Bento alternative: a link in bio that keeps your link

Bento shut down on February 13, 2026. Every bento.me address now answers with a redirect to linktr.ee's home page, so a bento.me link on a business card, a poster, or an old post opens Linktree, not the page you moved to. Only Linktree, which owns bento.me, could send those links anywhere else. For the page you build next, pick a tool that serves it at your own domain: when a host closes, you point the domain at the next one, and the link in your bio still opens your page.

This page compares 5 tools that AI answers and Bento's own notice point Bento users to (Linktree, Carrd, Liink, taap.bio, and lnk.boo) with Convika, on the two things a former Bento user asks about: a grid of tiles, and a link that stays yours. Each vendor's facts come from its own pages, read on November 6, 2026. Prices are in US dollars. If a list of links is enough and you don't need tiles, Convika's link-in-bio template makes one free from your name and links, ready for your own domain.

What happened to Bento links

Bento's shutdown notice, published on December 18, 2025, said: “Bento platform will shut down on February 13th, 2026.” It also said: “After the shutdown, your Bento user and profile data will be deleted and Bento pages will redirect to Linktree, so please make sure to export anything you wish to retain before then.” Bento users were offered “a special Linktree Pro offer”, whose terms the notice doesn't give.

On November 6, 2026, bento.me, bento.me/home, and an address of the form bento.me/yourname each answered with a 301 redirect to https://linktr.ee, Linktree's home page. The name in the address is dropped on the way, so nobody who opens an old link lands on your Linktree page either.

What that means for you:

• The bento.me links already out there can't be fixed by you. The domain is Linktree's. Change the link wherever you still can: your bio on each platform, your email signature, pinned posts, and the next print run.
• Your Bento page itself is gone. The profile data was deleted after the shutdown. Rebuild from what you still have: screenshots, the links in your posts, and your notes.

What to look for this time

• Your own domain. A link on www.yourname.com belongs to you. If the host closes or you leave it, you connect the domain to another host and every link you printed still opens your page. Bento's links lived on bento.me, and when Bento closed, the address stayed with whoever owned the domain. Link in bio on a custom domain, free lists which link-in-bio tools allow one on a free plan.
• A way to take your page with you. Check that you can download what you built and what it collected. On Convika, Download HTML on the page's screen gives you the page as a file, and form entries download as a CSV.
• The grid, if it matters to you. Tools copy Bento's tiles in two ways: you drag tiles in their editor, or the page's own code lays them out. Liink, taap.bio, and lnk.boo are editors; on Convika, the grid is in the HTML your AI writes.

Bento alternatives compared

Read on November 6, 2026, from each vendor's own pages (listed under Sources).

Each option in a paragraph

Linktree

Linktree is where Bento's own links now go. Its help center, updated October 27, 2026, says “Linktree doesn't support custom domains” and “Every Linktree uses its own linktr.ee/yourusername URL, and you can't replace it with your own domain.” If the reason you're leaving Bento is that its links broke, a linktr.ee address puts you in the same place: the address belongs to the host.

Best for: the quickest move, if you don't need your own domain.

Carrd

Carrd builds a one-page site in its own editor. A Container element set to Columns splits into up to 5 columns, which gets you a tile-like layout by hand. Free covers 3 sites per account, with “Made with Carrd” in the footer. Your own domain starts on Pro Standard at $19 a year for 10 sites, and Carrd's docs say a bare domain works too, with www forwarding to it. Carrd alternatives for AI-generated pages compares it with other builders.

Best for: the cheapest paid plan with your own domain.

Liink

Asked for a bento.me alternative on November 5, 2026, ChatGPT named Liink first in both of its runs. Liink's home page calls it “The visual link in bio” and says that “On big screens your photo and bio sit on the left and your blocks spread out beside them”, with “one clean column” on a phone. Free “never expires and needs no card: one page, unlimited links and blocks, every theme, email capture and basic analytics.” Pro, at $7.99 a month or $79.90 a year, adds “Your own domain, like yourname.com” and removes Liink's branding.

