Shorty Alternatives

Shorty is described as 'simple tool for creating shorter, human- readable links from long URLs. You install Shorty on your server, so the links you create with it never go away. You can also manage your links and see how often people click on them' and is a URL Shortener in the online services category. There are four alternatives to Shorty, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Windows, Cloudron and Linux apps. The best Shorty alternative is YOURLS, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Shorty are Lessn More, Lessn and lilURL.

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Shorty

Free • Proprietary
URL Shortener

Shorty is a simple tool for creating shorter, human- readable links from long URLs. You install Shorty on your server, so...

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YOURLS
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Free • Open Source
URL Shortener
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YOURLS is a set of PHP script that will allow you to run your own URL shortener, a la TinyURL/bit.ly
- - YOURLS is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Shorty.
- - YOURLS is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Shorty.
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Lessn More
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Free • Open Source
URL Shortener
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82 Lessn More alternatives
Lessn More is a fork of Lessn with support for more types of short URLs than Lessn supported; stats; and other enhancements.
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Server-side
Discontinued
Last GitHub commit on 2017.
Lessn
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Free • Open Source
URL Shortener
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82 Lessn alternatives
Lessn is an extremely simple, personal url shortener written in PHP with MySQL and mod_rewrite.
- - Lessn is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Shorty.
Lessn has no features, suggest some!
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Last update on 2014.
lilURL
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Free • Open Source
URL Shortener
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73 lilURL alternatives
lilURL is a simple PHP/MySQL script for generating lil? URLs. It's similar to TinyURL, Shorl, MakeAShorterLink, etc, but you can run it on your own server ((which is, yeah, pretty much the same thing as TightURL, but that didn't exist when I wrote lilURL)).
lilURL has no features, suggest some!
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Last release is from 2005-04-25
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