Tappnest vs Carrd
One-page sites, built element by element. A Tappnest page has tabs.
Written to be useful rather than flattering: the section on when Carrd is the better choice is further down, and it is not short.
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Noor Rahman
Film photographer. Weddings, portraits, the occasional band.
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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 Carrd is built for
Building a one-page site for pretty much anything - a profile, a landing page, a small project - with real control over the layout.
- One-page sites, with a free tier that covers a few of them
- Forms - contact, signup through Mailchimp, Kit, ActiveCampaign and others, and payment-enabled forms - on their Pro tier
- Custom domains with SSL, also on Pro
- Widgets and embeds, analytics, and removal of Carrd branding on Pro
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.
- Tabs, so one link holds several pages' worth of content without a visitor scrolling past it
- Blocks designed for a phone first, which is where almost every link-in-bio visitor arrives
- A lead inbox with statuses and notes, included on every plan rather than held behind a tier
- 22 themes that are finished when you pick them, so there is no layout to design
Everything in the left column was read from carrd.com on 2026-10-31. There are no Carrd 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 Carrd is the better choice
There are three, and they are real ones.
- 1
Carrd is cheaper. We both do custom domains, but if a one-page site on your own domain is the whole job, Carrd does it for less.
- 2
You want several separate sites. Carrd's free tier covers a few; our page count is per plan.
- 3
You want to place things freely on a canvas. Carrd gives you that control; Tappnest gives you blocks that are already designed for a phone.
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 Carrd page keeps working while you do it, so nothing goes dark in between.
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