Can you export your links from Linktree?

Not as a file. Linktree offers CSV exports for your email sign-ups and, on Premium, for your analytics, but there is no export of the links themselves, so no file of titles, destination URLs and order. You copy them by hand from your own public page into a spreadsheet, which for a typical page takes about ten minutes.

Is there a Linktree API or a bulk method for getting links out?

There is no documented public API you can register for to read or write the links on your profile, and Linktree's help centre answers export questions by pointing at the interface rather than at endpoints. Third-party Linktree export services are generally scrapers that read your public page the way any visitor would. Copying your own page into a spreadsheet achieves the same result without handing anyone access to your account.

What happens to my Linktree URL if I stop using it?

It depends on whether you downgrade or delete. Downgrading to the free plan keeps the page and the links live, and you hold paid features until the end of the billing period you have already paid for. Deleting is permanent: Linktree's help centre says the URL is deactivated and your profiles, links and data cannot be recovered, and the username and email are locked for fourteen days, after which nothing is holding the handle for you.

Will my printed QR codes still work after I leave Linktree?

Only for as long as the Linktree account exists. A QR code is a fixed picture of a URL with no redirect layer of its own, and a Linktree-generated code resolves to a Linktree-controlled address. Before you cancel anything, list where your codes are still in circulation, then either keep a plan that includes the Redirect feature running or downgrade to free and leave the old page up as a signpost.

Does my custom domain move with me?

The domain is yours, so yes, but the work happens at your registrar rather than inside Linktree. Linktree's help centre states that it does not offer the option to use a custom domain in place of the linktr.ee URL, so a domain that currently leads to your Linktree is usually a forwarding rule you set up yourself. Repoint it once the new page is live, and allow up to a day for DNS to propagate before deciding anything is broken.

How to export your links out of Linktree and move somewhere else

An honest migration checklist: what Linktree actually lets you take, what stays behind, the order to do it in, and the printed QR codes that will outlive the account they point at.

Moving a link-in-bio page sounds like it should take ten minutes. You have maybe a dozen links, a photo and a colour scheme. How hard can it be?

The links turn out to be the easy part. What takes the time is everything arranged around them: the printed QR codes, the domain, the email list, the buyers holding a download link that points at your old page. Get the order wrong and there is a window where your audience lands on nothing.

This is a checklist for moving off Linktree to anywhere at all. None of it is a criticism of Linktree, which is a competent product a great many people are happy with. Where something varies by plan, check it in your own account rather than trusting any article, including this one.

What Linktree actually lets you export

Two things come out of the account as a file, and neither of them is your link list.

The first is your email sign-ups. If you have been collecting addresses through a Linktree form, you can download them: open the Integrations tab, choose Export CSV, set a passcode, and the file arrives by email. This is the most valuable thing in the account by a distance, because it is the only part of your audience you own outright rather than rent. Do it today, whether or not you are moving.

The second is your analytics. The Insights section exports CSVs covering activity, cities, countries, devices and referrers for a date range you choose, and at the time of writing this sits on the Premium plan. Pull it before you downgrade; you will not get it back afterwards.

What does not exist is an export of the links themselves. There is no button that hands you a file of your titles, destination URLs and order. Your link list lives in the editor and on your public page, and getting it out means copying it by hand. That is the current state, and worth saying plainly, because plenty of migration guides imply otherwise.

There is also a data request form, the route Linktree provides for GDPR-style requests. It involves identity verification and is not instant, but it is the formal way to ask for a copy of the personal data held about you.

Is there an API or a bulk method?

Not a documented public one for your own links. Linktree has not published a general-purpose API you can register for and use to read or write the links on your profile, and its help centre answers export questions by pointing at the interface. The third-party services advertising Linktree exports are almost all scrapers reading your public page; giving one of them your credentials to save twenty minutes is a poor trade.

The pragmatic bulk method is to do it yourself. Open your public page, right-click each link, copy the link address, and paste as you go into a spreadsheet: title, destination, position, thumbnail, notes. Fifteen links takes about ten minutes, and that spreadsheet becomes the working document for the whole move.

One caution while you are in there. Deleting a link inside Linktree is permanent and takes its analytics with it, whereas archiving keeps the data and can be undone. Until the new page is live and tested, archive rather than delete.

What does not come with you

Assume that anything you configured inside Linktree stays inside Linktree. In practice that means:

Link order and grouping, which is why the spreadsheet needs a position column
Thumbnails and uploaded images, hosted there and served at their sizes
Your theme: colours, button shape, corner radius, font and background
Scheduled and expiring links, where the schedule is a paid-plan setting rather than data
Commerce: product listings, prices, uploaded digital files and any tip jar
The payment processor connection, which you reconnect at the new tool
Social icons, integrations and any embedded feeds

Thumbnails catch people out: if you uploaded an image from a phone you no longer own, the resized copy on your page may be all you have left. Save them anyway, then replace them properly later. For the theme, a screenshot and a note of the hex codes is enough.

