Kit.co alternative for gear list creators, with a gear list page on a link you own that shows which affiliate link earned
Kit.co was the page tech and camera creators linked under every video: "here is the gear I use", with an affiliate link on each item. It is gone, and most of the pages now ranking for a replacement are written by one of the replacements. This one is too, so here is what we did differently. We checked kit.co itself on the day this was written, tested old kit URLs to see what a viewer lands on today, and built the comparison around the one mistake worth not repeating: parking years of links on a URL somebody else can switch off.
The short answer
Kit.co closed on May 11, 2026. Its home page now reads "Kit.co has closed" and every old kit URL we tested returns HTTP 410 Gone, so gear list links in years of video descriptions lead nowhere and earn nothing. The closest replacement is a gear list storefront that accepts any affiliate link, groups products into kits, and ideally sits on a URL you control. Favly Pro does that for $180 a year, with a custom domain and commission reports matched to each link.
Kit.co status checked on 28 September 2026. The home page reads "Kit.co has closed" and old kit pages return HTTP 410 Gone · No commission fee
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At a glance
Kit.co, the shutdown and your options, in one table.
Rows marked OFFICIAL quote kit.co or the vendor page named in the row, read on 28 September 2026. TESTED rows are requests we made ourselves that day. STRUCTURAL rows are reasoning that follows from those facts. Prices are in USD.
| What you want to know | The answer | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Is kit.co still running | No. Closed on May 11, 2026 | OFFICIAL. The kit.co home page reads "Kit.co has closed" and "Service discontinued, May 11, 2026". |
| Where kit.co sends visitors now | Kit.com, for email automation | OFFICIAL. The closure notice points creators "looking to grow your business with email automation" to Kit.com, the email platform formerly called ConvertKit. It is not a gear list tool. |
| What an old kit link shows | HTTP 410 Gone | TESTED. Creator profiles and individual kit pages we requested on 28 September 2026 all returned status 410 with the page title "Gone". A 410 tells search engines the page is permanently removed. |
| Does a kit link still earn commission | No | STRUCTURAL. The affiliate link lived on the kit page. With the page gone, the viewer never reaches the retailer, so nothing is tracked or paid. |
| Export after the closure | None offered on the site | OFFICIAL, by absence. The closure notice mentions no export or archive. If you did not save your kits before May 11, rebuild them from your descriptions and past affiliate reports. |
| Where your old product list still lives | Your affiliate reports | STRUCTURAL. Amazon Associates, B&H and brand program dashboards list the products your links sold. That is the fastest way to rebuild a kit, and it puts the earners first. |
| Amazon storefront | Free, Amazon products only | OFFICIAL. Since Amazon's 14 April 2026 agreement revision, completing Associates registration gives access to a storefront at amazon.com/shop/yourhandle. It cannot hold B&H, brand or software links. |
| Amazon attribution window | 24 hours, or 89 days once carted | OFFICIAL. From Amazon's program policies. Worth knowing because gear buyers often research for days before they buy. |
| Link in bio pages | Built for a short list | STRUCTURAL. Linktree and Beacons can hold gear links, but they are designed around a handful of buttons, not a 40 item kit grouped by camera, audio and desk. |
| Software and AI tools in a kit | Only on a store that takes any link | STRUCTURAL. Editing suites, AI tools and hosting are not sold on Amazon, and their partner programs often pay monthly for as long as the customer stays. |
| Custom domain for your gear list | Favly Pro | OFFICIAL, favly.com/pricing. Point your own domain at the storefront so the link in your descriptions is yours and survives any change of tool. |
| Earnings per link | Favly Pro, from your reports | OFFICIAL, favly.com/pricing. Revenue attribution imports each program's commission report and matches rows to the link that earned them. |
| Favly Pro price | $180 a year ($15 a month billed yearly) | OFFICIAL, favly.com/pricing. No fee on your affiliate commissions. One free demo storefront to try it before you pay. |
| Link checking | Not a Favly feature | Honest limit. Favly does not crawl your links for dead products. Dedicated link monitors such as Geniuslink do. |
what a kit really is
A gear list is a catalog that keeps selling long after the video is old.
