SongWhip Is Gone and the Odesli API Has Retired: the Best SongWhip Alternatives in 2026

SongWhip was the simplest way to send a song to a friend who uses a different streaming service: paste a link, get one page that opens anywhere. It closed its free and paid services in July 2024, and the old links stopped working. Many people moved to song.link (Odesli) or to apps and bots built on its API. Then, on 31 July 2026, Linktree retired the public Odesli API, and a second wave of tools went quiet. If you are looking for somewhere to land, this is what still works in October 2026.

First, what kind of tool do you need?

"Music link converter" covers three quite different things, and picking the wrong one is the most common mistake:

• Sharing links (what SongWhip did): one link that opens a song, album or playlist on whatever service the listener uses.
• Marketing smart links: the same idea, built for release campaigns, with pre-saves, tracking pixels, email capture and paid plans.
• Playlist transfer: copies playlists from your own Spotify account into your own Apple Music account, for example. Great when you switch services, but it does not give your friends a link that works for them.

The alternatives at a glance

Odesli (song.link)

The song.link and album.link websites still work, they are free, and they cover the longest list of services of any tool here, including Pandora, Audiomack, Anghami and Boomplay. What changed is the public API: since 31 July 2026 it rejects requests unless Linktree has approved your access, so the Discord bots, Telegram bots and shortcuts that relied on it have broken. Playlists are not supported. If you only share the odd song from a desktop browser, song.link is still a fine choice.

SongPort

SongPort is a newer free converter run by one developer in Belgium, and it has become a popular SongWhip replacement. It does the core job well: paste a song or album link and get one page with a button for Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Tidal and SoundCloud, matched by ISRC. There are no ads, no account is needed, and an iPhone app with a share sheet extension is in beta. The limits are worth knowing: 10 conversions per 24 hours, no playlists, no Amazon Music or plain YouTube, and no Android app yet. Artists get a free bio page, with a Plus plan from €6 a month for every release, every show and 30 days of stats. Its API is invite-only from a waitlist.

Linkfire, Feature.fm and Hypeddit

These are marketing tools for artists and labels, and they are good at it: pre-save campaigns, analytics, retargeting pixels and ticket links. Linkfire starts at roughly $21 to $27 a month per artist. Feature.fm and Hypeddit both have free tiers, but the free plans limit which stores your links show or how long analytics are kept. For a fan who just wants to send a song to a friend, all three are more than you need. (ToneDen, another name you may remember, effectively stopped being an option after Eventbrite bought it and users reported broken smart links in 2024.)

Playlist transfer tools

Soundiiz, TuneMyMusic, FreeYourMusic and MusConv move playlists and libraries between your accounts. Each has a free tier capped at a few hundred tracks and paid plans for more. Soundiiz and TuneMyMusic can also share a playlist, but transfer is what they are built for. Use one when you change service; use a sharing tool when you send music to other people.

MTShare: what we built

MTShare is a sharing tool first, for fans and for artists. Paste a link from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz, Bandcamp, SoundCloud or QQ Music, and you get one short link that opens on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Tidal and SoundCloud (plus Bandcamp or Qobuz when the link came from there). We only show a platform when we have verified the song is actually on it.

• Share sheet: in the iOS or Android app, tap Share in Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube, pick MTShare, and the universal link is ready to send. No copying and pasting.
• Playlists: paste a public playlist and every track is matched. Signed-in users can save it straight into their own Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal library, so sharing and transfer happen in one place.
• Albums: share a whole album as one link, with the full track list.
• MTListen: hear a song in a café or on the radio, tap MTListen, and it identifies the track (powered by Shazam) and turns it into a universal link.
• Auto-open in your preferred app: choose the services you use and a preferred one. When someone sends you an MTShare link, it opens straight in your app after a short countdown. On iPhone with an Apple Music subscription, the song starts playing right away.
• Podcasts and audiobooks: share a Spotify podcast episode or show and we find it on Apple Podcasts and YouTube; share a Spotify audiobook and we find it on Apple Books.
• Public user pages: every user can have a page at mtshare.net/u/your-name with the music they have shared, so friends can see what you have been sharing.
• Artist and label support: artists can claim their links and get a verified profile with stats. Labels can invite artists to their roster and manage them in one place. Browse the artists already on MTShare.
• Live concerts on every link: song, album and artist pages list the artist's upcoming shows, from Ticketmaster and Skiddle, with ticket links. Someone sends you a song, you find out the band is on tour next month.

We did it the hard way, on purpose

Honestly, the easy route when we started would have been to put a nice front end on the Odesli API and call it done. Plenty of tools did exactly that. We decided against it. A service that only works while someone else's free API stays open is one email away from shutting down, and SongWhip had already shown how quickly a link you shared can stop working.

So we wrote our own parser and matcher for every platform, talking to each service's catalogue directly and matching on recording identifiers (ISRC) and metadata, not a loose text search. Odesli was only ever one extra source among several. When its public API retired, MTShare links kept working: the cost was a bit more code on our side and one platform (Pandora) that we are still working to bring back. More of how it works is in How MTShare Works.

Why MTShare is free, and will stay free

Music is not a side detail in our lives. It is the songs we send each other at midnight, the album that got us through a bad year, the band a friend dragged us to see. Sharing music is how we stay close to people, and right now the industry makes it harder than it should be: your friend is on Spotify, you are on Apple Music, your dad is on YouTube, and every link you send is a dead end for somebody.

We do not think fixing that should be a business model. A link that lets anyone hear a song on the service they already pay for is plumbing, and plumbing should not come with ads, a paywall or a premium tier that hides the useful bits. So MTShare runs as a not-for-profit, at cost. There are no ads, no premium plan and we do not sell your data. A few outbound store links are affiliate links, which costs you nothing and helps pay for the servers. That is it. Music should be shared across platforms, easily, and that is the way it should be. Read the free-forever pledge.

Which one should you pick?

• You share music with friends, mostly from your phone: MTShare, for the share sheet, auto-open and playlists.
• You occasionally share a song from a laptop: song.link, SongPort or MTShare all work.
• You run release campaigns with ad budgets: Linkfire or Feature.fm. Artists who want a free profile, stats and concerts on their links can use MTShare alongside them.
• You are switching streaming service: a transfer tool such as Soundiiz or TuneMyMusic, or save playlists through MTShare.
• You built a bot or app on the Odesli API: see our song.link alternative post and email [email protected] with what you are building.