Frequently asked questions

A free toolbox for sharing: short links, QR codes, a link-in-bio page, giveaways, polls, event RSVPs and a few random tools, with live analytics for what you publish.

Yes. Accounts are free and there are no ads. The limits below keep the service fast and fair for everyone.

Visitors never need one: they can click links, scan QR codes, enter giveaways, vote in polls, RSVP to events and use the free random tools without signing up. You need an account to create things.

You must be 18 or older. You choose a username (it becomes your link tree address), confirm your email with a code, and confirm new devices with an emailed code when you sign in.

Use Forgot password on the log-in page. We email a code to the address on your account.

Yes. In your dashboard open Account and choose Delete account. It permanently deletes your short links, QR codes and everything else you made, so anything you printed that points to them will stop working.

Open the Short links tab, paste the long address and press Shorten. You can pick your own ending (3 to 32 lowercase letters, numbers and dashes) or let us pick one.

Yes. Press Edit on the link and save a new destination. Every QR code made from that link follows it, so nothing needs reprinting.

Yes. Under More options when you create it, or in Edit, set a time when it should stop working. After that it shows an "expired" page. You can pick a new time or clear it to bring the link back.

Yes. Set a password of 4 to 64 characters. Visitors must enter it before they are sent on, and clicks are only counted once they get through. Wrong guesses are limited to a few every ten minutes.

We can't show or recover it, because we only keep a scrambled (hashed) version. You don't need the old one: open Edit on the link and type a new password, or press Remove password. Existing QR codes and shared links keep working.

They need to ask whoever shared the link with them. We never email passwords.

Other link shorteners, bare IP addresses, addresses with a username and password in them, and domains on our blocklist. Adult content is allowed only if you mark the link 18+.

Up to 500.

No. Link-preview bots (chat apps and social networks fetching a preview) are tracked separately and left out of your click totals.

A QR code for any web address, plain text, Wi-Fi sign-in or a contact card. Pick square, rounded or dotted shapes and your own colours.

If it points at one of your short links, yes: edit the link's destination and the same printed code goes to the new place. A code that holds plain text or a fixed address can't be changed.

Yes. You can add a caption under the code, and put either a short name (up to 8 characters) or a small logo picture in the middle. The caption is included in the SVG and PNG downloads.

A logo or name hides a few squares, so we raise error correction to High automatically, which lets scanners rebuild the hidden part. Always test-scan with a phone before you print, and keep the logo simple.

SVG, which stays sharp at any size, and PNG.

Up to 500.

One page with all your important links as buttons, at flarespark.cc/@yourusername. It is handy for a social media bio.

Up to 15.

Yes: themes, your own colours and fonts, a profile picture, a background image, and animations such as entrance, hover and attention effects.

Pictures are shrunk in your browser before upload (about 150 KB for the profile picture and 700 KB for the background) in JPEG, PNG or WebP. Nothing sexually explicit is allowed, even on a page marked 18+.

Yes. Turn off Published and the page disappears until you turn it back on.

You describe the prize, choose what to ask entrants for (name, email, Instagram, TikTok, X and more, plus up to 3 questions of your own) and set an end time. People enter on a public page. When it ends you draw, or let it draw itself.

Yes, and anyone can check. Before the giveaway opens we publish a fingerprint of a secret number. After the draw we reveal the secret and the full list of tickets, and the winners come from that list in a fixed way. Anyone can re-run the check on the results page.

Entrants complete a bot check, and each email or username can enter once. If you ask for an email, we send a code to confirm it, so only confirmed entries count.

Yes. Choose Only certain countries when you create it. Visitors from elsewhere see a notice instead of the form. It goes by approximate location, so a VPN can get around it. Think of it as a courtesy limit.

Yes, an optional wide picture shown at the top of the page.

One active giveaway at a time, up to 1,000 entries, up to 3 winners plus 2 backups, and running for at most 30 days.

Yes. Giveaway pages and rules can't mention payments, purchases, prices, fees or donations, and we reject text that does. What you do outside FlareSpark is your own responsibility.

Entry details are deleted 30 days after the draw, so export your entries first. Winners are shown publicly by ticket number with part of their details hidden.

You are, as the host. FlareSpark only provides the entry form and the random selector, and isn't the organiser or sponsor. See the Terms.

Yes. When you create one we offer to turn its link into a QR code or add it to your link tree, and either choice opens that editor ready to go.

Write a question with 2 to 8 options, share the link or a QR code, and watch the votes arrive. Voting is free and needs no account.

We aim for one vote per person using an anonymous token kept in the browser, plus a limit of 3 votes per network. A determined person could still find ways around that, so don't use a poll for anything official.

You choose: after they vote, to everyone at all times, or only after the poll closes.

A poll can have a closing time up to 90 days away, or none, and you can close it yourself at any time. You can have 5 open polls and keep up to 30 in total.

Only one-way hashes of an anonymous browser token and of the network address, used to stop repeat votes. They are deleted 30 days after the poll closes. The vote counts stay.

Create an event with a date, place and details. Guests open the link, choose Going, Maybe or Can't come, and can add the event to their calendar. You see every reply in your dashboard and can download them as a CSV.

Yes. Set a capacity (guests count toward it). When it is full, new Going replies are declined. You can also allow people to bring up to 5 guests each.

Yes, up to 3 short questions, each optional or required, and you choose whether to ask for an email. Please don't ask for passwords, payment details, ID numbers or health information.

Only if you turn on "Show who's going to anyone with the link". Then the event page lists the names of people going and maybe. Each guest can tick "Don't show my name", and those guests are only counted. Replies of "Can't come" are never listed.

Yes, turn on the email option when you edit the event. It sends up to 20 emails a day per event.

If you ask for email, a guest can reply again with the same email to update their answer. Without email, each reply is separate.

They are deleted 30 days after the event ends, so download the CSV first. We don't email guests.

Up to 10 upcoming events and 50 in total.

A name picker, team splitter, coin flip and dice roller.

Yes. They use your browser's secure random number generator, and every option has the same chance.

No. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to us or stored.

For a casual pick, yes. If entrants should be able to check the result, run a FlareSpark giveaway instead, which publishes a proof.

Clicks, QR scans, page views and entries over time, plus top links, countries (and US states), devices and referring sites, for short links, your link tree and your giveaways. They update live.

No. We keep hourly totals only. We never store visitor IP addresses, keep a log of individual visitors or build profiles.

A sign-in cookie, a cookie that remembers a device you chose to trust, and a one-week cookie that remembers a visitor confirmed they are 18 or older. No advertising or tracking cookies.

Giveaway entries and event RSVPs are deleted 30 days after the draw or event, and poll voter hashes 30 days after the poll closes. Details are in the Privacy Policy.

Legal adult content is allowed only if it is marked 18+. Every link, link tree page and button, QR code, giveaway, poll and event has an 18+ option. Visitors then see a warning and must confirm they are 18 or older before continuing.

Use the Report this link, page or giveaway link on any public page, or report abuse directly. Reports go to our team and we don't store who sent them.

A moderator can disable it, add an 18+ mark, or suspend the account. The owner is emailed with the reason (when one is given) and a way to appeal.

Reply to the email we sent you, or write to the support address below with your username, and we'll take another look.