www.cut

This isn’t one of those immersive applications that takes hours to figure out and weeks to master. Instead it’s a small but useful utility that shortens URLs for you so that they can be emailed, Twittered or Facebooked without worrying about character counts or line breaks messing up the link.

www.cut — we like to pronounce it “dub cut” — keeps out of your way as much as possible. For example, if there’s a URL on the clipboard when it starts it assumes that’s the one you want to use and immediately asks your configured shortening service to begin its work. When complete it automatically sends it straight back to the clipboard, so you might not even have to press a single button!

Of course you can also type the URL manually. If you want to email a message you can do it without leaving www.cut.

www.cut currently supports six shortening services:

The ones that support it allow you to log in so that statistics about your links can be gathered.

Simple but effective. That’s www.cut.

FAQ

Sounds great. Where can I get it?

It is available only on the Apple App Store. You can access it either on your iPhone or iPod touch or in iTunes on your Mac or PC.

What do I need to run it?

Any iPhone or iPod touch with at least iPhone OS 3.0. Without the ability to copy and paste URLs www.cut wouldn’t be terribly convenient to use.

How much will it cost?

It’s free! There may at some future date be a “pro” version.

If you’d like to help fund further development please consider purchasing my delicious.com client, Yummy or at least post a nice review on the App Store.

I’ve found a problem… what should I do?

Please email me. Send as much relevant information as you can and I’ll do what I can to help.

Please don’t just post a bad review to iTunes. I can’t fix bugs I don’t know about!

How do I select another shortening service?

www.cut defaults to using is.gd but there are five others that you can use instead. Simply press the “i” button on the bottom right of the main screen.

Some services allow you to enter a username, password or API key. These are always optional but allow you to keep track of the links you shorten.