About kortste.link

A free link shortener with no account and no tracking.

What it does

Paste a long link, get a short one back. No account, no email address, no confirmation step. The short link keeps working for as long as the service exists.

How the codes work

Every link gets a six-character code drawn from 0–9 and a–z. That is 36 symbols in six positions, so 2,176,782,336 possible codes.

The codes are neither random nor handed out in order. An internal counter increments, and that counter passes through a reversible encryption before it becomes a code. So no code can ever repeat, and yet one code tells you nothing about what the next one will be.

What does not happen

• We store no IP addresses.
• We set no cookies.
• We sell nothing on and do not follow you across other sites.
• We do not alter your link — no affiliate codes are added.

Limits

You can create ten links per minute and two hundred per day. Links to private addresses, to this service itself, and links using any protocol other than http or https are refused.

Made in Amsterdam

kortste.link runs on Cloudflare's network, close to whoever is visiting.