Know which link actually made the money.
Short links, QR codes and click-to-revenue analytics for marketers who would rather not pay per feature.
No account needed. Links made here are live for 24 hours.
Free forever for 50 links a month, with every feature switched on. Half what Dub charges.
The resolver
What happens in the moment after a click.
A short link is a decision, not a lookup. Shortline runs the same five steps on every request, in a fixed order, so a targeted link behaves the same way every time.
01Device rules
On an iPhone? Straight to the App Store. Everyone else carries on.
02Country rules
German traffic lands on the German page, not a language picker.
03Split test
Whatever is left is divided by weight across up to five destinations.
04Campaign tags
UTM and ref parameters are written on, and inbound ones pass through.
05Recorded
Country, city, device, browser, referrer and QR-versus-tap, in one write.
Live from the demo workspace
Not a screenshot. This is the real dashboard.
Every number below is queried from the same database the product writes to, rendered by the same components the app uses. Sign in to the demo workspace and you will see this page from the inside.
- Clicks tracked
- 23.8K
- across 16 links
- Leads attributed
- 822
- 3.5% of clicks
- Revenue traced back
- $20,043
- 199 sales
Where the clicks came from
- United Kingdom4,308
- Canada4,167
- Germany3,782
- United States2,779
- India2,527
- France2,386
What referred them
- instagram.com4,357
- news.ycombinator.com4,088
- producthunt.com3,653
- Direct3,330
- github.com2,386
- linkedin.com1,880
Or sign in as demo@shortline.link with the password shortline.
The whole pitch
The same features. Half the price.
Dub gates password protection, expiry, targeting and cloaking behind $30 a month, and conversion tracking, split tests and webhooks behind $90. Shortline gates nothing. Here is the like-for-like.
| Shortline | Dub | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid price | $15 / month | $30 / month |
| Team tier price | $45 / month | $90 / month |
| Free links per month | 50 | 25 |
| Free tracked events | 1,500 | 1,000 |
| Free analytics history | 1 year | 30 days |
| Annual discount | 20% | 10% |
| Password protection | Every plan | From $30 |
| Link expiry and expiry URL | Every plan | From $30 |
| Geo and device targeting | Every plan | From $30 |
| Link cloaking | Every plan | From $30 |
What you get on every plan
Nothing here is an upsell.
Password protection, expiry, targeting, cloaking, split tests and conversion tracking are on from the free tier. Dub gates all of them.
The builder
Every option on one screen, not behind a plan.
Set the destination and the key, then open only the options you actually need. The pills light up when something is configured, so a link never hides a rule you forgot about.
- Campaign tags written on at redirect time, so what you share stays clean
- Custom social card, password, expiry and click cap
- Readable keys derived from the destination’s own title
Destination URL
Short link
Link builder
Targeting
One link that knows who is holding the phone.
Device rules run first, then country rules, then any split test. The order is fixed, so a targeted link behaves the same way on every single request.
- Separate iOS and Android destinations for deep links
- Per-country routing to localised pages
- Up to five weighted variants, minimum ten percent each
go.northwind.studio/app
One key, four answers
- iPhone, anywhereapps.apple.com/northwind
- Android, anywhereplay.google.com/northwind
- Anyone in Germanynorthwind.studio/de/app
- Everyone elsenorthwind.studio/app
Device and country routing
Analytics
Follow the click all the way to the money.
Every click is recorded with its country, city, device, browser, referrer and whether it was a tap or a scan. Then leads and sales attach to the link that earned them.
- Seventeen breakdowns, cross-filterable by clicking any row
- Conversion tracking included, where Dub charges $90 a month
- Export every facet as CSV on any plan, including free
- Clicks
- 23,940
- Leads
- 823
- Revenue
- $20,043
- United States6,200
- United Kingdom3,844
- Germany2,914
- Canada1,922
- Australia1,364
Clicks by country
QR codes
A code you can restyle, on a link you can repoint.
Colour, dot shape and corner style, downloadable as SVG or PNG at print resolution. Error correction is pinned high so a logo in the middle never breaks the scan.
- No Shortline mark on any plan, including free
- Scans counted separately from taps in analytics
- Change the destination after the poster is printed
Dot shape
Scans this month
4,812
Counted separately from taps
QR styling
Social cards
Control how a link looks before anyone clicks it.
Set the title, description and image a link shows in Slack, X, LinkedIn and iMessage — independent of whatever the destination happens to have in its head tag.
- Read the destination’s own tags in one click, then edit them
- Crawlers get the card, everyone else gets the redirect
- Search indexing off by default, so a short link never outranks its page
Introducing Northwind 4.0
The release that replaces your entire reporting stack.
Custom social card
Start with the free plan. It is a real one.
50 links and 1,500 tracked clicks a month, a year of history, and every feature on this page. No card.
- No credit card
- No feature gates
- Export everything, always
