Is Cardel an alternative to Kit or Lemon Squeezy?

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

Can I use Cardel with Kit or Lemon Squeezy?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Kit and Lemon Squeezy?

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

How do I switch from Kit or Lemon Squeezy 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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KitvsLemon Squeezy

Kit, formerly ConvertKit, is creator email: forms, automations, paid newsletters, and a network. Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled.

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How Kit and Lemon Squeezy compare

Kit, formerly ConvertKit, is email marketing made for creators. Forms and landing pages, tags and segments, visual automations, sequences, a Creator Network for recommendations, paid newsletters, and Kit Commerce for digital products give a creator everything the list needs, with a free plan to start. It is thoughtful and built by people who know creators.

Lemon Squeezy takes the hard parts of selling software off your plate. As merchant of record it handles global tax, fraud, and compliance, while you get hosted checkout, subscriptions, license keys, a storefront, customer email, affiliates, and a clean API. Developers and digital product makers choose it so they can ship instead of file returns.

Where they are different

Kit

Kit's landing pages are lead capture.
Kit sends from its infrastructure.
Kit Commerce sells digital products.

Lemon Squeezy

Lemon Squeezy is the checkout behind your product.
Lemon Squeezy emails customers.
Lemon Squeezy has no inbox or bookings.

Choose Kit when the list is the business and you want the deepest creator-focused email tooling.

Choose Lemon Squeezy when you sell software or digital goods globally and want tax and licensing handled.

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What's on Kit and Lemon Squeezy

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Kit: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Custom domain
Kit: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Theme and fonts
Kit: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Public content

Shop pages
Kit: Not included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Kit: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Email templates and From addresses
Kit: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Marketing emails
Kit: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Campaign workflows
Kit: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Kit: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Team

Admin users
Kit: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
AI Assistant
Kit: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Not included

Feature comparison for Kit and Lemon Squeezy
Feature	Kit	Lemon Squeezy
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Email templates and From addresses	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Not included

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