Is Cardel an alternative to Carrd or Heartbeat?

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

Can I use Cardel with Carrd or Heartbeat?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Carrd and Heartbeat?

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

How do I switch from Carrd or Heartbeat 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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CarrdvsHeartbeat

Carrd builds a simple, responsive one-page site in minutes for very little money. Heartbeat is a friendly home for a small paid community with chat, events, and courses.

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How Carrd and Heartbeat compare

Carrd is intentionally small. One-page sites, responsive by default, with forms, embeds, and payment buttons on Pro, for a price that is low. When you need a landing page, a profile, or a coming-soon page today, Carrd could be the right tool.

Heartbeat is a friendly place to start a paid community without a big budget. For $49 a month you get channels, threads, chat, voice rooms, DMs, unlimited courses and events, a custom domain, checkout pages, five automation workflows, and Pulse, an AI that actually sets up channels, offers, and pages for you. Grow adds unlimited workflows, DM rules, an affiliate program, and white-label email; Scale adds a branded app. For a founder with a small group who wants courses and calls next to the conversation, Heartbeat covers a lot for the price.

Where they are different

Choose Carrd when one good page is all you need.

Choose Heartbeat when a small paid community with courses, calls, and member chat is the product.

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What's on Carrd and Heartbeat

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Carrd: Included
Heartbeat: Included
Custom domain
Carrd: Included
Heartbeat: Included
Theme and fonts
Carrd: Included
Heartbeat: Included

Public content

Showcase pages
Carrd: Not included
Heartbeat: Included

Audience and email

Marketing emails
Carrd: Not included
Heartbeat: Included

Messaging

Built-in chat
Carrd: Not included
Heartbeat: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Carrd: Not included
Heartbeat: Included

Team

AI Assistant
Carrd: Included
Heartbeat: Included

Feature comparison for Carrd and Heartbeat
Feature	Carrd	Heartbeat
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Showcase pages	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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