IDML?
.indd is a normal InDesign document. .indt is a template, and opening one gives you a new untitled copy so the original is never overwritten. .idml is an XML-based version of the same layout that opens in older releases of InDesign, back to CS4. Most paid templates include both an InDesign file and an IDML.
How do I open an .indt template file?
Open it the way you would any InDesign file. InDesign creates a new untitled document based on the template, which you then save under your own name. To edit the template itself, use File > Open and choose Normal.
Can I open a template made in a newer version of InDesign?
Not the .indd file. An InDesign document carries the version that saved it, and older releases refuse it. Open the .idml instead: IDML is the backward-compatible format and reads back to CS4, which is why sellers ship it alongside the InDesign file.
What do I do if fonts are missing when I open a template?
InDesign flags missing fonts as soon as the file opens. Look for a font list or readme in the download first, because the licence for the type is usually separate from the licence for the layout. Then activate the fonts you are entitled to, or substitute type you already own. Re-check the pages afterwards, because a different font changes where the lines break.
Can I use a downloaded template for commercial work?
Usually yes, but the licence is set by the marketplace rather than by the template, and the models differ: some sell a licence per item, others cover your use through a subscription, and some ask you to register each use. Read the licence on the item page before the work is billable. Envato publishes its terms at Envato Elements licence terms, and Adobe Stock and Creative Market show theirs on the item page. We have deliberately not summarised the terms here, because a licence summary six months out of date is worse than none.
Is there a free version of InDesign?
No. InDesign is subscription-only, with a 7-day free trial. After that the single-app plan runs at roughly US$23 a month on an annual commitment at the time of writing, and Adobe’s own pricing page carries the current figure. You can open and edit a template file during the trial.
Conclusion
A template removes the slowest part of a new document: deciding where everything goes. If you want more of them, these lists go deeper by category:
- 100 Best InDesign Brochure Templates
- 50 Fresh InDesign Catalog Templates
- 60 Best Annual Report Design Templates
- 60 Best InDesign Portfolio Templates
- 80 Cool Zines and InDesign Magazine Templates
- InDesign presentation templates
- 100 InDesign resume templates
Make sure to bookmark this post so you can always find a list of fresh InDesign templates to inspire new ideas.
