Linktree alternatives for musicians and artists

A list of links is a poor way to share music or art. Someone hears a track on a reel, taps your bio, and gets a column of grey buttons: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Tour, Merch. Every one of them is a door out of the room. They pick one, land in an app, and whatever momentum they had is gone.

What you want is a page where they can press play without leaving, see the work at full size, find the dates, and buy a record or a print. For musicians and artists the bio link isn't a signpost. It's the venue.

Here are the Linktree alternatives worth considering for music and visual work, and how to build the page once you've picked one.

What music and art need that a link list can't do

The requirements differ from a typical business page in specific ways:

• Players on the page. A Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud or Bandcamp embed that plays in place. The difference between "press play" and "go to another app and then press play" is enormous.
• Images at full size. A grid of thumbnails is a preview. Art is evaluated at full size, in sequence, with the medium and dimensions underneath.
• Dates and tours. A readable table of dates, cities, venues and ticket links.
• Merch, prints and records. With sizes or editions, prices in your currency, and sold-out states that still look intentional.
• Speed. Your audience is on a phone on mobile data, often on tour wifi. A page that loads five embeds at once is a page nobody waits for.
• A list. Followers belong to the platform. Email addresses belong to you.

The alternatives

BonPages — a page that plays, shows and sells

BonPages turns the bio link into a site built from 28 blocks, several of which exist specifically for this kind of work.

For musicians: a Music block that takes a list of Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud or Bandcamp links and renders real players, so a visitor presses play on the page. An Embed block for an Instagram, TikTok, X or Threads post, which loads only when tapped so the page stays fast. A Table block for tour dates with ticket links. A Products block for merch with variants, so sizes and formats each carry their own price and buy link.

For artists and photographers: an Image gallery in grid, carousel or masonry with a full-screen viewer that supports swipe, arrows and keyboard, plus captions for medium, dimensions and year. A Projects block for series or commissions. Products for prints and originals, with sold-out states that leave the work on display, marked sold, which is itself proof.

Both get forms with 11 field types for commission enquiries, bookings or a mailing list, each emailing you and feeding Zapier, Make or n8n. Analytics are free and cookie-free, so you can see which city your listeners are in before you book a tour, and which link they actually tap.

The free plan includes every block and theme, one page and 1,000 views a month. PRO is $8 a month or $60 a year for unlimited pages and views, your own domain, and the badge off. There are dedicated pages for musicians and artists, and a comparison with Linktree.

Bandcamp — not an alternative, a destination

If you sell music directly, Bandcamp is where a lot of that happens, and nothing here replaces it. Treat it as a place your page links to and embeds from, rather than as your bio link. Its page is built for a release, not for everything you do.

Linkfire, Feature.fm and other smart links

These are music-specific link tools built for release campaigns: one link that routes each listener to their own streaming service, with per-platform click data. They're genuinely good at that one job. They're not a home page, though. Many artists use a smart link for a single release and a proper page for everything else.

Carrd

A cheap, clean one-pager. Workable for a simple artist site if you're happy to embed things by hand and skip structured products and a submissions inbox.

Squarespace, Wix or a full site

If you're at the stage of album campaigns, press pages and a shop with stock levels, a full website builder is the right ceiling. The cost and the time are higher, and most aren't designed around a single phone-first link.

Choosing between them

Are you releasing or building? For a single release push, a smart link does one thing very well. For an ongoing home that holds music, dates, merch and a list, you want a page.

How visual is the work? Painters, illustrators and photographers should weight the gallery and the full-screen viewer heavily. A grid that doesn't open properly is the single most common failing of an artist's bio page.

Do you sell? If yes, look closely at variants, sold-out handling and whether the tool takes a cut. Being able to point a buy button at your own Bandcamp, Shopify or Etsy checkout means you keep your margins and your customer relationship.

