How to import websites from other platforms

Importing brings your existing website into Repaint as a new, editable site. You give Repaint your site's address, it reads what's there, and it rebuilds your site so you can edit and publish it in Repaint. Your old site keeps running where it lives today.

Steps to import your site

1. Sign up. Create a free account at repaint.com.
2. Paste your URL. Give Repaint the URL of your existing website so it can gather content about you.
3. Review and plan. Repaint tells you which pages it found, then asks what to keep and whether to match your current look or change it.
4. Generate your website. Wait while Repaint rebuilds your site. A single homepage takes a couple of minutes; a larger site can take 5-10 minutes depending on size.
5. Edit your website with AI. Instruct the AI to fix anything that looks off. You can add, change, or remove anything on the site just by asking.
6. Publish. Click publish to put your site online at a free sites.repaint.com address.
7. Connect a custom domain. Optional. Once your site is live, you can connect a custom domain on a paid plan.

Which platforms you can import from

You can import from any platform, including WordPress, Wix, Webflow, Squarespace, GoDaddy, and Square, and it works even if your platform doesn't offer a way to export. More details here.

How importing works

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

Repaint then plans the import with you before building, telling you what it found and asking 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. Importing is a starting point, so 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 have Repaint try to clone it exactly, it probably cannot match it pixel-for-pixel. It can get very close: same sections, colors, fonts, and overall layout. Repaint recreates your site from what it sees rather than copying its files, so there will always be small differences. Also 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 to Repaint.

What doesn't transfer

Importing recreates how your site looks and the content on it, but interactive systems don't come across. Contact forms, logins, and ecommerce checkout aren't transferred, because they rely on backends Repaint isn't connected to. You can rebuild these in Repaint with its built-in form system or by embedding other services. It won't be the exact same setup, but you can recreate the same result.

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, and you can keep it running until you're ready to switch over. When your new Repaint site is ready, you move your domain to it and cancel your old site subscription.