Deep Linking Guides

Tutorials and guides on deep links, app opener links, and bypassing in-app browsers.

Why Your Link Opens in a Browser Instead of the App

You shared a link, it opened a browser, and your visitor was logged out. Here is exactly why that happens and what changes it.

A step-by-step guide to creating app-opening deep links for any platform in seconds — no code and no signup.

Why Instagram traps your links in a limited browser — and how to make them open in the real app instead.

All three claim to open apps. Only some survive a missing app or an in-app browser — here is how to pick.

Every platform opens your links in its own browser, where your audience is signed out. Here is the cost and the per-platform fix.

TikTok keeps every tapped link inside its own web view. Here is what that costs you and how to route people into the real app instead.

Facebook's web view is the most aggressive of the lot. Here is what it breaks and how to make your links open the real app instead.

In B2B the cost is different: a prospect landing logged out of your product is a lost demo, not a lost like.

Snapchat's web view is the most minimal of them all, and its dismiss gesture makes leaving accidental. Here is how to get people into the real app.

Threads shares Instagram's plumbing, including the web view. The fix is the same, and most people have not applied it yet.