Best Carrd Website Examples in 2026 (11 Real Sites)
By Mark Fail · · Updated
Most people who look up Carrd examples have a page to get online this week. It might be a portfolio before a job application, a sales page for a small digital product, or a link hub for art commissions. Carrd builds one scrolling page per site, so a template gallery shows you very little.
It helps more to see how real owners split that single page into sections, what they left out, and which plan they pay for.
We opened each of the eleven sites below on 28 September 2026 and confirmed it runs on Carrd. Either it has a .carrd.co address with the "Made with Carrd" badge, or the page uses the markup Carrd's builder generates. Plenty of sites in other Carrd roundups have since gone offline, been parked, turned into a redirect or moved to another builder, and we left all of those out.
After the examples, a section covers what the Free plan allows in 2026, based on Carrd's own pricing and help pages.
The eleven Carrd sites at a glance
| Site | Type | What it does well | Plan needed |
|---|---|---|---|
| OQuinn | Design studio portfolio | One section per client project | Pro Standard or higher |
| Lisa Firke | Illustration portfolio | Captions that name the client | Pro Standard or higher |
| Charles McDonald | Musician | App-style tab bar, one screen per tab | Pro Standard or higher |
| Iceland by Annie | Tour guide | A single trip sold on one page | Pro Standard or higher |
| Marc Fletcher | Trade service (UK) | Numbers and process up front | Pro Standard or higher |
| Plaand | Recruiting agency | Separate sections for clients and candidates | Pro Standard or higher |
| Daily UI | Email challenge | Signup with a proper thank-you screen | Pro Standard or higher |
| Newsletter OS | Digital product | Long sales page with social proof | Pro Standard or higher |
| Handz | 3D asset library | Free-versus-paid comparison | Pro Standard or higher |
| History Unlimited | Podcast | Works around Free plan limits with links | Free |
| Daydreaminglamb | Artist link hub | Uses all three free site slots | Free |
OQuinn
OQuinn is the portfolio of an independent branding and digital design studio, and it is the best proof here that Carrd can carry a real portfolio. The home screen is a big two-line statement over a three-column grid of client tiles. PepsiCo, WW, the New York Times, Airbnb x Hearst and the San Francisco Symphony are among them.
Each tile opens its own section rather than a new page. There are 23 sections in all, one per project plus social, about and contact. That gives each case study its own address, such as oquinn.co/#pepsico, which you can send to a client.
We counted more than 800 element IDs in the page, far past the Free plan's cap of 50 elements. The site also runs on a custom domain with a contact form, so it needs Pro Standard at $19 a year at the very least.
Pros
- Every case study gets a shareable link
- The grid shows well-known clients before any text
- Plain layout that leaves the work to carry the page
Cons
- Copying it means building 20+ sections by hand
- Nowhere near possible on the Free plan
- The heart icon in the header does not say what it does
Lisa Firke
Princeton illustrator Lisa Firke uses Carrd the opposite way to OQuinn. Her site is one long page of about 7,000 pixels. Three buttons in the hero, for illustrations, as seen in and about, jump down the page. The hero is one of her own paintings, a hand holding a pencil among coloured pencil stubs, so the first thing a visitor sees is a sample of the work.
The captions are what make it worth copying. Each image says what it was for, such as a piece forthcoming in UPPERCASE magazine, a Spoonflower tea towel, a gig poster or a book cover. An art director can see the kind of jobs she takes without reading a bio.
There is an Etsy link for prints and a short contact form labelled "send to lisa". It uses a custom domain and a form, so Pro Standard or higher.
Pros
- The hero image doubles as a portfolio piece
- Captions turn a gallery into a client list
- Only 25 or so elements, so it is easy to copy
Cons
- The availability note still says commissions open in mid-January 2026
- One very long scroll with no way back except a "Back to top" link
- No favicon, so the browser tab shows a blank icon
Charles McDonald
Singer and songwriter Charles McDonald's site behaves more like a phone app than a web page. A frosted-glass panel sits on a blurred colour background. An icon bar at the bottom with Home, Music, Video, Events, Services and About swaps between sections that each fit on one screen. The home screen has just three buttons, Listen, Watch and Support.
