Honest comparison

A Linktree alternative, including where Linktree wins

Linktree is a bio page. Swyfty is a bio page that came with a shortener attached.

Linktree invented this category and still owns it. The templates are good, the integrations are broad, and there is a real ecosystem around it.

Swyfty is not trying to beat that. SwyftTree, the bio page here, is deliberately plainer. What it has instead is everything else in the same login: short links for individual posts, QR codes, and one analytics view across all of it.

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Free forever plan. No credit card. Pro is $7 a month or $60 a year.

Linktree vs Swyfty, feature by feature

	Linktree	Swyfty
Link in bio page	Yes, the core product, large template library	Yes, plainer, with its own visitor analytics
Shortening arbitrary links	Not what it is for	Yes, this is the core product
Custom slugs on short links	Not applicable	Pro
QR codes	On paid plans	Pro, SVG download
Analytics	Bio page traffic, deeper on higher plans	Country, city, device, browser, OS, referrer, unique vs repeat, across links and bio pages together
Templates and themes	Extensive	Background colour or image, logo, per link colours
Commerce and tipping	Yes	No
Integrations ecosystem	Large	REST API, and that is it
Hourly link health checks	No	Pro
Team seats	On higher plans	No

Linktree prices are shown in local currency and vary by region, so no figures are quoted here rather than quoting the wrong ones. Check linktr.ee/s/pricing for your region. Swyfty is $7 a month or $60 a year everywhere.

When Linktree is the better choice

If any of these is you, Linktree is the right call and this page has done its job.

The bio page is the product for you. If your whole presence is that one link in a profile, Linktree does more with it than SwyftTree does and it is not close.
You want to sell, take tips or collect emails from the page itself. Swyfty has none of that.
You want it to look a specific way. Linktree has a real template library; Swyfty gives you a colour or an image and a logo.
You rely on integrations. Linktree connects to a long list of tools. Swyfty has an API and nothing else.
Your audience recognises the domain. That matters more than people admit when the link sits in a bio.

When Swyfty fits better

All of it on the $7 plan, with a free tier to check first.

You also need to shorten links that are not on the bio page. Linktree is not a shortener, so most people running a bio page end up paying for one of those separately anyway.
You want one number for everything. Swyfty reports bio page visits and short link clicks in the same place, so you are not adding up two dashboards.
You want the QR code for the same link without a third tool.
You want the raw visitor log. Swyfty Pro exports any link to CSV, so the data is yours to slice.
You are wiring this into something. Swyfty has a REST API at 60 requests a minute on the $7 plan.

The short version

If the bio page is the whole job, use Linktree. Swyfty makes sense when the bio page is one of several places you are putting links and you would rather see all of it in one place for $7.

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Try it before you switch anything

The free plan covers 3 links and a bio page with the analytics included, so you can see the click data before deciding whether it beats what you have.