Is Cardel an alternative to Memberful or Substack?

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

Can I use Cardel with Memberful or Substack?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Memberful and Substack?

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

How do I switch from Memberful or Substack 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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MemberfulvsSubstack

Memberful adds paid memberships, gated content, and newsletters to a site you run. Substack is the simplest way to write a newsletter, grow it through its network, and get paid.

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How Memberful and Substack compare

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.

Substack made paid newsletters normal. You write, it sends, and readers can subscribe or pay in one click. The network effects are real: recommendations, Notes, the app, and discovery bring new readers you did not have to find. There is no monthly fee, and for a writer who wants to write rather than run software, that is a gift.

Where they are different

Memberful

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

Substack

Substack is a network you publish into.
Substack takes a percentage of paid subscriptions.
Substack chat and comments live in its app.

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

Choose Substack when you want to write, get paid, and be discovered with the least possible setup.

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What's on Memberful and Substack

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Memberful: Included
Substack: Included
Custom domain
Memberful: Included
Substack: Included

Public content

Blog
Memberful: Not included
Substack: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

Shop payments
Memberful: Included
Substack: Not included

Team

Admin users
Memberful: Included
Substack: Included

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

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