The short answer
Choose Tendrly if you want the proposal written and branded for you from five answers, with payment built in — free to start, then $19/month flat, 3.5% + 30¢ per paid proposal.
Choose Qwilr if design is central to your pitch and you want to hand-craft interactive, web-based proposal and quote pages with embedded media and accept-and-pay blocks.
Qwilr makes genuinely beautiful proposals — interactive web pages with embedded video, live pricing tables and accept-and-pay blocks. If the look of the pitch is part of how you win work, and you enjoy building each page, Qwilr is impressive.
Tendrly optimises for speed and getting paid rather than page-craft. You answer five questions and Tendrly writes the proposal for you — overview, scope, timeline, terms — brands it, and delivers a clean web page and a matching PDF with a Stripe payment link built in. You are not designing anything.
Qwilr is priced per user per month and expects you to author the content. Tendrly is flat — free to start, then $19/month for 25 proposals — and writes the content for you, at 3.5% + 30¢ only when a proposal is paid.
Tendrly vs Qwilr — FAQ
Is Tendrly a Qwilr alternative?
Yes, for freelancers who want a proposal written and branded for them rather than designed by hand. Both let clients pay inside the proposal; Tendrly’s difference is that it writes the copy from five answers and is flat-priced rather than per-seat.
Are Tendrly proposals as visual as Qwilr’s?
Tendrly proposals are clean and branded in your colours as a web page and PDF, but Qwilr is the more design-led, interactive page builder. If richly designed, media-heavy pages are the point of your pitch, Qwilr is stronger there.
Which is more cost-effective for one person?
Tendrly is flat — free to start, then $19/month — while Qwilr charges per user per month. Check qwilr.com for their current pricing, since it changes.
When is Qwilr the better choice?
When design is central to how you sell and you want to hand-build interactive, media-rich proposal pages rather than have the proposal written for you.