Musician pages and link-in-bio
Linktree for your bio, GigTag for your mic stand
At a gig you need the people in front of you to be able to do something before the set ends: ask for a song, find out when you are back, or book you for an event. GigTag gives you one printed code on your mic stand that does all three. If you were looking at Linktree for this, here is why the stand needs something made for it.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
Why live acts choose GigTag over Linktree at gigs
Linktree is made for the link in your profile. A room full of people is not looking at your profile. GigTag puts a code where they are looking, on the mic stand, and the page behind it is laid out for a gig: requests, your next date, your links and a booking form.
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A page made for the room
Linktree gathers what you share online for people arriving from a post. GigTag is built for people arriving from a table. The first things they find are things to do tonight: request a song on Pro, see where you play next and follow you, all before you have finished the set.
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Song requests in a live queue
On Pro, the audience picks from your song list, or asks for anything if you open requests, and each choice appears in a queue on your phone while you play. It turns a scan into part of the show. Linktree's music links do a different job: sending fans to stream your recordings.
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One scan, no app, no account
Nobody in a pub will install an app for the band. With GigTag they point a camera at the tag and the page opens in the browser, with nothing to download and no account to make. The journey from table to request is as short as it can be.
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Bookings and invoices from one code
The page includes a booking enquiry form on the free plan, and GigTag takes no commission on the bookings that follow. On Pro you can invoice the client in your own design and be paid online. A guest can go from hearing you to hiring you without leaving the page they scanned.
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A code you print once
The code on your tag is permanent. Change your gigs, your song list or even the act's name and the tag in your bag still works. Linktree's own promise for a bio is similar, a link that never has to change, and GigTag brings that idea to something you can hang on a stand.
In short
Linktree and GigTag, in four lines
- Linktree is a link-in-bio page for sharing your music, merch and tour dates with followers online.
- GigTag puts one permanent code on your mic stand, where a live audience is already looking.
- One scan gives the room song requests, your next gig, your links and a booking form, with no app.
- Choose GigTag for the stand if you play live, and keep Linktree in your bio for followers.
Side by side
GigTag vs Linktree, topic by topic
Setting up
A page and a tag, ready for tonight
You add your act, links, gigs and song list from the website or the GigTag app, design your tag, and download the print file.
LinktreeIts musician page describes creating an account, choosing a design and adding links to your website, socials, videos and merch store.
Your next date
Gigs and weekly residencies fans save to their calendar
Your page shows your next gig and your weekly residencies, and a fan can add either to their calendar. All of them are on the free plan.
LinktreeIts Tour Link App displays your upcoming performances automatically through Bandsintown, Seated or Laylo, so fans can find your shows.
The QR code
One permanent code, made for the mic stand
One permanent code sits on a small tag you design for the mic stand. It opens your act's page and keeps working if you rename the act.
LinktreeIts generator makes a code in your own colours that opens your Linktree. Its site suggests cards, posters and packaging, and reports scans in its analytics.
Your music
A song list the room can request from
Your music links sit on the page for later listening. During the set, the song list is what counts: on Pro, fans request from it.
LinktreeMusic links let fans stream and watch on the platform they prefer, and its site says they can press play inside your Linktree.
Staying in touch
Follows, saved dates and booking enquiries from one scan
Fans follow your socials from the page and save your next gig to their calendar. Anyone wanting to hire you uses the booking enquiry form.
LinktreeIts site describes collecting an email or SMS list of fans that you own and can take with you wherever you go.
The quick view
| GigTag | Linktree | |
|---|---|---|
| A QR code your audience scans | Yes, one that never changes | Yes |
| Song requests from the crowd | Yes, on Pro | – |
| Tips by card or Apple Pay | Yes, on Pro, into your own Ziina or Stripe. GigTag takes 0% | – |
| Booking enquiries | Yes, on the free plan | – |
| Your gigs and weekly residencies | Yes, on the free plan | – |
| Invoices for bookings | Yes, on Pro | – |
| A printed tag for your mic stand | Yes, in your own design | – |
| Works without an app for the audience | Yes, it opens in the browser | – |
A dash means we did not confirm it for Linktree, not that it is missing: see what Linktree offers above, or ask on its site.
