10 Best URL Shortify Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
URL Shortify has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to URL Shortify
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BetterLinks – Link Shortener, Link Cloaking, Redirects, Affiliate Link Manager & MCP
4.8 (85) 20,000+ active installsShorten, cloak, redirect & track every link in WordPress. Branded short URLs, click analytics, affiliate links & MCP access for AI assistants.
Shares the affiliate links, url shortener tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 15 days ago.
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PrettyLinks
Paid version availablePrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links
4.8 (1,318) 200,000+ active installs🌠 Shorten, brand, and track any URL on your own domain. Keep your links — and your data — where they belong. 🔗
Shares the affiliate links, url shortener tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 13 days ago.
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Easy Affiliate Links
Paid version available4.2 (34) 7,000+ active installsEasily manage and cloak all your affiliate links.
Shares the cloaking tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 19 days ago.
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ThirstyAffiliates
Paid version availableThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin
4.6 (251) 30,000+ active installs🔗 Affiliate link management & cloaker tool. Easily manage, shrink and track your affiliate links in WordPress. 🔥
Shares the affiliate links tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.7, last updated 13 days ago.
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AffiliateX – Amazon Affiliate Plugin, Product Boxes, Comparison Tables & Affiliate Link Tracking
4.5 (34) 9,000+ active installsAffiliateX is the best WordPress Amazon Affiliate Plugin. Create professional affiliate websites with customizable WordPress Amazon Affiliate Blocks.
Shares the affiliate links tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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4.9 (157) 100,000+ active installsLets you make a WordPress page (or port or other content type) link to a URL of your choosing (on your site, or on another site), instead of its norma …
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.7, last updated April 4, 2026.
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Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields
4.8 (418) 100,000+ active installsPods is a framework for creating, managing, and deploying customized content types and fields for any project.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 7 days ago.
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Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense
4.9 (1,462) 100,000+ active installsThe only complete toolkit for all ad types. Grow your revenue with AdSense, Amazon—or any affiliate network. Get pinpoint targeting and best support!
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.7, last updated August 3, 2026.
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Product Feed Manager for WooCommerce – CTX Feed – Support 220+ Shopping, AI & Social Channels
4.6 (831) 80,000+ active installsCreate WooCommerce product feeds for Google Shopping, Facebook, TikTok & 220+ channels. 2026 compliant. 6 formats.
About 8 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.7, last updated today.
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Internal Link Juicer: SEO Auto Linker for WordPress
4.7 (534) 90,000+ active installsImprove your SEO and your user experience through internal linkbuilding. Automated links between your posts based on a smart keyword configuration.
About 9 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
Switching from URL Shortify: common questions
What is the best alternative to URL Shortify?
BetterLinks is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 20,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which URL Shortify alternative has the most users?
PrettyLinks, with 200,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which URL Shortify alternative is rated highest?
Advanced Ads, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 1,462 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these URL Shortify alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with URL Shortify score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against URL Shortify on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
BetterLinks is the closest match to URL Shortify by the data we track, and PrettyLinks has the widest reach with 200,000+ active installs. Product Feed Manager for WooCommerce shipped the most recent release, on September 6, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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