Is Cardel an alternative to ClickFunnels 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 ClickFunnels or Thinkific when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where ClickFunnels and Thinkific are marked.

Can I use Cardel with ClickFunnels or Thinkific?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with ClickFunnels and Thinkific?

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

How do I switch from ClickFunnels 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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ClickFunnelsvsThinkific

ClickFunnels is the funnel builder: pages, upsells, email, and courses built for launches. Thinkific builds courses, communities, and memberships with a site around them.

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How ClickFunnels and Thinkific compare

ClickFunnels wrote the playbook on the sales funnel, and the 2.0 platform still does that job better than most: unlimited funnels on every plan, one-click upsells and order bumps, Smart Checkout, A/B tests, countdown timers, and templates built by people who sell for a living. Around the funnel it has grown a site and blog, courses, a store, email, automations, a CRM with pipelines, and MessageHub for conversations.

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

ClickFunnels

ClickFunnels starts from the offer and works backward to the page.
Both give you an inbox.
ClickFunnels appointments begin on the Scale plan.

Thinkific

Thinkific pages exist to sell courses.
Thinkific broadcasts to students and sends abandoned-cart email.
Thinkific books coaching calendars on Start and up.

Choose ClickFunnels when the offer is the business: you launch funnels, split-test them, stack upsells, sell courses and memberships, and want affiliates and SMS in the same account.

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

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What's on ClickFunnels and Thinkific

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Not included
Showcase pages
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Included
Shop pages
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Included

Audience and email

Audience
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Included
Marketing emails
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Included
Campaign workflows
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Not included

Messaging

Messaging Center
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Included
Orders and fulfillment
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Included

Team

Admin users
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Included
Per-admin permissions
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Included
AI Assistant
ClickFunnels: Included
Thinkific: Included

Feature comparison for ClickFunnels and Thinkific
Feature	ClickFunnels	Thinkific
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Showcase pages	Included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Messaging
Messaging Center	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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