Online Pastebin Paste text, share a short link
A free online pastebin. Paste text or code, choose your own link ending, and share text online in seconds. Add a password or end-to-end encryption when it is private.
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- Short & customLinks
- AES-256, optionalEncryption
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Documents and archives only: PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, plain text, ZIP and the like. Pictures, video, sound and programs are refused, whatever they are named. Up to 10 files, 128 MB each and 256 MB in total. Files go straight to the storage provider, so they never pass through this server. With a password or a private link they are encrypted in your browser first: a private link carries the key after the #, which makes the link longer, so keep all of it, while a password keeps the link short and the files open with the paste. File names stay readable even on a protected paste.
Add a title, description, tags or a thumbnail (optional)
Both show on the paste page and in a link preview, as plain text – a link in them stays text. Tags are comma separated, letters and digits. Neither is encrypted, even on a protected paste, the same as the title and the file names.
The picture shown when the link is posted to WhatsApp, Facebook, X or LinkedIn. Resized to fit 1200 × 630 and saved as JPEG in your browser. A thumbnail is public even on a password-protected paste, so do not put anything private in it.
Use letters, digits or hyphens, from 3 to 40 of them. Leave it blank and you get a random 6-character link.
Your browser does the AES-256-GCM encryption, so the password never reaches the server.
A public paste can appear in search results, so keep private details out of it.
The link stops working after that many opens, and the paste is then deleted from the server. A wrong password counts as an open too, so a limit also caps how many times anyone can guess.
or press Ctrl + Enter
Your paste is ready
Keep the whole link. The part after # is the key; without it nobody can open the paste.
Three quick steps from text to link
This online pastebin keeps the job small. First, you drop your text into the editor. Next, you choose how long it stays online. Finally, you copy one short link and send it. Throughout, there are no forms to fill in, no email box and no app to download. Therefore a note you write in ten seconds is shared in about ten more.
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Paste your text
You can type the text, paste it in, or open a document saved on your computer. In addition, find & replace sits directly above the box, so you can fix the text before others read it.
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Pick a link and expiry
Choose a readable ending like
my-notes. Next, set the lifetime: six choices run from 10 minutes to six months. Finally, add a password if the text is private. - 3
Share it anywhere
Copy the short link, scan the QR code, or send it straight to WhatsApp, Facebook, X, LinkedIn or email. Moreover, a thumbnail shows up in the link preview when you add one.
# in the link.That dashed line is not an advertising promise. Instead, it is how the web is defined. The part of a web address after the # has its own name: the fragment. Browsers keep it on your device and never put it in the request, as RFC 3986, section 3.5 states. As a result, a private link carries its own key, while this server only ever gets data it cannot unlock.
Of course you do not have to work that way. In short, there are three levels, and one menu picks between them. None keeps the link as short as possible and stores plain text. Password encrypts the text in your browser while the link stays short. Private link gives you the end-to-end version in the diagram, though the link grows, because the key rides inside it. So the choice comes down to one question: who must not be able to read this?
Watch Denwix Paste in two minutes
Prefer to watch? This short video walks through every feature of this online pastebin, step by step. First you see the editor and find and replace. Then come attached files, the custom link, expiry and the open limit. After that, a password, burn after reading and the share buttons. Finally, the reader view and the files below the text. Captions are on in every language, and the video only loads when you press play.
The tool at work, screen by screen
A feature list rarely shows what a tool is like to use. So here are four pictures of this online pastebin at work, taken straight from the live site. The parts worth a look are circled and numbered. Each screen below is a real capture, not a design sketch.
paste.denwix.com/release-notes-42, because every picture here was taken on the live site and not mocked up.
What a good pastebin should handle
Most of what people want from an online pastebin is small and practical. So each item below is one click, never a setting buried three menus deep. Together they are the reason people keep this page bookmarked as their pastebin alternative.
Custom short links
Short 6-character links by default, or your own readable ending.
Password protection
Your browser locks it with AES-256-GCM, and the link stays short.
End-to-end private links
The key sits after the
#, and browsers keep that part to themselves.Expiry & burn after reading
From 10 minutes to six months, or gone the moment it is first opened.
Find & replace
Find a word, then swap one match or every match, with case and whole-word options.
Raw, download & QR
Line numbers, word wrap, raw text, .txt download and a QR code for phones.
How this pastebin alternative differs
On the surface, free pastebins look much the same. However, the differences appear once you need one specific feature. That is why hunting for a pastebin alternative gets tiring fast: the thing you need is rarely the one in the advert. So the table below sets Denwix Paste against the typical free service, one feature per row. The right-hand column shows what most free pastebins offer today. It does not describe any one named site, and the details vary from service to service.
