# Carrd alternative for a site you have already built Carrd is a one-page site builder: you design inside its editor. Droply is a host: you bring finished files and we serve them. If you want to design in a browser, Carrd is the better tool and it is cheaper. This page is for the other case. ## Who should not switch Most people searching for a Carrd alternative want a different builder, and Droply is not one. Read this list first; if you are in it, we are the wrong tool and there is nothing further down this page that changes that. - You do not have any files and do not want any. Carrd gives you a canvas; Droply gives you a URL for a folder you already have. - Price is the deciding factor. Carrd is $9 a year for Pro Lite and $19 a year for Pro Standard, which is the first tier with a custom domain. Droply is priced per month and does not compete with that. - You want built-in forms, an editor your client can use, or a template gallery to start from. Droply has starter templates and an AI page builder, but neither is a drag-and-drop visual editor. ## Why people look for a Carrd alternative ### You cannot bring a site you already built Carrd builds the site for you inside its own editor. There is no upload path for an HTML file, a folder or a ZIP you produced somewhere else, so a design that exists as code has to be rebuilt by hand in its interface. Source: Carrd documentation, plans and features pages, read 8 September 2026: the workflow described throughout is building inside the editor. Droply: Upload is the entire product. A single .html file, a folder, a ZIP of a built site or a single .jsx all publish as they are, and what we serve is byte for byte what you gave us. ### One page per site Carrd is built around one-page sites, which is a genuine design choice and works well for a link page, a launch page or a profile. It stops working the moment you need a second URL under the same site. Source: Carrd product pages, read 8 September 2026: the product is described throughout as one-page sites. Droply: A site is a folder, so it has as many pages as your folder has, with the paths you gave them. If a one-page link hub is what you actually want, the link-in-bio builder here is free including every design control. ### A PDF or a deck is not a Carrd site Carrd builds pages. A proposal, a menu, a report or a slide deck is not a page you can build there, so a document still needs somewhere else to live and a second link to send. Source: Carrd product and documentation pages, read 8 September 2026: document hosting is not offered as a site type. Droply: PDFs, images, media and office documents are first-class: they get their own URL and render in the browser rather than downloading. See turning a PDF into a link. ### Getting your work back out is a top-tier feature Downloading the unminified sources of the sites you build sits on Pro Plus, $49 a year, per its own plans page. Until then the design lives inside Carrd, which matters when the question is what happens if you leave. Source: Carrd plans documentation, read 8 September 2026. Droply: You already have your files, because you uploaded them. Nothing here holds the only copy of anything you made, on any plan. ## Droply and Carrd, row by row These are different products, so most rows are a difference in kind rather than a win. Carrd is cheaper and that row is here. - **What you bring.** Droply: Finished files: HTML, a folder, a ZIP, a PDF, a single .jsx. Carrd: An idea. You build the site in its editor. - **Upload a site you already built.** Droply: Yes, that is the whole product. Carrd: Not an upload path. - **Pages per site.** Droply: As many as your folder contains. Carrd: One-page sites. - **PDFs and documents.** Droply: Hosted as first-class files, with an in-browser viewer. Carrd: Not a site type. - **Visual drag-and-drop editor.** Droply: No. There is an AI page builder and a link-in-bio builder, neither of which is a canvas. Carrd: Yes, and it is the reason to use it. - **Free plan.** Droply: 1 site with a small badge until Starter. Carrd: 3 sites with a "Made with Carrd" badge. - **Custom domain.** Droply: From Pro, $15 a month. Carrd: From Pro Standard, $19 a year. - **Getting your work out.** Droply: You uploaded it, so you already have it, on every plan. Carrd: Downloading unminified sources is a Pro Plus feature, $49 a year. - **Billing options.** Droply: Monthly or yearly. Carrd: Annual only, per its plans page. - **Password protection.** Droply: From Starter, checked at the edge. Carrd: Not listed on its plans page. - **Entry paid price.** Droply: $5 a month for Starter. Carrd: $9 a year for Pro Lite. Carrd figures come from its own documentation, read on 8 September 2026: the Pro plans page and the custom-domain guide, which states "Requires Pro Standard or higher". Rows marked "not listed" mean the feature does not appear on those pages on that date. Product plans can change. ## How to move a site from Carrd This is the one migration on the site that can genuinely lose work, because the design lives in Carrd rather than in a folder on your machine. Read step one before you cancel anything. 1. **Get the files out first, and check them.