Never lose another click to the in‑app browser.
Every link you post opens the real app instead of that dead-end webview — so your followers actually follow you, your affiliate tags survive the jump, and the pixel you're paying for finally sees the click.
https://linktr.ee/you?utm_source=instagram&fbclid=IwAR2xk…
zipthe.link/you
ZIP IT ⚡Free forever plan · no card · links never expire
The pay-per-click crowd charges $0.02 a click — so the month a post takes off and pulls 20,000 clicks, they bill you $400, while your Zippy bill sits exactly where it started, at $19 flat. Going viral should be the reward, not the invoice.
Your bio link opens a browser where nobody's logged in.
That's the in-app webview, and the cruel trick is that it looks like a real browser right up until it converts like a brick — because the one person who mattered, your visitor, was never signed in.
Login wall
Your “follow me” link asks them to sign in. Nobody signs in twice.
Blind pixel
Cookies are sandboxed — the click happens, your analytics never see it.
Choked checkout
No Apple Pay, no autofill — so the buyer who already tapped walks away at the exact screen meant to take their money.
Watch one tap play out two different ways.
Below is the whole product, playing itself — one follower, one link, two very different endings.
raw link · what usually happens
zippy link · same tap
full disclosure: this demo is scripted theatre — no webview was harmed. the real thing: zipthe.link/try-me from your phone.
Paste any link, ZIP it, and the real app springs open.
Paste your link
Drop in any URL and Zippy reads which platform it’s headed for.
Get your zipped link
Get a short link, or your own custom slug, with the deeplink already baked in.
The REAL app opens
Tapped from inside Instagram or TikTok, your link springs the real app wide open — with your visitor already signed in.
Springs the real app on
- Product Hunt
- YouTube
- TikTok
- X
- more on the way
LinkedIn
Instagram
WhatsApp
Reddit
Product Hunt
YouTube
TikTok
XGo ahead and try it right now.
Scan with your phone — the link opens the YouTube app, not a browser tab.
Yes, it's a real Zippy link. That's the whole point.
Every click has a fate — Link Pulse puts all of them on one screen.
Other tools stop at counting clicks; Link Pulse tells you whether the real app actually opened, and shows you exactly what it cost you every time it didn't.
Clicks · 30d
2,100
Real-app opens
89%
1,874 of 2,100 escaped the in-app browser
Saved clicks
1,874
would've died in a webview
Where your taps ended up
Clicks per day
When your audience clicks
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Real-app rate by platform
- instagram89% real app · 1000 taps
- tiktok90% real app · 600 taps
- youtube91% real app · 488 taps
This is the actual Link Pulse dashboard — same components, demo numbers. Poke it.
App-open rate
The one number no other link tool will show you: how often your taps reached the real app instead of dying in the webview.
Native-app QR codes
Brand-volt QR codes, drawn on our own servers, that spring the real app the moment someone scans them — print them, sticker them, or throw them up on a stage screen.
Preview editor
Control how your link unfurls on WhatsApp, X, and Slack — the title, the text, the image — and rewrite any of it even after you've hit post.
The full funnel
Follow the whole funnel from the first tap to the app opening to the logged-in conversion, broken out by platform, country, and hour — and pull every row of it through the API.
⚡ Founding Hero: lock full Hero in at $99 a year for two whole years— that's $8.25 a month, and it never moves. First batch of 25 seats — when they're gone, the next batch costs more.
One ask: tell us how it went after 30 days — founding seats are for people whose story we can tell.
Pick your power-up. ⚡
Every plan opens the realapp — not the sad little in-app browser. Level up for unlimited links, real analytics, and slugs with your name on 'em.
Go annual, pocket two months. Zippy doesn't judge either way.
Sidekick
$0
forever · no card, no catch
Zippy's trusty starter that punches well above its size.
- Links that open the REAL app, not the in-app browser
- 5 active links
- Total-click counter
- Native-app QR codes
- Smart platform targeting
- Your links live forever — even here
Hero
$19$15/mo
billed $180 once a year — save $48
This is the main-character plan — the one you actually came here for.
- Unlimited links, unlimited clicks — no meters, no bill surprises
- Custom slugs (zipthe.link/yourname)
- Link Pulse analytics — did the real app OPEN? Saved-clicks count, best time to post, geo, device, platform
- Edit any link after you’ve posted it ("living links")
- Bye-bye Zippy branding on your redirects
- Native-app QR codes + platform targeting
- Free white-glove migration — send us your Bitly/Linktree export, we ZIP every link for you
- Affiliate-tag survival, proven — see in Link Pulse that your ?tag= made it through the app jump
Legend
$49$40/mo
billed $480 once a year — save $108
Big-boss mode, built for teams and multi-brand operators.
- Everything in Hero, cranked to 11
- 1 custom domain (your brand, your links)
- 3 team seats
- API access + bulk link creation
- Analytics exports (CSV, the whole vault)
- Priority support — skip the line
Two promises, zero risk.
The Actually-Opens Guarantee. If a Zippy link ever opens the in-app browser instead of the real app on a supported platform, we refund your month and fix it. That's the whole job — we stand behind it.
30-day money-back. Not feeling it in the first 30 days? Email us, get every cent back. No forms, no "sorry to see you go" maze.
Zippy vs the others ⚡
Unlimited clicks, never metered.
URLgenius bills you $0.02 for every single click, so a viral post becomes a punishment. Zippy doesn’t count clicks at all — go as viral as you like at the same flat price.
App-opening, right there on the free plan.
Bitly hides mobile deep linking behind its $199-a-month Premium tier; Zippy opens the real app for everyone, starting at $0.
Links that never expire — and a codebase you can actually own.
Your slugs are permanent, and the redirect engine behind them is open source under the AGPL, so you can self-host the whole thing. Nobody else in this category is.
Fair questions, straight answers.
›Do my links ever expire?
Never. Not on Free, not after a trial, not if you cancel. Once a Zippy link is out in the world, it keeps redirecting — forever. A link that dies in public is the one thing a shortener must never do, so we built the whole system around never doing it.
›What happens to my links if I downgrade or cancel?
They keep working, permanently. If you drop below the plan you made them on, older links past your new limit go "read-only" — they still redirect and keep their custom slug, you just can't edit them or see their analytics until you upgrade again. Nothing breaks for the people clicking.
›What does "unlimited" actually mean on Hero?
Unlimited links and unlimited clicks. We don't meter your traffic or charge you more when a link goes viral. Success shouldn't come with a bigger bill.
›Which apps does Zippy open?
LinkedIn, Instagram, WhatsApp, Reddit, Product Hunt, YouTube, TikTok, and X — with more added as we go. Zippy detects the platform and springs the real app instead of the crippled in-app webview.
›Do I need a credit card to try it?
Nope. Signup starts a 14-day Hero trial with zero card required. When it ends you slide down to Free automatically — no lockout, no surprise charge, and every link you made stays live.
›Can I bring my own domain?
On Legend, yes — one custom domain so your short links wear your brand. Hero and Sidekick use zipthe.link.
›Is there really a free plan forever?
Yes. Five active links, real app-opening, forever, no card. It's a genuine tier, not a countdown in disguise.
›What's the Founding Hero deal?
Founding seats go in small batches — the current batch locks Hero at $99/year for 2 full years. Each batch that sells out, the next one costs more. One ask: tell us how it went after 30 days. When the founding seats are gone, they're gone.
Rather run it yourself?
Zippy's redirect engine is open source under the AGPL, so you're free to fork it, self-host it, and own your links end to end.
Star us on GitHubThe hosted cloud just means you never have to.