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

Can I use Cardel with Medium or Thinkific?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Medium and Thinkific?

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

How do I switch from Medium 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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MediumvsThinkific

Medium gives writers a built-in readership and Partner Program earnings without a site. Thinkific builds courses, communities, and memberships with a site around them.

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How Medium and Thinkific compare

Medium is where a good essay can find readers on its own. The editor is calm, publications curate, the algorithm and topics surface work to members, and the Partner Program pays writers from member reading time. You bring words; Medium brings the audience and the distribution.

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

Medium

Medium owns the reader relationship.
Medium is one publication format.
Medium claps and responses stay on Medium.

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 Medium when you want readers and modest earnings without owning a site or a list.

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

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What's on Medium and Thinkific

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Medium: Not included
Thinkific: Included
Custom domain
Medium: Not included
Thinkific: Included
Theme and fonts
Medium: Not included
Thinkific: Included

Public content

Blog
Medium: Included
Thinkific: Not included

Reach and quality

SEO
Medium: Included
Thinkific: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Medium: Not included
Thinkific: Included
Marketing emails
Medium: Not included
Thinkific: Included

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Medium: Included
Thinkific: Included
Per-admin permissions
Medium: Included
Thinkific: Included

Feature comparison for Medium and Thinkific
Feature	Medium	Thinkific
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Theme and fonts	Not included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Not included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	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

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