One Short Link, Three Destinations: iPhone, Android, and Everyone Else

A short link normally does one thing: it sends everybody to the same place. That works right up until the place you want to send someone depends on the phone in their hand.

Say you have released an app. The link should open the App Store on an iPhone, Google Play on an Android, and your website on a laptop. One destination cannot be all three — so most people post three links, or one link to a landing page that asks visitors to pick. Both leak clicks.

A Linkhiver short link can route by device instead.

One link, three outcomes

Every short link has two optional destinations alongside the main one:

• iOS URL — where iPhone, iPad and iPod visitors land
• Android URL — where Android phone visitors land

Everyone else — desktop, Android tablets, anything the browser does not identify — goes to your original destination. So the link on your bio page, in your newsletter and printed on a flyer is a single link, and it still does the right thing three different ways.

This is the mechanic the industry calls a smart link.

What that usually costs

Smart links are mostly sold as a separate product, priced for record labels:

Prices checked 29 August 2026.

A full year of Linkhiver Pro costs less than two months of Linkfire's cheapest plan.

To be straight about it: Linkfire and Feature.fm are music-marketing platforms. They run pre-save campaigns, detect streaming services and build release pages — Linkhiver does none of that. What Linkhiver does is the part most people came for: send the right visitor to the right place from one link, in the same dashboard as your bio page and your click analytics.

Two ways people use it

App downloads. One link in every bio, ad and email. iPhone users land on your App Store listing, Android users on Google Play, desktop users on your marketing page — with no "choose your platform" screen in between.

A music release. Point iOS at your Apple Music album and Android at Spotify, or send both to the app while desktop gets the web player. Fans tap once and land inside an app they already have installed.

The rest of the Pro link settings

Device routing arrived with three siblings, all on the same plan:

• Expiry — the link stops working on a date you choose. Good for a launch window or a limited offer.
• UTM parameters — source, medium and campaign are attached to the destination automatically, so the click shows up in your own analytics, not only in ours.
• Password — the destination opens only for people who have the password. Useful for client deliverables and paid files.

Setting one up

1. Open Short links in your Linkhiver dashboard, and create or edit a link.
2. Open the App linking tab and paste your iOS and Android URLs.
3. Save. The next tap from an iPhone goes exactly where you sent it.

Short links themselves are free: ten of them, each with a QR code, click tracking and a destination you can change after sharing. Device routing, expiry, UTM and passwords are the Pro layer, and Pro raises the cap to 100 links.

Create your free short link — then decide whether one destination was ever enough.