About
Built because the click
kept going nowhere.
OpenOut is a link-in-bio platform whose distinguishing feature is what it does when a visitor arrives inside TikTok's or Instagram's built-in browser — the context most social traffic actually arrives in, and the one most link tools ignore entirely.
- Independent
- Built in Hamburg
- Free forever plan
Why it exists
A conversion problem that looks like an audience problem
Tap a link inside a social app and it opens in that app's own browser. It renders pages fine, so nothing looks wrong — but sign-ins fail, wallet buttons go missing and downloads do nothing at all.
The failures are silent, which is the entire problem. A page that crashes produces a complaint. A checkout missing its Apple Pay button produces a closed tab that looks, in every analytics tool, exactly like someone who wasn't interested. So people rewrite offers, redesign pages and question their audience, when what actually happened was that a browsing context quietly removed the thing the page needed.
OpenOut started as the narrow fix for that: detect the context before the page renders, attempt whatever hand-off the platform genuinely supports, and where none exists, make the manual escape a single tap. The page builder grew around it. 14 apps are recognised by name today, with a generic check behind them for the ones that aren't.
Who builds it
Tim Geithner
Sole developer of OpenOut. Writes the in-app browser detection the product runs on, and the guides published on this site. OpenOut is run as a sole proprietorship — there is no team behind the "we", and this page would rather say so than imply one.
Every article on this site is written by the person who wrote the detection code it describes, which is the only reason the guides can be as specific as they are about what does and doesn't work on each platform. The full legal details — operator, address, VAT ID, contact — are on the imprint, as German law requires and as anyone selling something online should be willing to publish anyway.
Registered in 20459 Hamburg, Germany.
How it's built
Four rules this project keeps to
Mostly because the category makes the opposite very tempting: in-app browser breakout is easy to oversell, and the overselling is hard for a buyer to check.
No guaranteed automatic escape
There is no supported way for a webview to force Safari open on iOS, and Android's hand-off works often rather than always. Every surface here says so — the marketing pages, the machine-readable summary, the FAQ answers.
The fallback is the product
Because automatic breakout can't be promised, the one-tap copy flow isn't an error state. It is the path that works on every platform and every version, and it is always present.
Numbers come from the code
Plan limits, prices and trial lengths on this site are read from the same definitions the billing logic uses, rather than retyped into marketing copy that can drift away from what the product actually enforces.
A real operator, named
Run as a sole proprietorship in Hamburg, Germany, with the full legal details on the imprint. Not a brand with no one behind it.
The claim we won't make
Nobody can promise Safari opens
If a competing page tells you it always opens the system browser, it is describing a capability the platform does not expose. Apple provides no mechanism for a webview to push a URL into Safari, and the Android path works frequently rather than universally.
What is real: accurate detection of the context, the best hand-off that exists for that specific platform, and a copy-link fallback that turns the manual route into one tap instead of a puzzle. That is a genuine conversion difference, and it is one that survives contact with the truth — which matters more than it sounds, because the alternative is a promise that breaks the first time a platform ships an update.
Start here
TikTok in-app browser
Why TikTok's built-in browser breaks logins, checkout and downloads — and how to get visitors out of it.
Instagram in-app browser
What Instagram's in-app browser does to your link in bio, and what actually works as a fix.
Facebook in-app browser
Facebook and Messenger open every link in their own webview — what that costs, and how to route visitors out.
See whether it makes a difference for you
Build a page, share it once, and compare what happens to the traffic that arrives inside an app. Free forever plan, no credit card.
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