Linky: Share links & more6.4.5 - App Store

Linky lets you easily share webpage links, images and text extracts to Mastodon and Bluesky from your iPhone and iPad.

Write your post, choose which preferred social networks and Linky will do the rest! You can connect Linky to Mastodon and Bluesky.

Linky's very own iOS Share Extension allows you to post messages without ever leaving third-party applications.

Want to share a webpage Link? Linky can insert both the url and the title of the webpage as required. Linky will suggest images related to shared links and can attach them to your messages. It can also shorten links, giving you access to further link analytics.

How about selected text in Safari? Linky's Web Clipper extracts selected text and carries it over to the composer sheet, ready for you to edit. You can also make a text shot from the text selection for sharing as a beautiful image.

What about a great photo? Share images easily from Photos app and third-party applications. You can also preview the shared image in fullscreen before sending it.

Share any text too! Bring up the extension, the text is copied in the message, edit if required and share. It's that simple.

Use Markup to annotate, crop and edit images inline. Write or draw on the attachment, or add arrows and lenses, or obscure sensitive information.

"Linky 5.0 removes friction from sharing links, quotes, and images. I appreciate the intelligent use of Open Graph and Media Cards to save even more time, and I'm a fan of the deeper controls Linky brings when compared to the default share sheet. I can't recommend Linky enough." - MacStories

"Linky turbocharges sharing links and images from Safari or other apps supporting iOS extensions." 4/5 - Macworld

Prizes :
. MacStories Must-Have iOS Apps, 2019 Edition
. MacStories Must-Have iOS Apps, 2018 Edition
. MacStories Must-Have iOS Apps, 2017 Edition
. MacStories Must-Have iOS Apps, 2016 Edition
. MacStories Must-Have iOS Apps, 2015 Edition
. MacStories Must-Have iOS Apps, 2014 Edition

Features:
. Supports Mastodon and Bluesky.
. Post messages simultaneously on multiple accounts.
. iOS Share Extension is integrated directly into Safari and many other third-party apps, allowing to directly share text, images and web page links.
. Add multiple images to your messages (animated gif images are supported).
. Image preview in fullscreen.
. Suggestion of images related to shared links.
. Share selected text in Safari as a text shot image.
. Convert music links from Apple Music or Spotify into a single link that works across different streaming service.
. Markup: annotate, crop and edit images inline. Available tools: Sketch, arrows, lenses, text blocks, pixelate, crop & rotate.
. Links, hashtags and mentions are color-highlighted when composing.
. Usernames are auto-completed when typing the @ symbol.
. Links can be shortened when the message is sent using bit.ly, CloudApp, Droplr, Goo.gl, and yourls.org (all link-shorteners require an account).
. Clipboard URL: If a URL is copied to the clipboard from another application, Linky will ask whether you want to use it.
. URL Scheme to launch Linky from other apps using the x-callback-url specification (in-app documentation and examples).
. VoiceOver accessibility for the visually impaired.
. Universal App (iPhone, iPad, iPad Pro).
. Supports iOS multitasking (Slide Over and Split View on the iPad).
. Haptic feedbacks.
. Supports both portrait and landscape orientations on the iPhone and the iPad.

Version History • Reduce message length for Bluesky by replacing long URLs with compact ones — just like the official Bluesky app does.
• Privacy has been improved by no longer relying on Firebase/Crashlytics for anonymous feature analytics and crash reporting. Anonymous crash reports are now handled through iOS’s built-in mechanism (user opt-in), and feature analytics has been completely removed.
• The app, which was already lightweight, has been further reduced in size by 32%, going from 12.5 MB to 8.5 MB. 6.4.5 10/14/2025 Fixed a bug where posting a message containing a link to a Bluesky account could fail with an error. 6.4.4 08/15/2025 - Added support for iOS 18 tinted app icons.
- Fixed metadata extraction for YouTube links.
- Removed support for Songwhip as the service has been discontinued. 6.4.3 09/27/2024 Added hashtag support for Bluesky.

— And moreover, you can follow us on Bluesky at @pragmaticcode.com 6.4.2 03/01/2024 Resolved an issue with Bluesky accounts where sending messages accompanied by image attachments would fail. 6.4.1 02/27/2024 This version adds support for Bluesky and brings optimizations for Mastodon and iOS 17.

- First-class integration of Bluesky with support for media cards, image attachments, and alt text.

- The character limit for Mastodon now depends on the configuration of your instance (it is usually 500 characters, but not always). Note that it may take several hours to get the correct value in the user interface.

- Makes some optimizations for iOS 17. Linky now requires iOS 16 or higher. 6.4 09/25/2023 Fixed a bug that could prevent Linky being opened from Safari. 6.3.8 08/02/2023 This update removes Twitter integration from Linky.

Twitter has changed its policy regarding third-party application access to its network and no longer provides a reasonable offer that would allow Twitter to continue to be integrated into Linky. We had no alternative but to remove Twitter support from Linky. 6.3.7 07/20/2023 - Added the ability to copy or share attached images: long press the image thumbnail and select the action in the contextual menu.
- Modernized code base for future proofing.
- Linky now requires iOS 15 or later. 6.3.6 03/28/2023 Added support for modern contextual menus with previews in the message editor: long-press the “Link”, “Title” or “Text Clip” buttons in the toolbar to get a quick preview. 6.3.5 01/16/2023 # Improved Universal Music Links feature

- Added the possibility to use Songwhip as an alternative to Songlink. Go to "Settings > Extension Settings > Universal Music Links" to choose your preferred service.

