If you’re an Unlayer Studio user, you’ve probably received the email. Studio is retiring on June 30, 2026. All subscriptions end. No renewals. The editor goes dark.
For many teams this is manageable — if you have a handful of templates, Unlayer’s built-in HTML export works fine, and rebuilding a few designs in Klaviyo or Mailchimp takes an afternoon. Unlayer’s templates section also allows JSON export directly, so if your library is small, you may already have everything you need.
But if your team has built up a large campaign library over months or years — and your entire workflow depends on duplicating and editing those campaigns — the situation is different. You’re not rebuilding three templates. You’re looking at hundreds of campaigns, years of brand work, and a design workflow that disappears overnight.
We’ve been through this with a client who had 608 campaigns built up over two years. Here’s what we found, what we built, and how we can help teams in the same position.
What Are Your Options?
The first thing every Studio user does is click the “Download Designs & Assets” button in the yellow shutdown banner. Here’s the problem: it takes you to the Templates page, not Campaigns.
The second option people try is exporting individual HTML files one by one. That works — but HTML export is a one-way door. You get a static file you can send via Klaviyo or Mailchimp, but you lose all editability. You can’t open that HTML back up in a drag-and-drop editor and make changes.
What you actually need is the design JSON — Unlayer’s internal format that powers the drag-and-drop editor. With that, you can open any campaign in an Unlayer-based editor and edit it exactly as you did in Studio.
What We Built
After some investigation, we discovered that Unlayer Studio uses a GraphQL API to load campaign data — including the full design JSON for every campaign. We built a tool that:
- Connects to your Studio account using your existing login session
- Extracts all campaigns — not just templates, but every campaign in your library — with complete design JSON intact
- Downloads all your images from Unlayer’s CDN before they go offline
- Sets you up with a working campaign manager built on Unlayer Embed, where you can continue to create, duplicate, edit, and export HTML campaigns exactly as you did in Studio
For our client, that meant 608 campaigns extracted with zero failures, images downloaded, and a working replacement app running — all before the June 30 deadline.
The Replacement App
The campaign manager we built is a clean, browser-based tool powered by Unlayer Embed — the same drag-and-drop editor engine that powered Studio. Your muscle memory transfers directly.
What it does:
- Sidebar with all your campaigns, searchable and sorted by last edited
- Full Unlayer drag-and-drop editor — same blocks, same experience
- Duplicate, edit, save — the exact workflow you’re used to
- Export HTML — ready to paste into Klaviyo, Mailchimp, or any ESP
- Bulk import — load all your extracted campaigns in one shot
- Local folder storage — campaigns save as individual JSON files on your own computer or server. No size limits, no browser storage cap, no lock-in
Your campaigns, your files, your control.
What About Images?
This is the part that catches most people out. When Studio shuts down, the images hosted on Unlayer’s CDN (assets.unlayer.com) will stop loading — not just in the editor, but in emails you’ve already sent too.
Unlayer’s own shutdown notice says: “After June 30, all Unlayer-hosted images and assets will stop loading — including in emails you’ve already sent.”
As part of our migration service, we download all your images and re-host them on your own domain (typically your existing WordPress media library or an S3 bucket). Every campaign JSON file is then updated to point to the new URLs. Your campaigns continue to display correctly in both the editor and in live emails.
Who This Is For
This service is for Unlayer Studio users who:
- Have a library of campaigns they need to preserve and keep editing
- Are running Klaviyo, Mailchimp, or another ESP and need to keep exporting HTML
- Don’t want to rebuild everything from scratch in a new tool
- Want their campaigns and images safely backed up before June 30
It doesn’t matter how many campaigns you have. We’ve handled 608 in a single session — the process is fully automated.
What We Offer
This service is specifically for teams with large campaign libraries who need everything preserved and working before June 30.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Starter — up to 100 campaigns | $99 one-time |
| Standard — 100 to 500 campaigns | $149 one-time |
| Large — 500+ campaigns | $249 one-time |
| Ongoing hosting + support | $29/month |
Each tier includes campaign extraction, image download and re-hosting on your domain, and the campaign manager app set up and ready to use.
If you only have a small number of templates to migrate, we’re happy to point you toward the free options — just get in touch and we’ll give you an honest answer on whether you actually need us.
Get in touch at info@pragatitech.com or visit pragatitech.com/contact to discuss your situation. We’ll give you a straight answer on what’s involved and what it costs.
The June 30 Deadline Is Real
Unlayer has been clear: no extensions, no renewals, no free tier to fall back on after the shutdown date. Every day you wait is a day closer to losing access to your campaign library permanently.
The image bandwidth issue is also real — Unlayer’s CDN has already started hitting limits for some projects, causing images to fail before the shutdown date even arrives.
If you’re on Studio, now is the time to act.
A Note on Unlayer Studio Alternatives
For most Studio users, we recommend Beefree as the destination after migration.
Here’s why it’s the closest thing to a Studio replacement:
- Free plan includes mobile design mode
- Professional plan is $25/month
- Built-in image hosting
- Beefree can convert your Unlayer JSON files — their migration team will take the JSON files we extract and convert them to fully editable Beefree designs
Topol PRO is a good email builder too and a reasonable long-term replacement for Studio. But it doesn’t solve the immediate problem: your existing campaign library. Topol has no way to import your Unlayer campaigns as editable designs — you’d be starting from scratch. If you have 10 templates, that’s an afternoon. If you have 100+ campaigns, that’s weeks of work, and you lose years of design history permanently.
If you’re looking to move to a native ESP builder rather than maintain a separate design tool, the honest answer is: Klaviyo and Mailchimp both have solid built-in email builders with image hosting included. If your team is already living in those platforms, rebuilding your key templates there is a reasonable option.
The catch is that imported HTML is static in both platforms — you lose drag-and-drop editability. And rebuilding 600 campaigns is not a realistic afternoon project.
Our recommendation: extract and preserve everything now, then migrate forward at your own pace with full access to your original designs.
Pragati Tech Services is a boutique IT agency based in Nagpur, India, specialising in business process solutions for SMEs. We work with clients in Australia, the UK, and beyond.
Contact us at pragatitech.com/contact
