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What’s New Version 1.0.18
- Clean Links now supports resolving short links from over 1600 URL shorteners
- Clean Links can now automatically resolve custom-branded domain short links from 6 popular URL shorteners
- Clean Links now strips trackers from a link tucked inside query parameters of another link
- Added support for stripping hundreds more tracking parameters from various popular sites.
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. If you enjoy the app, leaving an App Store review is a great way to support us. We are committed to continually improving the app and to making it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to ask in our Discord server, tweet at @CleanLinksApp or email us at support@cleanlinks.app
Description
Protect yourself from dangerous QR codes and tracking-filled links. Send clean links from your iPhone directly to your Mac's browser. Clean Links reveals what's really behind every QR code and URL before you open them.
QR Code Reader - See real destinations before clicking dangerous links
Link Cleaner - Strip UTM parameters and other trackers from any URL instantly
Send to Mac - Open cleaned links on your Mac, even when it's offline
Phishing Protection - Detect and unmask suspicious shortened links
QR Generator - Create clean, safe QR codes from trusted links
Safari extension - Clean all tracking parameters from links on a webpage in a single tap
Unshorten URLs - Reveal the true destination behind any shortened link
Block Trackers - Automatically block ad trackers, UTM tags, and click IDs across 71+ services
iOS Integration - Share Extension, Control Center widget, Safari extension, Siri and Shortcuts
100% Private - No ads, no tracking, no data collection
Stop quishing attacks. Block advertiser tracking. Take control of your digital privacy with one simple free tool.
Clean Links works with URLs and QR codes containing tracking parameters from hundreds of social media, shopping, search engines, and other apps and websites.
■ Send Links to Your Mac
Share cleaned links from your iPhone or iPad directly to your Mac's browser. Links arrive even when your Mac is offline. Trigger shortcuts on your Macs from your iOS devices.
Requirements: Clean Links on both devices, iCloud enabled, same Apple account.
■ Hyperduck alternative - completely free, cleans tracking before sending, supports multiple Macs.
■ Unlike other link cleaners, Clean Links has no ads, no subscriptions, and no data collection. It also includes a Safari extension, QR scanner, send-to-Mac, clipboard watcher, and Shortcuts - all for free.
■ Link Sharing FAQ
‣ Better than AirDrop? Works offline, across networks, much faster, opens links in the background.
‣ Better than iCloud Tabs? Works in any app. Links open as tabs you cannot miss. Any browser.
‣ Better than Safari Reading List? Links open right in your browser. Any browser.
‣ Better than Handoff? Works even when devices aren't nearby. Also, Clean Links supports Handoff.
‣ Multiple Macs? Yes. Send to all your Macs with Clean Links installed and the same Apple account.
‣ Exclude a Mac? Disable receiving links in the macOS app's settings.
■ Found a tracker Clean Links missed? Let us know via the links in the app's Settings and help improve Clean Links for everyone.
Download Clean Links and take control of your digital privacy
Capabilities
Safari extension
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Version history 19 versions
Build 886480404v1.0.182026-07-03 14:59:33
- Clean Links now supports resolving short links from over 1600 URL shorteners
- Clean Links can now automatically resolve custom-branded domain short links from 6 popular URL shorteners
- Clean Links now strips trackers from a link tucked inside query parameters of another link
- Added support for stripping hundreds more tracking parameters from various popular sites.
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. If you enjoy the app, leaving an App Store review is a great way to support us. We are committed to continually improving the app and to making it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to ask in our Discord server, tweet at @CleanLinksApp or email us at support@cleanlinks.app
Build 885157753v1.0.172026-05-21 08:40:26
- Clean Links can now show every redirect followed and every tracker stripped when cleaning a link
- Clean Links now optionally keeps five of your most recently cleaned links in sync across your devices
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. If you enjoy the app, leaving an App Store review is a great way to support us. We are committed to continually improving the app and to making it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to ask in our Discord server, tweet at @CleanLinksApp or email us at support@cleanlinks.app
Build 885025862v1.0.162026-05-01 09:06:36
- Safari extension now strips tracking parameters from URLs automatically as you browse
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and link shorteners.
