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Carrd vs Horizon EDA
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Carrd and Horizon EDA — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Carrd vs Horizon EDA: at a glance
What is Carrd?
Carrd Analytics adds a 90-day view; the changelog stays small and steady.
Carrd's visible record is short, terse entries. Deleted sites land in a Trash folder for three days, or fourteen on Pro, signup forms post directly to Resend, and Prefill Reply-To now fills the sender's name. November added a Leaves background pattern and a Last 90 days period in Carrd Analytics.
What is Horizon EDA?
Horizon EDA ships one feature release a year and spends the rest fixing what it broke.
Horizon EDA runs a slow, deliberate cadence: roughly one named feature release per year — Kepler in 2023, Luna in 2024, Mirage in 2025 — followed by two bugfix releases in the same series. The 2.7 series added pick-and-place export save/load, polygon pad rendering performance, project pool cache updates from the editors, and parameter fixing in the package editor. Its two patch releases were crash fixes and export correctness, mostly around silkscreen and PDF output.
Carrd vs Horizon EDA: editorial side-by-side
Carrd
5.0DESIGN
Carrd Analytics adds a 90-day view; the changelog stays small and steady.
◆ Current state
Carrd's visible record is short, terse entries. Deleted sites land in a Trash folder for three days, or fourteen on Pro, signup forms post directly to Resend, and Prefill Reply-To now fills the sender's name. November added a Leaves background pattern and a Last 90 days period in Carrd Analytics.
◆ Where it's heading
The cadence is small polish on a mature builder: forms, dashboard conveniences and design assets. Nothing in the entries points to a structural change.
◆ Prediction
More small additions to forms and design patterns are the likely next entries; the changelog is too sparse to predict anything larger.
Horizon EDA
0.0DESIGN
Horizon EDA ships one feature release a year and spends the rest fixing what it broke.
◆ Current state
Horizon EDA runs a slow, deliberate cadence: roughly one named feature release per year — Kepler in 2023, Luna in 2024, Mirage in 2025 — followed by two bugfix releases in the same series. The 2.7 series added pick-and-place export save/load, polygon pad rendering performance, project pool cache updates from the editors, and parameter fixing in the package editor. Its two patch releases were crash fixes and export correctness, mostly around silkscreen and PDF output.
◆ Where it's heading
The feature work tracks a single theme across all three named releases: making the editors forgiving. Undo and redo that never forgets, undo/redo of selection, sticky selection and configurable selection modifiers arrived in 2.5 and 2.6; 2.7 pushed into export workflows and rendering speed. The bugfix pattern is consistent too — most patches land in the board editor, which is where the complexity lives.
◆ Prediction
On the established cadence a 2.8 feature release is due, and the recent bugfix concentration suggests export and silkscreen handling get attention in it.
Alternatives to Carrd and Horizon EDA
Other Design products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Carrd or Horizon EDA.
Webflow
Webflow gives marketers a separate Campaigns product and puts agents on the canvas with the team.
Spectra
Spectra Blocks 1.0.14 loads faster and makes its Slider usable by keyboard and screen reader.
Recraft
Recraft adds GPT Image 2.6 days after Logo Maker, keeping its model shelf current.
Frame.io
Frame.io's latest move is a Drive client that tells you when it will reconnect.
Lyssna
Lyssna's MCP server now writes tests and surveys, not just reads results.
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Recent activity from Carrd and Horizon EDA
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 21h agoCarrdCarrd Analytics adds a Last 90 days view
- 6d agoCarrdNew Leaves background pattern, static and animated
- 8d agoCarrdReply-To prefill now fills the sender's name too
- 2mo agoCarrdAnalytics shortcut added to the site dashboard
- 4mo agoCarrdDeleted sites move to Trash with a restore window
- 4mo agoCarrdSignup forms integrate directly with Resend
- 11mo agoHorizon EDASecond 2.7 bugfix release: silkscreen arcs and PDF export
- 1y agoHorizon EDAFirst 2.7 bugfix release: smashed silkscreen text crash
- 1y agoHorizon EDAPick-and-place export presets and faster polygon pad rendering
- 2y agoHorizon EDAUser layers, undo/redo of selection, meson build
- 3y agoHorizon EDABlind and buried vias, undo/redo that never forgets
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Carrd and Horizon EDA?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Carrd is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Carrd better than Horizon EDA?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Carrd is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Design products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Carrd?
Top Carrd alternatives in Design are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Carrd alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/carrd for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Horizon EDA?
Top Horizon EDA alternatives in Design are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Horizon EDA alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/horizon-eda for the full list with editorial commentary on each.