Open-source alternatives to Bitly
Bitly shortens links and reports clicks on them. The list below is every catalog tool tagged URL Shorteners, which is the closest the catalog gets to the same job; none of them has been checked feature by feature against Bitly.
| Tool | Stars |
|---|---|
YOURLS is a set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run Your Own URL Shortener. Features include password protection, URL customization, bookmarklets, statistics, API, plugins, jsonp. MIT · released 2026-08-30 | 12,221 |
Modern URL shortener with support for custom domains and custom URLs. MIT · released 2026-07-05 | 11,082 |
URL shortener with REST API and command line interface. Includes official progressive web application and docker images. MIT · released 2026-09-06 | 5,270 |
Simple, lightning-fast URL shortener with no bloat (fork of simply-shorten). MIT · released 2026-09-05 | 964 |
A nonbloated, modern, and highly configurable file/screenshot vault server with support for ShareX, Flameshot, and Spectacle. Offers OCR search and more. MIT · released 2026-08-01 | 133 |
Fast, lightweight, resource-efficient, compiled URL shortener. MIT · released 2026-08-07 | 106 |
File and link sharing platform with URL shortening, code snippet sharing, and file uploads, featuring customizable expiration, privacy settings, and QR codes. CC0-1.0 · released 2026-07-24 | 84 |
KISS URL shortener, public or private (with account). Minimalist and lightweight. No dependencies. MIT · released 2015-05-09 | 60 |
Create QR Codes, embeddable link previews for your website and crawls/scrapes metadata. MIT · released unknown | n/a |
A super-minimal link shortening service written in pure C, focusing on small executable size, portability, and ease of configuration. AGPL-3.0 · released unknown | n/a |
Lightweight link shortener written in Rust, with features such as caching, spambot protection and phishing detection. MPL-2.0 · released unknown | n/a |
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