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Link Management

4 open source tools compared. Sorted by stars. Scroll down for our analysis.

By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.

ToolStarsVelocityLanguageLicenseScore
YOURLS

🔗 The 𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰 standard, self hosted, powerful and customizable, URL shortener in PHP

12.2k-PHPMIT License65
kutt

Free Modern URL Shortener.

11.1k-JavaScriptMIT License65
shlink

The definitive self-hosted URL shortener

5.3k-PHPMIT License55
zws

Shorten URLs using invisible spaces

1.8k-TypeScriptApache License 2.047

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