You may find this helpful:
You can change the URL while keeping the anvil.app domain for free.
You need a paid plan to use another domain.
Hi, thanks for your reply. You have explained the reasons why anvil has stopped a user to change URL of the Public Link in its free plan. Whatever be the reasons, in my view it has now almost stopped a user from the use of the anvil Free Plan as it is not possible for a user to give a long randomly generated URL meaningless name to others to visit his/her website. There were already a lot of restrictions in the Free Plan like “limited email sending” etc. With this new restriction on the change of the URL of the Public Link it has stopped the way of Free Plan users almost completely. I think, I have to look for some other service on the internet to build a website for free with better options or please suggest me what to do? I am unable to pay even for a hobby plan at the moment as I am a starter. thanks!
I just confirmed this on my alternate account that is on the Free plan. Not sure if that’s intentional or not though. I know they limited the custom URLs intentionally, but I don’t know about the .anvil.app ones.
There are tons of services out there that let you build a personal website for free, some of which have customizable URLs. Netlify, GitHub pages, Wordpress.com, Notion, Carrd, etc.
You could always redirect a domain you own to the randomly generated URL of your Anvil app.
Just to confirm: Yes, I’m afraid this is true. We were getting too many people using Anvil for phishing, and so we’ve had to disable choosing your own domain name!
You can, however, still create a Public URL on the Free Plan, which will create a randomly generated name (eg dozy-confused-pigeon.anvil.app) that does not require a long string of digits.
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