Clone a website you have rights to
Give it your own site's address, or one you may copy, and get back a site you can change.
Only what you may copy
Before a clone builds, you confirm it's your business's site or you have permission.
Yours, or with permission
Your business's site, or a client's with their OK. A rival's site or a design you like isn't yours to copy.
Some sites are always refused
A list of major banks, payment providers and large platforms, and government addresses, can't be copied.
Fonts need a license
A font's files come over if its license is open or you confirm you hold one. Others are matched by look.
What comes over
A real browser reads the page at three widths, and code rebuilds it from what it measured.
What comes over
- The page's words, photos and drawings
- Its colors, type, spacing and layout
- How it changes at tablet and phone width, with its phone menu
- Hover looks and folded answers
- Its forms, rebuilt as Shingle forms that send the answers to you
- YouTube, Vimeo, Calendly and Typeform embeds
What stays behind
- The original's scripts, analytics and tracking codes
- Consent banners and chat widgets. Shingle has its own
- Videos, though each keeps its poster image
- Other embedded frames
- Sign-in, account, cart and search pages. Shingle has no store or members' area
Worth knowing
- It copies the page you paste. The rest wait until you ask
- The result lists anything left out, and each font matched by look
- Phone and email live in Details, so one edit changes every page
- No code from the original runs on your site
When a clone makes sense
A clone is for moving a site and keeping the look that already works. Your business's site might sit on an old builder you want to leave, or the person who made it has gone and nobody has the login. A client might like what they have and want it somewhere they can change it themselves. In each case, the goal is a site that looks the same tomorrow and is easier to change the day after.
It copies one page at a time. The page you paste comes first, and the pages its menu links to are listed for later, up to 24. Copy each when you want it, for 10 credits. Until then, links to that page go to your home page. Starting small means you can check the first page before you spend anything on the rest.
If the design is what you want to leave behind, build from your notes or your Google listing instead. If it's someone else's look you admire, describe what you like in your own notes and build your own. Our Terms say you need the rights to what you give us, and anyone can report a published site that uses another business's name or brand.
From address to site
Paste the address
Choose Clone under New site and paste the page's public address. Add notes or details if you like.
Confirm your permission
Check the box to say it's your business's website or you have permission. It won't build without that.
Wait for the copy
A browser captures the page and code rebuilds it, for 30 credits. We email you when it's ready.
Copy more pages
Copy the pages its menu links to, one at a time, for 10 credits each.
Then it's yours to change
A clone is an ordinary Shingle site, rebuilt in code of its own. Ask for a change in plain words, type over words on the page for free, swap photos, add pages, and publish at your own domain on the plan.
One thing to watch. A clone keeps the words of the page it copied, and no AI rewrites them, so an old price or a claim that's gone stale comes along too. Read every line before you publish, and change what's out of date.
- Every change is saved as a version you can undo
- Credits come back if a build fails
- Publishing and hand edits cost nothing
Common questions
Can't find your answer? Read Shingle Help or email [email protected].
It depends on whose website it is. A site's words, photos, design and fonts usually belong to someone, and copying them without permission can break copyright law. Copying your own site, or a client's with their OK, is what Clone is for. You confirm that before each clone, and you're responsible for what you publish. This isn't legal advice.
No. Clone is for your own business's website or one you have permission to copy, and you confirm that before it builds. A published copy of someone else's site breaks our Terms, and Shingle can take it offline after a report. If you like a look, describe it in your notes and build your own.
Close, because Shingle measures the layout in a real browser, at desktop, tablet and phone width, and code rebuilds the page from those numbers. Expect small differences where a font had to be matched by look or a script drove part of the page. The result lists what was left out.
A clone uses 30 credits, and each further page you copy uses 10. If a build fails, its credits come back. The 7-day trial's 100 credits pay for one and leave 70, and the trial can publish it.
Some sites block automated browsers, sit behind a sign-in or don't answer. The build then stops and says which, and its credits come back. If it's your own site, you can build from your notes or your Google listing instead, and ask for changes until it looks right.
Read next
- Edit by askingSay what to change, or type on the page itself.
- Custom domainsConnect a domain you own, with HTTPS set up for you.
- Download the codeTake a site away as an ordinary Next.js project.
- Website redesign checklistWhat to do before, during and after a redesign.
- Pricing7 days for $1, then one plan at $49 a month.
Build your first site
Start from a Google listing or a few notes. Demos usually take 5–15 minutes.
7 days for $1, then $49 a month. Cancel any time.