Translating your email designs with ChatGPT

Use ChatGPT inside Emailify with either direct API translation or manual CSV prompts to localize your email frames in Figma.

Video Tutorial: Translate email designs in Figma with ChatGPT

This video walks through how to Translate email designs in Figma with ChatGPT (automatically).

Emailify supports ChatGPT in two ways:

  • ChatGPT API for automated translation and import inside the plugin.
  • ChatGPT Prompt for a manual copy and paste workflow using the ChatGPT app.

Use ChatGPT API ​

The API workflow is the fastest option if you want Emailify to handle the full translation and import flow for you.

  1. Click the Localize button in Emailify.
  2. Choose ChatGPT API.
  3. Paste your OpenAI API key.
  4. Pick the model you want Emailify to use.
  5. Select the email frames and target locales you want to translate.
  6. Leave Use Markdown enabled to preserve inline bold, italic, and linked text during translation. This option is enabled by default for ChatGPT methods.
  7. Click Translate & Import.

Emailify will send the selected frame text to ChatGPT for each locale, then automatically import the translated results back into Figma as cloned localized email frames.

Your ChatGPT API key is stored per Figma user on your device and is not saved into the Figma file itself.

Use ChatGPT Prompt ​

The manual prompt workflow is useful if you prefer to run translation requests yourself inside ChatGPT instead of connecting an API key.

  1. Choose ChatGPT Prompt in the localization options.
  2. Select the email frames and locales you want to translate.
  3. Click Generate Prompt.
  4. Click Copy Prompt.
  5. Run the prompt in ChatGPT and make sure it returns raw CSV only.
  6. Paste the CSV response back into Emailify.
  7. Click Translate Figma Frames to import the translated content into Figma.

In the manual prompt workflow, you choose the ChatGPT model inside the ChatGPT app yourself. Emailify validates the pasted CSV before importing it.

The generated prompt also tells ChatGPT to preserve supported markdown formatting and keep markdown markers, URLs, and placeholders unchanged so the translated content can be mapped back into the original Figma text styling.

Do not remove or rename the id, frame_id, layer_name, or figma_text columns in the CSV response. Emailify uses those columns to match translated rows back to the correct Figma layers.