- Linky now gets the short URL link for both Songwhip and Songlink.

- Fixed a bug where song tracks links went to their corresponding album.
# Other additions

- Added a link to our Mastodon account in the settings. You can follow us at @pragmaticcode@mastodon.social.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent to add pictures with the webp format from the photos picker. 6.3.4 01/08/2023 - Added support for attaching an alternative text (alt-text) to the images. It works for both Twitter and Mastodon.

To add an alternative text, tap on the image thumbnail to open the image editor -or- long press the image thumbnail and select the action in the contextual menu.

As a side note, for Text Shots, the text in the image has always been automatically attached as an alternative text. This behavior doesn't change with this update.

- Fixed a crash that could happen when attaching a large size photo in the Share Extension.

- Added some optimizations for iOS 16. 6.3.3 12/31/2022 - Added support for new iPhone (late 2020) screen sizes.
- Added support for new Photos privacy permissions introduced in iOS 14.
- Added support for extracting the text, links and pictures from Twitter tweet URLs.
- In order to have more transparency with clipboard usage, Clipboard Detection is now an opt-in preference that you can enable by going to “Settings > Clipboard Detection”. Like before, Clipboad Detection allows to check your clipboard for URLs and pictures to help you quickly add them to your messages. Like before, these checks only happen on your device and the clipboard content is not sent anywhere. Linky will ask if you want to turn on the feature when upgrading to this version.

# OTHER
- Fixed a bug where the title and the picture could not be extracted from YouTube URLs.
- iOS 13+ is now required. 6.3.2 01/21/2021 Updated bit.ly url shortener integration for future proofing. 6.3.1 02/26/2020 This update adds support for iOS 13 and Dark Mode.

# Bug Fixes:
- Fixed title parsing with Universal Music Links.
- Fixed issue where signing in with decentralised.social (Mastodon instance) would fail.

# Other Changes:
- Removed 1Password dedicated button in sign-in sheets because it's now built-in in iOS.
- Linky now requires iOS 12.4 or later. 6.3 11/26/2019 Fixed a crash that could occur when launching the message composer. 6.2.2 07/22/2019 - Improved url extraction when sharing from News app.
- Improved analytics tags stripping from shared URLs (Google Analytics UTM parameters, …). 6.2.1 07/03/2019 Linky 6.2 allows to make better Text Shots with two big new features: making text highlights and customizing the visual appearance.

Open the editor by tapping on the Text Shot thumbnail in the message composer. Here is what you can do:

∙ Making text highlights:
Swip over the text to highlight the parts you want people to pay attention to. You can make multiple highlights and choose between different colors.

Selecting the text is easy and fast because unlike a manual selection character by character, the selection is done by words. This is made possible by prior analysis of the text to determine the language and split it into sentences and words.

Once an initial selection is done, swiping the lower or upper bound moves the selection character by character so that it can be adjusted precisely if needed.

∙ Customizing the appearance:
Adjust the style between white, sepia, gray and black variants. Choose the text font and adapt other settings to make the Text Shot you like.

Choose the highlighted style: make it plain or select the natural style that uses a random highlighter texture varying with each line of text.
## OTHER IMPROVEMENTS:
- Added 2 new items in the tips gallery: “how to create universal music links” and “how to share to Messages, Mail and third party apps.”
- The application is now built using Swift 5 which reduces the app size by more than 40% on iOS 12.2+.
- Fixed Universal Music Links initiated from Apple Music app.
- Fix user interface glitches in the message composer.
- Removed Songwhip provider (Universal Music Links) due to an incompatibility introduced with recent changes in Apple Music. 6.2 05/28/2019 Fix sign-in issue with Pleroma Mastodon instance. 6.1.6 05/06/2019 Fixed a bug that could prevent images with a wide color depth (eg. iOS screenshots) from being sent to Twitter. 6.1.5 02/09/2019 - Added a keyboard shortcut (CMD + ENTER) to send the current message.
- Removed support for Google URL Shortener because Google will discontinue the service on March 30, 2019.
- Fixed an issue for extracting the url when sharing links from Medium app.
- Fixed a bug when editing the message where the message would not be scrolled automatically to ensure that the edited text was visible. 6.1.4 02/04/2019 Improves integration with Mastodon:
- Adds support for content warning message.
- Adds support for sensitive content media option. 6.1.3 12/05/2018 - Optimized for latest iPad devices.
- Tweaked application icon and some colors in the user interface for wide color gamut displays. 6.1.2 11/05/2018 • Added a Home Screen Quick Action to show the message composer.
• Fixed an issue where sign in with Mastodon could fail with some instances including pawoo.net.
• Removed the ability to send the same message to multiple Twitter accounts in order to comply with Twitter tightened anti-spam rules. Note that this does *not* affect cross posting, i.e. sending a message to different services (Twitter + Mastodon). 6.1.1 10/02/2018 • Added support for Mastodon.
• Optimized for iOS 12.
• Optimized for iPhone XS Max. 6.1 09/25/2018