the comparison
A Bento alternative where the blocks do things.
A page can look designed and still collect an address, take a vote, or sell a ticket. Here is what urls.bio puts in the blocks.
A bio page is usually judged on how it looks, and that is fair: it is the first thing anybody sees. The question this page answers is what happens after somebody has finished looking at it.
urls.bio ships six theme presets, each a whole page rather than a palette, and blocks that take an action: a vote, a booking, an address, a ticket. Both halves matter, and neither is a skin over the other.
what we do
The trade, in full.
- one committed design system
Real typography, real spacing, and themes that change on the page while you look at them. Fonts, colors, button shape, avatar shape, and backgrounds are yours to set, and the result reads like something you built rather than something you filled in.
See the six themes- 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- motion you can switch off
Ten animations, six that reveal a block as it scrolls in and four that play once in place, set on one block or on the whole page. Off by default, and off entirely for a visitor whose device asks for reduced motion.
Block animations- 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- a page that starts built
Seven starter pages, each seeding real blocks in a sensible order with a theme, a font, and a background already set. Every placeholder is a prompt to replace rather than lorem, and a starter is only ever applied to a page with nothing on it.
Starter pages- 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- 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 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.
Bento 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 beaconsThe page and the people who found it, without a storefront bolted on. What urls.bio does, and what it deliberately does not.
- 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.
- How much of the design can I change?
- The theme preset, your two colors, the font, the background (solid, gradient, image, or one of seven generated patterns), the button shape and style, and the avatar shape. Every change lands on the page while you are looking at it.
- Can I lay blocks out in a grid?
- No. Blocks stack in one column, in the order you drag them, which is the layout that holds up on the phone almost everybody arrives on.
- Does a page collect anything?
- Yes. An email block writes every address to your own list, and a poll, a contact form, or a ticket block each end in something happening rather than in a link out.