FixupXer - URL Enhancer
Take Back Control of Your Links
• FixupXer is your personal toolkit for a cleaner, more private browsing experience.
• It strips invasive tracking parameters from the links you click and redirects social media URLs through privacy-friendly proxies, ensuring your online habits remain yours alone.
Privacy-First URL Cleaning
• Tracker Removal: Automatically strips tracking tags from over 1,000 known sources.
• Social Link Enhancements: Seamlessly converts links for Instagram, X (Twitter), Facebook, and TikTok into privacy-focused, embed-friendly formats.
• Local Processing: All cleaning happens directly on your device. Your data is never collected, stored, or transmitted to external servers.
Flexible Ways to Use
• Seamless Integration: Set FixupXer as your browser to automatically sanitize every link you open.
• Share Menu: Send any URL from any app to FixupXer for instant, manual processing.
• On-Demand: Paste links directly into the app to see a clear before-and-after comparison of the cleaned URL.
Key Features
• Modern Interface: A clean, Material Design 3 interface featuring a crisp before-and-after breakdown of your links.
• Customizable Actions: Choose exactly what happens after a link is cleaned—open it in your native app, a preferred browser, or copy it to your clipboard.
• Offline Operation: The app functions entirely without an internet connection.
• Theming: Includes a full dark mode with manual or system-synced theme selection.
• History: Keep track of your processed links with built-in history management.
Transparent and Open
• Open Source: Developed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license, the full source code is available on GitHub.
• Community Built: We build upon the work of privacy pioneers like ClearURLs and Fixupx.
• Independence: NeatCode Labs is not affiliated with any social media platforms or third-party services mentioned.
Technical Requirements
• Compatibility: Optimized for phones and tablets running Android 5.0 through Android 15.
• Reliability: Built with a foundation of over 400 automated tests to ensure consistent, bug-free performance.
Note:
• While FixupXer processes everything locally, some URL conversions leverage third-party proxy services.
• Please be aware that these external services are not managed by NeatCode Labs and may change their availability or functionality at any time.
FAQ
Q: Is my privacy truly protected when using this app?
A: Absolutely. We prioritize your privacy by performing all URL cleaning and parameter stripping directly on your device. Your browsing data is never collected, stored, or transmitted to any external servers, ensuring your habits remain entirely your own.
Q: Does FixupXer require an internet connection to work?
A: The core functionality of stripping tracking parameters works entirely offline. While basic cleaning happens locally, please note that some of our advanced social media URL conversions rely on third-party proxy services, which do require an active internet connection to function.
Q: How can I use FixupXer while browsing the web?
A: You can integrate FixupXer directly into your workflow by setting it as your default browser. This allows the app to automatically sanitize every link you open. Alternatively, you can use the Share menu in any app to send a URL to FixupXer for quick, manual processing.
Version History
v2.1.0——13 Jul 2026
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*2.1.0
Highlights
• Ordered rules with host, group, and RE2/J URL-regex scopes
• Remove/keep parameters, regex replacement, redirect extraction, and template rewrites
• Before/after cleaning phases, per-context rules, excludes, and stop-after-match
• Test Lab previews with bounded traces
• Built-in templates plus validated JSON import/export and rollback
• Raw URL encoding preservation and Room migration that keeps existing history
• Modernized Rules, Rule Editor, History, Settings, and dialogs
• Dedicated GitHub guides for Browser mode and Custom URL rules
Verification
• 273/273 unit tests and 194/194 instrumentation tests passed
• Release lint and REUSE 3.3 compliance passed
• APK declares zero permissions and contains no Play-only metadata
• Reproducible fresh-clone build verified
See RELEASE_NOTES.md and docs/BUILD_REPORT.md for full details.
*2.0.0
Complete UI redesign:
• Main and Share screens rebuilt as a before/after flow: original URL with struck-through tracking parameters, result card with a status chip (Already clean / Tracking removed / Converted).
• Full dark mode with a System/Light/Dark theme picker in Settings (Material 3).
• History is now a bottom sheet; tap an entry to reload it, delete with undo.
• New app icon.
• Cleaning engine, proxies, and zero-permission privacy unchanged. 45 new tests.
*1.5.1
• Tap Change. on Main or Share to open the same proxy dialog (was Settings on Main)
• Removed the Instagram embed proxy section from Settings — single source of truth now lives next to where you use it
• Auto-reprocess: on Main, picking a different proxy after Process refreshes the Processed URL field automatically