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. If you enjoy the app, leaving an App Store review is a great way to support us. We are committed to continually improving the app and to making it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to ask in our Discord server, tweet at @CleanLinksApp or email us at support@cleanlinks.app
Build 884775460v1.0.152026-04-27 19:29:31
Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to make it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to ask in our Discord server, email us at support@cleanlinks.app, or tweet at @CleanLinksApp. If you enjoy the app, leaving an App Store review is a great way to support us.
Build 883894086v1.0.142026-04-07 18:55:54
- Improved Handoff between iOS and macOS versions of the app
- Accessibility improvements
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to make it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to ask in our Discord server, email us at support@cleanlinks.app, or tweet at @CleanLinksApp. If you enjoy the app, leaving an App Store review is a great way to support us.
Build 883378840v1.0.132026-03-29 11:57:30
- New Safari extension to remove tracking parameters from all urls on a webpage.
- Added an option to disable network requests during URL cleaning, with settings and Shortcuts controls.
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners.
- Minor bug fixes and updates.
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to make it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to ask in our Discord server, email us at support@cleanlinks.app, or tweet at @CleanLinksApp. If you enjoy the app, leaving an App Store review is a great way to support us.
Build 883188387v1.0.122026-03-12 08:49:43
- Based on popular demand, support for iOS (17.6), previously we only supported iOS 18 and newer.
- Please note that due to backwards compatibility issues, some functionality like (some) Shortcuts and iOS Control Center widgets are not available on older iOS versions.
- Another user requested feature: Support for the x-callback-url spec.
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners.
- Minor bug fixes and updates.
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to make it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to ask in our Discord server, email us at support@cleanlinks.app, or tweet at @CleanLinksApp. If you enjoy the app, leaving an App Store review is a great way to support us.
Build 881866643v1.0.112026-01-29 13:17:04
- Support for opening links in the Google Chrome browser, when it's installed
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to make it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to ask in our Discord server, email us at support@cleanlinks.app, or tweet at @CleanLinksApp. If you enjoy the app, leaving an App Store review is a great way to support us.
Build 879816885v1.0.102025-11-18 03:52:28
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to make it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to ask in our Discord server, email us at support@cleanlinks.app, or tweet at @CleanLinksApp. If you enjoy the app, leaving an App Store review is a great way to support us.
Build 879060828v1.0.92025-10-25 19:08:13
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Build 878767133v1.0.82025-10-12 11:53:44
- Support sending links to users' Macs with Clean Links.
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Build 878231473v1.0.72025-09-19 09:44:29
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Build 877559474v1.0.62025-09-02 07:48:37
- The app now needs iOS 18 or newer to run (older versions still run on iOS 17)
- Support for cleaning URLs from many new websites
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to making it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to join our Discord server, or tweet us @cleanlinksapp, or email us at support@cleanlinks.app. If you enjoy the app, leaving a review on the App Store is a great way to support us.
Build 877491737v1.0.52025-08-25 10:08:17
- Support for cleaning URLs from many new websites.
- Minor bug fixes and updates.
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to making it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to join our Discord server, or tweet us @cleanlinksapp, or email us at support@cleanlinks.app. If you enjoy the app, leaving a review on the App Store is a great way to support us.
Build 877279194v1.0.42025-08-20 11:05:25
- iPad support
- Support for cleaning urls from email trackers like Beehiv, Buttondown, Kajabi, Mailchimp, etc.
- Support for cleaning urls from many new websites.
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Build 877195877v1.0.32025-08-15 07:19:07
- Support for Handoff between macOS and iOS versions of the app.
- Support for cleaning ad-tracking URLs from Bing and Google (and their clients: DuckDuckGo and Ecosia)
- Support for cleaning and un-shortening Facebook share links.
- Support for un-shortening Amazon and goo.gl short links.
- Support for manually editing cleaned links.
- Support for dragging and dropping images with QR codes onto the app.
- Option to open links in native app (if installed) for links from the following apps: Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Snapchat, Spotify, TikTok, Twitter, Youtube and Zoom.
