StretchLink For Mac

If you are a regular user that spends most of his time on the Internet, then you probably agree that sharing links to videos, news, photos, or documents is one of the most fun things you can do nowadays. Chances are you have already encountered the pesky, so called, “short” URLs, or worst, those links that are longer than most politicians’ speeches.

StretchLink is a straightforward and lightweight OS X application that makes it as simple as possible for you to expand “short” URLs that are copied to your Mac’s clipboard.

This means that StretchLink will transform any short link into a standard URL, so you can be sure it will always work when you share it with your friends or colleagues. But, that’s not all, as StretchLink can also tidy-up those very long and annoying links by cleaning out the extra analytics and referral junk.

By clicking the StretchLink’s status bar item, you can setup it to continuously scan the clipboard for links that need to be either expanded or cleaned, to remove the analytics from a link, as well as to remove all its query strings.

Basically, if the “Watch clipboard” option is turned on, you can be sure that StretchLink will automatically and swiftly expand and clean the copied links from your Mac’s clipboard. If you are looking for more, then you will be disappointed, as this app may very well have a menu bar interface, but you won’t really interact with it that often.

This main advantage of using this menulet is that you won’t have to manually access some webpage that’s specialized on expanding and cleaning up links, but that process will be automatically taken care of by StretchLink without you even noticing it.