Shlink

What you can use it for

Create short links on your domain and inspect visit statistics through a dashboard or API.

• Self-hosted on your own domain with zero monthly subscription fees.
• Detailed analytics tracking visits, geolocations, referrers, and user agents.
• Full REST API and official CLI client.

Before you switch

Requires self-hosting on a server or VPS with Docker/PHP and database. You must handle HTTPS certificate renewal, server security, and database backups yourself. For JotURL: create custom-domain short links and slugs, manage them through an API or web client and inspect visit statistics. Free MIT software; host and maintain your own instance, database and domain. Hosting and domain costs remain. Not JotURL’s full conversion/commission attribution, advertising retargeting, mobile deep linking or landing-page suite. For Rebrandly: Create custom-domain short links, edit destinations and inspect visit statistics without a monthly link licence quota. Free MIT software; your own server, database, domain and maintenance may cost money. Rebrandly already has a small free plan. No full advertising, attribution or enterprise support parity.

Alternatives to these paid apps

Each comparison covers the workflow described above, rather than every paid feature.

Bitly→Website ↗

Branch.io→Website ↗

Dub.co Enterprise→Website ↗

JotURL→Website ↗

Rebrandly→Website ↗