Link tracker for creators

What a link tracker is (and what most of them miss)

A link tracker is a redirect you own. You paste a short URL into your bio, an ad, an email, a QR sticker. Every visitor lands on that redirect first, gets logged, and then bounces to the real destination. Because the redirect belongs to you, you see who clicked, when, from what device, and (with a decent tracker) from which platform. This is the whole difference between clicks happened and you know where those clicks came from.

Most free link trackers stop at click counts. You get a number in a dashboard: 487 clicks this week. The number is technically correct and practically useless, because 487 clicks that all came from the same TikTok video is a different business than 487 clicks scattered across a bio, three campaigns, and one paid ad. The tracker you want tells you which of those it was.

What linksync's link click tracker does differently

linksync classifies every click at the moment it happens, using three signals in this order:

1. UTM overrides. If a utm_source is present on the URL that reached the redirect, that value wins. This is the escape hatch for edge cases (WhatsApp forwarding, embedded email clients) where automatic detection is unreliable.
2. In-app browser fingerprint. Every major social app has a distinctive webview signature. linksync detects them without you doing anything.
3. HTTP referrer. If the click came from a real web page (not an app), the referrer host maps to a platform.

Anything that gives no useful signal (a raw camera scan of a printed QR is the common case) gets labeled "direct." Not thrown away. Still tracked, just honestly labeled.

What the tool above previews

Paste any destination URL into the widget above. The tool renders what the linksync surface would look like for a link pointing at that URL: the short URL you would paste anywhere, an illustrative recent-clicks feed with platform labels, and a per-platform breakdown. The numbers are labeled Example because the real short URL is minted on sign-up (the redirect has to actually exist somewhere to log clicks).

Trackable links, not just tracked clicks

Once a link is minted at linksync.me slash L slash whatever, it behaves like this:

• Fixed short URL. The code you got at sign-up is yours. You can rename it once if you want a memorable slug; you can never accidentally rotate it by editing the destination.
• Editable destination. The URL that the short link resolves to is editable from /app/links. If a product page moves or a campaign shifts, the short URL stays the same. Every share you have out in the world keeps working.
• QR next to every link. The link detail page shows a downloadable QR for the short URL. Same tracking applies whether the visit came from a scan or a tap.
• Optional bio-page render. Toggle "Also show on my bio page" when you create the link and it appears as a pill on your public bio. Turn it off and the link is paste-anywhere only, with a code and a QR, but no public listing.

The free link tracker plan (and where you outgrow it)

Free covers up to five tracked short links, seven days of analytics, and every classification feature above. That is genuinely enough for a creator running one campaign, a personal landing, or a handful of always-on affiliate links. You outgrow the free tier when one of these becomes true:

• You need more than five tracked short links (Pro is unlimited).
• You want to compare last month to this month (Pro extends the window to 90 days).
• You want to connect revenue attribution: Stripe Connect for checkout, or the small /s.js tracker script for your own destination site.
• You want a custom domain instead of linksync.me.

How linksync's tracker compares to Bitly and Linktree

Both Bitly and Linktree track clicks. Neither classifies the click by the platform it came from without you tagging UTMs, and neither follows the visitor through to a purchase. Bitly's free plan also routes traffic through an interstitial page before the destination loads. linksync ships automatic classification on every plan, keeps the redirect direct, and adds session-level attribution once revenue is connected. See the full Bitly comparison for the row-by-row breakdown.