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

Can I use Cardel with Teachable or Thinkific?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Teachable and Thinkific?

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

How do I switch from Teachable 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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TeachablevsThinkific

Teachable runs courses, coaching, and downloads with checkout and tax handled. Thinkific builds courses, communities, and memberships with a site around them.

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How Teachable and Thinkific compare

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.

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

Teachable

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

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

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

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What's on Teachable and Thinkific

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Showcase pages
Teachable: Included
Thinkific: Included
Shop pages
Teachable: Included
Thinkific: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Teachable: Included
Thinkific: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Teachable: Included
Thinkific: Included
Marketing emails
Teachable: Included
Thinkific: Included

Commerce

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

Team

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

Feature comparison for Teachable and Thinkific
Feature	Teachable	Thinkific
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Showcase pages	Included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	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 Teachable or Thinkific, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Teachable or Thinkific may add or remove features that are not shown here.