| What you need | Denwix Paste | Most free pastebins |
|---|---|---|
| Account to post | Never | Often required |
| Price | Free, no paid tier | Free tier plus upgrades |
| Custom link ending | Yes, checked as you type | Sometimes, often paid |
| Expiry choices | Six, 10 minutes to six months | Two or three |
| Burn after reading | Yes | Rare |
| Open limit | Yes, 2 to 100 opens | Rare |
| Password protection | AES-256-GCM in your browser | Usually checked on the server |
| End-to-end encryption | Yes, the key stays in the link | Rare |
| Server can read a protected paste | No | Usually yes |
| Text per paste | 600 KB | Varies, often smaller |
| Find & replace while writing | Yes | Rare |
| QR code for the link | Yes | Rare |
| Raw view and .txt download | Yes | Usually yes |
| Document attachments | Up to 10 files | Usually none |
| Pause and resume an upload | Yes | No |
| Cookies and analytics | None at all | Common |
| Self-hosting | Flat files, no database | Rarely offered |
Every pastebin alternative carries a trade-off, and ours deserves saying out loud. Because there is no account, there is no list of your pastes waiting anywhere. Instead your own browser quietly keeps the delete key for each paste you make. Therefore the Delete button appears for you and for nobody else, and yet it also disappears if you clear your browser data. In other words, keep the link somewhere safe whenever the paste matters. Likewise, treat any online pastebin as a courier rather than a filing cabinet. That advice includes this one.
Good reasons to share text online this way
Pastebins have been around longer than most people think. Programmers first used them to post long error logs in chat rooms without flooding everyone, and the Wikipedia entry on pastebins traces that history. Since then, the habit has grown far beyond code. Today, people use a pastebin for many small jobs in daily life.
- A stack trace or server log that would bury a chat thread.
- A config file a colleague must copy exactly, spaces and all.
- Release notes that need one stable link for a week.
- A password or an API key handed over once, then burned on first open.
- Text a messaging app would mangle with smart quotes and stray line breaks.
- A long note for somebody who cannot install anything.
- Homework, a recipe or an address, sent to a phone by QR code.
Option four, the password, needs a closer look. When you choose Password, the password itself is saved nowhere. Instead, your browser stretches it into a key with PBKDF2 at 310,000 iterations, in line with NIST SP 800-132. As a result, guessing that password offline is slow and costly. Besides, this server has nothing worth stealing, because it only ever held the locked bytes.
Many people never think about load speed, yet it matters too. The page sends one small stylesheet and one small script, with no web fonts and no third-party code at all. Consequently, it opens quickly even on a slow phone, and that is where most shared links get opened.
Put those pieces together and the pitch stays simple. You get one quiet place to share text online, no account standing in the way, and real encryption waiting whenever the content deserves it. For that reason plenty of visitors stop hunting for a pastebin alternative once they have tried this one. Meanwhile anybody who keeps looking at least leaves with a sharper list of what to demand.
Questions people ask
These questions come from real messages people have sent us. Moreover, every answer is short, because a long answer often hides a catch. Above all, nothing below is advertising. So when the answer is no, we simply say no.
Is this online pastebin free?
Yes, Denwix Paste is free for good. You never create an account, you skip every sign-up step, and no fee is waiting down the road. In addition, you can post as many pastes as you want; only a small rate limit holds back spam.
Is my text safe here?
How safe a paste is depends on how you protect it. A plain paste is saved as plain text, so treat it as a public note. However, a password paste or a private link is encrypted in your browser before it is sent. Once it reaches the server, it is only bytes nobody there can read. Therefore, choose the protection that suits the content.
Can I pick the link ending myself?
Yes. Type an ending under Custom link, for example release-notes-42. Meanwhile the hint underneath checks whether it is free, letter by letter. Leave it empty and you get a random six-character link instead.
Do pastes expire, or can they stay forever?
Every paste expires in the end. Six lifetimes are offered, from 10 minutes up to six months, so nothing is kept forever. Besides that, burn after reading deletes the paste the first time it is opened, and an open limit deletes it once the last view is spent.
Who is able to read a paste I share?
Anybody holding the link, unless you add a password or use a private link. Also, every paste page carries a noindex, so search engines leave it alone.
Will I need to sign up or install an app?
No, you need neither. Denwix Paste opens inside whatever browser you are using to read this, on a mobile or a computer. Therefore you install nothing and have no password to keep track of.
Can I delete a paste after sharing it?
Yes. Your browser keeps a delete key for every paste you make, stored on your own device. Therefore a Delete button appears for you and for nobody else. Clearing your browser data clears those keys too, so save the link if the paste matters.
What if I lose the part after the #?
Then the text is gone for good. That part is the key, and it never reached this server, so nobody here can rebuild it. For that reason the result screen asks you to keep the whole link rather than the short beginning.
Can I share text online without being tracked?
Yes. Denwix Paste uses no cookies, does not keep track of visitors and never asks for your email address. Also, anything you write stays in the active tab until you select Create.
Can I host this tool on my own server?
Yes. It is plain PHP with flat files and needs no database, so ordinary shared hosting is enough. Likewise it works behind a single domain, with no extra services to wire up.
What should I look for in a pastebin alternative?
Start with three questions. Does it let you choose the link ending? Does it let you decide when the paste dies? And does it encrypt in the browser rather than on the server? Also check whether it sets cookies, because a tool this simple has no honest reason to.
Can I make and open pastes on my phone?
Yes, and that is how many visitors use it. The editor, the QR code and the share buttons all work on a small screen. Therefore you can share text online from your phone and open the link on a laptop later. Besides, nothing needs installing on either device.