Shorty AlternativesURL Shorteners and other similar apps like Shorty

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' 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, Cloudron, Mac and Windows 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 alternatives page was last updated Nov 27, 2014
  1. YOURLS icon
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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

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    Admin Panel

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron

    YOURLS Features

    1.  HTTPS Support
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    YOURLS VS Shorty

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

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

    • YOURLS is Free and Open SourceShorty is Free and Proprietary
  2. Lessn More icon
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    Lessn More is a fork of Lessn with support for more types of short URLs than Lessn supported; stats; and other enhancements.

    78 Lessn More alternatives
    Ready to share a shortened link (this is actually a redirection to lessnmore.net)

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    Lessn More Features

    1.  Server-side
    Discontinued

    Last GitHub commit on 2017.

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  3. Lessn icon
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    Lessn is an extremely simple, personal url shortener written in PHP with MySQL and mod_rewrite.

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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Discontinued

    Last update on 2014.

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    • Lessn is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Shorty.

    • Lessn is Free and Open SourceShorty is Free and Proprietary
  4.  Like this app

    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)).

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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Discontinued

    Last release is from 2005-04-25

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