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

Can I use Cardel with Fourthwall or Heartbeat?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Fourthwall and Heartbeat?

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

How do I switch from Fourthwall 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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FourthwallvsHeartbeat

Fourthwall runs merch with print on demand, memberships, and a branded site for creators. Heartbeat is a friendly home for a small paid community with chat, events, and courses.

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How Fourthwall and Heartbeat compare

Fourthwall is the merchandise table a creator always wanted. A branded site with a shop, print-on-demand products with production and shipping handled, digital products, memberships, and integrations with YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok, all with no monthly fee and payouts that make sense. If your audience wants a hoodie with your logo on it, Fourthwall does the rest.

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

Fourthwall

Fourthwall's site is a store.
Fourthwall emails supporters about drops.
Fourthwall has no inbox or bookings.

Heartbeat

Heartbeat's landing page is the door to a private space.
Heartbeat emails members through workflows and a weekly digest.
Heartbeat's events sync to members' calendars.
Heartbeat charges 5% to 1.25% on payments.

Choose Fourthwall when merchandise and memberships for a video audience are the plan and you want fulfillment handled.

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

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What's on Fourthwall and Heartbeat

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Showcase pages
Fourthwall: Included
Heartbeat: Included
Shop pages
Fourthwall: Included
Heartbeat: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Fourthwall: Included
Heartbeat: Included
Marketing emails
Fourthwall: Included
Heartbeat: Included
Campaign workflows
Fourthwall: Not included
Heartbeat: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Fourthwall: Included
Heartbeat: Included

Team

Admin users
Fourthwall: Included
Heartbeat: Included
Per-admin permissions
Fourthwall: Included
Heartbeat: Included
AI Assistant
Fourthwall: Included
Heartbeat: Included

Feature comparison for Fourthwall and Heartbeat
Feature	Fourthwall	Heartbeat
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Showcase pages	Included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	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 Fourthwall or Heartbeat, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Fourthwall or Heartbeat may add or remove features that are not shown here.