Deep Link Generator (app links)
100% PrivateURL & Link ToolsBuild tap-to-call, mailto, SMS, WhatsApp and maps links that open the right app.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your input is not uploaded to Ovatly or anywhere else.
- 1Pick the link type: phone call, text message, WhatsApp, email or maps.
- 2Fill in the fields for that type; optional fields can be left blank.
- 3Read the generated link and fix any validation message (they explain exactly what is wrong).
- 4Copy the link into your page, or use Test the link to try it on this device.
Number: +1 (555) 010-2030, Message: Hello there Result: https://wa.me/15550102030?text=Hello%20there The number is reduced to digits with its country code, and the message is encoded so spaces and punctuation survive the trip.
- WhatsApp requires the full international number (country code, no plus sign, no leading zero). The generator rejects a local-format number for WhatsApp and explains why, rather than producing a link that fails silently.
- sms: links use the ?body= form. A few older Android handlers expect a different separator; if a pre-filled SMS body does not appear on a specific device, that device is the reason.
- mailto: bodies use CRLF line breaks, as mail clients expect; the preview shows them encoded as %0D%0A.
wa.me links identify an account by its full international number. A number written in local format, starting with 0, cannot be matched to an account, so WhatsApp shows an error. Add the country code, for example 92 for Pakistan or 1 for the US and Canada.
About this tool
The Deep Link Generator builds the special links that open apps instead of web pages: tel: links that start a call, sms: links with a pre-written text, mailto: links with subject and body filled in, WhatsApp click-to-chat links, and Google Maps search links. Contact pages, support docs and booking sites run on these, and each format has its own encoding rules that this tool handles for you.
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