Bento.me shut down. Here's how to move your grid.

Bento.me shut down on 13 February 2026, three years after Linktree acquired it. Existing bento.me links now redirect to Linktree, and Bento's user and profile data was deleted rather than handed over. If you spent a weekend getting your grid right, that weekend is gone, and there is no export sitting in an inbox somewhere waiting for you.

We'll be blunt about the part people ask first: Gridz.me has no Bento importer, and it can't have a good one. There is no API left to read and no account left to authenticate against. Anyone promising a one-click migration from Bento today is either scraping the Wayback Machine or promising something they haven't built.

There is one shortcut, and it only helps if you took the redirect: bento.me links now point at Linktree, so a lot of people's tiles ended up as a Linktree page. If yours did, paste that URL into Import in the app and we'll read the public page — your links, socials, photo and bio — and build a draft you edit before anything goes live. Beacons, Carrd and own.page pages work the same way. Nothing else about your old Bento page is recoverable, so if you never took the redirect, the manual route below is the honest answer — about ten minutes if you still have your links somewhere.

Before you start: find your old links

Check web.archive.org for your old bento.me URL. Many profiles were crawled and the snapshot will still show your tiles, your labels and the order you put them in. Screenshot it. Your browser history, your Notes app and the Instagram bio you've been copy-pasting for two years are the other three places people usually find the list.

Rebuilding it

1. Sign up at gridz.me. Free, no card. You get a short random URL like gridz.me/abc123 straight away; choosing your own handle is a Pro thing, so don't worry about the URL yet.
2. Pick a template rather than starting blank. Sixteen of them ship with real blocks already arranged, and starting from a laid-out grid is much faster than placing tiles into empty space. Designer, Developer and Creator are the closest in spirit to what most Bento pages looked like.
3. Swap the template's blocks for yours. Each tile is a block: a link, an image, a note, a social handle, a video, or an embed for anything that gives you an iframe. Paste a URL into the editor and it fills in the label for you.
4. Resize and rearrange. Drag a tile's corner to change its footprint — big tiles for the two or three things you actually want clicked, small ones for the rest. This is the part that made Bento pages feel like yours, and it's the part worth spending time on.
5. Set your header and theme. Upload your avatar, write the one-line bio, then try all eight themes; they're colour, type and corner radius as a set, so switching one is not a fifteen-minute retune.
6. Publish, then copy your link. Nothing is public until you hit publish. Once it's live, the dashboard gives you the URL, a QR code and an HTML export.

What's different from Bento

Two things you'll notice quickly. Gridz.me has the analytics Bento never shipped — views, clicks, click-through rate, referrers and device, counted on our own infrastructure with hashed IPs and no third-party scripts. And there's a stacked layout next to the bento grid, which you can switch to and back without losing a block.

One thing it doesn't have, so you're not surprised later: there is no checkout and no email-capture block. You link out to Gumroad, Stripe or your newsletter instead. Embeds are covered — paste a Spotify, YouTube, Figma or Calendly link and it becomes a playable tile, and GitHub or Dribbble profiles come back as cards — but if taking money on the page is load-bearing for you, it's better to know now than three tiles in.

The bit that actually matters

The reason to be careful about where you rebuild is the reason you're reading this. Bento's page was deleted by an acquirer. Whatever you build here exports to a self-contained HTML file or raw JSON from the dashboard, on every plan including the free one, without asking us. If Gridz.me ever stops being the right home for your page, you leave with the page. That's the whole promise, and it costs nothing to test on day one.