Tappnest vs Beacons
One link-in-bio page, inside a larger creator platform. A Tappnest page has tabs.
Written to be useful rather than flattering: the section on when Beacons is the better choice is further down, and it is not short.
Noor Rahman
Film photographer. Weddings, portraits, the occasional band.
Noor Rahman
Film photographer. Weddings, portraits, the occasional band.
Hand-printed, in editions of 25
Archival paper, signed on the back. Framing on request.
Noor Rahman
Film photographer. Weddings, portraits, the occasional band.
The difference
One is a column. The other is a page with several pages in it.
What Beacons is built for
Creators who earn from their audience: a store, a media kit for brand deals, email campaigns and an AI assistant, all in one account.
- A link-in-bio page with unlimited links
- A store for merch, digital products and courses
- An auto-updating media kit for pitching brands
- Email marketing, and an AI assistant for outreach and deal tracking
What a Tappnest page does
One link, laid out like a small website: tabs across the top, real blocks underneath, and every reply in one place.
- Up to eight tabs on one page, each with its own blocks
- A lead inbox built for enquiries rather than sales: status, private notes, CSV on every plan
- On Pro, every lead posted to a webhook - Zapier, Make, Mailchimp or your CRM
- 22 themes and eight typefaces, with the spacing and width controls to go with them
- No cut of anything you sell, because your checkout stays yours
Everything in the left column was read from beacons.ai on 2026-10-31. There are no Beacons prices on this page on purpose: they change, and they vary by country, so anything printed here would be wrong before long. Check theirs, and ours is below in full.
When Beacons is the better choice
There are three, and they are real ones.
- 1
Your income comes from selling to your audience. Beacons puts the storefront, the email list and the page in one place, and we only do the page.
- 2
You pitch brands. The media kit is a real tool and we have nothing like it.
- 3
You want one subscription instead of three. We are deliberately one thing done well, which is the opposite trade.
Two plans, 14 days free
Build your page before you pay. There is no free tier on purpose - a free plan means your page carries our badge and we earn from your visitors instead of from you.
Pay yearly and 2 months are free.
Starter
$5
per month, billed monthly
A complete page builder, for one page.
- One page
- All ten block types, up to eight tabs
- All 22 themes and eight typefaces
- Spacing, width, radius and alignment control
- Forms, with every lead visible and exportable to CSV
- Email notification on every lead
- Views and clicks, 30 days
- QR code
- No Tappnest badge
Pro
Most studios pick this$12
per month, billed monthly
For turning visitors into business.
- Everything in Starter
- Your own domain, with the certificate handled
- Five pages in one account
- Work leads as a pipeline - contacted, won, with private notes
- See where visitors came from, and on what device
- Schedule links to appear and disappear
- Send leads to a webhook - Zapier, Make, Mailchimp, your CRM
- 12 months of analytics
- Priority support
Building a page costs nothing. Adding a card publishes it and starts14 days of everything in Pro, with no charge until they are up. Cancel in a click; your page stays up until the period you have paid for ends. Tabs, every block type and your full lead inbox are on Starter - they are not held back to make Pro look better.
Moving over
By hand, for now, and it takes about ten minutes.
There is no importer yet. Most people rebuild the page by hand and treat it as a chance to cut the links they stopped using - a template gives you a finished page to start from, and you fill in your own. Your Beacons page keeps working while you do it, so nothing goes dark in between.
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