In 2026, creating short links is a superpower, and Quick.Link is your connection to it. Quick.Link 2 introduces several new features and improvements all designed to make creating short links as simple as possible.
It took long enough
Since he release of Quick.Link 1.5, development had largely stopped. It wasn't until Slack failed to notify me of recent App Store reviews that the project was opened and work began.
Requested features
This update first and foremost addresses the requests of users. The primary feature requested was a way to edit links and view existing links from the server. In every version of Quick.Link leading up to this release, there had been no way to edit anything within the app beyond the server endpoint. With this release, not only can links be edited after creation, but all of your server links appear within Quick.Link.
When Quick.Link is launched, it performs a quick background sync to your server. Once that check is complete, it syncs the links from your server to your device. The links aren't transmitted to anyone outside of your organization/group.
Link Collections can also now be edited after creation. In all honestly, I thought this was already in the app, but I had commented it out due to performance/build errors.
New features
Batch editing comes to Quick.Link in this update, allowing the ability to quickly adjust multiple links, editing their collection, tags, and favorite status. Link History and search have been reworked as well (more on that below), providing better analytics and more control over the display of your link history.
Design improvements, as always
For some reason, Quick.Link has always been a difficult app to design. Nothing ever seems to work as well as the current (v1) design. To that end, the design of the app is largely unchanged. Where things have changed, is the sizing and spacing between elements. Navigation title's have been reworked into the navigation bar, and several buttons/views have also been relocated into the navigation bar.
History also sees a major design improvement, no longer using the custom header/list as before. Instead, the view is now native to iOS, with gorgeous animations playing between filtering.
Lastly, Settings has been redesigned to feel, hopefully, less cluttered than before. Settings is now accesisble via the navigation bar of any page within the app. This is the area of the app that has seen the most visual change.
Looking ahead
Right now, the future of Quick.Link remains very much uncertain. It seems like an easy app to manage and maintain, but in reality, there are so many moving parts to consider. And at some point, one of my directories corrupted or didn't transfer properly.