makerhandle vs Carrd

What Carrd does well

Carrd is a flexible, inexpensive one-page site builder, and a lot of makers love it. You can build landing pages, waitlists, portfolios and link pages, with a lot of control over every element.

Its pricing is famously low. As of October 2026, Carrd lists Pro Lite from $9 a year, and Pro Standard (which adds custom domains and forms) from $19 a year for 10 sites. If you want to design a page from scratch, Carrd is a great tool.

Simplicity: no blank canvas

The flip side of Carrd's flexibility is that you design everything: sections, spacing, fonts, mobile layout. That is fun for some people and a chore for others, and every new project means editing the page by hand.

makerhandle has no blank canvas. You add projects (name, description, link, tags, status, screenshot) and choose one of seven templates: Stack, Showcase, Bento, Minimal, Spotlight, Terminal or Studio. The templates are designed so you cannot break them, and switching between them keeps your content. Most pages are done in about two minutes.

Built-in maker features

makerhandle includes things a general site builder leaves to you:

• Verified revenue from Stripe or Shopify, with a check mark and revenue history charts
• Project status: Active, Building, Acquired, On hold, Discontinued
• a public leaderboard with a verified-only filter
• Cookie-free analytics with sources, UTM campaigns, locations, devices, project clicks as goals, realtime and an optional public stats page
• an email subscribe box with double opt-in and CSV export

Read more on verified revenue and analytics.

Pricing

Both are cheap. Carrd's Pro Standard is listed at $19 a year for up to 10 sites with custom domains. makerhandle Pro is $20 a year for one maker page with unlimited projects, all seven templates and the theme builder, a custom domain with automatic SSL, unlimited subscribers, a year of analytics and no badge.

makerhandle's free plan covers five projects, three templates, up to 100 subscribers and seven days of analytics. See pricing.

Pick the one that matches the job: several separate sites, or one page for all your work.

Which should you pick?

Pick Carrd if you want to design a custom one-page site, need several separate sites, or want a landing page for a single product.

Pick makerhandle if you want one page for everything you make, kept current by adding projects rather than redesigning, with revenue proof and analytics built in.

Plenty of makers use both: Carrd for a product landing page, makerhandle as the hub that links to all of them. We compare all three options in Carrd vs Linktree vs makerhandle.