Behind those tabs are twelve sections. They hold a Spotify playlist embed, a YouTube playlist, a Substack embed and three separate forms, plus links out to Bandcamp, Apple Music, IMDb credits and a long list of social accounts. Embeds and forms both need Pro Standard or higher.
Study this one if you have a lot of material but want the first screen to stay simple.
Pros
- Tab bar makes a one-page site feel like several pages
- Each section fits the screen, so nothing is buried in a scroll
- Music and video play on the page instead of sending fans away
Cons
- The frosted effect costs some text contrast
- Twelve sections of links and embeds takes real upkeep
- Heavier to load than a plain Carrd page
Iceland by Annie
Iceland by Annie is a French-language page for a guide who runs a 12-day, 11-night circuit of the Westfjords. It sells one trip and nothing else.
The layout is a translucent content column over a mountain-and-sea photo. It holds a paragraph on the region, a photo gallery, a short bio of Annie and a contact form with an "Envoyer" button. An "English" button in the top corner opens english.icelandbyannie.com, a second Carrd site with the translated page.
A small tour business needs very little, and this page has four sections and one clear action. It also shows the main risk with a Carrd site nobody goes back to. The headline trip is still dated 7 to 18 July 2021 and the footer reads 2023. A small agency, LaVraieMaisonBlanche.com, built the site and is credited in the footer. Custom domain plus a form means Pro Standard or higher.
Pros
- One product, one page, one contact form
- The background photo sells the destination on its own
- A second-language version as a separate site, one click away
Cons
- Tour dates are five years out of date
- No prices on the page
- Long paragraphs over a busy photo are hard to read on a phone
Marc Fletcher
You might guess a design agency made this one. It belongs to a UK brickwork quantity surveyor. The page opens with "Tender pricing for brickwork contractors" in a large serif, with the word brickwork set in bronze italics, and a single "Discuss your project" button.
Below that come four numbered deliverables, covering tender pricing, purchase orders, cash flow analysis and a change history schedule. Then there are three stats and a three-step process.
Those three stats do most of the selling. They say 32 years in UK housebuilding, 1,000+ tenders priced and a 7-day average turnaround. Terms and Privacy are sections of the same page rather than separate sites, and Google reCAPTCHA protects the contact form. Forms need Pro Standard or higher.
Pros
- Real numbers in the first scroll, not adjectives
- Legal pages handled inside a one-page site
- A good template for any trade or B2B service
Cons
- No examples of past work or client names
- The reCAPTCHA badge sits over the corner of the page
- Header links point to Terms and Privacy but not to the services
Plaand
Plaand recruits senior developers from Canada to Argentina for start-ups. It has two audiences who want different things, and the menu splits them. Founders, Devs, Tech and About each get a section.
Founders get the process in four steps and three price models. The first is a 20% fee on base salary, charged only once a hire is made.
Developers get an application form that asks for a LinkedIn profile and a desired monthly salary in US dollars. We counted about 450 element IDs, the second-largest build in this list. The page still reads well because each section speaks to one reader. A form and a custom domain put it on Pro Standard or higher.
Pros
- Two audiences served from one page without confusion
- Pricing is stated, not hidden behind "contact us"
- Candidate form collects exactly what a recruiter needs
Cons
- The "Trusted by" logo strip appears twice
- A 6,500-pixel page is long for a service with three price options
- Needs a paid plan for the form alone
Daily UI
Daily UI sends designers one interface challenge a day, Monday to Friday, for 100 days. Its Carrd page exists to collect email addresses. The first screen has a headline, one line of explanation, a single "Start the Challenge for Free" button and the note "No Spam. No Affiliates. No Data Sharing." The page claims more than 449,371 designers have signed up.
The best detail is easy to miss. After someone sends the email form, the site switches to a separate "done" section with buttons for Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, AOL and Yandex. New subscribers can open their inbox and confirm straight away.
Eleven sections cover the sponsor pitch, an about page with common questions and a "be featured" submission form. Forms put it on Pro Standard or higher.
Pros
- One job per screen, and the first screen asks for one thing
- The thank-you section pushes people to confirm their email
- Named designer quotes (Disney, Oracle, Netflix) as proof
Cons
- Footer copyright still says 2025
- Some sections are named "test2" and "section12", a sign of leftover drafts
- The sponsor block takes attention from the signup
Newsletter OS
Newsletter OS is a Notion dashboard for newsletter writers, made by Janel, who posts as @JanelSGM. Its Carrd page is a classic long-form sales page, and at over 9,000 pixels it is the longest in this list. It runs from a boxed product shot and a refund guarantee through a "Featured in" strip and customer quotes. After that come a feature list promising 130+ resources and a wall of six embedded tweets.
