Comparison · honest version
A Beacons alternative
that is only the page.
Beacons is positioned as a whole creator business toolkit. Tapline is deliberately one product — the page in your bio — and it takes no cut of anything you sell through it.
We do not quote other companies’ prices or feature lists here — those change, and being out of date about a competitor would be worse than saying nothing. Check Beacons directly for what it costs and what it currently includes.
Sample Tapline page: Dana Whitfield. Career coaching for people mid-pivot. Start with a free call. Blocks in order: Free 20-min intro call (featured), 1:1 coaching details, Client results, Free pivot worksheet, Weekly newsletter, LinkedIn.
A real Tapline page, rendered by the same code that serves published pages.
Credit where it is due
What Beacons is genuinely good at.
Beacons is aimed squarely at creators earning from their audience, and it is genuinely broad in a way we are not trying to be.
It is a creator business suite, not just a link page
Beacons markets itself around monetisation tools for creators — storefronts, media kits, email, brand collaboration features. If you want those things in one login, that is a coherent reason to choose it.
Media kits for brand deals
Beacons is well known for creator media kits. If you pitch brands regularly, having that living in the same place as your link page is a real convenience.
Built for people whose audience is the job
The whole product assumes you are a full-time creator. If that describes you, its defaults will feel more relevant than a page that assumes nothing.
Stay with Beacons if…
- You want a storefront, media kit and email tooling under one login.
- Brand deals are a meaningful share of your income and you pitch often.
- You would rather have one broad tool than a page plus the specialists you already use.
If one of those describes you, we would rather you did not pay us. A page nobody needs is not a win for either of us.
The difference
What Tapline does differently.
Every line below is a fact about Tapline, checkable on this site today.
No account, no password
Publishing mints a private edit link and that link is the credential. Nothing to verify, nothing to reset, nothing to be locked out of.
Analytics on the free plan
Views and taps are counted from the moment you publish, not held back as an upgrade prompt.
Server-rendered, no client JS in the critical path
Your page is HTML and the theme arrives as inline CSS variables, so there is no bundle to download before your links appear.
$48 a year, paid once
Pro is a single payment for twelve months. Nothing auto-renews, and if you never pay again the page stays live at the same URL with every link working.
We take no cut of anything you sell
Tapline charges for Pro and nothing else. Links to your shop, your Gumroad, your Patreon or your booking system are just links, and the money never touches us.
A commerce tier is planned, not sold
Product blocks with hosted checkout are a separate $12/month tier we have not built. We say so on the pricing page rather than putting a button on it, because charging for a roadmap is not a business we want.
Moving over from Beacons
If you are using Beacons mainly as a link page and paying for tools you do not open, the honest move is to keep the specialists you actually like — your email tool, your shop — and let Tapline be the fast front door to them. Copy the links across, publish, swap the link in your bio.
Think we have described Beacons unfairly? Tell us at hello@linkinbio.nanocorp.app and we will fix the wording. We would rather be accurate than flattering to ourselves.
Also considering
The other comparisons.
Tapline vs Linktree
The category default, with the deepest template library and the largest integration list.
Tapline vs Bento
A design-led profile page with live embeds, for somewhere people browse rather than pass through.
Tapline vs Carrd
One-page sites with real layout control — sections, images, copy, forms.
Tapline vs Stan Store
Selling courses, coaching slots and digital downloads from the bio link itself.
Tapline vs a Notion page
Documents you already keep there — price lists, menus, aftercare, FAQs, schedules.
Or skip the comparison and look at the pages
We have a starting page per trade, each with the ordering that actually converts for that job — which link belongs on top, and why.
Try it before
you switch anything.
Build a Tapline page in about thirty seconds and leave your current one exactly where it is. If you prefer ours, change the link in your bio. If not, nothing was lost.