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.
Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own. Cardel does not build a mobile app, host a members-only community on your site, or run courses and paid tiers. It is a public website that search engines can read, with your blog, Shop, Schedule, audience list, email, and Messaging Center behind it.
Disciple lives behind a login and a home screen icon; Cardel lives at your domain in the open, where readers arrive from search and explore your pages.
Disciple reaches members with push notifications and hands email to Mailchimp or ConvertKit; Cardel sends newsletters and campaigns from your own address and receives replies in one inbox.
Disciple starts at $599 a month for a branded app with unlimited members; Cardel plans are priced for a single creator or a small team running a site, starting at $89/mo or $69/mo if billed yearly.
Disciple has courses, livestreams, tiers, and in-app purchases; Cardel sells items and bookings through Stripe or linked buttons on your Shop pages.
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. Choose Cardel when the public site is the point: publishing, selling, booking, and answering people from one place on your own domain, with the audience list and inbox included.
You are the Forgemaster. Cardel is your forge. What you build is yours.
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