Linktree alternatives for freelancers: what to use instead

A freelancer's link in bio is a sales page whether you treat it as one or not. Someone sees your work, taps the link, and in about fifteen seconds decides whether you're the person for the job they have in mind. A list of buttons spends those fifteen seconds sending them somewhere else.

What you want instead is a page that shows the work, says what you do and roughly what it costs, proves other people have paid you, and gives them a form. That's a different kind of tool from a redirect list.

Here are the Linktree alternatives worth considering if you freelance, judged on the thing that matters: do they turn attention into briefs?

What freelancers actually need from the page

The requirements are narrower than they look. You need:

• Positioning in one line. What you do, for whom. "Brand designer for food and drink startups" beats "creative professional" every time.
• Work, shown properly. Full-size images, case studies, a showreel. Not thumbnails that go nowhere.
• Rates, or at least a range. The single biggest filter on time-wasting enquiries.
• Proof. Named clients, testimonials, numbers from projects.
• An enquiry form with qualifying questions. Budget, timeline, scope. Three extra fields save you three email exchanges.
• Availability. "Taking projects from November" prevents both wasted conversations and missed ones.
• Analytics. Which platform sends the people who actually enquire, which is rarely the one that sends the most visits.

A link list does the first badly and the rest not at all.

The options

BonPages — a portfolio, a rate card and a brief form behind one link

BonPages is a link in bio that builds out into a real site, which fits freelancing well because the page needs sections rather than buttons. You get 28 blocks including a hero with your photo and positioning line, a projects block with images, tags and links, a services block with rates and periods, a skills block, a résumé, testimonials with ratings, an FAQ, and an image gallery with a full-screen viewer for visual work.

The enquiry side is the part that matters. Forms have 11 field types, so you can ask for budget as a dropdown, a project date, and a scope description in one go. Every submission emails you and sits in an inbox you can filter and export, and each form can post to Zapier, Make or n8n so briefs land in your CRM or a spreadsheet. You can also embed a Calendly or Cal.com booking page directly, so a qualified lead can book a call without another round of emails.

Analytics are included free and are cookie-free: traffic sources, UTM campaigns, locations and which links get tapped, with click-through rates. Free covers one site, one page, 1,000 views a month and every block and theme. PRO at $8 a month or $60 a year adds unlimited pages, full analytics history, your own domain with SSL and the option to drop the badge. There's a page built for freelancers and a direct comparison with Linktree.

Carrd — a clean single page, cheaply

Carrd is a favourite among freelancers who want a minimal one-pager and are happy to wire up their own form handling and analytics. If your work is mostly word of mouth and the page is a formality, it's hard to beat on price and simplicity.

Notion or a Notion-to-site tool

Plenty of freelancers run a public Notion page as a portfolio. It's quick, it's free, and it's flexible. It also looks like Notion, which reads as informal to some clients, and lead capture and analytics aren't really there.

A proper portfolio platform

Behance, Dribbble and similar are where some clients browse, especially in design. Treat them as a channel, not the destination: they're someone else's shop window, the layout is fixed, and you can't capture an enquiry on your terms. Link to them from your page rather than making one of them the page.

Your own site on a website builder

Squarespace, Wix, Framer or WordPress give you a full site. If you want a blog, many case studies and total design control, that's the right ceiling. The trade-off is time and cost, and most builders aren't designed phone-first for a single bio link.

How to choose

Three questions settle it for most people.

How visual is the work? If someone needs to see it at full size, prioritise galleries with a proper viewer and fast image loading. If the work is written or strategic, prioritise case-study structure and testimonials.

Do you want to filter enquiries or maximise them? Posting a rate range and asking for budget reduces volume and raises quality. If you're starting out and want volume, keep the form short and the prices off. If your problem is too many unqualified enquiries, the form is where you fix it.

Will you need a second page? One page is right while you have one offer. The moment you have two distinct services, or you want a dedicated page per audience, you want a tool where adding one is routine.

