What it is

Flyn turns a long URL into a short branded link you control, then tells you the truth about what happened to it.

The part I actually care about

Most shorteners count every hit as a click. Link previews, security scanners and crawlers all land in the same number you end up reporting. Flyn classifies traffic at redirect time and keeps bots in a separate counter next to the human one, so nothing is silently added or silently thrown away. AI assistant referrals like ChatGPT and Perplexity get their own channel instead of being dumped into Direct, which is where most analytics put them.

Classification runs after the redirect is already served, so it costs the visitor no latency.

Other things it does

Custom domains, so links carry your brand rather than mine

QR codes, static and dynamic, with logo and brand colours

Repointable destinations, so a printed QR or a bio link never goes dead

Routing by country and device, plus mobile deep links that survive Instagram and Facebook in-app browsers, where app handoffs normally break

Password protection, expiry dates, click limits with a fallback URL

Conversion tracking and retargeting pixels

Multi-layer destination safety: category blocklists, Google Safe Browsing, redirect-chain resolution and page-content classification

For developers

REST API, webhooks, a Zapier app, a Chrome extension, and an MCP server at flyn.to/mcp so AI assistants can create and analyse links directly.

Stack

Next.js 15 and React 19 on Vercel, Supabase for Postgres and auth, Tailwind 4, PostHog for analytics, Polar for billing, Cloudflare in front.

Pricing

Free plan is permanent, 25 new links a month, no card. Pro is $12/month or $9/month billed annually.