Best for: a free visual page close to Bento's, with your domain on Pro.

taap.bio

taap.bio says you can “Build A bento page, no code needed”, in a drag-and-drop editor with widgets for videos, maps, and photos. Its pricing page lists one plan, Creator, at $19 a month or $180 a year after a 14-day trial, and says “A free plan with limited features is not offered.” Creator includes connecting your own domain and a CSV export of what you collect.

Best for: a paid creator page with a store, bookings, and the grid.

lnk.boo

lnk.boo arranges links, socials, images, maps, and stat counters “in a beautiful grid layout, not just a vertical list.” Building is free at a random URL, and “$1.99 once for a custom URL” buys an address like lnk.boo/yourname. Its own comparison pages say the free tier comes “with per-link click tracking”, and that “lnk.boo doesn't offer custom domains at all.” They say nothing about exporting a page.

Best for: a free grid in a few minutes, if a lnk.boo address is fine.

Convika

Convika hosts the page your AI writes, as it is, and keeps what happens on it. Upload the HTML file in the dashboard, or have Claude, Claude Code, or Codex save it over MCP. The page can be a Bento-style grid, because the grid is in the HTML. Free includes 1 published page, 10,000 page views a month, and 1 custom domain, with the Convika bar at the bottom. Add a form to my page adds a form that keeps entries in the dashboard and emails you each one. Free shows 50 entries a month, and later ones are held until Pro. The analytics screen shows which links visitors tap. Embeds such as YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud play on Free. Pro costs $12 a month and removes the bar.

Weaker than the others at: editing by hand. Convika has no drag-and-drop grid editor. You change the page by asking an AI, with Edit with AI in the dashboard or in your own AI client, or by editing the HTML file yourself and uploading it with Upload a new version.

Rebuild your Bento page as a grid with AI

Convika's link-in-bio template and profile template lay your links out as a list: one column on a phone, and on the link-in-bio page, your name beside the list on a computer. Neither makes Bento's tiles. For a grid, have ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini write the page as one HTML file, then publish that file on Convika.

Gather what was on your Bento page

Your Bento data was deleted after the shutdown, so collect the pieces from where they still are: a screenshot of your old page if you have one, your links, your bio line, and the photos you want. Each photo needs a full https:// link, such as one from your own site or a post.

Ask your AI for the grid

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, with the brackets replaced:

Make my link-in-bio page as one HTML file, with the CSS inside it, laid out like a Bento grid.

- At the top: my name [Your name], one line about me [what you do], and my photo [https://…, or a circle with my initials].
- Below: a grid of rounded tiles, 2 columns on a phone and 4 on a computer. Some tiles span 2 columns or 2 rows.
- One tile per link, each with the site's name and a few words on what's there:
  [Instagram: https://…] [YouTube: https://…] [Shop: https://…]
- One wide tile with my latest video embedded: [YouTube link]
- One wide tile at the end for a contact form: put <div data-convika-form></div> there and write no <form> yourself.
- Colors and mood: [white background, beige tiles, black text].
- Write every link in the HTML itself, each at least 44px tall. Use only the images I give, by their full https:// links.

Open the file in your browser and check each link before you upload it.

Upload it to Convika

Drop the file in the box above, or paste its code, and click Get my preview link. If the preview looks right, click Keep this page — free, no card and create a free account: the page goes into your dashboard. With an account already, click Upload an HTML file in the dashboard, drop the file or paste the code, and click Create my preview.

Add the contact form

On the page's screen, click Add a form to my page, choose the fields, and add the form. It goes into the tile with <div data-convika-form></div>. Entries sent from the preview are checked but not saved, so send a test entry after you publish.

Publish it

Click Publish page. Under Who can open this page?, choose Public and click Next. The first time, click Publish free: the page goes live at once, with the Convika bar at the bottom. Under it, Publish without the Convika bar opens an order for Pro monthly (1 day free with a card, then $12 a month).

Name the URL before you post it

Your page is live at a convika.page URL. Before it goes in your bio, give it a name people can read: open Settings in the site's menu and, under This site's URL, click Change the URL. The old URL redirects to the new one. Better still, connect your own domain first (next section), and post that link instead.

