Short.io

Short.io
Formerly Short.cm

Score 8.1 out of 10
Short.io

Overview

What is Short.io?

Short.io (formerly Short.cm) is a custom domain URL shortener used to create, customize, and share short branded links. The vendor boasts advanced features like country/region/mobile targeting; set up UTM-tags, link expiration/cloaking; apply API for developers; free email and online support....
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What is Short.io?

Short.io (formerly Short.cm) is a custom domain URL shortener used to create, customize, and share short branded links. The vendor boasts advanced features like country/region/mobile targeting; set up UTM-tags, link expiration/cloaking; apply API for developers; free email and online support. Users…

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  • No setup fee
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting / Integration Services

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Bitly (Bit.ly) is one of the most popular link shortening tools. The vendor says it shortens 1 billion links per month. The company is privately held, based in New York City, and was founded in 2008.

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Product Details

What is Short.io?

Short.io (formerly Short.cm) is a custom domain URL shortener used to create, customize, and share short branded links. The vendor boasts advanced features like country/region/mobile targeting; set up UTM-tags, link expiration/cloaking; apply API for developers; free email and online support. Users can manage short links with colleagues by using the Team option. The integrations with Google Analytics, GTM, Segment, Zapier, and Facebook Pixel are also available.

Short.io Features

  • Supported: Link Expiration
  • Supported: API for developers
  • Supported: Teams
  • Supported: Bulk URL Shortening

Short.io Screenshots

Screenshot of The Link ListScreenshot of The Link Edit WindowScreenshot of Short.cm for TeamsScreenshot of Detailed Statistics

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July 11, 2022

Short.io Review

Moises Abraham Lacayo Cortes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Short.io is used to be able to share in an easier way to share course links, the business problems it addresses are the following: there are programs that do not allow you to share long links. Its scope of use is: universities, colleges, schools and businesses, law firms, and doctor's offices.
  • Click tracking.
  • Campaign tracking.
  • Statistics
  • Short links.
  • More international.
  • Best Spanish translation.
  • Best prices.
Short.io adapts well in business scenarios, in educational scenarios to do research work it is a very good tool, either for university or college educational level, likewise, it does not adapt well in medical research scenarios, nor in scenarios when it comes to using different types of web pages.
April 01, 2022

Simple and efficient

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use it to shorten links and send them out for marketing abs communication purposes. The tracking of the links also helps us to determine if our marketing efforts are worthwhile or need to be adjusted.
  • Shorten links.
  • Track clicks.
  • Manage links.
  • More features.
  • More instructions.
  • Clearer guidance.
Short is great for taking a long, detailed link and making it shorter so it’s more aesthetically pleasing and easier to add on emails/social media. The tracking feature is great and helps us oversee our efforts.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Short.cm is used in my organisation to shorten long links while working on customer support contacts where the text message character limit is only 260 letters. Also, it is a great software that readily provides shortened links which are useful to present on documents, presentations, and Zoom meetings. It helped me and my organisation save a lot of money by avoiding sending while responding to customers.
  • Shorten long company's self support/help article links.
  • Provides specific/curated domains for different businesses/companies.
  • The links are customisable. Eg: https://ly.abc.com/ProjectReview.
  • Short.cm could have integrated themselves into daily apps like Gmail, Twitter, etc so users do not need to go to the website, shorten the link and go back to their messaging tool.
  • Request short.cm to provide more features in the basic/free version of their software.
  • I do not see Short.cm doing enough marketing for their software to be used by general internet users.
Short.cm is best suited where you need to type something with a character limit and you can't afford to add long links. Instead, you can shorten the link using Short.cm and paste it into the messaging app. Example: Twitter has a character limit for tweets. Short.cm is less appropriate for apps like Gmail, Slack, etc that have an inbuilt hyperlinking mechanism making Short.cm's usage is very minimal. (My personal experience).
Aditya Reddy Bhavanam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We integrate Short.cm with Slack so that our chat conversations look better when using the URLs. For example, as a QA, if I find any defect and need to explain it to devs from the URL, it will be difficult to understand the URL sometimes and I use Short.cm to shorten the URL and make it understandable.
  • Provides crisp URLs
  • Easy to use
  • Gives us tips
  • I would like to be able to hover over the short URL to show the original URL when the original is too big.
It's easy to integrate and use and is very flexible with no downtimes seemingly. It is more useful for development and testing and less useful for business people as they want real URLs to be seen.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use it in our own business to shorten links or customize the links that we share. I also set it up for one of my client's sales team as they were sending Loom videos via Instagram to their leads and the Loom URLs are long and ugly. Short.io allowed us to customize the Loom videos URL with the prospect's name, making it much more personalized and sharable.
  • Shorten links.
  • Customize Links.
  • Reporting/Data on how many people clicked your link.
  • Had some issues with the login page at one stage, it didn't seem very secure.
If you want some basic analytics on the links you send (e.g. if you're on a sales team and you're sending 1:1 emails and want to know if someone clicked your link). If you want to customize a link URL for a specific partner or person. If you want to shorten your URL.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The links we send to customers include several lengthy (and ugly) tracking parameters. These long URLs look spammy when sent over text. Short.cm / Short.io condenses these links into short, aesthetic, custom branded short links that customers are more likely to click on. We also put these links in direct mail, which makes it a lot easier for the potential customer to type into a browser.
  • User interface very intuitive.
  • Deep link functionality.
  • Informative statistics dashboard.
  • Difficult for non technical folk to purchase and register domains.
Short.cm / Short.io has a very intuitive user interface that anyone can pick up. The software has plenty of statistics and tracking options so you can evaluate how your links are doing. Short is well suited for any scenario where you're sending big ugly links to customers, whether it be via email, text, or physical mail.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use it as a link shortener to have a URL that's easy to access for common links that can be memorized and used across the team. We also use it for tracking UTM details when doing blog posts or posting on other forums. So we use it in operations and in marketing within the company.
  • Link Shortening.
  • UTM Tracking.
  • Link Organizing.
  • More user-friendly management of links.
  • The ability to bulk edit tags.
  • The ability to manage tags more
Having used many link shorteners, Short.io is one of the best and most reasonably priced. Does everything I need it to.
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