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MemberfulvsTeachable

Memberful adds paid memberships, gated content, and newsletters to a site you run. Teachable runs courses, coaching, and downloads with checkout and tax handled.

How Memberful and Teachable 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.

Teachable is a mature course platform. Curriculum, quizzes, certificates, coaching products, digital downloads, and a checkout that handles tax and payouts have carried a great many creators from first sale to real business. If teaching is your product, Teachable knows the job.

Where they are different

Memberful

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

Teachable

  • Teachable is a school with a few site pages around it.
  • Teachable coaching relies on a Calendly link.
  • Teachable emails students.

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

Choose Teachable when you sell courses or coaching and want the checkout, tax, and student experience handled.

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What's on Memberful and Teachable

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

Site and brand

  • Workspace site
    Memberful: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Custom domain
    Memberful: Included
    Teachable: Included

Audience and email

  • Audience
    Memberful: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Marketing emails
    Memberful: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Campaign workflows
    Memberful: Included
    Teachable: Not included

Commerce

  • Shop payments
    Memberful: Included
    Teachable: Included

Team

  • Admin users
    Memberful: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • AI Assistant
    Memberful: Not included
    Teachable: Included

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

Memberful vs Teachable pricing

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

Cardel: An alternative to
Memberful and Teachable

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.

Common questions

  • Is Cardel an alternative to Memberful or Teachable?

    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 Teachable when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Memberful and Teachable are marked.

  • Can I use Cardel with Memberful or Teachable?

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

  • How much does Cardel cost compared with Memberful and Teachable?

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

  • How do I switch from Memberful or Teachable 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.