Is Cardel an alternative to Mailchimp or Thinkific?

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

Can I use Cardel with Mailchimp or Thinkific?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Mailchimp and Thinkific?

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

How do I switch from Mailchimp or Thinkific 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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MailchimpvsThinkific

Mailchimp is the small-business email standard with templates, automations, and reporting. Thinkific builds courses, communities, and memberships with a site around them.

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How Mailchimp and Thinkific compare

Mailchimp is the name most small businesses say first. Templates, a drag-and-drop editor, segmentation, customer journeys, A/B testing, reporting, forms and landing pages, and integrations with nearly everything make it a dependable marketing hub. The AI tools and Intuit's ecosystem keep it moving.

Thinkific is a reliable place to build and sell learning. Courses, assessments, certificates, communities, memberships, and a branded mobile app option let a training business grow without moving platforms, and the site builder is good enough that many creators never need another. It is steady, well documented, and built around the student.

Where they are different

Mailchimp

Mailchimp pages capture leads.
Mailchimp sends.
Mailchimp has no shop or bookings.

Thinkific

Thinkific pages exist to sell courses.
Thinkific broadcasts to students and sends abandoned-cart email.
Thinkific books coaching calendars on Start and up.

Choose Mailchimp when you want a mature email marketing hub with integrations into everything else you use.

Choose Thinkific when courses, assessments, and student communities are the business.

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What's on Mailchimp and Thinkific

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Mailchimp: Included
Thinkific: Included
Custom domain
Mailchimp: Included
Thinkific: Included
Theme and fonts
Mailchimp: Included
Thinkific: Included

Public content

Shop pages
Mailchimp: Not included
Thinkific: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Mailchimp: Included
Thinkific: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Mailchimp: Included
Thinkific: Included
Marketing emails
Mailchimp: Included
Thinkific: Included
Campaign workflows
Mailchimp: Included
Thinkific: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Mailchimp: Not included
Thinkific: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Mailchimp: Not included
Thinkific: Included

Team

Admin users
Mailchimp: Included
Thinkific: Included
Per-admin permissions
Mailchimp: Included
Thinkific: Included
AI Assistant
Mailchimp: Included
Thinkific: Included

Feature comparison for Mailchimp and Thinkific
Feature	Mailchimp	Thinkific
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Not 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 Mailchimp or Thinkific, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Mailchimp or Thinkific may add or remove features that are not shown here.