Carrd Review: This One-Page Website Builder Might Just Do

Carrd is our favorite one-page website builder for these two reasons:

1. Very Low Prices

Carrd is the cheapest website builder of the 50+ we’ve tested. Its small team and comparatively simpler product allow it to be much more affordable than competitors.

Carrd plans with custom domains and no ads start at $19 per year—in comparison, top website builders like Wix and Squarespace are 10x the price. And for this price, you can publish up to ten sites! (You have to buy a custom domain separately, BTW.)

Carrd also has one of the best free website builder plans. It includes ample features for a simple site, a clean subdomain URL, and a small ad in the footer.

2. Purposeful Design

While one-page websites are not for everybody, I love that Carrd is focused on the niche of one-page websites.

Carrd’s themes and features are just for creating one-page websites—the interface has a sense of purpose. You can use other website builders to build one-page websites, but it never feels as intuitive as Carrd.

Templates

You can choose from hundreds of Carrd templates designed for personal websites, portfolio websites, link-in-bio websites, and landing pages.

Features

Carrd has a block-based editor where you can add blocks of elements in specific, pre-defined containers and columns. [It makes the editor easy to use but less customizable than a drag-and-drop editor. However, it is sufficient for the ideal Carrd user.]

You can add text, lists, images, videos, links, forms, etc. You can also embed third-party widgets from Stripe, PayPal, Gumroad, Typeform, and Facebook. Moreover, the Pro plan allows you to embed your code directly (including ‘script’ tags).

Depending on its type, you can change the appearance and add animation to a block/element. For example, you can change a text block’s color, font, size, spacing, alignment, etc.. You can also animate that block to fade in, fade up, pop, blur in, etc., to make the website visually appealing.

Carrd isn’t some perfect one-page website builder. As mentioned, it isn’t as customizable as some counterparts with drag-and-drop editors. You might have also noticed it lacks some features—for example, you can’t directly sell on Carrd.

Here are a couple more issues you might face if you choose Carrd:

1. Slight Learning Curve

Carrd has a bit of a learning curve if you want more control over design than just using the default blocks. For example, you’ll need to wrap your head around concepts like containers and CSS classes, which isn’t intuitive for non-technical people.

Similarly, Carrd’s mobile editor (which you can access by clicking the ‘Switch to Mobile View’ icon on the desktop editor) is slightly complicated. You might need to switch back and forth between Desktop and Mobile views to make it look just right for all devices.

2. One Page Only

Let me end this review from where we started.

Carrd is a specialized web-building platform designed for creating simple, one-page websites. It stands out in the crowded field of web builders by focusing on simplicity and affordability, but…

Carrd’s limitation to a single page per website can be a drawback if you want to expand past one page.

Tip: If you are building a simple website, think about how you can fit all the content on a single page instead of thinking you need a multiple-page website. Often, a one-page website forces you to be disciplined—there’s only room for what needs to be there. This is good because small business and personal websites often have too much content—you likely don’t need a separate About page or Portfolio page; maybe a tiny About section and a 4-6 item Portfolio section on the same page will do or be better.