Is Cardel an alternative to Disciple or Memberstack?

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

Can I use Cardel with Disciple or Memberstack?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Disciple and Memberstack?

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

How do I switch from Disciple or Memberstack 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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DisciplevsMemberstack

Disciple gives community owners branded iOS and Android apps with subscriptions. Memberstack adds logins, gated content, and Stripe subscriptions to no-code sites.

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How Disciple and Memberstack compare

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.

Memberstack gives no-code sites real members. Signup and login, gated pages, member profiles, Stripe plans and one-time payments, and a clean API drop into Webflow and other builders in an afternoon. For a designer turning a site into a members-only product, it is the least painful route.

Where they are different

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.

Memberstack

Memberstack needs a site to attach to.
Memberstack bills plans.
Memberstack stores members and can email them.

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 Memberstack when you already build in Webflow and need members and subscriptions on it.

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What's on Disciple and Memberstack

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

Site and brand

Custom domain
Disciple: Included
Memberstack: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Disciple: Included
Memberstack: Included
Marketing emails
Disciple: Not included
Memberstack: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Disciple: Included
Memberstack: Included

Team

Admin users
Disciple: Included
Memberstack: Included

Feature comparison for Disciple and Memberstack
Feature	Disciple	Memberstack
Site and brand
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included

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