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24 alternatives to Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links

I created this a year or so ago but recently made updates and I thought people might like to know that it exists. I made this to easily send links or text to someone else verbally, like over the phone or over voice chat (which is what I made it for). The goal is to be able to tell the link to someone else without being ambiguous or needing to spell it out, so I grabbed the words off a Grade 5 level dictionary. I understand that the domain itself doesn’t qualify but I’m trying to get a better domain.

Zigg.be is a link shortener that converts URLs into short phrases made from Grade 5 vocabulary words, designed to be spoken aloud without ambiguity or spelling. It's built for anyone who needs to share links verbally… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Shorten URLs with zero-width characters

    2019 · zws.im · its alternatives →

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    linkmoji▲456

    The emoji URL shortener (🍕💩.ws)

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Y.GY▲184

    A simple link shortener and QR code creator

    2024 · app.y.gy · its alternatives →

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    An alternative to stack traces for your Go errors. Contribute to bracesdev/errtrace development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🏹.to▲97

    The Smartest Emoji URL shortener 🤓🔗🗜

    2017 · xn--kn8h.to · its alternatives →

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    Shorten URLs like a pro

    2021 · rapidapi-example-url-shortener.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    A premium emoji URL shortener in your pocket

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A single compiled binary that renders one curated status line for fish, bash and zsh, and binds the up arrow to its own history picker. The slowest module runs as a task via std.Io while the rest run alongside it, so a render costs about what its slowest probe costs.

    Jul 2026 · yamafaktory.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Make your URL looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonger

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    👨‍🚀 buzz, A small/lightweight statically typed scripting language - buzz-language/buzz

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Shorten, track & customize your links

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    q.gy▲31

    World’s Shortest URL Shortener

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Ziggeo▲68

    Embeddable video API for messages, reviews, etc.

    2015 · ziggeo.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14US
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    + Link▲72

    A URL Shortener that helps combat phishing

    2018 · plus.link · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone. I built an MTProto proxy for Telegram aimed at bypassing active DPI censorship like the Russian TSPU. I chose Zig because it's perfect for writing fast network daemons and makes it incredibly easy to port low-level C bypass techniques like TCP desync and packet fragmentation. Would love to get some feedback or contributors!

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Was bored at work so I threw this together. First bash at a Node app. Built a simple Chrome extension for it too.

    2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I wanted something lighter than zig autodoc so I've implemented (and golfed a bit) a custom parser using parser combinators in JS. It's not 100% correct and it's also not meant to be, all I care about is if it can parse my own Zig code, not any valid Zig code. There are also some bugs, and I don't intend to support, nor develop this much further, consider it vaporware which you are free to fork and use it for something, or just have some fun reading the code and figuring out how it works (I certainly had a lot of fun implementing it - no LLMs, so it was a nice exercise too). BTW: I know it's…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Shorten any URL and get a short one using parg.co tool

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Scalable URL Shortener with Custom Keywords & QR Integration

    2025 · shortcraze-3377.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  21. 21IB

    Hi everyone, I recently built a tool called Ziggy. Ziggy is a alternative to tools like Typeform except Ziggy uses AI to ask dynamic questions like you would ask when doing an interview with a user with some pretty powerful analytics. It's completely open source and was made to help save time and money doing 1-on-1 interviews with a lot of users in a short amount of time. We're also looking for any and all feedback so let me know what you think! Give it a try here by doing a feedback survey for Ziggy: https://www.useziggy.com/zy/MtAp-d7ebzylr

    2024 · useziggy.com · its alternatives →

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    Free url shortener, boost clicks, create short links

    2025 · diref.com.co · its alternatives →

  23. 23LS
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    MagLit▲20

    Open source privacy respecting encrypted link shortener

    2022 · its alternatives →

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