Free tool
Paste a YouTube link and get a short link that opens the video in the native YouTube app, where viewers are signed in and one tap from subscribing — instead of a logged-out in-app browser. Free, no signup.
Paste your YouTube link. Videos, Shorts, live streams, channels, and playlists all work — youtube.com and youtu.be links alike.
Get a short app link. You get a clean edn.so link to put in your bio, posts, and captions. It starts working immediately, no signup.
Viewers land in the app. When someone taps it, the link detects their device and opens the video in the YouTube app they're signed into, with an instant fallback to the website when the app isn't there.
Most of your YouTube traffic from social starts inside another app. When someone taps your link in X, Instagram, or TikTok, the platform opens it in its own built-in browser — not Safari, not Chrome, and not the YouTube app. In that browser your viewer is usually logged out of YouTube. Subscribing means signing in first. Commenting means signing in first. And the platform keeps its own back button one thumb-swipe away, pulling them straight back into the feed.
An app link removes that wall. The viewer lands in the YouTube app they already use, signed in, with your video playing and your channel one tap from a subscribe. Services built on this idea report app-opening links converting two to three times better than raw links — and even where a platform blocks the automatic handoff, a clean one-tap open page beats a logged-out mobile site.
No link tool controls what another company's app permits. Here is exactly what your viewers get, environment by environment:
A short link that opens your video in the YouTube app instead of a browser. When someone taps a normal YouTube link inside X, Instagram, or TikTok, it opens in that platform's built-in browser, where the viewer is usually logged out of YouTube. An app link detects the viewer's device and hands the video to the YouTube app they're signed into, so subscribing, liking, and commenting are one tap away.
Because the in-app browser strips out everything that grows a channel. A viewer watching your video logged-out in Instagram's browser can't subscribe or comment without signing in first, their watch doesn't feed your channel's relationship with them, and one swipe takes them straight back to the feed. In the YouTube app they're signed in, your channel is one tap from a subscribe, and YouTube's own recommendations keep them watching you.
Creating a link is free with no signup, and the link starts working immediately. Signing in with a free Eden account claims the link: it's then tied to your account permanently and you get click tracking. Links you never claim keep working too, but claiming is how you make one yours.
Honestly: it depends on the phone. On Android, tapping the button inside those apps opens the YouTube app directly. On iPhone, Safari and Chrome open the app with a single clean tap and no permission popup, but the in-app browsers inside Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok block app-opening, and no tool can truly bypass that. There, your viewer gets a clean one-tap page with an open-in-YouTube button and a short hint for jumping out of the in-app browser. That's the real state of the art, and it still beats dumping people on a logged-out mobile site.
Yes. Every app link counts clicks, filtered the same way Eden's scheduler links are: bots, link scanners, and preview crawlers don't count, and each person counts once. Claim the link with a free account and it shows up with its click count in Eden under Settings → Links.
Yes, on Eden's paid plans. The app link tool runs on the same tracked-link service Eden uses for scheduled posts and Instagram auto-DMs, and that service supports custom link domains like go.yourbrand.com on the Pro and Studio plans.
Eden schedules to X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, and Substack — and can shorten and track every link in your scheduled posts on this same service, with custom domains on paid plans. Research what works, write it, schedule it, and see what people actually click.
Free plan. No card required. 100 saved items and 50 AI credits included.