The Free Show.co Alternative for Music Promotion

Show.co includes smart links, action gates, pre-save campaigns, audience tagging and pixel-driven retargeting, with Starter, Pro and Premium tiers. See current pricing on Show.co's site. This page does not quote those amounts.

TimbrGate was built to put the core of that toolkit into one free-to-start dashboard. The same smart links, the same action gates, the same pixel coverage and the same real-time analytics - with no ads on your landing page. Pre-save campaigns are the one Show.co feature TimbrGate does not offer. Sign up, paste a streaming URL, and your first link is live in under two minutes.

If you are evaluating Show.co right now, this page is the side-by-side you wish their pricing table gave you. Here is exactly what overlaps, what TimbrGate does differently, and how to migrate a back catalog in under 30 minutes.

Show.co lists pixel retargeting, branding removal, custom domains and advanced analytics on its Pro and Premium tiers. See current pricing on Show.co's site. This page does not quote those amounts. On TimbrGate, smart links, action gates, pixels and analytics sit in one dashboard, and it is free to start.

The second reason is build velocity. TimbrGate ships weekly. Real-time analytics over a Socket.IO connection, server-side pixels via Meta CAPI, Google Measurement Protocol and TikTok Events API, ffmpeg waveform previews on the smart link landing page - those are not roadmap items, they are already live. The product is moving faster than the legacy paid suites because there is no enterprise sales process slowing things down.

The third reason is trust on the landing page itself. Show.co only removes its branding on the Premium tier. TimbrGate keeps your smart link and download gate ad-free and builds them around your artwork and your button order, with nothing of ours on the cover - just one small link to TimbrGate below the content. For artists running paid ads to a smart link, that alone tightens conversion enough to matter. Add custom URL slugs, mobile deep-linking into native Spotify and Apple Music apps, and a UI that loads in under 200ms.

Start by exporting your campaign list from Show.co. Most artists keep 5 to 30 active smart links and a handful of action gates - that is the scope of a single sitting. Open the TimbrGate dashboard, hit Create Gate, paste any Spotify URL from your catalog, and SongLink/Odesli resolves Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Tidal, SoundCloud, Amazon Music, Bandcamp and Pandora in 1-2 seconds. Drag the platforms into your preferred order, add your artwork, and the smart link is live.

For action gates, copy the same actions you had on Show.co - Spotify follow, YouTube subscribe, Instagram follow, email capture - and paste each platform URL into the TimbrGate action builder. Drag to reorder, set whether actions are required or optional, and the gate is ready. Drop your Meta Pixel, Google Ads tag and TikTok Pixel into the tracking tab - server-side firing turns on automatically.

Finally, set up 301 redirects from your old Show.co URLs to the new TimbrGate slugs. Most artists do this through their existing link shortener or by updating the bio links on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. You can keep the Show.co account in read-only mode for a month while you confirm everything routes, then cancel the subscription. Total time on a 20-link migration: about 25 minutes.