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Free URL Shortener with No Sign-Up, from Convertavo

Is your link so long it breaks in a text message? Paste it into Convertavo’s free URL shortener, and you’ll get a short one back in about a second. Every link comes with a QR code and a click counter. No account. Nothing sits behind a paid plan, either.

Press Enter or the Shorten button.

More options custom back-half, expiry, password, campaign tags
Appearance
Letters, numbers, hyphens and underscores. Leave empty for a random one.
Access and expiry
In your time zone (UTC).
Before then, visitors see when it goes live.
Visitors type it before they’re sent on.
Tracking
Redirect type

Want different pages for different countries, phones or times of day, or an A/B test? Set that up after you create the link.

Shortening a WhatsApp, Drive, Maps or YouTube link? Use a version made for it
  • Every link safety-checked
  • Click counts without cookies
  • QR code with every link
9 ready-made versions

Set up for a particular job

The same tool, ready for one task, with what you need to know about it.

How to shorten a link

There are four steps here, and most people only need the first two.

  1. STEP 01

    Paste the long link

    Copy the long link from your browser or app, and paste it into the box at the top of this page. We show the page’s title, so you can tell it’s the right one.

  2. STEP 02

    Press Shorten

    Press Shorten, and your new link shows up with its QR code and click counter, usually in about a second.

  3. STEP 03

    Add options if you need them

    Need more? Open More options before you press Shorten. You can pick your own ending, set an end date, add a password or tag the link for a campaign.

  4. STEP 04

    Copy and share it

    Press Copy, or Share to send it straight to WhatsApp, Telegram, X, LinkedIn or email.

Leave Remove tracking junk ticked. It strips tags like fbclid, gclid and igshid. Those only show who shared the link, not the page itself.

Long link in. Short link out.
Long link · 117 characters
Paste and press Shorten
Short link · 27 characters
✓ Copied
Click counter
636 clicks this week

The menu that changes every week

Say you run a small café and print a QR code on every table. The code opens a short link, and that link opens this week’s menu.

New menu next week? Just change where the link goes. The cards on the tables never need reprinting.

Change where it goes. Never reprint.
Printed on every table
Stays the same
The short link stays the same too
Last week
This week, edited in seconds

The link that has to fit in a text

Clinics text patients a reminder before each visit, and that’s where long links hurt. The booking page address in our example runs to 140 characters by itself. One SMS fits 160.

Shortened, it became convertavo.com/s/4V46JS. That’s 23 characters, which left 137 for the date, the time and the clinic’s name.

One text message holds 160 characters. Make them count.
Long booking link
140 characters for the link 20 left for the message
Short link: convertavo.com/s/4V46JS
23 characters for the link 137 left for the date, time and clinic name

Finding out which post worked

You share one sign-up page on Instagram, in a newsletter and on a poster. Make three links, one for each place.

A week later, the click counts show which one brought people in. Sometimes it’s the poster on the shop door that nobody expected!

A file that shouldn’t stay open forever

A teacher shares an answer sheet after an exam. She sets the link to stop working at the end of Friday, and adds a password she reads out in class.

Yes. Open More options and type your own ending in the Custom back-half box. For the café in the picture above, we picked lunch-menu. Endings run from 3 to 40 characters, and letters, numbers, hyphens and underscores are all fine. When one is taken, you find out as you type, and the box offers a few free ones next to it.

The same menu holds three more settings. An end date stops the link on the day and time you pick, in your own time zone, and a click limit stops it after a set number of visits. Add a password, anything from 4 to 100 characters, and only the people you’ve told can get in. Campaign tags put source, medium and campaign labels on the link. That’s how your analytics knows a visit from the newsletter from one off the poster.

Yes, any time. Made a typo, or the page moved? Edit the destination. The link and its QR code stay exactly the same, and we keep a list of where it used to go.

Is Convertavo’s URL shortener really free?

Yes, every part of this link shortener is free. Custom endings, passwords, end dates, QR codes, click stats, country and device targeting, A/B tests and the API are all free. No paid tier opens up any of them.

There’s one kind of limit, and it’s there to stop spam. Without an account, you can make 10 links an hour and 30 a day. With a free account, it’s up to 1,000 a day.

Not unless you tell them to. We don’t delete links for being old or unused, so a link you print today keeps working.

Detailed click records are kept for 90 days. After that, the daily totals stay: clicks, unique visitors and bot visits, for as long as the link exists.

Do I need an account?

No. Paste, press, done. Any links made without an account belong to this browser, and you can edit them from here.

Clear your cookies or switch browsers, though, and you can’t edit them anymore. If a link matters, make a free account. The links you made in this browser in the last 30 days move into it.

Every new link is checked for known phishing and malware before it goes live. So is every page it passes through on the way.

Some links aren’t allowed at all, like scams and links to other link shorteners. If 3 different people report a link, it’s paused until we look at it.

What do you know about people who click?

Very little, honestly. We never store visitors’ IP addresses, and we set no tracking cookie. Unique visitors are counted using a scrambled value that changes every day.

When you paste a link into WhatsApp or Slack, the app opens it to draw a preview. Those visits are counted as bots, not people. And you can download all your links and their clicks as spreadsheet files whenever you like.

Have a link that’s too long to share? Paste it into Convertavo above, and send the short one instead.

Shorten a link

Questions people ask before using a link shortener

The short answers, before you trust us with a link.

Is this URL shortener really free?

Yes, every part of it. There’s no trial, no watermark and no feature behind a paywall. The only limits are on how many links you can make per hour, and they exist to stop spam.

Do I need an account to shorten a link?

No, just paste your link and press Shorten to get it. Without an account, the link belongs to your browser, so make a free account if you’ll need to edit it later.

Do my short links expire?

Not unless you set an end date or a click limit. We never delete links just because they’re old or nobody has clicked them in a while.

Can I change where a link goes after sharing it?

Yes, edit the destination any time. The link and its QR code stay the same. So nothing you printed needs to change.

Can I make a custom short link?

Yes, open More options before you shorten, and type your own ending instead of random letters.

Is it safe to click a short link?

Every link is checked for known phishing and malware before it goes live. To see where any short link goes before you open it, use our Link Expander.

More free link tools

Bulk URL ShortenerShortens a whole list or a CSV file at once. UTM Link BuilderAdds campaign tags before you shorten. Link ExpanderShows where any short link really goes, before you click. Link in Bio PagePuts all your links on one simple page. QR Code GeneratorMakes a QR code with your logo in the middle.