Linktree or GigTag
Where GigTag is different from Linktree
A page built around tonight's set
GigTag starts from the gig, not the feed. Someone at table six scans the tag on your mic stand, and the first things they can do are the things a person in a bar wants: ask for a song from your list, see where you play next, add your Thursday residency to their calendar. Requests land in a live queue on your phone while you play, so you know what the room wants before the next song. Song requests are part of Pro.
The printed tag comes first
Linktree gives you a QR code that opens your Linktree, and its site suggests printing it on cards and posters. GigTag is built the other way round: the printed tag comes first. You design a small tag for the mic stand, then download the print file or order it printed. The code on it is permanent. Rename the act next year and the tag in your gig bag still opens the right page.
Bookings from the people watching
The person most likely to book you for a wedding is often the one watching you in a restaurant. GigTag puts a booking enquiry form on the page they have just scanned, so the enquiry reaches you while they still remember the set. Once the job is agreed, you can send an invoice in your own design that the client pays online. Invoices are part of Pro. The enquiry form is on the free plan.
A night with GigTag
A solo acoustic set in a busy pub
You are a singer with a guitar and a Friday slot in a town-centre pub. You clip your tag to the mic stand before soundcheck. Nobody has to be told what it is. By the second song a table near the front has scanned it, and your page is open on their phones in the browser. They see your name, your links and where you are playing next. Because you are on Pro, they also see your song list, and the first request of the night joins the queue on your phone.
Between songs you glance at the queue and pick the request that fits the mood. Later, someone at the bar adds your next date to their calendar, and a woman who runs a restaurant across town fills in the booking enquiry form before she leaves. You pack down as usual. Her enquiry is waiting in your account when you get home, and your Linktree is still doing its job in your bio for everyone who looks you up tomorrow morning.
About Linktree
What is Linktree?
Linktree is a link-in-bio tool. You get one page at a linktr.ee address that gathers everything you share online, and you put that address in your social profiles. Its site speaks to creators in general, and it has a section written for musicians that covers music links, merch, tour dates and fan lists. The idea is that the link in your bio never has to change, because the page behind it does.
In practice a musician adds music links so fans can listen on the service they prefer, connects a merch storefront, and shows upcoming dates through its Tour Link App, which draws on Bandsintown, Seated or Laylo. Its site also covers collecting an email or SMS list, analytics on what fans click, and a QR code in your own colours that takes anyone who scans it to your Linktree.
- Where
- Worldwide
- Website
- linktr.ee
How Linktree works
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Create your account. You sign up on the Linktree site and choose the address your page will live at. Its musician page presents this as a quick job, finished before you have added a single link.
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Style it and add links. You choose a design that feels like your act, then add what you want fans to reach: your website, your socials, your videos, your merch store and links to your music.
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Share it everywhere. You put the address in the bio of each social platform. Its site also suggests a Spotify profile, a Bandsintown page and YouTube descriptions, so one link follows you around.
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Update the page, not the link. When a new track or project arrives, you highlight it on the page or point the link straight at it. The address sitting in your bio stays exactly as it was.
Who Linktree is for
Musicians and artists. Its musician section is written for acts with music to stream, merch to sell and shows to fill. It talks about music links, storefronts, tour dates through Bandsintown and building an email or SMS list of fans you can contact directly.
Creators who earn online. Much of the site addresses creators who make money from their following. It describes selling digital products and courses, earning from affiliate links and sponsorships, and analytics that show which post sent a visitor to the page.
Businesses taking enquiries. Its feature list also covers turning visitors into customers: capturing leads, taking bookings and following up enquiries. The QR code pages suggest signs, brochures, business cards and packaging as places where a scan can lead to a sale.
The verdict
GigTag or Linktree: which should you choose?
The bottom line
If you play live, put GigTag on your stand. The strongest reason is fit: it is the one page built around what an audience wants to do during a gig, from requesting a song to booking the act, and it opens from a single scan with no app. Linktree still earns its place in your social bios, where followers arrive from a post, so most working acts will be well served by using both, each where it belongs.
Most working acts will want both, and the two barely overlap. Keep Linktree in your social bios, where followers arrive from a post. Put GigTag on the stand, where the audience arrives from a table. Then join them up: add your GigTag page as a link on your Linktree, and add your Linktree, or the links on it, to your GigTag page.
