Resources

Guides to short links

How the shortener works, what the options do, and what the service records and what it never sees. Eight guides, in two groups: making a link, and trusting one.

Create and share

Making a link and putting it in front of people: the steps, the endings, the codes and the locks.

  • Start here

    How to shorten a link for free, step by step

    A step-by-step guide: paste the long address, choose the lifetime, share the short link, and learn what a visitor sees before they continue.

  • Custom aliases: choose the end of your short link

    Choose the ending of a short link: the rules an alias follows, why brand words are refused, and how a readable ending changes where the link can go.

  • QR codes for short links

    What a QR code on a short link encodes, why the short address is the right one to print, and what to check before a code goes to paper.

  • Password-protect a short link

    How a password-protected short link works: the gate before the destination, what a good password looks like here, and what the lock does not do.

  • Paying for premium links with Monero

    How paying for premium links in Monero works: why XMR is the only currency, the invoice and confirmations, and what the service never learns about the payer.

Trust and privacy

Deciding whether a short link deserves a click, and what the service knows about its visitors.