Is Cardel an alternative to Carrd or Thinkific?

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 Thinkific when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Carrd and Thinkific are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Carrd or Thinkific?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Carrd and Thinkific?

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

How do I switch from Carrd or Thinkific 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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CarrdvsThinkific

Carrd builds a simple, responsive one-page site in minutes for very little money. Thinkific builds courses, communities, and memberships with a site around them.

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How Carrd and Thinkific 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.

Thinkific is a reliable place to build and sell learning. Courses, assessments, certificates, communities, memberships, and a branded mobile app option let a training business grow without moving platforms, and the site builder is good enough that many creators never need another. It is steady, well documented, and built around the student.

Where they are different

Choose Carrd when one good page is all you need.

Choose Thinkific when courses, assessments, and student communities are the business.

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What's on Carrd and Thinkific

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Showcase pages
Carrd: Not included
Thinkific: Included
Shop pages
Carrd: Not included
Thinkific: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Carrd: Included
Thinkific: Included

Audience and email

Marketing emails
Carrd: Not included
Thinkific: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Carrd: Not included
Thinkific: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Carrd: Not included
Thinkific: Included

Team

AI Assistant
Carrd: Included
Thinkific: Included

Feature comparison for Carrd and Thinkific
Feature	Carrd	Thinkific
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Showcase pages	Not included	Included
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Not included	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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