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Heartbeat is a friendly home for a small paid community with chat, events, and courses. Wix builds any site with an app market, bookings, stores, chat, and email marketing.

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How Heartbeat and Wix compare

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.

Wix can build almost anything. A free-form editor, hundreds of templates, an app market, Wix Stores, Wix Bookings, Wix Chat, email marketing, and a business inbox make it a full small-business toolkit, and the AI site builder gets you to a first draft fast. For a business that needs breadth and an app for everything, Wix is a safe bet.

Where they are different

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.

Wix

  • Wix adds features through apps and plan upgrades.
  • Wix's inbox gathers chat and forms.
  • Wix is designed for any business.

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

Choose Wix when you need breadth: any layout, any app, any business type.

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What's on Heartbeat and Wix

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

Site and brand

  • Workspace site
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included
  • Custom domain
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included
  • Theme and fonts
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included
  • AI Theme Suggest
    Heartbeat: Not included
    Wix: Included

Public content

  • Blog
    Heartbeat: Not included
    Wix: Included
  • Reader engagement
    Heartbeat: Not included
    Wix: Included
  • Showcase pages
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included
  • Shop pages
    Heartbeat: Not included
    Wix: Included

Audience and email

  • Audience
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included
  • Marketing emails
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included
  • Campaign workflows
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included

Messaging

  • Built-in chat
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included
  • Messaging Center
    Heartbeat: Not included
    Wix: Included

Commerce

  • Shop payments
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included
  • Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
    Heartbeat: Not included
    Wix: Included

Team

  • Admin users
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included
  • Per-admin permissions
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included
  • AI Assistant
    Heartbeat: Included
    Wix: Included

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

Heartbeat vs Wix pricing

Compare plans, prices, and what it costs to get started.

  • Heartbeat

    Current plans and prices

    See what Heartbeat charges on their pricing page.

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  • Wix

    Current plans and prices

    See what Wix charges on their pricing page.

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Cardel: An alternative to
Heartbeat and Wix

You don't pay until you publish.

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.

Build Your SiteSee Cardel pricing

Common questions

  • Is Cardel an alternative to Heartbeat or Wix?

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

  • Can I use Cardel with Heartbeat or Wix?

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

  • How much does Cardel cost compared with Heartbeat and Wix?

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

  • How do I switch from Heartbeat or Wix 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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