A short link for anything you share
Paste a long link, and Linq gives you a short one on linq.my that sends people there. Use it wherever a long link is a pain: on a flyer, a slide, a menu, a podcast, a social bio or in a message. Each link comes with its own QR code, and every click is counted.
Short links live in the same account as your digital business card: open Short links in the app, paste the link, and select Shorten. If the place you point it to changes, edit the link: the short link and the QR code stay the same.
What each plan gets
| Feature | Free | Pro | Teams | Business |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Links working at once | 10 at a time | 500 at a time | 1,000 at a time | No limit |
| How long a link works | 30 days | 1 year | 2 years | Until you delete it |
| Report goes back | 7 days | 1 year | 1 year | 1 year |
| Your own ending | — | |||
| Countries, sources, devices and QR scans | — | |||
| Renew a link | — | |||
| Your card on linq.my | — |
Expired links stop counting toward your limit. Pro starts with a 7-day free trial. Compare every plan.
Your own endings
On Free, each link gets a random ending. With Pro and the team plans, choose your own: linq.my/spring-menu, linq.my/webinar, linq.my/hiring. People can read it aloud, remember it and type it, and it tells them where they're going before they tap.
Endings are lowercase letters, numbers and dashes, and they're first come, first served. Capitals don't matter: linq.my/Promo opens linq.my/promo. A few words are kept for Linq itself, so nobody can pass for us.
A QR code for every link
Every short link has a QR code in your card colors, to download as a PNG for screens or an SVG that stays sharp in print. Scans of the code are counted apart from clicks on the link, so with Pro the report tells you whether the poster or the post brought people in.
For your card itself, use its own QR code: the QR code business card. For a quick code with no account at all, there's the free QR code generator.
Click reports
Every link shows how many times it's been clicked since you made it, and a chart of clicks per day, for each link and for all your links together. On Free, the report covers the last 7 days.
With Pro and the team plans, it also shows, over 7, 30, 90 or 365 days:
- Countries the clicks come from.
- Where from: the apps and sites people came from, or a direct visit.
- Devices (phone, tablet or computer), browsers and systems.
- Link or QR code: how many came from scanning the code.
- An Export CSV of the numbers.
Link previews in chat apps and bots are sent on but not counted, and the clicks we keep don't include visitors' IP addresses.
Links that keep working
A new link works for 30 days on Free, 1 year on Pro and 2 years on Teams. On Business, links work until you delete them. When a link expires it stops sending people on and shows a page saying so.
On Pro and the team plans, Renew starts a link's time again, so a code on a printed menu keeps working as long as you need it. If you go back to Free, nothing changes on the links you already have.
Safe to click
- Checked before it's made. Every destination is looked up in Google's Web Risk list of malware and phishing sites when a link is made, and again whenever it's pointed somewhere new.
- Checked again every day. Working links are re-checked daily, and a link whose site has since been listed is turned off.
- Only public web pages. Links to private networks, links with a username or password in them, other short links, and downloads of apps, installers or archives can't be shortened.
- Endings are never reused. When you delete a link, nobody else can take its ending, so a printed QR code never starts pointing somewhere you didn't choose.
How we protect the rest of your account: Security at Linq.
Put your card on linq.my
With Pro, your card itself can live on the short domain: linq.my/p/your-name instead of the app's longer address. Choose it under My card → Card address, and your card's link, QR code, email signature and Google Wallet pass all use it. A shorter link is easier to type, and makes a lighter QR code.
Your card opens at both addresses either way, so nothing you've already shared stops working. On a team with its own domain, team cards use that domain instead. Details in Put your card on linq.my.
Shorten your first link
- Create a free account, or sign in to the one you have.
- Open Short links and paste the long link. Give it a name if you like, to find it later.
- On Pro, type the ending you want, or leave it empty for a random one.
- Select Shorten, then copy the link or download its QR code.
The full guide is in Short links.