Modern Self-Hosted URL Shortener

Launch your own professional URL shortener with Kutt — a modern, self-hosted link management platform built for businesses, developers, agencies, and SaaS projects. 🚀

Kutt provides everything you need to create, manage, and monitor shortened URLs under your own brand and domain. Instead of relying on third-party URL-shortening services, you can deploy your own platform and maintain full control over your links, users, configuration, and data.

🔗 Powerful URL Shortening

Create clean, short, memorable URLs that are easier to share across websites, social media, marketing campaigns, emails, QR codes, and other platforms.

You can also create custom short URLs instead of relying only on automatically generated aliases.

🌐 Custom Domain Support

Build a branded URL-shortening service using your own domain.

For example:

yourbrand.com/abc123

This makes your links look more professional and helps maintain consistent branding across your marketing campaigns and digital products.

📊 Link Statistics

Monitor your shortened links and access useful statistics to understand how your links are being used.

This makes the platform suitable for marketing campaigns, content distribution, product promotion, internal company links, and other tracking-oriented use cases.

👥 User & Admin Management

Kutt includes functionality for managing users and links through an administration interface.

You can configure registration, anonymous link creation, authentication, and other platform-level settings according to your requirements.

🔐 Advanced Link Controls

Create links with additional controls such as:

• Custom URLs
• Password protection
• Link descriptions
• Expiration times
• Private statistics
• User-specific link management

These features make the platform considerably more flexible than a basic URL-shortening script.

🛠️ Self-Hosted & Customizable

Kutt is designed with self-hosting in mind.

You can deploy it on your own server and customize the appearance and behavior of the platform to match your business or brand.

The project supports:

• SQLite
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL/MariaDB
• Redis caching
• Docker deployment
• Environment-based configuration
• OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• Custom themes and CSS
• Custom images and templates

⚡ Developer-Friendly API

A RESTful API is available, making it possible to integrate URL shortening into your own applications, websites, automation systems, dashboards, and internal tools.

This allows developers to build automated workflows instead of manually creating shortened URLs.

🐳 Docker Support

Deployment can be simplified using Docker and Docker Compose, making the platform suitable for VPS servers, cloud infrastructure, development environments, and self-hosted deployments.

🎨 Fully Customizable Branding

Adapt the platform to your project by modifying:

• Logo
• Favicon
• CSS
• Images
• Templates
• Themes
• Site name
• Domain configuration
• Authentication settings

You can transform the default installation into a branded URL-shortening service for your company or clients.

💼 Ideal For

This solution is suitable for:

• SaaS businesses
• Digital marketing agencies
• Developers
• Startups
• Affiliate marketers
• Social media managers
• Content creators
• Businesses
• Internal company tools
• Agencies building branded link platforms
• Entrepreneurs launching a URL-shortening service

⭐ Key Features

• Modern URL-shortening platform
• Self-hosted deployment
• Custom domain support
• Custom short URLs
• Link creation and management
• Password-protected links
• Link expiration
• Link descriptions
• Statistics and analytics
• User management
• Admin dashboard
• RESTful API
• Docker support
• SQLite support
• PostgreSQL support
• MySQL/MariaDB support
• Redis support
• OIDC authentication
• Custom themes
• Custom branding
• Configurable registration
• Anonymous-link controls