A camera review from three years ago still gets watched, and the viewer still wants the lens, the mic and the light in that shot. That is why the kit.co closure hurts more than a link page change would. The links sat in descriptions nobody edits, on videos that still earn views, and every one of them now ends at a 410 page. The replacement has to hold dozens of products in named kits, take links from Amazon, B&H, brand programs and software partners alike, and tell you which of them actually earned.
What the closure teaches
What to demand from a kit.co alternative after watching kit.co disappear.
The link in your descriptions has to be one you control
Kit.co did nothing wrong by its users while it ran. The problem is that the URL in thousands of descriptions belonged to kit.co, and when it closed, every one of those links broke at once. Any replacement that puts its own domain in your descriptions repeats that risk. Put your own domain in front of the gear list, so switching tools later means changing one DNS record instead of editing 400 videos.
Kits, not a list of buttons
A gear list is organized the way a viewer thinks: camera body, lenses, audio, lighting, desk, software. Link in bio pages flatten that into one column of buttons and work for five links, not fifty. Look for named collections a viewer can browse, with a short note on why each item is there.
Any retailer, not one
Kit.co took links from anywhere, which is why creators used it instead of an Amazon list. A camera creator typically links Amazon for accessories, B&H or Adorama for bodies and lenses, brand programs for mics and lights, and software partners for editing tools. A replacement that only holds one retailer's catalog quietly deletes the rest of your income.
Proof of which item earned
The easy move after a closure is to rebuild on the first free tool you find, and a month later not be able to say which of the 40 products paid for anything. Clicks are not money. The useful number is commission per link, which needs each program's report matched back to the link. That is what tells you which items deserve the top of the kit and which can go.
Software belongs in the kit too
The editing suite and the AI tools in a tech creator's workflow are often the best paying items on the list, because software partner programs commonly pay a share of the subscription every month the customer stays. Amazon cannot hold them. A gear list without them leaves recurring income on the table.
Price it against what your old kit earned
Favly Pro is $180 a year. At a 4% Amazon rate that is roughly $4,500 of camera gear sold in a year, or a couple of software referrals on a recurring program. If your old kit earned less than that, a free Amazon storefront is the honest answer, and this page says so below.
Rebuild without losing more clicks
How to replace kit.co in four steps and fix the dead links you already published.
Rebuild the kit from what actually sold
Open your Amazon Associates, B&H and brand program reports for the last 12 months and list every product that earned. Add the items you still recommend that never sold. That list is your new kit, ordered by money rather than by memory.
Build the gear list storefront and tag every link
Create your storefront at favly.com/@you and group products into kits such as camera, audio, lighting, desk and software. Put the Favly tag in each program's sub ID or tracking ID field, so each commission row can be matched to the link that earned it.
Put your own domain in front of it
On Pro, point a domain or subdomain you own, such as gear.yourname.com, at the storefront. This is the step that makes the next closure harmless: the link in your descriptions stays the same whatever tool sits behind it.
Replace the dead kit links, top videos first
Sort your videos by views over the last 90 days and swap the kit.co link in the top 20 descriptions first, since that is where nearly all of the lost clicks are. Update pinned comments and your channel links section too. Then import commission reports each month and move the earners to the top of each kit.
If it is not a fit
If every item you recommend is on Amazon, use the free Amazon storefront.
This page is not going to sell you a subscription you do not need. If every product in your old kit was sold on Amazon, the Amazon storefront is free, shoppers already trust its checkout, and Amazon reports its own commission well. Build your kits there, put the storefront link in your descriptions and move on. Favly earns its $180 a year only when your kit spans more than one retailer, includes software that pays recurring commission, or when you want your own domain in front of the list so a closure like this one never breaks your descriptions again.
What Favly does differently
- ✓ No follower gate and no application queue. Claim favly.com/@you and start today.
- ✓ Built for the AI tools, SaaS and tech gear you already recommend.
- ✓ Recurring commissions: subscription tools can pay every month a fan stays subscribed.
- ✓ Affiliate income and brand deals in one storefront, with #ad disclosure by default.
Side by side
Where kit.co creators actually land, honestly compared.
