Is Cardel an alternative to Cal.com or Disciple?

Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Cal.com or Disciple when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Cal.com and Disciple are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Cal.com or Disciple?

Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Cal.com or Disciple for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.

How much does Cardel cost compared with Cal.com and Disciple?

You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Studio when your site goes live. Cal.com and Disciple set their own prices, so check their pricing pages on this page for current plans.

How do I switch from Cal.com or Disciple to Cardel?

Start with Build Your Site, set up your home, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.

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Cal.comvsDisciple

Cal.com is open-source scheduling with team routing, workflows, and payments you can self-host. Disciple gives community owners branded iOS and Android apps with subscriptions.

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How Cal.com and Disciple compare

Cal.com is scheduling infrastructure you can own. Open source and self-hostable, with calendar sync across Google, Outlook, and iCloud, event types, round-robin and collective team booking, routing forms, workflows for reminders, payments at booking, and an API and embeds developers actually like. Individuals get a generous free plan.

Disciple does the thing most community platforms charge a premium for: every plan includes your own iOS and Android app listed under your name, a synced web version, and no Disciple branding anywhere your members look. Groups, feeds, DMs, events, native video, livestreaming, courses, push notifications to segments, and a customer success manager who helps you through the app store submission. Associations, training providers, nonprofits, and membership brands that want an icon on the member's phone are who it is built for.

Where they are different

Cal.com

Cal.com is a booking page and API.
Cal.com confirms by email.
Cal.com charges at booking.

Disciple

Disciple lives behind a login and a home screen icon.
Disciple reaches members with push notifications and hands email to Mailchimp or ConvertKit.
Disciple starts at $599 a month for a branded app with unlimited members.
Disciple has courses, livestreams, tiers, and in-app purchases.

Choose Cal.com when scheduling is the whole need, especially for teams or developers who want control.

Choose Disciple when your members should open an app with your name on it, and a private community with groups, events, and paid tiers is the whole point.

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What's on Cal.com and Disciple

A check means that capability is available. Cal.com and Disciple are marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.

Site and brand

Custom domain
Cal.com: Not included
Disciple: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Cal.com: Included
Disciple: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Cal.com: Not included
Disciple: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Cal.com: Included
Disciple: Not included

Team

Admin users
Cal.com: Included
Disciple: Included

Feature comparison for Cal.com and Disciple
Feature	Cal.com	Disciple
Site and brand
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included

* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Cal.com or Disciple, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Cal.com or Disciple may add or remove features that are not shown here.