Is Cardel an alternative to Thinkific or Zenpage?

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

Can I use Cardel with Thinkific or Zenpage?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Thinkific and Zenpage?

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

How do I switch from Thinkific or Zenpage 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.

Compare

ThinkificvsZenpage

Thinkific builds courses, communities, and memberships with a site around them. Zenpage gives authors a free site that sells ebooks and signed copies with no commission.

Compare Pricing Compare Features

How Thinkific and Zenpage compare

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.

Zenpage turns one Amazon link or ISBN into a finished author site. It finds the rest of your books with their covers and buy links, picks a template that suits your genre, and sets up search data, share previews, and a sitemap before you touch a setting. Ebooks, audiobooks, and signed print copies sell straight from the book page through your own Stripe account, files reach the buyer by email within seconds, and Zenpage takes no commission. Every reader confirms by email, a free first chapter can go out on signup, and the whole thing is free, built by one person who answers every message personally.

Where they are different

Thinkific

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

Zenpage

Zenpage collects readers and hands them to Mailchimp, Kit, Beehiiv, Brevo, MailerLite, or Substack, and it does not send newsletters itself.
Zenpage sells files and print copies with no Zenpage fee and delivers downloads automatically.
Zenpage's contact page shows your email address and its blog has no comments.
Zenpage templates have fixed layouts and font pairings, with no custom pages.

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

Choose Zenpage when you want a free site that sells your ebooks and signed copies directly, and you already have an email service you like.

Compare features

What's on Thinkific and Zenpage

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Thinkific: Not included
Zenpage: Included
Showcase pages
Thinkific: Included
Zenpage: Not included
Shop pages
Thinkific: Included
Zenpage: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Thinkific: Included
Zenpage: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

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

Team

AI Assistant
Thinkific: Included
Zenpage: Not included

Feature comparison for Thinkific and Zenpage
Feature	Thinkific	Zenpage
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Showcase pages	Included	Not included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Not included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Not included

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