Bandzoogle builds music websites. Sleeve is already home.

Side by side

30 days, not 14

Bandzoogle’s trial runs for 14 days. No card required during the trial... but when it’s up, you’re picking a plan. The entry option is $11/mo.

Sleeve’s trial runs for 30 days, with every feature on: your artist page, custom domain, releases with a built-in player, email, memberships, and commerce. You do add a card to start. Nothing is charged until day 30, Stripe emails you a reminder before the trial ends, and if you cancel before day 30 you pay nothing. After that, it’s $29/mo for up to 5,000 subscribers.

The email ceiling

Bandzoogle’s Lite plan ($11/mo) caps your email list at 100 subscribers. Standard ($17/mo) raises it to 1,000. Unlimited email only kicks in at their Pro plan, which is $22/mo... for scheduled sends, open and click tracking, and filtering by city or state. No automation. No drip sequences.

Sleeve’s entry plan is $29/mo (or $24/mo billed annually) and covers up to 5,000 subscribers, with newsletters, memberships, and commerce included. Past that, it’s $99/mo up to 25,000. For an independent artist building a list from scratch, that headroom at the entry price matters.

What “built in” gets you

A Sleeve release page is more than a player. Turn on Sell before release and fans can buy a record before anyone can hear it... it unlocks in their library the moment you set. It’s on every plan, the same as selling anything else.

Two more things come with every release page, on every plan: links out to Spotify, Apple Music, and wherever else the record lives, and a place to list where to buy the vinyl or CD, including a shop you don’t run yourself.

Credit where it’s due

Bandzoogle has been at this since 2003. Over 70,000 musicians have built on it, and their members have processed more than $162M in sales. They support fan subscriptions, ticketing, crowdfunding, smart links, and EPKs. That’s a real track record.

If you want a traditional website builder that’s been doing this for two decades, Bandzoogle is a legitimate option. The question is which one fits how you work. Sleeve gives you 30 days with every feature to find out, with your own music on the page.

You don’t have to rebuild it by hand

The worst part of leaving Bandzoogle isn’t the decision, it’s the afternoon of copying and pasting. Paste your Bandzoogle link when you sign up and Sleeve reads what’s already there, then drafts your bio, about page, links, shows, and contacts. You check every field before it publishes. What took an afternoon takes a few minutes of reviewing.

Your mailing list comes with you. Bandzoogle exports it as a CSV from Manage Members, and Sleeve takes it as it comes... drop the file in or paste the addresses, whatever the columns look like. It’s the part of your career that took longest to build, and neither platform holds it hostage.

Releases are the one part you do yourself. Every Bandzoogle site is laid out differently, so there’s no dependable way to lift a whole catalog out of one... you upload your music the same way you would for a new release. If you have a deep back catalog, talk to us before you start.