Five of them are another hosted bio template. One is just a page you wrote, at a URL. Here is who each one actually suits — including the people who should stay on Linktree.
Three self-contained layouts that already work on a phone. Pick one, edit the text, publish. Nothing leaves your browser until you do.
HTML · an avatar, a line about you, and your links in a column.
Almost every “Linktree alternative” list is the same list: six products that do what Linktree does, ranked by price. That is useful if your complaint is the price. It is useless if your complaint is the shape — that a bio page is a stack of identical buttons under an avatar, and yours needs a paragraph, a photo grid, an embedded video, or a table of tour dates.
So this page splits the question in two. If you want a bio page and a dashboard telling you which link got tapped, the hosted tools below are genuinely better than anything you would build, and Linktree is still the strongest of them. If what you want is a page, dochost takes the HTML or Markdown you paste — or that ChatGPT or Claude writes for you — and gives it a URL, with no template in the way and no account to create. Start from one of the layouts above and edit it until it is yours.
A ceramicist sells through three channels — a Shopify store, an Etsy shop for seconds, and a waitlist for kiln openings — and had all three on a free Linktree. It worked, but the page could not say the one thing that actually mattered: that the Etsy listings are seconds, and the waitlist is the only way to get first-quality work. Three identical buttons cannot carry that; people kept buying the wrong thing and asking for refunds.
What replaced it is forty lines of HTML: a photo at the top, one short paragraph explaining the difference, then the three links with a line of context under each. She wrote none of it herself — she described the page to Claude, pasted the result here, and swapped the photo URL. The refund emails stopped. What she gave up is real: she no longer knows which of the three links gets tapped most, because dochost counts page views and not link clicks. For her that was worth it. For someone optimising a funnel it would not be.
These are not competing versions of the same product. Linktree is a hosted bio page with a click dashboard; dochost hosts a page you wrote. The row that decides it for most people is the third one.
| dochost | Linktree | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A page rendered from the HTML or Markdown you paste | A hosted profile built from their blocks and themes |
| Layout control | Total — it is your markup, including CSS and JavaScript | Their templates, their button shapes, their order |
| Per-link click analytics | No. Page views only | Yes, per link, over time — and it is the reason to pay them |
| Account needed to publish | None | Required |
| Free tier | Unlimited pages; each link stays live 7 days | Unlimited links, permanent, with Linktree branding on the page |
| Built-in payments and email capture | No — you would embed a third-party form yourself | Yes, on paid tiers |
Pick Linktree if you need to know which link got tapped, or you want payments and email capture without wiring anything. Pick dochost if the page itself is the point — a launch page, a press kit, a link hub with actual writing on it — and a stack of identical buttons cannot say what you need to say.
Ordered by who they suit, not by who pays us — none of them do. Deliberately no price figures for the other five: they vary by region and change often enough that any number here would be wrong within months. Check their pricing page before you decide.
Paste HTML or Markdown — or have an AI write it — and you get a URL. There is no template, which is the whole point and also the catch: the layout is your responsibility, and there are no per-link click stats.
The category default for a reason: the click dashboard, the integrations and the payment blocks are genuinely good, and the free tier is not crippled. You are renting their template, and everyone can tell.
Cards you arrange on a grid, with real embeds — a Spotify player, a GitHub graph, a photo — rather than a link that leads to them. It looks modern without any work. Weaker when what you have is mostly text.
Aimed squarely at creators who sell: digital products, tips, email capture and a media kit are built in rather than bolted on. Heavier than you want if you only need three links.
The step up from a bio page to an actual single-page site, with a proper editor. If “Linktree but I want sections” is your complaint, this is usually the answer. It is a site builder, so expect to spend an evening in it.
Costs nothing extra if you are already in Notion, and edits are instant. We wrote up the trade-offs in [Notion public pages vs dochost](/blog/notion-public-pages-vs-dochost). The URL is ugly and the page loads like an app, not a page.
Free links last 7 days with a free account. On a paid plan every page you create stays online permanently.
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