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Online clipboard

Online clipboard: copy here, paste on any device

Paste text on this device, open the link on your phone, laptop or someone else's computer, and copy it there. No app, no login. It cleans itself up after an hour.
Size: 0 B / 1 MB
Privacy options

Ctrl+Enter to create · delete code shown once

Expires after 1 hour. For passwords, tick Encrypt in browser and Burn after read.

How to copy text between devices

  1. 1

    Paste the text here

    A link, an address, a code snippet, a paragraph — anything up to 1 MB of text.

  2. 2

    Create the link

    It expires after 1 hour by default. Turn on burn-after-read if it should vanish once you've opened it.

  3. 3

    Open the link on the other device

    Send it to yourself in any chat or email, or type the short address — nullpaste.org/ plus a 12-character id.

  4. 4

    Copy it from there

    Use the copy button on the paste page. The text disappears on its own when the timer runs out.

When an online clipboard beats the alternatives

  • Phone ↔ computer across platforms — Android to Mac, iPhone to Windows, where built-in clipboard sync doesn't reach.
  • Shared or public computers — a library, school or work PC where you don't want to sign into email or chat just to move some text.
  • Someone else's machine — hand a colleague a long command or config without spelling it out loud.
  • Servers and VMs — get text into a terminal where there's no clipboard at all.

Paste into a terminal with curl

Every unencrypted paste has a raw URL. On a server or VM with no clipboard, fetch it directly:

bash
curl -s https://nullpaste.org/raw/<paste-id> > notes.txt

Going the other way? Pipe output from the server into a paste with the no-key API, then open the link on your laptop.

Frequently asked questions

What is an online clipboard?

It's a web page that holds text for you so you can copy it on one device and paste it on another. Paste your text here, create a link, open that link on the other device, and copy the text from there.

Do I need an app or an account on both devices?

No. Both sides just need a web browser. There's nothing to install and nothing to log into — which also makes it safe to use on a shared or public computer.

How long does the text stay on the clipboard?

This page starts at 1 hour, after which the text is deleted automatically. You can choose 10 minutes up to 1 week, or turn on burn-after-read so it's deleted the first time the link is opened.

Can I copy images or files?

No — the clipboard is for text (up to 1 MB), including code, links and logs. For photos, PDFs and other files, use NullDrop (nulldrop.org), the file-sharing sibling of NullPaste.

Is an online clipboard private?

Links are unguessable and not indexed by search engines, but anyone who has the link can read the text until it expires. For passwords or anything sensitive, tick Encrypt in browser and Burn after read before creating the link.

How do I get the text onto a server or terminal?

Every paste has a raw URL. On the server, run curl with the raw link (nullpaste.org/raw/ followed by the paste id) to print the text, or pipe it into a file — no browser needed. That works as-is for plain pastes; password-protected and burn-after-read pastes need an extra header (see the API docs), and encrypted ones have to be opened in a browser.