How to import websites from other platforms

You can import any public website into Repaint, no matter what platform it's built on. You give Repaint your site's address, and it rebuilds your site as a new Repaint site you can edit and publish. Your old site keeps running where it lives today.

Steps to import your site

1. Enter your URL. You start on the website redesign page by entering the address of your existing website.
2. Create your account. A popup asks you to sign up, which starts your free trial. Repaint then starts gathering content about your business.
3. Choose your direction. Repaint shows you the pages it found, then asks what to keep and whether to match your current look or try something new.
4. Get your new site. Repaint builds it for you. A single homepage takes a couple of minutes. A larger site can take 5 to 10 minutes.
5. Edit with AI. If anything looks off or you want to change something, you can ask the AI to update it.
6. Publish. When you publish, your site goes online at a free Repaint address.
7. Connect your domain. When you're ready to switch over, you can connect your custom domain, including during your trial.

Supported platforms

Repaint can import sites from any platform, because it rebuilds your site with AI instead of relying on an export feature. It reads your live site the way a visitor would, so it works even on platforms that don't let you export your site. It can import custom-coded sites too.

People commonly import from:

• Website builders like WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, GoDaddy, Framer, and Hostinger
• Store platforms like Shopify
• AI builders like Lovable, Bolt, v0, and Replit
• Hand-coded or custom-built sites

Importing from files

If your content lives in files instead of on a website, you can upload them in the chat and ask Repaint to build from them. Repaint accepts most file types up to 16 MB each. For example, you could upload your menu and a few photos, then ask Repaint to turn them into a site.

How importing works

When you share your URL, Repaint fetches your site to learn about your business. It uses your homepage to find the rest of your pages. Then it reads the visible text, downloads your images, and takes screenshots to see your layout. It can't read anything hidden behind a login or only shown to signed-in users.

Before it builds anything, Repaint tells you what it found and asks what to keep. From there it recreates your site as a new Repaint site. The result is a starting point you can edit, not a locked copy.

How close to the original is it?

That's up to you. You can have Repaint match your old site closely, redesign it completely, or land anywhere in between. You tell it how much to keep and how much to change as it rebuilds.

If you ask Repaint to clone your site exactly, it can match your sections, colors, fonts, and layout very closely. It recreates your site from what it sees rather than copying its files, so there will usually be small differences. Things it can't see, like animations, often won't carry over.

If anything looks worse than the original, you can usually fix it with a single prompt by pointing out the problem.

Business features and data

Importing recreates how your site looks and the content on it. Interactive features like forms, logins, and checkout don't copy over directly, but Repaint has forms, customer accounts, and payments built in. If you tell the AI what your old site did, it can build the same thing.

Private data on your old platform, like customer records or orders, isn't visible from your public site. It only comes over if you export it and give it to Repaint.

What happens to your original site

Your old site stays online the whole time. Importing only reads from it, so nothing changes on your current site. You can keep it running until you're ready to switch over. When your new Repaint site is ready, you point your domain to it and cancel your old site subscription. If search traffic matters to you, see how to preserve SEO when you import a site.