Branded short links on your own domain, routed by country or device, with QR codes and click analytics
- Deploy
- One-click
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- GitHub stars
- 107 stars
- Last commit
Self-hosted alternatives to TinyURL
TinyURL is a URL shortening service that adds custom aliases, custom domains and click analytics. Two listed apps do its main job and run in your own Cloudflare account.
Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features TinyURL describes on its own site.
Self-hosted URL shortener with a REST API, typed SDKs and an MCP server, on Workers, D1 and Cloudflare Access
- Deploy
- One-click
- License
- Apache-2.0
- GitHub stars
- 30 stars
- Last commit
TinyURL features, app by app
| Feature | OpenShort.link | shrtnr |
|---|---|---|
| Shorten a long URL | Yes | Yes |
| Custom aliases for branded links | Yes | Yes |
| Connect a custom domain | Yes | Partly |
| Click analytics by location, device, referrer and time | Yes | Yes |
| Link management with search, tags and archive | Yes | Partly |
| Bulk link creation | Yes | No |
| API for creating and managing links | Yes | Yes |
Branded short links on your own domain, routed by country or device, with QR codes and click analytics
- What a TinyURL user would miss
- Public sign-up, because an admin creates every user account.
- What it adds
- It routes visitors by country or device and checks destination URLs on a schedule to flag dead links.
- Yes Shorten a long URL. Worker redirects with a chosen status code.
- Yes Custom aliases for branded links. Custom slugs.
- Yes Connect a custom domain. Own domains routed through Cloudflare, several domains per account.
- Yes Click analytics by location, device, referrer and time. Real-time click tracking by country, device, browser, OS and referrer.
- Yes Link management with search, tags and archive. Tags, categories, search and filtering, and an archived status.
- Yes Bulk link creation. CSV import and bulk edits.
- Yes API for creating and managing links. REST API with API keys.
Sources:github.com/idhamsy/openshortlink#readmetinyurl.com/app/features/custom-linkstinyurl.com/app/features/link-analyticstinyurl.com/app/dev
Self-hosted URL shortener with a REST API, typed SDKs and an MCP server, on Workers, D1 and Cloudflare Access
- What a TinyURL user would miss
- Tags and bulk creation, and every user signs in through Cloudflare Access.
- What it adds
- Several slugs can point at one link, bundles add up clicks across a campaign, and an MCP server lets AI assistants manage links.
- Yes Shorten a long URL. Random slugs from three characters.
- Yes Custom aliases for branded links. Custom slugs beside random ones.
- Partly Connect a custom domain. Served from the domain the Worker is attached to; one domain per deployment.
- Yes Click analytics by location, device, referrer and time. Country, referrer, device, OS and browser with an adaptive timeline.
- Partly Link management with search, tags and archive. Disable and enable links and slugs, bundles and archived bundles; tags are not yet available.
- No Bulk link creation. Import and export are listed as not yet available.
- Yes API for creating and managing links. REST API with OpenAPI spec, SDKs and an MCP server.
Sources:github.com/oddbit/shrtnr#readmetinyurl.com/app/features/link-managementtinyurl.com/app/dev