Milkshake vs Taplink Comparison 2026
Milkshake is built entirely as a phone app, thumb-sized cards you edit on a bus, free forever with unlimited links, hosting and even selling digital files through Stripe on that free tier. Taplink is a web-based builder that goes further into commerce on its paid tiers: price lists, payment collection and a built-in CRM, permanently free for a basic page and then $4 a month for PRO, or $8 for BUSINESS where the actual payment collection lives. Milkshake sells a preset or a guide for nothing from day one; Taplink asks $8 a month before it will take a payment itself. The trade is where selling sits versus where the editor lives, on a phone only or in a browser.
At a glance
- Milkshake starts cheaper, at $2.99.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Milkshake | Taplink | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $2.99 | From $4 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | None | Not stated |
| API | Not stated |
Milkshake
A link in bio site you build on your phone
Milkshake is built as a phone app rather than a website with a mobile view, so the whole thing is thumb-sized cards you swipe between while sitting on a bus. Hosting is free forever and the free plan carries unlimited links. Everything happens on the phone, which means there is no desktop editor when you want to write anything long.
Taplink
A link in bio page that takes payments
Taplink builds a small mobile page out of blocks, and the paid tier turns it into something that sells: price lists, order forms, payment collection and a CRM behind them. That is further than most link pages go. The editor and the help text both read as translated, which is a fair warning about who the support team is.
Our note
Against Linktree the comparison is about what happens after the click. Taking a booking or a payment on the bio page is what the $4 buys, and a plain list of links needs none of it.
Why people weigh these two
- Taplink instead of Milkshake
- Taplink takes payments directly on the page and can be built from a desktop as well as a phone, from $4 a month.
- Milkshake instead of Taplink
- Milkshake is built entirely on the phone, magazine-style pages rather than blocks, from $2.99 with a free tier to start.
Which one should you pick
Pick Milkshake if you live on your phone and want a bio page that looks like a small site rather than a link list, and if selling a digital file is the extent of the commerce you need: that is free on Milkshake's entry tier already. Lite at $2.99 a month just removes the Milkshake branding, and there is no desktop editor at all if that matters to you.
Pick Taplink if the bio link needs to take a booking, collect a lead or run a real payment flow with a CRM behind it, since that is what its BUSINESS tier at $8 a month is built for. PRO at $4 a month adds price lists and custom HTML below that. Taplink runs in a browser rather than a phone-only app, which suits building the page at a desk instead of in the gaps of a day.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper, Milkshake or Taplink?
- Milkshake's paid tier starts lower, $2.99 a month for Lite against Taplink's $4 PRO, but Lite only removes branding. For actual payment collection and a CRM, Taplink's BUSINESS plan at $8 a month is the comparable tier, since Milkshake already sells digital files for free.
- Can I sell something from the free plan on either tool?
- Yes on Milkshake: selling a digital file through Stripe is included on its free tier already. Taplink's free plan does not collect payment; that needs the $8-a-month BUSINESS tier, which also adds a CRM and lead forms.
- Do I need a phone to build a page on either of these?
- For Milkshake, yes, the entire editor is a mobile app with no desktop version. Taplink runs in a web browser, so the page can be built at a desk rather than only in the gaps of a day.
- Does Taplink have a CRM like a booking or coaching business would want?
- Yes, on the BUSINESS plan at $8 a month: leads and payments land in one list with email notifications. Milkshake has no comparable CRM; its selling feature is limited to taking payment for a preset pack or a guide.
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