Connect your domain

On the page's screen, under Custom domain, click Connect my domain and type your domain. Convika shows the DNS records to add where your domain is managed: a CNAME and a TXT record connect the www address, such as www.yourname.com, and an A record named @ sends people who type yourname.com without www there too. Click Check status once the records are in. Free connects 1 custom domain; www and the bare domain count as one. You buy the domain itself from a domain registrar. Put an AI-made page on your own domain, free has every step and the fixes when a domain won't connect, and Netlify custom domains on the free plan compares the developer hosts that also allow it.

Once the domain is connected, your bio link survives a move. If you ever leave Convika, you download the page's HTML, put it on another host, and point the same domain there.

What Free doesn't do

• The Convika bar and a cookie banner. A Free page shows the Convika bar at the bottom, on your own domain too, and visitors from the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland also see a cookie banner. Pro shows neither.
• Private pages. A Free page is public: anyone with the link can open it, and search engines and Convika's gallery may show it. A private link and a password are Pro.
• Pages past the page views. Past Free's 10,000 page views a month, the page stops. The pricing page has the details.
• Form entries past the month's count. Free shows 50 form entries a month, across all your forms. Later entries are kept, up to 1,000 more a form, with no email, and show once you move to Pro; past that, the form takes no more.
• Scripts that call other sites. Analytics tags, and tiles whose script fetches live data from another site, such as a live follower count, need Pro. The page's own scripts and embeds from https: sites, such as YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud, run on Free.
• The domain itself. Convika connects it; a registrar sells it.

If a list of links is enough

Not everyone needs Bento's tiles back. Write your name and links on the link-in-bio template's page, and the AI makes a page of them under headings, with the link you most want opened as a large button, ready for your own domain. The profile template does the same in a style you describe, such as pastel or black and white. Making either on its page is free and uses no AI credits; you sign up when you keep and publish it.

Frequently asked questions

What's the best alternative to Bento.me?

It depends on what you want to keep. For a free grid you drag into place, Liink and lnk.boo are the closest, and taap.bio is the paid one with a store. If the link itself matters, pick a tool that serves the page at your own domain: Convika's Free plan connects 1 custom domain, and the page can be a grid your AI writes as HTML. Linktree, where Bento's links now go, has no custom domains on any plan.

What happened to Bento.me?

Linktree bought Bento in 2023, and Bento shut down on February 13, 2026. Its notice said user and profile data would be deleted and Bento pages would redirect to Linktree. On November 6, 2026, every bento.me address tried answered with a redirect to linktr.ee's home page.

Can I make my old bento.me link open my new page?

No. bento.me belongs to Linktree, and it sends every address to linktr.ee's home page. Replace the link wherever you can edit it: your bios, link stickers, email signature, and pinned posts. Put your new link on your own domain, so that a later move never needs this again.

Is there a free Bento alternative with a grid layout?

Yes. lnk.boo is free at a random URL, and Liink's Free plan has no expiry date. On Convika's Free plan, a grid page your AI writes as one HTML file publishes free, with the Convika bar at the bottom, and can show at your own domain. taap.bio has no free plan.

Can I use my own domain for a link in bio for free?

On Convika, yes: Free connects 1 custom domain with a CNAME and a TXT record, and you pay only for the domain. Among the tools on this page, Liink connects a domain on Pro, Carrd from Pro Standard, and taap.bio on its one plan. Linktree and lnk.boo don't offer custom domains.

Sources

• Bento Sunset, Bento's shutdown notice (published December 18, 2025; archived copy read November 6, 2026)
• bento.me redirects: curl -sIL on https://bento.me/, https://bento.me/home, https://bento.me/somecreator, and https://bento.me/home/bento-sunset (each 301 to https://linktr.ee, November 6, 2026, 08:59 JST)
• Can I change the Linktree URL to a custom domain? (Linktree help) (updated October 27, 2026; read November 6, 2026)
• Linktree pricing (read November 6, 2026)
• Carrd Pro, Using a custom domain, and Organizing elements into columns (read November 6, 2026)
• Liink (read November 6, 2026)
• taap.bio and taap.bio pricing (read November 6, 2026)
• lnk.boo and lnk.boo features (read November 6, 2026)
• Link in Bio with a Custom Domain: Who Offers It (lnk.boo) and Free Link in Bio with Analytics (lnk.boo) (pricing “as of April 2026”; read November 6, 2026)