A safer way to reach your source
Tips, contact details, and draft materials — share them without leaving anything in cloud history or your source's phone backups.
Start free trialWhere sources get exposed
Investigative work rarely fails at the interview. It fails in the handoff.
Messaging app backups
Signal, Telegram, iMessage — most sync to cloud backups by default. Everything said is recoverable with the right warrant.
Email metadata
Even encrypted email leaks sender, recipient, subject, and timing — enough to identify a source.
Newsroom file servers
Shared drives have access logs. Once a document is saved, dozens of people in IT can see who touched it.
Device seizure
A phone or laptop in the wrong hands reveals months of communication history in minutes.
A clean handoff
Ephemeral by default. Nothing to seize, subpoena, or back up.
Encrypt
Your source writes in the browser. Encryption happens before anything leaves their device.
Share
A self-destructing link. No account, no phone number, no identifier.
Vanish
Read, then deleted forever. No server-side copy, no log of contents.
Designed for confidential work
No account required
Your source never signs up, never gives a phone number, never leaves an identifier on our side.
Swiss jurisdiction
The company behind scrt.link operates under Swiss jurisdiction, one of the strongest legal frameworks for press freedom and privacy.
No server-side logging
We never see the contents of your secrets. Deleted after first read — we can't hand over what we don't have.
Password protection
Layer an additional password on top of the link for out-of-band delivery.
Secret Requests
Publish a tip page. Sources submit information to you without revealing their identity.
File support
Images, PDFs, audio — up to your plan's file size. Encrypted client-side before upload.
Effortless Integration
Seamlessly connect your tools, data and workflows in minutes.
Connect to the API
The provided client module enables a simple and convenient way to interact with the API.
<!-- Include in your app -->
<script type="module">
import { scrtLink } from 'https://scrt.link/api/v1/client-module';
// Instantiate client with API key.
const client = scrtLink('<your-api-key>');
client.createSecret('Some confidential information…').then(console.log);
</script>
API Response (JSON)
In the background the client module interacts with the Rest API. No further setup needed.
// Client module response:
{
"secretLink": "https://scrt.link/s#gOOei~kEkcYAAX-YJQnGooSXdSJg8MXkzk~2",
"receiptId": "D0waygL3",
"expiresIn": 86400000,
"expiresAt": "2025-04-24T16:15:52.172Z",
"viewLimit": 1
}
Protect your source from first contact
Try scrt.link — then publish a tip page under your byline.