Building the page: musicians

1. Hero. Artist name, one line of placement ("Dream pop, Manchester"), a photo, and one button for the thing you want most right now, usually the new single.
2. The latest release. One player at the top. Don't bury the new thing under a list of links.
3. Everything else to listen to. A Music block with three to six players: the album, the key singles, the live session.
4. Tour dates. A table with date, city, venue and a ticket link. Remove past dates; nothing reads as abandoned faster than last year's tour.
5. Video. One embed, the best one. A video gallery if you have several.
6. Merch. Products with variants for sizes, with honest stock states.
7. The list. A two-field form: email, and optionally city so you can tell people when you play near them. Say what they'll get and how often.
8. Socials and press. Icons, and a line of press quotes if you have them.

The companion guide on link-in-bio pages for musicians goes deeper on embeds, release-day structure and what to do between releases.

Building the page: artists and photographers

1. Hero. Name, discipline and location in one line. A signature image or your face. One button: "Enquire", "Shop prints" or "Commissions open".
2. Gallery. Nine to twelve images, chosen for range, strongest first. Grid for consistent work, masonry for mixed orientations. Captions carrying medium, size and year.
3. Proof. Exhibitions, publications, collections, client names.
4. The ask. Prints and originals as products with sizes as variants, or a commission enquiry form with fields for size, medium, deadline and references.
5. Process and FAQ. How commissions work, turnaround, shipping, framing, licensing for commercial use. These are the questions every serious enquiry asks.
6. Socials. Instagram, Behance, Pinterest.

The portfolio guide for photographers, artists and illustrators covers image selection, captions and lightboxes in much more detail.

Keep the page fast

This is where music and art pages most often fail. Five autoplaying embeds and a dozen 8MB images make a page that a phone on 4G abandons before it renders.

Three rules:

• Embeds load on tap. Social posts should wait for a tap rather than loading on arrival. BonPages does this by default and lets you override it per block if you prefer.
• Images at sensible sizes. 2,000 pixels on the long edge is plenty for a phone and a full-screen viewer. Lazy loading handles the rest.
• One player above the fold, not five. Lead with the release you care about.

The guide to embedding Instagram and TikTok posts explains the load-on-tap behaviour and which link formats each platform needs.

Selling without a store

You don't need a storefront platform to sell a record, a shirt or a print. A products block with a buy button pointing at your own Bandcamp, Shopify, Etsy or a payment link does the job: you set the price and the variants, the customer checks out where you already take payment, and no bio tool takes a percentage.

For prints, make each size a variant with its own price. For originals, one product each, and when one sells, leave it up marked sold. A wall of sold work is the most persuasive thing on an artist's page. Selling products from your bio without a store covers variants, currencies and notify-me links for restocks.

What to watch

For musicians, the useful numbers are which player gets pressed, which city your visitors are in, and how many people join the list per hundred visits. City data is the one artists underuse: it's a tour routing tool that costs nothing.

For visual artists, watch which images get opened in the viewer, and enquiries or buy-button taps per hundred visits. The first tells you what to lead with; the second tells you whether the ask is in the right place.

How to read your analytics walks through the dashboard, and the metrics that matter covers which of them deserve your attention.

Moving over

Build in parallel and swap when it looks right. Pick a theme that suits the work: Neon and Pop carry loud music well, Midnight suits electronic and ambient, Blush and Linen suit soft or editorial visual work, and Mono gets out of the way of photography entirely.

Then add your links from the old page by hand, since no bio tool imports from another, press play on your own phone to check every embed, and swap the link in every bio. Keep the old page up for a week.

In short

For music and art, the test is simple: can someone hear it or see it properly without leaving the page, and can they then do something — join, book, buy? If the answer is yes, the tool is doing its job.

If you also run this as a business with staff or a storefront, see Linktree alternatives for business owners. If you take commissions as a solo practice, the freelancer guide covers rates and brief forms. And if your audience comes mostly from Instagram, start with free Linktree alternatives for Instagram.