Open Source YOURLS AlternativesURL Shorteners and other similar apps like YOURLS

The best open source alternative to YOURLS is Kutt. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to YOURLS and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to YOURLS are Fli.so, Dub.co, Polr and MagLit.

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  1. Kutt icon
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    Kutt.it is a free and open source URL shortener with custom domains and stats.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Google Chrome
     
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    This warning should be removed, the website is working properly. There were a few downtimes, but now they have a large community and the project is actively developed. Keep in mind that it's open source, and you can easily deploy it to your own server or VPS.

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    • Kutt is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to YOURLS.

    • Kutt is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to YOURLS.

    • Kutt is Freemium and Open SourceYOURLS is Free and Open Source
  2. Fli.so icon
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    Fli.so is a lightning-fast URL shortener built with SvelteKit and PocketBase. Clean interface, powerful features, zero complexity. Shorten, customize, and track your links with Fli.so. The easiest way to manage your links, all in one platform.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Dub.co icon
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    Open-source link management offering analytics, free QR code generation for every short link, custom domains, advanced targeting options, team collaboration features, enterprise SAML SSO security, detailed reporting, and integration with existing workflows.

    89 Dub.co alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Polr icon
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    Like everything else here, Polr is an open source and self-hostable web application. It's a fast and simple URL shortener with a robust API for using with command line applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
     
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    • Most users think Polr is a great YOURLS alternative.

    • Polr is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to YOURLS.

    • Polr is Free and Open SourceYOURLS is also Free and Open Source
  5. MagLit icon
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    MagLit is an encrypted and privacy respecting Link Shortener service that supports not only your regular website links but also Magnet Links which are extensively used to download and share torrents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Shlink icon
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    A self-hosted and PHP-based URL shortener application with CLI and REST interfaces

    134 Shlink alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Zero Width Shortener (abbreviated as ZWS) is a URL shortener that shortens URLs using spaces that have zero width, making them invisible to humans.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Flink is a simple, free, libre, and open source URL shortener built with love and an ASP.NET Core 8 Web API. Why yet another URL shortener, you might ask yourself? Well, because Flink has a unique feature set, and demands around scalability, simplicity, security, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
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    OpenShort.link is the all-in-one, open-source, serverless URL shortener. It runs 100% on Cloudflare and offers one-click installation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Cloudflare
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Gull icon
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    Gull is a url shortener inspired by an outdated and not maintained shorterner, mnml! Developer aeolyus brought new life in this project and is ready to use on the website or self hospitable with Docker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Docker
    • YunoHost
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. UrlHum icon
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    UrlHum provides advanced analytics data without ruining users experience and keeping their Privacy safe.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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