** Downloading the unminified sources of your sites is a Pro Plus feature at $49 a year. If you are not on it, decide whether the export is worth one year at that tier before you cancel: after cancellation the export path is gone and the site is what you can see in a browser. 2. **Or copy the live page instead.** Site import takes the address of your published Carrd site and copies its pages, styles, images and fonts onto a Droply link, up to 40 pages and 600 assets. It is a copy of what is served, not the editable original, so check it renders before you rely on it. 3. **Drop the folder on Droply.** Sign up, then drag the folder, the ZIP or the single HTML file onto the upload area. Nothing is repackaged and no build runs: the files you upload are the files served. 4. **Check what the security pass found.** Every publish is read for things that should not be public: a committed .env, a .git directory, a private key, an API key in a bundle. Old exports carry these more often than fresh builds do, so read it before you send the link anywhere. 5. **Point your domain at it, if you had one.** From Pro at $15 a month you move the DNS record to Droply and the certificate is issued for you. Change the record last, once the Droply URL already renders what you expect, so there is no window where the domain resolves to nothing. ## Pricing compared Carrd is annual and cheap, Droply is monthly and is not competing at that number. Comparing them straight across is misleading, so the rows say what each price actually buys. - **Free.** Droply: 1 site, 25 MB, 5,000 visits a month, no card. Carrd: 3 one-page sites on a carrd.co subdomain with a "Made with Carrd" badge. - **Entry paid tier.** Droply: $5 a month for Starter. Carrd: $9 a year for Pro Lite: 3 sites, badge removed. - **First tier with a custom domain.** Droply: Pro, $15 a month. Carrd: Pro Standard, $19 a year: 10 sites. - **Top published tier.** Droply: See the pricing page for the full ladder. Carrd: Pro Plus, $49 a year: 25 sites, custom forms, source download. Carrd prices from its own Pro plans documentation, read 8 September 2026. Droply prices are read live from the plans table on this page. Product plans can change. ## What you get without paying anything If you already have files, this is what publishing them costs on the free plan. - 1 live site on a 25 MB account, with no card and no trial clock. - Up to 25 MB per upload, and up to 25 publishes a day. - 5,000 visits and 5 GB of traffic a month. - HTTPS with a real certificate, issued and renewed for you. - The same URL on every re-upload, so a link you already sent keeps working. - The deploy-time security check, which reads what you published and warns about a stray .env file, a .git folder, a private key or an API key left in your JavaScript. - A small Droply badge in the corner of the page. Removing it starts on Starter. - Free sites are served noindex, so search engines do not list them. Search visibility starts on Starter. - A multi-page site, with the folder structure and the paths you built. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is Droply a good Carrd alternative? Only if you already have the files. Carrd builds a site for you inside its editor; Droply hosts one you built somewhere else. If you want a canvas rather than an upload box, Carrd is the right tool and it costs less. ### Can I upload an HTML file to Carrd? No, per its documentation: sites are built in its editor rather than uploaded. That is the single clearest reason someone ends up on this page. ### Is Droply free? Yes. 1 live site, 25 MB of storage, 5,000 visits and 5 GB a month, HTTPS included, no card. Carrd's free tier is three one-page sites with its badge. ### Which is cheaper, Droply or Carrd? Carrd, clearly. Pro Lite is $9 a year and Pro Standard, the first tier with a custom domain, is $19 a year. Droply is billed monthly from $5 for Starter, and does not try to match those numbers. ### Can I move my Carrd site to Droply? Partly. Site import copies your published page, its styles, images and fonts onto a Droply link. It copies what is served, not the editable Carrd project, so treat it as a snapshot and check it before relying on it. ### Can I build a multi-page site? Yes. A site here is a folder, so it has whatever pages and paths your folder has. Carrd is deliberately one-page, which is a design choice rather than a limitation of the same kind. ### Does Droply have a page builder? It has two, and neither is a visual canvas: an AI builder that writes a page from a description, and a link-in-bio builder whose design controls are all free. Neither is a drag-and-drop editor like Carrd's. ### Can I host a PDF or a slide deck? Yes, as its own link that renders in the browser. That is not something Carrd does: it builds pages, so a document needs a second service and a second link. ### What happens to my site if I stop paying? You keep your files either way, because you uploaded them. The site drops back to free-plan limits rather than disappearing. On Carrd, downloading the unminified sources of what you built is a Pro Plus feature at $49 a year. ## Other comparisons - [Tiiny Host alternative](https://droply.host/tiiny-host-alternative) - [Static.app alternative](https://droply.host/static-app-alternative) - [GitHub Pages alternative](https://droply.host/github-pages-alternative)