Free tools for better links.
Three small tools we use ourselves. No sign-up, no watermark, no tracking, and they all work with zou.sh short links.
- Free, no sign-up
- Runs in your browser
- Works with any link
In detail
What each tool does.
All three run in your browser and send nothing to us, unless you ask them to shorten or expand a link.
- QR code generator
- PNG up to 2048 px, or SVG for print
- Your colors, with a contrast check
- Error correction from L to H
- Optional: shorten first for a simpler code
- UTM builder
- All five UTM tags, plus utm_id
- Presets for email, social, print and podcasts
- Lowercase and spaces cleaned for you
- Shorten the tagged link in one click
- Link expander
- Works with zou.sh, bit.ly, tinyurl.com, t.co…
- Every redirect, with its HTTP status
- Final domain checked against a phishing blocklist
- Never loads the page in your browser
Automate it
The same tools, from code.
Every short link already has a QR code at /qr, and the link expander has its own API endpoint. No key needed.
https://zou.sh/<code>/qrSVG QR code of any zou.sh linkGET /v1/expand?url=…Redirect chain and final destinationPOST /v1/linksShorten a URL, tags included
Or just shorten a link.
Free, no sign-up. It takes one paste.