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Keep Linktree in your bios
Leave your Linktree where it is, under your name on every social platform. It already holds your music, merch and dates for people who find you online.
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Put GigTag on the stand
Set up your GigTag page, design the tag and print it or order it. Clip it to the mic stand at every gig so the room has something to scan.
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Cross the links over
List your GigTag page on your Linktree, and list your Linktree among the links on your GigTag page. Whichever door someone comes through, they can reach the other.
Choose GigTag if
You play live most weeks and want the people in the room to request songs, see your next gig and enquire about booking you from one scan.
Start freeLinktree may still suit you if
You mostly need one link for your social profiles, with your music, merch and tour dates behind it.
GigTag FreeYour page, your tag design, every gig and residency, a booking form. One act.
GigTag ProSong requests, tips, invoices, more than one act. AED 30, £11.99 or $15.99 a month.
GigTag Printed tagFrom AED 100 in the UAE, £24.99 in the UK or €28.99 in the EU, delivered free, with a large size for more; $32.99 elsewhere, plus postage from the UK. Or print your own, anywhere, for free.
Is GigTag a better fit than Linktree for a pub or wedding band?
For the gigs themselves, yes. A pub or wedding band's audience is in the room, and GigTag is made for that: one printed code, song requests on Pro, your next date and a booking enquiry form, opened in the browser with no app. Linktree is made for your social profiles, and that is where it belongs.
What does GigTag do at a gig that Linktree is not built around?
It runs the exchange with the audience. Fans request songs into a live queue on Pro, save your next gig or residency to their calendar, and send a booking enquiry you can turn into an invoice. They can tip, and GigTag takes 0%. Linktree is built around sharing links with followers online.
Is GigTag a Linktree alternative for musicians?
Partly. Both give you one page with your links on it. Linktree is a link-in-bio tool for sharing everything you do online. GigTag is made for a live gig: a printed code on the mic stand, your next gig and residencies, a booking enquiry form and, on Pro, song requests. Many acts keep Linktree in their bio and use GigTag on stage.
Can I put my Linktree QR code on my mic stand?
You can. Linktree's site says a scan takes people directly to your Linktree, and that the code can go on cards and posters. What the audience then sees is your link page. With a GigTag tag they see a page made for the gig, and the tag itself is designed by you to hang on the stand.
Does Linktree take song requests at gigs?
It describes music links, merch, tour dates, fan lists and analytics for an online audience. GigTag takes requests on Pro: fans scan your tag and choose from your song list, or ask for anything if you open requests, and each one joins a live queue on your phone.
I use Linktree in the UK. Will GigTag work there too?
Yes. Your GigTag page, gigs and residencies, song requests, booking enquiries and invoices work in every country. Tips work there too, into the performer's own Stripe account, and GigTag takes 0% of them. A printed tag is delivered free in the UK and in Dubai.
Do people need an app to scan a GigTag?
No. They point their phone camera at the code on your tag and your page opens in the browser. There is no app to install, no account to create and nothing to download. That matters in a pub or restaurant, where most people will give you a few seconds of attention and no more.
Can I print a GigTag tag myself?
Yes. The tag design and its print file are part of the free plan, so you can print it yourself at no cost. If you would sooner have it made for you, a printed tag costs AED 100 in the UAE or £24.99 in the UK, with free delivery in Dubai and in the UK. Elsewhere we don't ship yet, so print your own for free or ask us first.
Should I replace my Linktree with GigTag?
Not unless your page is only ever used at gigs. Linktree is built for the link in your social profiles. GigTag is built for the tag on your stand. A GigTag page does hold your socials, website and music links, so an act that finds all its audience at gigs could manage with GigTag alone.
Can I use Linktree's tour dates and GigTag's gig list together?
Yes. Linktree's site says its Tour Link App shows your shows through Bandsintown, Seated or Laylo. GigTag keeps its own list of gigs and weekly residencies, which you add from the website or the GigTag app. They are two separate lists, so enter new dates in both places if you want them to match.
Looking for Linktree itself?
This page is GigTag's. Linktree's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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See all comparisonsLinktree is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about Linktree here comes from its own public website, checked on 7 October 2026. Products change: if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
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One code on your stand. Requests, tips and the next gig behind it.
No app for your audience, nothing to download. Free to start.