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You can start building on Carrd without signing up: open the site, choose a starting point (a template or a blank page), and design your one-page site in the editor. To save your work, publish it, and keep it available later, you need a free Carrd account. A free account supports up to three sites and all core features; Pro features like custom domains and extra sites require a paid upgrade.
What Carrd Is
Carrd is a platform for building simple, fully responsive one-page sites — a personal profile, a landing page to capture emails, or something more elaborate. Sites are responsive out of the box across phones, tablets, and desktops, and the core product is free.
Step-by-Step: Building Your First Site
- Open Carrd and pick a starting point. On the homepage, use "Choose a Starting Point." You can begin from one of dozens of templates or from a blank page. No signup is required to reach this step.
- Customize the page in the editor. Replace the template's placeholder text and images with your own content. Because Carrd is one-page by design, everything lives on a single scrolling page rather than a multi-page site structure.
- Create a free account to save and publish. Use "Sign Up" to create a free Carrd account. This is what lets you keep your site, publish it, and return to edit it later.
- Publish your site. Once published, the site is live and responsive at every screen size without extra configuration.
Expected result: a live, responsive one-page site tied to your account, editable at any time by logging back in.
Free Plan vs. Pro
| Capability | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Sites per account | Up to 3 | More than 3 |
| Core features | Included | Included |
| Custom domains with SSL | No | Yes (via Let's Encrypt) |
| Forms (contact, signup, custom, payment-enabled) | No | Yes |
| Widgets and embeds (Stripe, PayPal, Gumroad, Typeform, etc.) | No | Yes |
| Site analytics (Google Analytics, Plausible, Matomo, etc.) | No | Yes |
| "Made with Carrd" branding | Present | Removable |
| Price | Free | From $19/year |
Pro starts at $19 per year and includes a 7-day free trial. PayPal and all major credit and debit cards are accepted.
Common Sticking Points
- Skipping the account step. You can design before signing up, but without a free account you can't save or publish your work.
- Hitting the three-site limit. The free plan caps you at three sites per account. If you need more, that's a Pro feature.
- Expecting custom domains on free. Publishing to your own domain with full SSL support is Pro-only.
- Assuming forms and embeds are included. Contact forms, signup forms (Mailchimp, Kit, ActiveCampaign, EmailOctopus, and others), payment-enabled forms, and third-party embeds are Pro features.
- Wanting to remove branding. The "Made with Carrd" footer branding can only be removed on Pro.
Where to Get Help
Carrd's own menu links to Documentation (answers and instructions) and a Changelog (what's new and changed), plus a Contact option for questions and comments. These are the first places to check when a specific setting or feature isn't behaving as expected.