Most kit.co users moved to one of two places: an Amazon storefront, because it is free and familiar, or a general link page. This table sets the Amazon storefront against Favly Pro, because that is the real decision for a gear creator. Amazon figures come from Amazon's Associates agreement and program policies, re-read in September 2026.
| Capability | Favly | Amazon storefront | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $180 a year (Pro) | Free | OFFICIAL. Amazon charges nothing for the storefront |
| Links from any retailer (B&H, Adorama, brands) | × | Amazon products only | |
| Software and AI tools with recurring commission | × | STRUCTURAL. Amazon does not sell most creator software | |
| Kits grouped into named collections | Amazon idea lists do this well | ||
| Your own domain in your descriptions | × | The page lives at amazon.com/shop/yourhandle | |
| Checkout shoppers already trust | Retailer's own checkout | A genuine Amazon strength. Prime and saved payment details lift conversion | |
| Commission reports matched to each link | Amazon only | Amazon reports its own sales well, and nothing outside Amazon | |
| Earnings per click across every program | × | Needs commission and clicks from all programs on the same link | |
| Dead link monitoring | × | × | Neither checks links. Dedicated link tools do |
| Free way to try it | One free demo storefront | Free | OFFICIAL. Amazon needs completed Associates registration |
FAQ
Questions creators ask about kit.co and what to use instead.
What happened to kit.co?
Kit.co closed on May 11, 2026. The home page now reads "Kit.co has closed" with "Service discontinued, May 11, 2026", and points creators interested in email automation to Kit.com, the email platform formerly called ConvertKit. Old kit pages and creator profiles return HTTP 410 Gone.
Is kit.co shutting down?
It already has. Kit.co discontinued the service on May 11, 2026. Any kit.co link in a video description, pinned comment or bio now lands on a removed page, so it sends no clicks to retailers and earns no commission. Those links need replacing.
What is the best alternative to kit.co?
For creators whose gear is all on Amazon, the free Amazon storefront. For creators who link several retailers, brand programs or software, a gear list storefront that accepts any affiliate link and groups items into kits, ideally on a domain you own. Favly Pro does that for $180 a year and reports which link earned.
Do my old kit.co links still work?
No. We requested creator profiles and individual kit pages on 28 September 2026 and every one returned HTTP 410 Gone, which means permanently removed. A viewer who taps the link sees an error page, and the affiliate link that used to sit on it is never reached.
Can I still access my kit.co kits?
Not through kit.co. The closure notice offers no export or archive, and the pages are gone. The quickest way to rebuild is from your affiliate reports, which list every product your links sold, plus your own video descriptions for items that never sold.
What can I use instead of kit.co for my gear list?
Three options. An Amazon storefront, free but Amazon only. A link in bio page such as Linktree, fine for five links but awkward for a 40 item kit. Or a gear list storefront such as Favly, which holds kits from any retailer and software program and matches commission to each link.
Is an Amazon storefront a good kit.co alternative?
If everything you recommend is sold on Amazon, yes, and it is free. It falls short for camera creators who link B&H or Adorama for bodies and lenses, for brand programs, and for software, none of which it can hold. Its 24 hour attribution window also hurts on expensive gear people research for days.
How do I fix dead kit.co links in my YouTube descriptions?
Replace them on your most watched videos first. Sort by views over the last 90 days, update the top 20 descriptions and pinned comments, then work down. Use a link on your own domain this time, so a future tool change never breaks your descriptions again.
Did kit.co pay creators directly?
Kit.co was where you displayed products with your own affiliate links. Commission was paid by the programs behind those links, such as Amazon Associates, so any money already earned sits in those program accounts. The closure affects future clicks, not commission you had already earned.
Is there a free kit.co alternative?
The Amazon storefront is free and suits Amazon-only gear lists. Favly offers one free demo storefront so you can build a kit and see it live before paying. Keeping it running, with a custom domain and earnings per link, is Favly Pro at $180 a year.
Go deeper
If your kit was mostly Amazon, the details that decide what Amazon pays you sit in three places. How to create an Amazon storefront covers setup and the rules Amazon added in April 2026, Amazon affiliate commission rates covers what Amazon does and does not publish per category, and Linktree for Amazon affiliate links covers which link page settings can break Amazon's rules.
If your kit spans retailers and software, an influencer storefront compares the places a mixed catalog can live, our affiliate link manager shows how commission reports are matched back to each link, and a custom domain link in bio explains how to put your own address in front of the storefront so the next closure never touches your descriptions.
Most kit.co users were tech and camera creators. Favly for tech creators covers the catalog gap between retail storefronts and the software a tech channel actually recommends, and tech affiliate programs lists the programs worth adding to the software section of your kit.
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