Transfer from an iPad to a Windows PC — no AirDrop required

iPads are great for sketching, reading and markup, but the moment you need something off the iPad and onto a Windows PC — an exported drawing, an annotated PDF, a paragraph of notes — Apple's sharing tools don't reach Windows. AirDrop and Universal Clipboard are Apple-only, so people fall back to emailing the file to themselves or pushing it through iCloud for Windows.

pastehere bridges the two in the browser. Open a room in Safari on the iPad, type the six-digit code into any browser on the Windows PC, and copy on the iPad to paste on the PC. Text, links, images and files up to 15 MB all cross, with no account and end-to-end encryption.

How to do it in three steps

1. 1

   Open a room on your iPad

   Go to pastehere.app in any browser and create a room. You'll get a six-digit code — no sign-up, nothing to install.

2. 2

   Enter the code on your Windows PC

   Open the same site on your Windows PC and type the six-digit code to join. The two devices agree on a key directly, so the server never sees it.

3. 3

   Copy on one, paste on the other

   Add text, a link, a screenshot or a file on either device and it appears on the other within a second. The room stays open until you destroy it.

Everything is encrypted in your browser with AES-256 before it leaves the device. Devices agree on the room key through a PAKE exchange over the 6-digit code, so the key never reaches the server — it only ever stores ciphertext.

What you can send

Anything that fits in a room moves both ways between your iPad and your Windows PC:

• TextNotes, passwords, addresses, long passages — no length limit.
• LinksOpen a tab on the other device with one tap.
• ImagesScreenshots and photos, kept at full quality.
• FilesPDFs, archives, any file type — up to 15 MB each, 100 MB per room.

The native options from iPad to Windows

iCloud for Windows can sync iCloud Drive and Photos to a PC if you install it and sign in with your Apple ID — useful if you already keep your iPad's files in iCloud, but it's a full sync client, not a quick hand-off, and it needs an account on the PC. There's no clipboard bridge between iPadOS and Windows at all.

For a one-off — get this drawing or this note onto the PC now — a browser room is faster and leaves nothing on a shared or work PC, since there's no app and no sign-in. Keep iCloud for the things you want continuously synced.