posyPosy vs Beacons
Beacons is a creator business kit. Posy is a page.
Beacons wraps a link in bio around tools for selling and growing an audience. Posy does one thing: it makes the page itself look good. Which you want depends on whether you sell.
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What Beacons is good at
Beacons is aimed at creators who earn from their audience. Alongside the link page it offers a store for digital products, an email list, a media kit and other tools for the business side of being a creator.
If you want your page, your store and your list to live in one account, that is a real convenience, and it is what Beacons is for.
Side by side
| Posy | Beacons | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | The page: six looks, your links, your colours | The creator business: page, store, email list and media kit |
| Price to start | Free. Pro is $5 a month or $48 a year | Free plan, with paid plans for more |
| Selling products | No. Link out to your shop | Built in |
| Email list | No. Link to your newsletter | Built in |
| Open source | Yes, MIT | No |
| Self-hosting | Yes, with everything unlocked | No |
| AI editing | Built-in MCP server | Check their site |
Beacons details are from its public site and change often. Their plans and features change, so check their site for the current picture.
Where Posy is different
It does less, on purpose
No store, no list, no dashboard of tools. You get a page that loads fast and looks hand-made, and a link to wherever you sell.
Music and newsletters have their own look
A Spotify link becomes a record on the Desk look. A Substack link becomes an envelope. Tiles are objects, not buttons.
You can leave cleanly
Download the page as JSON, or host Posy yourself. Nothing about the page is locked in.
Which should you pick?
Pick Beacons
You sell digital productsA built-in store beats stitching a link to a separate shop. This is what Beacons is built around.
Pick Beacons
You want one account for everythingPage, list and store together means fewer tabs and fewer logins.
Pick Posy
You already sell somewhere elseIf your shop is on Gumroad, Shopify or Etsy, you only need a good page pointing at it.
Pick Posy
Looks matter mostSix looks, each with four palettes, plus fonts and layouts. The page is the product.
Using both is fine
You do not have to choose forever. Plenty of creators keep a store elsewhere and use a separate page for their bio link. Posy's links can point straight at your Beacons store, so the two can sit side by side.
Questions
Is Posy a good Beacons alternative?
If you mainly want a beautiful link page, yes. If you want the store and email list built in, Beacons covers that and Posy does not.
Can Posy link to my Beacons store?
Yes. A Posy tile can link to any URL, so your store, your list sign-up and your media kit can all sit on a Posy page.
Does Posy take a cut of sales?
Posy does not process sales at all, so there is nothing to take a cut of. Pro is $5 a month or $48 a year.