A Behance alternative for designers who ship products

What Behance does well

Behance, part of Adobe, is the largest showcase for creative work: illustration, branding, photography, UI and more. Its big advantage is discovery. Projects can be featured in its galleries, people follow designers, and recruiters search it. A free account is enough to publish projects.

Behance Pro adds tools for selling and hiring, and includes Adobe Portfolio, a site builder that can publish up to five portfolio sites with your own domains. Behance's help center lists Pro from $9.99 a month on an annual commitment, varying by country (as of October 2026).

Where it fits less well

Behance is built for visual work. A project there is a long scroll of images, which suits a brand identity or an illustration series. It suits a product less: the things a hiring manager or a customer wants to know about an app (is it live, what did you do, what came of it) have no fixed place.

And Behance is a network first. Your page sits next to everyone else's, with Behance's layout and links.

Side by side

Behance details from its help center in October 2026.

Case studies for products

On makerhandle each project gets a page of its own, laid out like a short case study: a Markdown write-up, a captioned gallery, your role and timeline, the tools you used, one-line highlights and links to the live product, a demo, the App Store or the source. A status shows whether it is still live. If it earns money, verified revenue is the strongest outcome you can show.

Job hunting? Turn on Open to work and each project page gets a button to your email or booking link. See makerhandle for designers and how to write a project case study.

When Behance is the better choice

Choose Behance if your work is visual, you want to be found by people browsing creative work, or you already pay for Creative Cloud and get Adobe Portfolio with it.

Choose makerhandle if your work is products, you want each one told as a case study with its outcome, and you want one link for your resume, on your domain, for $20 a year. Plenty of designers keep both: Behance for discovery, linked from a makerhandle page that tells the full story. For other builders, see portfolio website builders compared and makerhandle vs Dribbble.