Alternative
A Carrd alternative for artists
Situ.art is a Carrd alternative for artists who need more than one page: a website made from your works, where each one opens on its own, shown in a room at its true size with a person for scale and a walk-through video, with nothing to build.
See your website before you pay
It’s built the moment you open it, from the works you’ve uploaded, or from two sample paintings until you upload your own. No account needed to look.
- Price
- £9 a month, or £7.50 a month billed yearly. Build and preview it free.
- Each work
- Upload a photo of a work and its size, and it’s on your website, with framed images, in-room shots, installation shots and a walk-through video made automatically. No pages to build.
- Details
- Title, year, medium, size in cm and inches, framed size, signed, Available or Sold.
- Enquiries
- Inquire on every work emails you. Your address stays private.
- Address
- situ.art/en/yourname. No own domain.
- AI crawlers
- AI training crawlers are told to stay out. Search engines still read it.
- Included
- 20 AI images and 2 AI videos a month, room mockups of up to 30 works, unlimited downloads.
- Works in
- Any browser, on a phone or a computer.
Situ.art and Carrd compared
Carrd makes simple one-page sites: free for up to three with “Made with Carrd” in the footer, and from $19 a year for your own domain and forms. Its portfolio templates show a gallery of the images you upload. Situ.art is a whole website made from your works: each one opens on its own, shown in a room at its true size with a person for scale, in a walk-through video and with its details.
Prices and features checked 21 October 2026, as published on Carrd’s own site, in the currency it showed us.
At a glance
| Carrd | Situ.art | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | One-page sites for anything, with portfolio templates built around an image gallery. | An artist’s website made from the works already in your Situ.art library. Each work is shown whole, then in a room at its true size, with a person for scale and a walk-through video. |
| Price to start | Free for 3 sites. Pro Lite $9 a year (no branding), Pro Standard $19 a year (own domain, forms), Pro Plus $49 a year. Billed yearly, in $. | £9 a month on the Artist plan, or £7.50 a month billed yearly (£90). Room mockups, AI images and videos are included. |
| Free plan | Up to 3 one-page sites, with “Made with Carrd” in the footer. Pro has a 7-day trial. | Build and preview it free, without an account. Making it public needs the Artist plan. |
| Setting it up | Pick a template and build the page in the editor; Carrd recommends a computer. | Nothing to design. Add your name, one line about you and an About; every work you upload appears on it. |
| How many works | No element limit on Pro. Images up to 16 MB. | Up to 30 on Artist; as many as you like on Pro (£29 a month). |
| Your work in a room | Not built in: galleries show the images you upload. | Every work hangs at its true size in a room, with a person in view for scale, plus a walk-through video in a gallery. Made for you, from the work’s size. |
| Details with each work | Gallery captions you type, with Markdown. No fields for medium, size or sold stated. | Title, year, medium, size in cm and inches, framed size, signed, and Available or Sold. |
| Your own domain | On Pro Standard and up, with a domain you register elsewhere. | No. Your website is at situ.art/en/yourname. |
| Selling | Stripe, PayPal and Gumroad widgets on Pro Standard; payment forms on Pro Plus. | No shop or checkout. Each work can be marked Available or Sold. |
| Contact | Contact and newsletter sign-up forms on Pro Standard and up. | Inquire on every work emails you, with your address kept private. Plus your link on every page: your own site, Instagram or email. |
| AI training crawlers | Not stated. robots.txt can be edited on Pro Plus. | Kept out, with nothing to switch on: AI training crawlers are told not to read your pages. Search engines still can. |
| Editing on a phone | There is a mobile builder, which Carrd calls “somewhat beta-ish”; it recommends a computer. | Yes. All of it is edited in the browser, on a phone as on a computer. |
| Made for | Anyone who needs a simple one-page site. | Artists who want a site that looks like a gallery’s and keeps itself up to date. |
Features
| Carrd | Situ.art | |
|---|---|---|
| Upload a work and it’s on your website | ✗ | ✓ |
| Every work in a room at its true size | ✗ | ✓ |
| A person in view for scale | ✗ | ✓ |
| A walk-through video, made for you | ✗ | ✓ |
| Fields for medium, size and sold | – | ✓ |
| AI training crawlers kept out by default | – | ✓ |
| Room mockups and AI images included | ✗ | ✓ |
| Edit it all on a phone | ✓ | ✓ |
| A free plan with a public site | ✓ | ✗ |
| Your own domain | ✓ | ✗ |
| Online shop and checkout | ✓ | ✗ |
| Blog | – | ✗ |
| Email newsletter | ✓ | ✗ |
✓ yes · ✗ no · – not stated on their site
Where Carrd is stronger
- Price: free for three sites, and $19 a year with your own domain.
- Forms: contact and newsletter sign-ups on Pro Standard, payment forms on Pro Plus.
- Any kind of page, not only artwork: links, sign-ups and landing pages.
Where Situ.art is stronger
- A whole website, not one page: every work opens on its own, with its details and a link of its own to send.
- Every work in a room at its true size, beside a person for scale and in a walk-through video, made for you from the size you entered. Carrd’s galleries show the images you upload.
- The details buyers look for, in a gallery’s order: title, year, medium, size in cm and inches, framed size, signed, and Available or Sold.
- Nothing to build: upload a photo of a work and its size, and it’s on your website.
- As easy to edit on a phone as on a computer. Carrd calls its mobile builder “somewhat beta-ish”.
- AI training crawlers are told to stay out of your pages, with nothing to switch on. Search engines still find you.
- Room mockups come with it: the same plan gives you 20 AI images and 2 AI videos a month and unlimited downloads for Instagram and listings.
- Inquire on every work: a buyer’s message comes straight to your email, and your address stays private.
Which should you choose?
Choose Carrd for the cheapest page with your own domain, a contact form and your links. Choose Situ.art for a full website of your work, each piece shown in a room at its true size with its details, that keeps itself up to date.
Questions
- Is Carrd good for an artist portfolio?
- For a single page of links and a gallery, yes, and it’s cheap. It doesn’t give each work its own page, room view or details. A Situ.art website does: every work opens on its own, in a room at its true size, with its title, medium, size and whether it’s sold.
- Do I need photos of my work in rooms?
- No. Upload a straight photo of the work and its size, and Situ.art hangs it in a room at that size, beside a person for scale, and walks a camera past it in a gallery. The work itself is never changed.
- Can I use my own domain?
- Not yet. Your website is at situ.art/en/yourname. Put that link in your Instagram bio, your email signature or your own domain’s homepage.
- How much does a Situ.art website cost?
- £9 a month on the Artist plan, or £90 a year (£7.50 a month). The same plan makes your room mockups: 20 AI images and 2 AI videos a month, up to 30 works, and unlimited downloads. You can build and preview the website free first.
- Does it keep AI crawlers off my work?
- Yes, with nothing to switch on. Your pages tell AI training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot and others) to stay out, while search engines, and the assistants that search for people, can still find you.
Sources
- Carrd
- Carrd Pro plans
- Carrd: Pro trial
- Carrd: custom domains
- Carrd: payments
- Carrd: builder troubleshooting
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