SMS Link Generator

How to use

1. 1Pick a country to set the dial code, or clear the country code to enter a short code. The default is +1 (United States and Canada).
2. 2Type the phone number after the country code, or a 3 to 6 digit campaign short code. Spaces, dashes, parentheses, plus signs, and the leading trunk 0 are stripped automatically.
3. 3Optional: write a prefilled message body or click one of the presets (Customer support, Appointment booking, Quote request, Marketing opt-in, Event RSVP). Watch the segment counter to stay inside the 160-character GSM-7 budget.
4. 4Copy the sms: URI for the recommended RFC 5724 link, the iOS legacy variant when supporting old iPhones, or the SMSTO: URI when encoding a QR code.
5. 5Customize the link text and copy the HTML anchor or Markdown snippet to drop into a website, email signature, or marketing channel.
6. 6Scan or copy the QR code SVG to use in offline placements like flyers, packaging, posters, or business cards.

About this tool

SMS Link Generator builds a click-to-text URI that opens the visitor's default SMS app with your phone number and an optional prefilled message ready to send. The page runs entirely in your browser, so the phone number and message text you enter never leave your device, and there is no signup, no carrier API key, and no third-party service required. The output covers every flavor a modern campaign needs: the RFC 5724 standard sms: URI with a ?body= parameter that works in Android Chrome, iOS Safari, and every modern desktop browser when SMS handoff is configured; the iOS legacy sms: URI with an &body= separator for older iPhones that still expect that older Apple convention; and the SMSTO: URI that consumer QR code scanners route through the SMS app. Phone numbers are normalized to the ITU-T E.164 international format that the sms: protocol expects: punctuation, spaces, parentheses, dots, plus signs, and the trunk-prefix 0 some countries place in front of mobile numbers are all stripped, the country dial code is prepended automatically, and a length check catches numbers that are too short (under seven digits) or too long (over fifteen digits, the E.164 maximum) before you publish a broken link. The tool also recognizes short codes (the 3 to 6 digit campaign numbers used for marketing opt-ins, donations, and 2FA in the US, UK, and most major markets) and routes them through the URI without a country prefix. A country dial-code picker covers the markets where click-to-text is most common (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Turkey, Nigeria, and many more). The prefilled body is URL-encoded with encodeURIComponent so emojis, line breaks, and any language travel through every SMS client safely. A live SMS encoding analyzer reports the message in GSM-7 septets (the default 7-bit alphabet) or UCS-2 code units, calculates the carrier segment count using the 160/153 character budget for GSM-7 or the 70/67 character budget for UCS-2, and warns when an emoji or curly quote tips the message into UCS-2 (which doubles your carrier cost). On top of the URIs the page emits two embed snippets you can paste straight into a marketing channel: an HTML anchor tag with optional target="_blank" and rel="nofollow" attributes, and a Markdown link ready for blog posts, README files, GitHub issues, and Notion pages. It also generates a scannable QR code that encodes the SMSTO: convention (the format virtually every consumer QR scanner routes through the SMS app), ready to copy as SVG and print on a poster, flyer, packaging, signage, or business card. Useful when adding a text-us button to a marketing page, an Instagram or TikTok bio link, a Google Business Profile, an email signature, a customer support footer, a real-estate listing, a restaurant menu QR, or a 2FA opt-in flow.

Free to use. Works in your browser. No signup, no login.