Several social media sites don't let you add multiple links in your bio. The best workaround for this is to make a bio-link or link-in-bio page that lets you add links and other details about yourself using simple and free-to-use web apps like these.

Solo.to and Linktree are the leaders in this space, helping make your Instagram look more professional. But they have their own shortcomings, such as tiered pricing that puts essential features behind a paywall, lack of customization for the user, or generally being difficult to use. That's why several alternative bio-link services have popped up that promise to let you create gorgeous social profile pages for free.

UseBioLink is a truly free app to make bio-link pages with no hidden restrictions nor platform branding at the bottom

Most bio-link platforms have one of three limitations in their free account: you can't choose your URL name, you will see the platform's branding on your bio page, or you can't see analytics. UseBioLink removes all these restrictions in its free account and, as a cherry on top, includes several ways to customize your page's design and layout.

Once you register, the app takes you through a few steps to choose your basic layout, what you do, and add social and website links. The real magic happens on the main edit page. Here, you can add more buttons or links to your page, choose how the buttons look, change the theme and the background, and customize the font style and color.

UseBioLink has a few more tricks up its sleeve. You can optimize your SEO ranking with a Meta title and description for the page. There's also an option to ask users to subscribe and send them updates via newsletters. And you can display a "Sensitive Material" warning if you share such content.

The free plan lets you see weekly analytics, lifetime views, clicks, CTR%, and subscribers. The Pro plan ($5.9 monthly) has more powerful insights and lets you use a custom domain.

Herolinks is a forever-free bio-link maker that lets you schedule links for later, which is a crucial feature for social media campaigns

Much like UseBioLink, Herolinks was born out of the frustration of paying a monthly fee for a simple bio page on major sites. Herolinks promises to be free forever (running off donations) while offering paid features of sites like Linktree, which you can check in their comparison. But unlike UseBioLink, you will see platform branding at the bottom of the page.

The user interface of Herolinks is quite easy, even if you're a beginner. Clicking "Add New Link" gives options to insert links, headers, item dividers, contact details, and embedded media for YouTube, Twitter, Spotify, Slideshare, Soundcloud, etc. The embedded media looks like a link box on the homepage, but tapping it will open the media within your bio-link page, so the user doesn't navigate away.

Herolinks also lets you customize the design elements of your profile in detail. You can set different button styles, change your avatar box shape, choose different font styles, sizes, and weightage, and play with the color palette in all elements.

One of the coolest features is scheduling posts, which almost every other bio-link site makes you pay for. It's an essential feature for social media managers as campaigns and posts need to go live at a certain date and time. Herolinks lets you schedule these in advance without charging anything.

3. Munch (Web): Drag-and-Drop Editor for Bio Page With E-Commerce Store

Munch offers a simple drag-and-drop interface for making personal bio-link pages for your social media profiles

When you can build drag-and-drop websites without coding, why should a bio page be any different? Munch wants to make it as easy as possible for any user to make a custom bio page for mobiles by arranging elements in any order they want. It's also completely free with custom URLs available, but you will get a "Made With Bunch" branding at the bottom of the page.

You can obviously expect the basic elements like adding text, images or videos, and link buttons anywhere you want. Munch profiles stand out because of the widgets for several services like YouTube, Spotify or Apple Music, Calendly, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Canva, etc. These live widgets let visitors to your page interact with items without leaving your bio, which is a fantastic tool for someone like a musician who can showcase their Spotify playlist embedded on their page.

Munch's other great quality is a built-in e-commerce store with the option to connect a Stripe account. You'll have to manually add products in your personal store, with details like name, description, images or videos, and pricing. You can then embed these products in your Munch bio page directly, easily adding or removing them as per your inventory.

4. Bio Sites (Web): Minimalist, Beautiful, Feature-Rich Bio Pages by Squarespace

Bio Sites is a minimalist and gorgeous way to create link-in-bio pages, with the backing of a strong web host in Squarespace

In the past few years, several bio-link-makers have launched and shut down after a while. If you invest time and energy in making a site, you want long-term assurance. Bio Sites, already a few years old, offers that reassurance as it is owned by Squarespace, one of the biggest free website creators and hosting solutions on the web.

With a Bio Sites account, you'll first need to choose one of the many templates they offer and fill it up with your details, followed by online handles for Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, Spotify, Discord, LinkedIn, Patreon, Pinterest, and email. And you can add as many web page links as you want.

The advanced editor surprisingly doesn't give you a lot of customization. It adds live widgets to embed YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, or other such media, like in Munch. But you can't customize the fonts, change the layout, or customize design elements that make it look drastically different from the template. You can view this any way you want: as too restrictive if you want to use your own creativity or as a way to ensure your bio link continues to look minimalist when you're not gifted with a designer's eye.

Bento lets you make beautiful bio-link pages for both desktop and mobile screens

Bento is a new app that gives you custom URLs for free with a beautiful bio page. Since it's newly launched, there is still a waitlist for new registrations, but you will find invite codes to skip the line on various sites like Product Hunt or TechCrunch.

When you create a new account, Bento will first ask you to choose a username that will be your profile page; they're quick to point out that many of the good names are still available for free due to being new. You'll also want to add a profile picture and a bio. Then add links to your pages on different social networks or websites like Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Hacker News, personal website, etc. Bento also lets you add important links to your page for visitors to get shortcuts to anything you want to promote.

Bento shows the final page as it will appear on desktop and on mobile screens. You can customize the design layout individually, like choosing links to appear as buttons, a headline, or a box with a preview image. Check out the Bento Explore page to see how other users have created creative and gorgeous profile pages for various jobs and uses. When you're happy with the final result, copy the link to your personal page and share it wherever you want.

Keep It Simple, Silly

When you've chosen the bio-link app that best meets your requirements, remember not to overload it with information. Far too many people make the mistake of turning a bio-link page into an extensive online portfolio. Instead, your motto should be to keep it simple and not overwhelm your visitor. The page needs only a few links to what you want to showcase in the current moment. If you have more to share, host it on a personal website and add it as a link in this bio-link page.