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Build 876914527v1.0.22025-08-11 11:56:08
- Support for older versions of iOS (iOS 17.6 or newer).
- Support for 5 more url shorteners and many more websites.
- In some cases, the app can now learn (fully on-device) to clean links from new url shortener domains when it sees one for the first time.
- QR code cleaning App intent for use from the Shortcuts app (needs iOS 18 or newer).
- Minor bugfixes and improvements.
Build 876721308v1.0.12025-07-29 21:59:00
- Fixed a bug where share extension was not working in the Youtube app
- Three new alternative app icons
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Build 875665020v1.02025-07-25 16:32:29
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Change log 23 changes · US
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releaseNotes updated
- Clean Links now supports resolving short links from over 1600 URL shorteners
- Clean Links can now automatically resolve custom-branded domain short links fro
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description updated
Protect yourself from dangerous QR codes and tracking-filled links. Send clean links from your iPhone directly to your Mac's browser. Clean Links reveals what's
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subtitle updated
Strip trackers · QR scanner
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Clean Links: URL Cleaner
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Version 1.0.18 released
- Clean Links now supports resolving short links from over 1600 URL shorteners
- Clean Links can now automatically resolve custom-branded domain short links from 6 popular URL shorteners
- Clean Links now strips trackers from a link tucked
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Version 1.0.17 released
- Clean Links can now show every redirect followed and every tracker stripped when cleaning a link
- Clean Links now optionally keeps five of your most recently cleaned links in sync across your devices
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank
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Version 1.0.16 released
- Safari extension now strips tracking parameters from URLs automatically as you browse
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and link shorteners.
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. If you enjoy
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Version 1.0.15 released
Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to make it more useful for you. For support requests and feature suggestions, please feel free to ask in our Discord server,
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Version 1.0.14 released
- Improved Handoff between iOS and macOS versions of the app
- Accessibility improvements
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to make it more useful for you.
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Version 1.0.13 released
- New Safari extension to remove tracking parameters from all urls on a webpage.
- Added an option to disable network requests during URL cleaning, with settings and Shortcuts controls.
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites an
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Version 1.0.12 released
- Based on popular demand, support for iOS (17.6), previously we only supported iOS 18 and newer.
- Please note that due to backwards compatibility issues, some functionality like (some) Shortcuts and iOS Control Center widgets are not ava
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Version 1.0.11 released
- Support for opening links in the Google Chrome browser, when it's installed
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to cont
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Version 1.0.10 released
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to make it more useful for you. For support request
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Version 1.0.9 released
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners
- Minor bug fixes and updates
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Version 1.0.8 released
- Support sending links to users' Macs with Clean Links.
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners
- Minor bug fixes and updates
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Version 1.0.7 released
- Support for cleaning URLs from many more websites and URL shorteners
- Minor bug fixes and updates
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Version 1.0.6 released
- The app now needs iOS 18 or newer to run (older versions still run on iOS 17)
- Support for cleaning URLs from many new websites
- Minor bug fixes and updates
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the
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Version 1.0.5 released
- Support for cleaning URLs from many new websites.
- Minor bug fixes and updates.
Thank you for choosing Clean Links. We are committed to continue improving the app and to making it more useful for you. For support requests and feature su
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Version 1.0.4 released
- iPad support
- Support for cleaning urls from email trackers like Beehiv, Buttondown, Kajabi, Mailchimp, etc.
- Support for cleaning urls from many new websites.
- Minor bug fixes and updates
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Version 1.0.3 released
- Support for Handoff between macOS and iOS versions of the app.
- Support for cleaning ad-tracking URLs from Bing and Google (and their clients: DuckDuckGo and Ecosia)
- Support for cleaning and un-shortening Facebook share links.
- Suppor
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Version 1.0.2 released
- Support for older versions of iOS (iOS 17.6 or newer).
- Support for 5 more url shorteners and many more websites.
- In some cases, the app can now learn (fully on-device) to clean links from new url shortener domains when it sees one for
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Version 1.0.1 released
- Fixed a bug where share extension was not working in the Youtube app
- Three new alternative app icons
- Minor bug fixes and updates
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Version 1.0 released