Checkout is not on Carrd at all. The "Get It Now" buttons go to Gumroad, a sensible choice because Carrd's own payment forms need Pro Plus.
The page lists two prices, $59 for lifetime access or $129 with a 30-minute call, and the Product Hunt badge shows 518 upvotes. The embedded tweets and newsletter form need Pro Standard or higher.
Pros
- Social proof at almost every scroll stop
- Buying handled by Gumroad, so no payment setup on Carrd
- Clear list of what the buyer actually gets
Cons
- "Featured in" still shows Revue, a newsletter platform Twitter closed in 2023
- Embedded tweets slow the page and depend on X staying embeddable
- The price only appears near the bottom of a very long page
Handz
Handz sells 3D hand models to designers. Under the title sit two buttons, "Purchase Premium $29" and "Download free version". A row of app icons below them, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma and Blender, shows what the files open in.
Further down, the two versions are compared line by line. The free pack has 2 rigged hands with 25 poses each and 900 PNG files. The premium pack has 23 rigged hands, 76 poses, 7,000 PNGs and the Blender source files.
Both buttons go to Gumroad. There is no Carrd form on the page, but the custom domain means Pro Standard or higher.
Pros
- Price on the first button, no hunting for it
- The free version works as a lead magnet for the paid one
- Exact counts make the comparison easy to trust
Cons
- At over 14,000 pixels it is a very long scroll
- Heavy use of emoji in headings and lists
- Buyers leave for Gumroad to pay, so the checkout is out of the owner's hands
History Unlimited
History Unlimited is a history podcast, and its site runs on Carrd's Free plan. The address is historyunlimited.carrd.co and the footer carries the "Made with Carrd" badge. The page is dark. It has the cover art, a tagline, a Support button that goes to Patreon, a Listen button, a muted YouTube video that plays by itself and a row of platform buttons.
Built-in forms are a paid feature, so the owner links out instead. The newsletter button opens a hosted Brevo signup form, and "Suggest a Topic" opens a Typeform. Recommended books and gear are links to outside lists too.
We counted about two dozen elements on the page. That leaves plenty of room under the Free plan's cap of 50, and nothing on it needs a paid feature.
If you are starting with no budget, copy this page. It hands the jobs Carrd charges for to free outside tools, and the Carrd page stays a simple set of buttons.
Pros
- Costs nothing to run
- External forms replace the missing Carrd forms
- Every button leads somewhere a listener would want to go
Cons
- Still links to Google Podcasts, which Google shut down in 2024
- No favicon or custom share image on the Free plan
- The carrd.co address and badge look less professional
Daydreaminglamb
This is an illustrator's link hub, and the kind of Carrd page most people picture. One white card over a painted flower field holds an avatar, a greeting, three social icons and four yellow buttons. They read Terms of Service, Ko-fi, Commissions and Patreon.
The clever part is how it uses the Free plan's three site slots. The Terms of Service and Commissions buttons each open their own .carrd.co site, so the artist gets three linked pages for nothing.
Don't copy one mistake. The Patreon button, marked "under construction", still points at Carrd's placeholder address, domain.ext/path.
Pros
- Free, and a useful three-page setup from three free sites
- The artwork does the branding, so the layout can stay plain
- Fast to build: under ten elements
Cons
- A dead placeholder link on the Patreon button
- All three free slots are used, so there is no room for a fourth site
- "Made with Carrd" badge on every page
Carrd free plan limitations in 2026
Carrd's free tier, called Basic in its help pages, works for real sites, as the last two examples show. The limits are tighter than many older guides say, though. We checked Carrd's pricing page and help documentation on 28 September 2026 and found these main Free plan limits.
- 3 sites per account. Drafts, templates and archived sites all take a slot. Sites in the trash do not.
- 50 elements per site. That is the figure on Carrd's troubleshooting page. Older articles often quote 100, which is out of date. The 7-day Pro trial raises it to 150, and every paid plan removes the limit.
- Sites publish only to a .carrd.co address, with the "Made with Carrd" badge in the footer.
