Songwhip was the free smart-link service of the early 2020s: paste any track, album or pre-save page URL, get a page that routed each fan to the streaming service they already use — free, no account, done in a minute. It shut down on 22 July 2024, and every link anyone ever shared through it stopped working that day. If you are here, you are likely one of three people: you still have Songwhip links in your bios and posts, you had a pre-save campaign on it that died, or you simply heard "Songwhip is gone" and want the closest thing. This page is organised by which of those you are.
First: what happened to Songwhip, exactly
Songwhip's own notice is unambiguous: "Songwhip services will cease from July 22, 2024". On that date the dashboard stopped working, every link previously shared became inaccessible, pre-save pages with release dates after that date stopped working, and paid subscribers were offered prorated refunds. The company said the service had run "over the last three years" — so it was a 2021-to-2024 product.
The context: in October 2024, Sony Music revealed at its Immersive Tech Day in London that it had acquired two fan-engagement apps, Songwhip and Fansifter, describing Songwhip as a content-marketing tool for artists to "quickly generate websites and robust link-in-bio solutions". Today (checked August 2026) songwhip.com no longer serves pages at all — it redirects to The Orchard's artist-workstation login, the Sony distribution arm the tool now lives behind. The practical upshot for you: a Songwhip link in your bio, an old post or a running ad is a dead link pointing at a login wall, and no amount of clicking will fix it. It has to be replaced.
The alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Pick it when | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| song.link (Odesli) | You want the closest drop-in — instant links, no account, no campaign | Free |
| Playloudr | You want the release — link, pre-save, gate, fan list, calendar — as one campaign | Free plan; Artist tier (regional pricing) |
| Feature.fm | You want every link type and retargeting depth | Free; $8–$39/mo |
| PUSH.fm | You want unlimited links and pre-saves for nothing | Free unlimited; $5/mo premium |
| Linkfire | You are a label or team running a roster | Pro from $27/mo ($21/mo billed yearly) |
| Linktree | You only ever needed the bio page part | Free; paid tiers |
| Bandsintown for Artists | You need concert promotion — it is not a smart-link tool | Free to start |
Prices as advertised on each company's own site, last checked August 2026, in the currency they advertise. Songwhip itself is no longer available at any price — the service ended 22 July 2024.
If you just need a link that works, right now
The honest drop-in for the pure Songwhip job is song.link from Odesli: paste a track, album or podcast URL and it builds a smart link on the spot — free, no account, works automatically for anything on the major platforms, and you can add tickets and merch links. It does not do pre-saves, campaigns or per-fan data; it is a link, and for the "one URL that opens on everyone's platform" job that is exactly what Songwhip was for most people. If that was all you used Songwhip for, this is a five-minute migration: recreate the links, update your bio and posts, done.
One difference worth knowing: Songwhip's pages had a design layer — artwork, track title, service buttons. Odesli's are deliberately minimal. If the page itself matters to your branding, the tools below replace that too.
If you were using Songwhip for release campaigns
Songwhip's paid tier added what most artists actually used it for: pre-save pages and page analytics. If that was your setup, the migration question is not "which link tool" — it is "which campaign tool", because the free-link job and the pre-release job are different products now.
Pre-save campaigns are the centre of this job: a page fans visit before release day, which turns into a library add on release day. Playloudr runs the pre-save, the release-day smart link, a promo gate and the fan list they feed as one campaign — free plan for one artist with up to five active campaigns, and analytics that are never time-capped. Feature.fm is the other serious candidate: more link types (bio, tour, podcast, contest), pre-saves on every paid tier, and heavier retargeting — but its free tier caps insight data at 7 days and its paid plans meter data retention (28 days on $8/mo Basic, 90 days on $19/mo Artist, lifetime on $39/mo Pro Artist). The trade-offs are in our head-to-head, and how pre-save campaigns work if you are new to the mechanics.
A warning from the Songwhip failure itself: your pre-save page died with the service, and anyone who saved through it — wherever that list sat — got nothing on release day. When you rebuild, pick a tool where the fan list is yours to export, so a platform's fate never takes your audience with it.
If your priority is "free, full stop"
PUSH.fm is the answer: unlimited smart links, pre-saves, reward links and pay links on the free plan, with access to collected emails and 1GB of storage; $5/month Premium adds 50GB and the extras. You give up campaign planning, fan records and deep analytics — as a straight Songwhip-shaped toolkit at zero cost it is the closest living match.
Playloudr's free plan is the runner-up if you want more product for the same £0: one artist, five active campaigns, pre-saves included, and analytics that never expire — at the cost of campaign limits the unlimited-free tools do not have.
If you are a label or run a roster
Linkfire is built for this: the Pro plan ($27/mo, $21/mo billed yearly) gives one artist a dedicated workspace, and the Teams plan scales to a roster of artist hubs — it is the tool most label campaigns route through, and it shows in the pricing. For a single indie artist it is overkill next to the free tiers above; for someone managing several artists it is the honest recommendation, and our sibling comparisons cover where it and Playloudr diverge.
What about Bandsintown?
If you have read that "Songwhip was absorbed into Bandsintown", here is the accurate version. Songwhip's public service did not become a Bandsintown feature — it simply ended, and the tool now sits behind Sony Music's artist-side tools: songwhip.com redirects to The Orchard's workstation login. Bandsintown for Artists is a separate, free-to-start platform for concert promotion — event pages, RSVPs, ticket and merch links, used by hundreds of thousands of artists — and it does not make the kind of public smart links Songwhip made. If your music has no live component, Bandsintown is not your replacement; if you tour, it is worth having alongside a smart-link tool, not instead of one.
The honest matrix
song.link (Odesli) if you only ever needed the link. Playloudr if the release is the unit of work and the fan list is the asset. Feature.fm for link-type breadth and retargeting. PUSH.fm for maximum free. Linkfire for rosters. Bandsintown for Artists for shows, not links. And wherever you land: recreate every Songwhip URL you still have out there — bio, posts, ads — because the old ones now end at a login wall. Our smart-link comparison puts these tools side by side on the details that matter once you are comparing real options.