The page structure that converts

Order matters more than design. This sequence works across disciplines:

1. Hero. Photo, name, and the positioning line. One button: "Start a project" or "Check availability".
2. Availability line. "Booking from November 2026" or "Two slots left this quarter." Specific beats vague.
3. Selected work. Three to six projects, strongest first. Each with an image, one line on the problem, one on the result, and a link to the full case study if there is one.
4. Services and rates. What you offer, with a day rate, a project-from price, or a range. If you genuinely can't publish a number, publish the range and say what moves it.
5. Proof. Two or three testimonials with real names and companies, plus client logos if you have permission.
6. The brief form. Name, email, company, budget range (dropdown), timeline (date), and what they need. Six fields, no more.
7. Process and FAQ. How you work, what a project looks like, payment terms, revisions. Every question answered here is an email you don't write.
8. Links. LinkedIn, GitHub, Dribbble, your newsletter, your PDF CV.

If you also apply for roles, the structure in the one-page résumé website guide overlaps heavily and is worth reading alongside this.

Write the form like a brief

The form is where most freelancers leave money. A single "message" box produces "hi, do you do websites?" and a week of back and forth. Ask instead:

• Budget, as a dropdown with ranges. People answer a dropdown they'd never answer in prose.
• Timeline, as a date or a dropdown. "ASAP" is a useful answer too.
• Scope, as a few checkboxes of the things you offer.
• How they found you, as a dropdown. This is the cheapest attribution you'll ever get.

Add one line above it: "Tell me roughly what you need and your budget range. I reply within two working days, and I'll say straight away if I'm not the right fit." That sentence raises both the number and the quality of submissions, because it removes the fear of a sales process.

Then make the submissions go somewhere. Connecting the form to Zapier, Make or n8n means a new brief can create a CRM deal, a row in your pipeline sheet and a phone notification without you touching it.

Build the list while you're at it

Not everyone who likes your work has a project today. Some of them will in six months. A second, two-field form — name and email, with a line like "Occasional notes on what I'm building, roughly monthly" — converts the not-yet people into an audience you can reach when you have capacity to fill.

The piece on growing an email list with forms covers placement, wording and what to do with the addresses once you have them. Note that a bio page collects emails; the sending still happens in your newsletter tool, which the webhook can feed automatically.

Know where your clients come from

Most freelancers can't answer "which platform brings in paying work?" with anything better than a hunch. The answer is often surprising: a platform that sends a tenth of the traffic can send most of the enquiries.

Watch three things: submissions per hundred visits, traffic by source, and which project in your portfolio gets opened most. The first tells you whether the page works, the second tells you where to spend your posting time, and the third tells you what to lead with. Which metrics matter goes into how to read these without over-interpreting a small sample.

Your own domain is worth it sooner than you think

A freelancer's link appears in places a creator's doesn't: proposals, invoices, email signatures, contract footers, conference badges. In those contexts a platform subdomain subtly undercuts the rate you're quoting. Your own domain costs about ten pounds a year plus whatever your page tool charges, and it takes two DNS records and a few minutes. The guide on custom domains for creators covers the setup and the SEO reasons to do it early.

Switching over

Build in parallel, then swap. Specifically:

1. Pick a tool and a theme that matches your work's tone. Mono and Studio suit serious or technical work; Blush and Linen suit soft or editorial work.
2. Put in three projects, your rates, two testimonials and the form. That's a complete page.
3. Paste your existing links from the old list. There's no importer between bio tools, so this is manual, and it takes about five minutes.
4. Test on your own phone. Every link, and a real form submission so you can see what arrives.
5. Swap the bio links everywhere, and add the URL to your email signature and proposal template while you're at it.

The short version

Choose the tool that lets a stranger see your work, understand what you cost, and send you a qualified brief without leaving the page. Everything else is decoration.

If you run a business with staff and a storefront rather than a solo practice, the companion piece on Linktree alternatives for business owners is the one to read. If your work is music, art or photography, the guide for musicians and artists covers embeds, galleries and merch. For the wider field, see the best Linktree alternatives in 2026.