- No built-in forms, no widgets such as Stripe, PayPal, Gumroad or Typeform, and no code embeds.
- No analytics integration, custom meta tags, favicon or custom social share image.
- No video uploads, slideshows or premium templates, and images are published at lower quality.
Every site, free or paid, gets an automatically generated sitemap.xml, so Google can index a free Carrd page. All the paid plans are billed yearly.
| Plan | Price | Sites | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free (Basic) | $0 | 3 | .carrd.co address, 50 elements, Carrd badge |
| Pro Lite | $9 a year | 3 (10 for $14, 25 for $29) | No badge, no element limit, .crd.co addresses, favicon, video uploads, premium templates |
| Pro Standard | $19 a year | 10 (up to 1,000 on larger tiers) | Everything in Lite plus custom domains, forms, widgets, embeds, analytics, meta tags |
| Pro Plus | $49 a year | 25 (up to 1,000 on larger tiers) | Everything in Standard plus custom and payment forms, password protection, redirects, site download, advanced settings |
For most people, Pro Standard is the plan to look at. Pro Lite removes the badge and the element cap, but it still does not allow your own domain or a contact form. If you want yourname.com and a way for people to reach you, $19 a year is the real starting price.
Before paying, you can test custom domains and forms on the 7-day trial without a card.
Free Carrd website templates
Carrd's own starting templates are free on any plan, apart from the ones marked Pro, and new ones keep arriving. The changelog lists Template #324, added on 16 September 2026.
Choose a template by its structure rather than its colours. Colours and fonts take minutes to change, and the section layout does not.
Third-party designers also sell and give away Carrd templates, often through Gumroad. One designer shared a free portfolio template on the r/Carrd subreddit, and another thread there asks where to find more. A designer's template usually arrives as a link that adds it to your Carrd account.
Check its element count against the 50-element Free limit before you start editing. If it goes over, or uses Pro-only parts such as forms, it will not publish on Free until you strip those out.
Final Thoughts
For a portfolio, OQuinn and Lisa Firke show the two patterns that work. One is a grid where each project gets its own section. The other is a single long gallery with captions. The grid takes more work and needs Pro, while the gallery can be built in an afternoon.
Musicians and creators with a lot of links should look at Charles McDonald's tab bar, which keeps a busy site readable.
For a service business, copy Marc Fletcher and Plaand. Put numbers and prices on the page, split the audiences if you have two, and keep one clear button.
To sell a digital product, do what Newsletter OS and Handz do and send buyers to Gumroad rather than setting up payments on Carrd. That keeps you on the $19 plan instead of the $49 one. Daily UI is the page to study for any email signup.
On a zero budget, History Unlimited and Daydreaminglamb show the Free plan is enough for a link hub or a podcast page, as long as you link out for forms.
A single page can start to feel cramped once you have a blog, member accounts or a catalogue to manage. That is usually the point to move to a full site, and our premium WordPress themes are built for that stage.
FAQ
Sources
- Carrd Pro plans and prices: plan names, yearly prices, site counts and features. Checked on 28 September 2026.
- Carrd docs: Plans, Pro trial and site slots: what each plan includes and the 3-site Free limit. Checked on 28 September 2026.
- Carrd docs: Building troubleshooting: the 50-element Free limit and 150 on the trial. Checked on 28 September 2026.
- Carrd docs: Sitemaps and Carrd changelog: automatic sitemaps and Template #324. Checked on 28 September 2026.
- The eleven sites above, each opened and checked for Carrd markup on 28 September 2026: OQuinn, Lisa Firke, Charles McDonald, Iceland by Annie, Marc Fletcher, Plaand, Daily UI, Newsletter OS, Handz, History Unlimited, Daydreaminglamb.
- Deck of Carrd: a hand-picked gallery of Carrd sites, used to find candidates.
- Carrd on Trustpilot: 3.2 out of 5 from 60 reviews. Checked on 28 September 2026.
- Reddit r/Carrd: I designed a Carrd Portfolio Template, it's free for everyone
- Reddit r/Carrd: After lots of revisions, here's my art portfolio done in Carrd
- Reddit r/Carrd: More templates for Carrd?
- YouTube: Your First Portfolio Website with Carrd, Fast, Free & Easy (Peter Rock Design)
