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AdenvsBeacons
Links & website · Checked
Beacons builds link-in-bio pages for creators, with a store for digital products, media kits and email marketing.
Pick Beacons if
- You already work in Beacons and it covers what you need.
Pick Aden if
- You want team and roster management, song and file storage, demo review and feedback, and 6 more from the table, which Beacons doesn't list.
- You need more than Beacons lists for a fan and contact CRM, as well as streaming analytics.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Aden | Beacons |
|---|---|---|
| Team & roster management | Included | Not included |
| Song & file storage | Included | Not included |
| Demo review & feedback | Included | Not included |
| Release planning | Included | Not included |
| Tours & events | Included | Not included |
| Fan & contact CRM | Included | Basic |
| Streaming analytics | Included | Link clicks |
| Artist website & smart links | Included | Included |
| Free download gates | Included | Not included |
| Free download charts | Included | Not included |
| Email campaigns | Included | Included |
| Music distribution | Coming soon | Not included |
| Mastering | Coming soon | Not included |
| Production tools | Included | Not included |
| Web, desktop & mobile | Included | Included |
| Real-time collaboration | Included | Not included |
| Pricing model | Free plan + paid tiers | Free + paid tiers |
From each tool's public pages. Work at Beacons, or see something out of date? Suggest a correction.
Use Beacons with Aden
Open Beacons inside Aden
Pin Beacons as a tab in the Aden desktop app. It keeps its sign-in and opens beside your Aden workspace, up to five side by side.
Get the desktop appWork across both with AI
Connect Aden to Claude or ChatGPT with the Aden MCP. Your assistant reads and updates Aden next to the other apps it is connected to.
Connect the Aden MCP
Move from Beacons to Aden
- 1
People
Teams, members, and the business that holds them
- 2
Catalogue
Tracks, versions, albums, playlists
- 3
Contacts and deals
Contacts and opportunities
- People
- Name, Email, Role mapped to Aden permissions
- Catalogue
- Title, ISRC and UPC, Release date, Version tree
- Contacts and deals
- Company, Role, Stage, Value, Owner
Frequently asked questions
Both have an artist website and smart links, email campaigns, and desktop and mobile apps. Aden also has team and roster management, song and file storage, demo review and feedback, release planning, tours and events, free download gates, free download charts, production tools, and real-time collaboration, which Beacons doesn't list. In a more limited form, Beacons covers a fan and contact CRM, as well as streaming analytics.
Compared with Beacons, Aden fits if you need team and roster management, song and file storage, demo review and feedback, release planning, tours and events, free download gates, free download charts, production tools, and real-time collaboration next to an artist website and smart links, email campaigns, and desktop and mobile apps: it has all of these in one workspace.
Yes. Pin Beacons as a tab in the Aden desktop app: it keeps its sign-in and opens next to your Aden workspace. Connect Aden to Claude or ChatGPT with the Aden MCP, and your assistant works across Aden and the other apps it is connected to.
Bring people, catalogue, and contacts and deals over from Beacons, in that order. The guide is at aden.space/migrate, and an AI agent can run the move from the brief at aden.space/migrate.md.
Aden has a free plan, and paid plans from €5 a month. Beacons's pricing, as listed in this comparison: Free + paid tiers.
Besides Aden, this comparison covers Linktree, Feature.fm, and Linkfire as alternatives to Beacons for links and website.
Other links & website tools
Aden vs Linktree · Link-in-bio pages and smart links.
Aden vs Feature.fm · Smart links, pre-saves and bio links.
Aden vs Linkfire · Smart links and link analytics for labels.
Aden vs Komi · Link-in-bio pages for artists and creators.
