Comparison

Clean Links vs ClearShare

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Clean Links

This utility app removes tracking parameters from URLs, reveals the true destination of QR codes before opening, and allows you to send cleaned links between your devices. It prioritizes user privacy with no accounts, subscriptions, or ads.

Highlights
  • Strips tracking parameters from URLs
  • Reveals QR code destinations before opening
  • Sends cleaned links between Apple devices
  • Unshortens shortened URLs
  • Generates QR codes
  • Safari extension for one-tap cleaning
  • Shortcuts and widget integration
Features
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That link a friend just sent you probably has a dozen tracking parameters glued to the end of it. Clean Links strips them off. It also opens up QR codes so you can read where they actually go before you commit to tapping. The app does a handful of things, and does them without an account, a subscription, or an ad: QR reader that shows you the destination URL first. Quishing scams work because nobody can read a QR code with their eyes, so you scan and hope. This one puts the real address on screen and waits. Link cleaner. Paste anything, get back the same link minus the utm tags, click IDs, and referral junk. Works on links from hundreds of shopping sites, social networks and search engines. Send to Device. Push a cleaned link from your iPhone into your Mac's browser, or over to another iPhone or iPad. If the device is asleep or offline the link waits for it. Unshorten. Feed it a bit.ly or t.co address and it follows the chain to whatever sits at the end. Useful when a shortened link turns up from someone you don't know, which is how most phishing starts. Tracker blocker covering 71+ services, running as a parameter remover across everything you paste. QR generator for making your own codes out of links you trust. Safari extension that cleans every link on a page in one tap. Shortcuts, a Control Center widget, and a share sheet action, if you want the whole thing automated. Nothing leaves your device. There's no analytics SDK in here, no crash reporter phoning home, no account to create. Privacy isn't a feature we bolted on; there was never any data to collect. ■ Send Links Between Your Devices Share a cleaned link from any iPhone, iPad or Mac and it opens where you send it: in your Mac's browser, or from a notification on iPhone and iPad. Links queue up if the device is offline. You can run Shortcuts on your other devices this way too. You'll need Clean Links on each device, iCloud turned on, and the same Apple account. ■ Coming from Hyperduck? Clean Links does the same handoff, adds tracker stripping on the way out, handles more than one Mac, and costs nothing. ■ Link Sharing FAQ ‣ Why not AirDrop? AirDrop needs both devices awake and nearby. This doesn't, and it drops the link straight into a background tab. ‣ Why not iCloud Tabs? Because iCloud Tabs only works in Safari, and the tabs are easy to lose. These open in whatever browser you actually use. ‣ Why not Reading List? Reading List is where links go to be forgotten. Yours open immediately. ‣ Why not Handoff? Handoff wants the devices in the same room. Clean Links supports Handoff anyway, for when they are. ‣ More than one device? Send to several at once. Any iPhone, iPad or Mac signed into the same Apple account with the app installed can receive. ‣ Want to leave a device out? Turn off receiving in that device's settings. ■ Spotted a tracker we don't catch yet? There's a link in Settings to tell us. We'll add them.

About

ClearShare

Features
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ClearShare 是一款專為注重隱私的使用者設計的 URL 清理工具。當您分享社群媒體連結時,自動移除追蹤參數,保護您和朋友的隱私。 【主要功能】 • 自動清理 - 分享時自動移除 UTM、fbclid、gclid 等 60+ 種追蹤參數 • 短連結解析 - 支援 TikTok、Facebook 短連結自動展開 • 多平台支援 - Instagram、Facebook、YouTube、Twitter、TikTok、蝦皮、Amazon 等 14+ 平台 • 即時統計 - 圓餅圖顯示各平台使用分佈 • 歷史記錄 - 查看所有清理過的連結 【使用方式】 1. 在任何 App 中點選「分享」 2. 選擇「ClearShare」 3. 自動清理後繼續分享乾淨連結 【隱私保護】 • 所有處理皆在本機完成 • 不收集任何個人資料 • 不需要網路連線即可清理一般連結 讓每一次分享都更乾淨、更安全!

Screenshots

Clean Links4 screens
ClearShare3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ClearShare at weekly against Clean Links's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clean Links ships an update every 2 weeks, ClearShare weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Clean Links versus ClearShare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean LinksClearShare
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (88 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings88 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB2 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperNumen Technologies LimitedGUOMING YAN

In-app purchases

None

Clean Links

No in-app purchases

None

ClearShare

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clean Links free?
Clean Links is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ClearShare free?
ClearShare is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Clean Links or ClearShare have ads?
Neither Clean Links nor ClearShare shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clean Links or ClearShare?
Clean Links ships an update every 2 weeks, and ClearShare weekly. Most recently, Clean Links was updated on November 5, 2026 and ClearShare on October 30, 2026.

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