The free alternative to every paid music promotion tool.
Music promotion platforms often put smart links, pixels, download gates, and analytics on paid plans. See each provider's pricing page for current amounts. An independent artist promoting one release can end up using several tools for one song.
TimbrGate bundles smart links, download gates, conversion pixels, and real-time analytics into one tool you can start using for free. Your own artwork, your own pixels, your own slug, with numbers that update while a post is still live.
This page is the hub. Pick a platform and see how TimbrGate handles the same job, what lines up, and what does not. Where a competitor has a feature TimbrGate does not, the comparison says so.
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Detailed, head-to-head comparisons for every major player.
TimbrGate vs Hypeddit
A Hypeddit alternative with download gates and smart links in one dashboard. SoundCloud follow, like and repost are verified through SoundCloud's official API after the fan signs in. See Hypeddit's pricing page for their plans.
TimbrGate vs ToneDen
ToneDen shuts down 1 Dec 2026. Export your data by 30 November, then rebuild smart links and download gates in TimbrGate. Free to start.
TimbrGate vs Linkfire
Linkfire is a smart link platform with a trial, then a limited free account. See Linkfire's pricing page for current plans. TimbrGate offers smart links, your own Meta and TikTok pixels, and clean analytics from your very first release.
TimbrGate vs Feature.fm
Feature.fm's free plan collects fan emails and keeps access to them on a paid plan. Custom domains are on a paid artist plan. See Feature.fm's pricing page for current plans. TimbrGate gives independent artists smart links, fan emails and retargeting pixels in one dashboard, free to start.
TimbrGate vs Disco
Disco focuses on private music sharing for A&Rs and labels. If you actually need a public smart link, a download gate, and conversion analytics for fans, TimbrGate is the tool built for that job.
TimbrGate vs Show.co
Show.co bundles smart links with paid promo placements, and the free tier is intentionally thin. TimbrGate keeps the smart link and download gate toolkit in one dashboard, with nothing to configure twice.
Three reasons TimbrGate replaces the stack.
Free to start
Sign up, paste a streaming URL, and your first smart link or download gate is live in under two minutes. The features other platforms gate behind Pro tiers are here from your first release.
Smart links + download gates
Most tools do one or the other. TimbrGate handles both from the same dashboard, with one analytics view, one pixel setup, and one fan experience - so a single release can route streams and capture downloads in parallel.
Real-time analytics
Visits, platform clicks, country breakdowns, and download conversions update live. No 24-hour delay and no sampling. Wire your own Meta, TikTok, and Google pixels for full server-side conversion tracking.
Smart links and download gates, free to start.
Build your first smart link or download gate in under two minutes. Bring your own domain, your own pixels, your own audience - and run them all from one dashboard.