A link in bio without a watermark, because the page should look like yours
If you are looking for a link in bio without a watermark, you have probably already worked out why free tools come with one. The badge in the footer is how the free tier gets paid for. It is advertising, and your traffic is buying it.
HeyBio does not force branding onto your page. There is no watermark over your photo, no logo pinned to the header, no interstitial screen before your page loads and no advertising. There is one optional line in the footer that reads 'Powered by HeyBio', and there is a separate optional referral line that earns you credit if you leave it on. Both are switches in your dashboard, on every plan, and switching them off does not take any feature away from you.
The trade is stated plainly: there is no free tier. Start is 9 euro a month or 90 euro a year, Pro is 29 euro a month or 290 euro a year, and every plan opens with a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
What 'no watermark' means here, exactly
Vague promises about branding are easy to make, so here is the specific list. No logo is drawn over your images. No badge is fixed to the top or bottom of the page. There is no splash or interstitial screen between someone clicking your link and reaching your content. No advertising is inserted, for us or for anyone else. Nothing is added to your page that you did not put there.
The two exceptions are both switches you control: the small 'Powered by HeyBio' footer line, and the referral line. Turn either off and nothing else about the page changes.
One honest caveat about the address itself. On Start your page lives at heybio.io/yourname, which contains our name by definition. If you want the address to carry no reference to us at all, that is what the custom domain on Pro is for, and we register and connect it for you.
The referral line, and why you might keep it
The referral line is separate from the 'Powered by HeyBio' footer, and it does something different. It earns you credit when it sends someone our way. If you are the sort of creator who gets asked what you built your page with, leaving it on costs you one small line and pays you back.
If your page needs to be completely neutral, turn it off. Some situations call for that: a brand collaboration where a third party's name in the footer is awkward, a niche where you would rather not advertise your tooling, or simply a preference for a clean page.
There is no penalty attached to either choice. You do not lose analytics, geo filtering or any other feature by switching both lines off, and nobody at our end turns them back on. It is your page, and the switches stay where you leave them.
Why there is no free tier
Free link pages have to be paid for somehow. The usual routes are branding on your page, limits designed to become annoying enough that you upgrade, or advertising. All three make your page work for the tool rather than the other way round.
We took the other option, which is charging money. Nine euro a month for Start, twenty-nine for Pro. That covers real costs: hosting the page, registering and connecting domains on Pro, running country lookups for geo filtering, and keeping the click-rescuing behaviour working as the in-app browsers keep changing.
The risk in that model sits with us, which is why there is a 7-day free trial. Put real traffic through the page during those two weeks rather than clicking around it yourself. If it does not earn its keep, there is a 30-day money-back guarantee behind the trial, and plans cancel monthly rather than locking you into a year.
Control over how the page looks
An unbranded page is only worth having if you can make it look like you. Editing works by description: you type what you want changed and the editor picks from a fixed list of operations, covering text, colours, button order and photo visibility. You are not hunting through settings panels to find where the accent colour lives.
The fixed list is a feature rather than a limitation. The editor cannot change where a link points, which is what makes it safe to let it work on a live page and safe to let someone else use it.
Every change is versioned, and rollback is one click. That changes how you work more than it sounds like it does. You can try a shorter headline, a different button order or a bolder colour on the live page, watch what happens, and put it back exactly as it was if it does not land.
Leaving is part of the deal
The other half of 'no forced branding' is not being locked in. You can export the full page and its images whenever you want, so your content is portable rather than trapped in a dashboard.
Plans cancel monthly. The 30-day money-back guarantee sits behind the trial, so the decision is reversible in both directions. The prices are the prices: 9 or 90 for Start, 29 or 290 for Pro, and on Agency 99 euro a month for up to ten models with 7.50 euro a month for each extra model. There is no separate charge that appears once your traffic grows.
If you take the custom domain on Pro, the address people have memorised is yours rather than a path on someone else's site, which is the strongest version of an unbranded page there is.
Questions
Can I remove the 'Powered by HeyBio' footer?
Yes. It is a switch in your dashboard and it is available on every plan, including Start at 9 euro a month. Removing it is not tied to upgrading, and nothing else about your page changes when you switch it off. The referral line is a separate switch you control the same way.
Do you put ads, pop-ups or interstitials on my page?
No. There is no advertising, no pop-up, and no screen between someone clicking your link and reaching your page. The only two things we can add are the optional footer line and the optional referral line, and both are off if you switch them off.
Is there a free plan I can stay on permanently?
No, and that is deliberate: free tiers are usually paid for with branding, limits or ads. Start is 9 euro a month or 90 euro a year and Pro is 29 euro a month or 290 euro a year. Every plan begins with a 7-day free trial and carries a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Does my web address still show your brand?
On Start your page sits at heybio.io/yourname, so the address does carry our name even though the page itself carries no branding. Pro includes a custom domain that is registered and connected for you, which gives you an address with no reference to HeyBio at all.
What is the referral line and what does it pay?
It is an optional line you can leave on your page, separate from the 'Powered by HeyBio' footer. If it brings someone to HeyBio, you earn credit for it. Switching it off costs you nothing in features and switching it on costs you one small line of text.
Set both footer switches to off on day one of the trial and see what a page with nothing on it but your own work looks like.
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