the comparison
A Beacons alternative built around the list.
If what you want from a bio link is the page and the people, rather than a shop attached to it, this is the trade urls.bio makes.
Plenty of creator tools grow by adding another thing to sell. urls.bio grew by adding ways for a visitor to become somebody you can reach again, which is a narrower job and a different set of decisions.
So the honest version is this: if you need a storefront and digital product delivery, we are the wrong tool and it is better to know now. If you want the page, the blocks, and a list nobody else has custody of, everything below is what you get.
what we do
The trade, in full.
- own your list
Every visitor can leave an email, and the address is written to a list stored against your profile. Export the whole thing to CSV whenever you want, with the date each person subscribed. Close the account and the addresses are still yours.
Email capture- instant sync
New subscribers land in Klaviyo, Mailchimp, beehiiv, or your own webhook on the same request that thanks the visitor. Nothing waits for a nightly job, so the welcome flow you already built fires while they are still on the page.
See the integrations- write to the list, not just collect it
Posts go out from no-reply@yourhandle.urls.bio with your name on the front and replies landing in your inbox. The review sheet counts who it reaches and who is skipped before it sends, and the report afterwards shows delivered, opened, clicked, unsubscribed, and marked spam. Part of Pro.
The newsletter- 24 block types
A page is assembled, not configured. Polls with live results, countdowns to a release, a voice intro in your own voice, galleries that open full screen in a lightbox, a discount code that copies itself, embeds that play in place.
Every block type- honest analytics on every plan
Views and subscribers by day, clicks per link, referrers, and a country map, free from day one. Your own visits and known bots are dropped before anything is written down, and visitor IPs are hashed rather than stored raw. Pro adds the 90 day and one year ranges.
What analytics show- free to start
Claim the handle you want and your page is live in a few minutes. No card at signup, and the free plan is free forever rather than free for a fortnight. Pro is there when you want the history, the sync, and your own domain.
Claim your handle- custom domains on pro
Point your own domain at your page for $5.99 a month. One DNS record, a certificate issued automatically once it resolves, and your urls.bio address keeps working alongside it.
How domains work
what we do not do
The parts you should know before you switch.
- no storefront
- There is no product catalog, no cart, and no order management. You can copy a discount code, sell event tickets through DIY Stubs, and link to the shop you already run, but the shop itself lives somewhere else.
- no digital product delivery
- We do not host a course, take the payment for it, or send the buyer their file afterwards. A Pro page can hand over a PDF or a ZIP as a free download, and that is the whole of it.
- no follower count games
- There are no vanity scores, no leaderboards, and no badge that unlocks at ten thousand of anything. The numbers we show you are clicks, subscribers, and where they came from.
- no ads marketplace
- We do not sell placements on your page, and no brand can pay to appear on it. The only things on your page are the ones you put there.
Beacons is not affiliated with urls.bio, and nothing on this page describes its features, pricing, or policies. Compare it yourself before you move.
other comparisons
- vs linktreeThe list you own and the sync that fires on the same request. What urls.bio does with the address a visitor leaves behind.
- vs bentoSix themes that change the whole page, and blocks that do more than sit there. What urls.bio ships for a page you want to look at.
- vs stan storeThe page, the audience, and the newsletter, with no product hosting anywhere in it. The clearest trade of the four.
questions
Straight answers.
- Can I sell anything from the page?
- Event tickets, through a DIY Stubs block that checks out on the page. Everything else is a link to the shop you already run, or a discount code that copies itself on the way there.
- Is there a free plan?
- Yes, and it stays free. Unlimited links, themes, email capture, and the last 30 days of analytics, with no card at signup.
- What do I get on Pro?
- The 90 day and one year analytics ranges, list sync, the newsletter, contact forms, file downloads, page passcodes, your own domain, and no urls.bio branding, for $5.99 a month.