CheckLink
See what a link or a QR code holds before you share or open it, remove the parts that track you and copy a clean link. Everything happens on your device, and nothing is opened.
Check a link or a QR code
CheckLink reads the link here and never opens it. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Or drop or paste a picture. CheckLink reads the code in it on this device; the picture is not sent anywhere.
The camera is used only after you press Scan with camera, and only until a code is found. Nothing is recorded or sent.
Scan with camera
Hold the code in view of the camera, about a hand's width away. CheckLink looks for it a few times a second, on this device. Nothing is recorded, kept or sent.
From your picture
What CheckLink found
The full link
Where it really goes:
Red and struck through: removed from the clean link.- Bold and underlined: where the link goes, the part of the name its owner registered.
- Dotted underline in a dashed box: a part CheckLink found but keeps, because its box below is unticked.
- Dotted underline, no box: kept on purpose, because the page needs it. Each one is explained under Kept on purpose.
- a Boxed letter: from another alphabet; it only looks like a Latin letter.
- Everything else stays.
What it tells others
Ticked parts are removed from the clean link. Untick a part to keep it, for example an affiliate tag that pays someone you want to support.
Parts marked Unrecognised are not on CheckLink's verified lists for this kind of page, so CheckLink cannot say what they tell. A post, video or product page like this is found by its address alone, so they are ticked as well; a short name such as t, which often changes what a page shows, is left unticked. Tick or untick any of them to choose.
Kept on purpose
These parts stay because the page needs them. Each has a dotted underline with no box in the full link. Tick Remove anyway to take one out.
Things to know
No warning signs found. That does not prove the site is genuine: check that this is the address you expected.
Clean link
Nothing is removed, so the clean link is the same as the original.
Opens in a new tab, in this browser.
Did CheckLink break your link? Email us. Your email app opens with a message for you to check before you send it.
QR code of the clean link
Anyone who scans it can open this link.
It holds exactly this text:
Scan it from this screen, or take a screenshot.
Pin only
A second link to the same spot. It opens the map at this location, without the place's own page and without the context above.
Place only
A third link to the same place. It opens the place's own page, without the route or searches that led to it.
Android app: the same checks on your phone. Share a link, or a picture of a QR code, into it from any app.
One permission: the camera, used only while you scan. No internet access.
Get the Android app on Zapstore (opens in a new tab)
