Medium Link Shortener

Yes. Paste any Medium article, profile, or publication URL and Flyn creates a short, branded link.

Yes. Flyn redirects to the original Medium URL. All paywall settings and friend links work as expected.

Yes. Shorten Medium friend links (which bypass the paywall) to share your paywalled articles with a clean URL.

Yes. Create different Flyn links for Twitter, LinkedIn, and email. Compare click analytics per channel.

Yes. Articles on custom Medium domains can be shortened just like standard medium.com URLs.

Yes. Medium registers Universal Links for medium.com URLs, so a Flyn link redirecting to a Medium article opens in the Medium iOS or Android app when installed. Users without the app see the article in their mobile browser, where Medium offers an "Open in app" prompt.

Flyn shows click counts per short link, with the country, device, and referrer breakdown on Pro. Pair this with Medium's "Stats" page (which shows reads, members reached, and earnings per article) to back out which Flyn link sent traffic that converted to paying members vs. casual readers.

Yes. When you import a Substack or Ghost archive into Medium, each piece gets a standard medium.com URL, those shorten and track normally. This is a clean way to migrate your distribution: keep promoting old short links while progressively republishing on Medium without breaking any external references.

Yes. Medium counts a read when the visitor lands on the article page, it doesn't matter whether they got there via direct URL, Google search, social share, or Flyn redirect. Flyn 301-redirects in under 50ms globally, so it's effectively invisible to Medium's internal stats engine.

Yes. Medium supports section anchors (medium.com/article-title#paragraph-id) and Flyn preserves URL fragments through the redirect. Visitors land at the exact paragraph you linked to, useful for sharing a specific quote, footnote, or chart in a long-form piece.

Medium's share button copies the canonical URL with no analytics and no editable destination. Flyn adds branded slugs (flyn.to/my-essay vs. medium.com/@user/long-title-with-id), per-channel click tracking, the ability to swap the underlying article (e.g. point an old short link at an updated republish), and custom-domain support, all on top of Medium's native sharing.

Yes. The iOS App Store and Google Play Store URLs for the Medium app shorten like any other URL. Writers occasionally use this in newsletter footers ("Get our app: flyn.to/app") to drive app installs separately from article clicks, useful for tracking which content surface motivates readers to install the app.

No. Flyn is a full URL shortener that works with any link: Medium, your own website, YouTube, Etsy, affiliate links, PDFs, anything with a URL. This page just shows the Medium use case. Every feature here (click analytics, editable destinations, branded domains, QR codes) applies to every link you shorten.