URLCheck
Overview
• Take control of your digital journey with URLCheck, a powerful gateway designed to make your web browsing safer, cleaner, and more transparent.
• Originally crafted as a personal tool for privacy, it has evolved into a fully open-source, community-driven project.
• URLCheck stands as a guardian between you and the links you click, ensuring that every destination is verified before you arrive.
Privacy and Security
• Scan links for threats using VirusTotal integration to ensure your safety before visiting unknown sites.
• Protect yourself from phishing by detecting deceptive characters used to mimic popular websites.
• Identify and avoid dangerous domains with a built-in host checker that highlights malware, adware, and fake news.
• Unmask shortened URLs to reveal their true destination, preventing unwanted surprises.
• Enjoy a tracker-free experience with an app that requires minimal permissions and respects your data.
Url Optimization
• Strip away intrusive tracking parameters and referral tags to maintain your privacy.
• Automatically suggest upgrades from insecure HTTP to encrypted HTTPS connections.
• Redirect links to privacy-friendly alternatives for major social media and video platforms.
• Analyze and remove specific query parameters to streamline your web experience.
Total Control and Transparency
• Customize your workflow with a modular design that allows you to enable, disable, and reorder features.
• Inspect server status codes and follow redirection paths to understand exactly where a link leads.
• Review your browsing history with a detailed log that allows you to undo changes or revisit past checks.
• View the raw intent and technical data, providing developers and power users with total visibility.
A Commitment to Integrity
• Completely free and open-source under the CC BY 4.0 license, inviting you to inspect or contribute to the code.
• A lightweight, ad-free application designed solely for the benefit of the user.
• A community-focused project where users can propose new translations or feature enhancements directly on GitHub.
FAQ
Q: How does URLCheck help me identify dangerous websites before I visit them?
A: The application features a built-in host checker that scans domains against databases of known malware, adware, and fake news sites. By identifying these threats in advance, the app gives you a clear warning so you can avoid landing on a page that might compromise your device or spread misinformation.
Q: Can URLCheck help me stay safe from phishing attacks?
A: Yes, the app is specifically designed to detect deceptive characters that attackers use to mimic popular websites, a technique often called a homograph attack. It analyzes the URL for these subtle tricks and alerts you if a link is pretending to be a legitimate site like your bank or a social media platform.
Q: What is the benefit of the VirusTotal integration?
A: By integrating with VirusTotal, URLCheck can cross-reference any link against dozens of different antivirus engines and website scanners. This provides you with an extra layer of security and a comprehensive report on the safety of a destination before you ever set foot on the site.
Version History
v3.5——29 Jul 2026
Allows analyzing (or sharing) URLs before opening them. Download the latest version of URLCheck to enjoy new features and updates immediately!
*3.5
- Improve: Allow token on Unshorten module
- Improve: Json editor (monospace and font size)
- Improve: Default patterns (Rickroll, twitter, eddrit, farside)
- Internal: Translations fixes and updates
*3.4.1
- Improve: Updated translations
- Fix: Report error instead of deleting extra json elements in the editor
- Fix: Avoid some errors when using http services
- Internal: Several updates and minor changes
*3.4
- Improve: Rewritten VirusTotal integration: use api v3 and show more details (vote third place)
- Improve: Allow app component and/or package in the open automation
- Improve: Allow list of strings on 'regex' and 'excludeRegex' for patterns
- Improve: $REFERRER$ for the webhook body
- Improve: Close url editText on enter
- New: excludeRegex on automations
- New: Toast automation sample
- Fix: bold host display not working with host-only urls
- Fix: non-clickable links on json editor