Is Cardel an alternative to Ghost or Memberful?

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

Can I use Cardel with Ghost or Memberful?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Ghost and Memberful?

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

How do I switch from Ghost or Memberful 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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GhostvsMemberful

Ghost is open-source publishing with a fast site, newsletters, and fee-free paid subscriptions. Memberful adds paid memberships, gated content, and newsletters to a site you run.

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How Ghost and Memberful compare

Ghost is what serious independent publishing looks like. A fast, beautifully themed site, newsletters sent from your own domain, paid memberships with zero platform fees, comments, and a clean editor, all open source and portable. Ghost(Pro) hosting removes the ops, and the whole thing respects the writer and the reader.

Memberful is a clean way to charge for membership. Stripe billing, plans and gifts, gated WordPress content, Discord and podcast access, member newsletters, and now a landing-page and newsletter builder on your own domain. Publishers who want a paywall without rebuilding their whole site have trusted it for years.

Where they are different

Ghost

Ghost monetises by membership.
Ghost sends email and stops.
Ghost is publishing-first.

Memberful

Memberful assumes you have a site.
Memberful bills recurring plans.
Memberful sends member newsletters.

Choose Ghost when writing is the business and you want paid subscriptions with no platform cut, on open-source software.

Choose Memberful when you want a paywall and member billing on a WordPress or custom site you already run.

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What's on Ghost and Memberful

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Ghost: Included
Memberful: Included
Custom domain
Ghost: Included
Memberful: Included

Public content

Blog
Ghost: Included
Memberful: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Ghost: Included
Memberful: Included
Marketing emails
Ghost: Included
Memberful: Included
Campaign workflows
Ghost: Not included
Memberful: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Ghost: Not included
Memberful: Included

Team

Admin users
Ghost: Included
Memberful: Included

Feature comparison for Ghost and Memberful
Feature	Ghost	Memberful
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included

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