Change where it goes
Printed the wrong URL on a poster? Point the same short link somewhere else. Redirects are 302s, so browsers never cache the old target.
anonymous link shortener
Long links, re-routed.
re-routed
liveYour edit link. Save it now
It’s the only key to change, pause or delete this link and to see its stats. We keep a fingerprint of it, not the link itself, so it can’t be recovered.
Your links on this device
Stored only in this browser. Clear site data and they’re gone.
how it works
Four steps, no sign-up.
No account and no password, so there’s nothing to forget. The edit link does that job.
Paste
Drop in any http or https link, up to 2,048 characters. Pick an alias or let us roll a random one.
Re-route
You get a short link, a QR code and a private edit link. We store a fingerprint of the edit link, never the link itself.
Share
Every click is a fast 302 redirect. Nothing is set on the visitor’s device and no IP is written down.
Tweak
Open the edit link to change the target, pause the link, set an expiry, or read its stats.
why this one
Short links that stay yours.
Most shorteners want an account first. This one gives you a key and leaves you alone.
Clicks only you can see
Clicks over time, countries, referrers, devices and busy hours. Only the edit link can open them, and link-preview bots are filtered out.
Custom aliases
re-route.link/launch reads better than a random string. Or leave it blank and get seven random characters.
No accounts, no cookies
We don’t know who you are and we don’t want to. Visitors get redirected, not profiled.
what gets counted
Stats, not surveillance.
Each click is boiled down to a few coarse counters the moment it arrives. Nothing on this list can point back at one person.
+ Counted
- Clicks per hour
- Daily unique visitors, via a hash whose salt is thrown away every midnight
- Country
- Referring site: the domain only, never the page
- Device type, browser family and OS family
- Browser language
× Never stored
- IP addresses
- Cookies or anything else saved on the visitor’s device
- Full referrer URLs or search terms
- Browser versions, screen sizes or fingerprints
- Who made the link
- Anything sent to third parties
open source
Read the code. Run your own.
MIT licensed. One Node process and one SQLite file, and no build step. If you don’t trust us with your links, host it yourself.
# needs Node 22.13 or newer
$ npm install
$ PUBLIC_URL=https://your.domain npm start
re-route.link listening on :8787