Butterlink

The problem is one most people don't notice until it becomes annoying: tap a link inside Instagram, Twitter, or any other app, and it opens in a stripped-down in-app browser. You lose your saved logins, your password manager doesn't trigger, and the page loads in an environment you can't fully trust. The app is essentially intercepting your browsing.

Butterlink fixes this. You wrap any URL with Butterlink, share the resulting link, and when someone taps it, it redirects them to their real system browser — Safari, Chrome, Firefox, whatever they have set as default. No in-app webview. No interception. The link lands where it should.

I built it because I kept running into the problem myself. The tool is deliberately simple: no account required, no tracking, no ads. Every link gets a private statistics URL so you can see how it's performing without exposing that data to anyone else. There's also a built-in inspection tool — paste any shortened URL and see where it actually goes before you open it. A continuously updated domain database flags known phishing and malware destinations before they reach anyone.

Simple infrastructure. Predictable behavior.