Commerce deserves the most care. If you have sold digital products through Linktree, the files live there, and recent buyers may hold download links pointing at Linktree addresses. Re-upload the files to the new tool before you touch anything else, and keep the old account alive long enough that nobody who paid you last month is left staring at a dead link.

The checklist, in order

Order matters more than speed. Whichever tool you are heading for, whether that is Beacons, Bio.link, Carrd, a page on your own website, OneSol or a plain HTML file you host yourself, done in this order there is never a moment where your audience has nowhere to land.

Export your email sign-ups to CSV and import them wherever your list now lives
Export your analytics, if your plan allows it
Build the spreadsheet: title, destination URL, position, thumbnail, notes
Save every uploaded image off your public page
Screenshot the page and write down your colours and font
Build the new page completely, same links, same order
Test every link on a phone, off your own Wi-Fi, logged out
Re-upload digital products and reconnect your payment processor
Move the domain, if you have one
Change the link in every bio, signature, invoice and listing
Only then decide what to do with the old account

Step ten is the one everybody underestimates. Count the places your link appears before you begin: every social profile, your email signature, your invoice template, your Google Business profile, a directory listing from three years ago, a podcast description someone else controls.

If you have a domain pointing at your Linktree

Linktree's help centre states that it does not offer the option to use a custom domain to replace the linktr.ee URL, and suggests a redirect link instead. So if your own domain currently leads to your Linktree, it is most likely a forwarding rule you set up at your registrar. That is good news for a migration: the rule is yours, it lives in your registrar account, and you change it there without asking anyone.

Moving it means editing that forward, or replacing it with whatever DNS record the new tool asks for, usually a CNAME on a subdomain such as link.yourdomain.com. Expect propagation to take anywhere from a few minutes to a day. Do not declare it broken in the first hour, and do not stack extra records on top while you wait, which is how a slow change becomes a genuinely broken one.

If your account does show a custom domain setting, follow the instructions in front of you rather than this article. Either way the sequence holds: get the new page live first, then repoint, so the domain is never aimed at nothing.

What happens to your linktr.ee URL afterwards

Two very different outcomes, and picking the wrong one is the expensive mistake in this process. If you downgrade to the free plan, the page and the links stay up. You keep paid features until the end of the billing cycle you have already paid for, and then they stop: any Linktree branding you had removed comes back, redirects and scheduled links switch off, seller fees revert to the free rate. The URL itself keeps working.

If you delete the account, it is permanent. Linktree is explicit: the URL is deactivated, and your profiles, links and data cannot be recovered. You also cannot reuse the same username or email for fourteen days, and after that window nobody is holding the handle for you. Every old link, screenshot, printed card and QR code pointing at your former address then leads to a dead page, and possibly, later, to somebody else's.

Deleting an account you no longer use has a tidy appeal. In practice, downgrading to free and leaving the page standing costs nothing and protects every link you have ever handed out.

The one thing to do before you cancel

A QR code is a picture of a URL. It has no redirect layer of its own and no way of learning that you have moved. A code generated by Linktree resolves to a Linktree-controlled address, so for as long as those codes exist in the world, they depend on your Linktree account continuing to exist.

Before you cancel anything, go and find them. Not a mental inventory, a written list.

Business cards, in your wallet and in other people's
Flyers, posters and table talkers still in circulation
Product packaging, labels and inserts
Stickers on a stall, a van, a window or a laptop lid
Menus, price lists and order forms
Anything you sent to print last year and have not got back

Then decide what to do about them. Linktree's Redirect feature sends visitors straight through to another link, which is nearly what you want, but it comes with two conditions: it sits on the paid Starter, Pro and Premium plans, and it runs for a set period, with a date and time at which it switches itself off. It is a campaign tool, not a permanent forwarder.

That leaves three realistic options. Keep the cheapest plan that includes Redirect running for as long as the codes are out there, with a calendar reminder to renew it before it expires. Or downgrade to free, leave the old page standing, and make the top link a plain sentence saying you have moved and where to. Or accept that the codes die and reprint. The first two cost almost nothing; only the third loses you people.

Whichever you choose, fix it properly for the next print run. Generate the QR from a domain you own, or from a short-link service where you control the destination, so that next time you move you change one setting rather than reprinting a thousand cards.

None of this has to happen in an afternoon. Export the email list today, build the new page this week, switch the bios and repoint the domain next week, then leave both pages live for a month while the traffic moves across. A digital link you can change in an evening. A box of cards in a drawer will outlast the account it points at, and there is no export button for those.