Share text online, privately

Sharetext is a free text sharing tool that turns anything you paste into a single shareable link. There is no account to create, no email to confirm and no app to install: you open the page, paste your text, and copy the link. Whoever opens that link sees your content — and nobody else can, because the text is encrypted in your browser before it travels anywhere.

If you have ever emailed yourself a config file, dropped a password into a group chat, or pasted an error log into a public pastebin and hoped nobody would find it, this is the tool that replaces those habits. Online text sharing should not require trusting a server with your content, and here it does not.

How text sharing with a link actually works

Most text sharing websites work the same way: you paste, they store your text in a database, and they hand you a URL that looks it up. That means the operator can read everything, and so can anyone who breaches them.

Sharetext inverts it. When you press Share, your browser generates a fresh AES-256-GCM key, encrypts your text locally, and packs the ciphertext into the link itself. The decryption key is placed after the # in the URL — the fragment — and browsers never transmit the fragment to a server. The result is a share text link that is self-contained: the content travels with the link, and the key travels only in the part of the URL that never leaves your device.

That is what makes this private text sharing rather than merely password-gated sharing. There is no plaintext copy sitting on a disk somewhere waiting to leak.

Create shareable text in three steps

1. Paste your text

Drop in plain text, a code snippet, JSON, a YAML config, terminal output or a long note. There is no formatting to fight with, and no length limit beyond what a URL can carry — comfortably several megabytes.

2. Choose your options

Pick how long the share should live: one hour, one day, seven days, thirty days, or never. Add an optional password if the content is sensitive enough to want a second factor. Set a language for syntax highlighting, or let it be detected automatically.

3. Copy the share link

Press Share and you get a link, plus a QR code for handing it straight to a phone. Send it through any channel you like — chat, email, a ticket, a text message. Anyone who can open a URL can read it, and anyone who cannot see the URL cannot. That is the whole of share text with link: no upload step, no waiting, no recipient account.

Anonymous text sharing, by default

You do not need to sign in to share text online free of charge, and anonymous sharing is not a restricted tier — it is the normal path. Anonymous text sharing here means no profile, no email address on file and nothing tying a share back to you. There are no advertising trackers and no analytics scripts following you between pages.

If you do create an account, it buys exactly one thing: a dashboard listing the shares you have made, with view counts and expiry status. It does not change how the encryption works, and it does not give anyone the ability to read your content.

Temporary text sharing and auto-expiry

Not everything should live forever. Temporary text sharing is built in, and the expiry timestamp is part of the encrypted payload rather than a flag in a database that someone could flip. Once the deadline passes, the viewer refuses to decrypt the share even when presented with the correct key. A one-hour share really is a one-hour share.

That is the right shape for handing over a temporary credential, sharing a log with a colleague during an incident, or sending a note you would rather did not outlive the conversation.

Private text sharing with an optional password

For anything genuinely sensitive, add a password. Sharetext derives a key from it with PBKDF2 on the recipient's own device, so the passphrase is never transmitted either. You then hand over the link and the password separately — the link over chat, the password over a call — and neither channel alone is enough to read the content.

Who uses this text sharing platform

Developers

Share code snippets with syntax highlighting across 30+ languages, hand a stack trace to a teammate, or move an example environment file between machines without committing it anywhere.

Operations and DevOps teams

Pass configs, certificates and rotation instructions around with a hard expiry attached, instead of leaving them in a chat history that stays searchable forever.

Writers, students and everyday notes

Share notes online when a document feels like too much machinery — a draft paragraph, a reading list, a set of instructions. Being able to share notes with link and nothing else is often all a task needs.

Anyone moving text between their own devices

Paste on a laptop, open on a phone by scanning the QR code. It is the quickest way to send text through link without email or a cloud drive in the middle.

How Sharetext compares to a traditional pastebin

A classic pastebin is a storage product: it keeps your text and shows it to whoever asks. Some add private or unlisted modes, but those are access-control settings layered on top of readable data. If the service is compromised, compelled, or simply misconfigured, the content is there to be read.

Sharetext is a transport product. The server holds ciphertext at most — and for anonymous shares, nothing at all. That distinction matters more than any feature list, because it changes what is possible rather than what is permitted.

Free text sharing, with no catch

Every capability described here is free: unlimited shares, client-side encryption, expiry, passwords, syntax highlighting and QR codes. There is no paid tier gating the security features, because charging for encryption would rather miss the point. Free text sharing is the product, not a trial of it — open the page and share text.