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.
YOURLS
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo109 YOURLS alternatives- Free • Open Source
- URL Shortener
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
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.
YOURLS Features
Lessn More
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo82 Lessn More alternatives- Free • Open Source
- URL Shortener
- Online
- Self-Hosted
Lessn More is a fork of Lessn with support for more types of short URLs than Lessn supported; stats; and other enhancements.
Lessn More Features
DiscontinuedLast GitHub commit on 2017.
Lessn
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- URL Shortener
82 Lessn alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
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.
DiscontinuedLast update on 2014.
lilURL
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo73 lilURL alternatives- Free • Open Source
- URL Shortener
- Online
- Self-Hosted
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)).
DiscontinuedLast release is from 2005-04-25