How pastehere works, across your devices.
A shared clipboard that follows you across every device you open it on. Copy on one, paste on the next — text, links, and files. Here’s the whole loop: how you put things in, how they sync, and how the encryption keeps them yours.
pastehere is built around one small idea: the clipboard is the surface you use most, and it stops dead at the edge of each device. pastehere replaces it with a shared one. The whole product is the box where you put things in, the list where they come back out, and an encrypted wire between them.
There’s no account, no folder, no upload button. You can read this page in three minutes and know everything.
1Create a room
Open pastehere and create a room. You get a six-digit code — that code is the only thing you ever share to connect a device. No email, no password, no card.
2Open it on every device
Enter the same code on any other device with a modern browser. The two devices run a password-authenticated key exchange behind the scenes, agree on a shared key, and join the room. From that moment, whatever you paste fans out to every device on the room.
A device that’s offline when something arrives picks it up the next time it connects. Everything stays in the room until you remove it — there’s no expiry timer.
3Copy on one, paste on the next
Pastes show up in a reverse-chronological list — newest at the top. Tap an item to copy its contents back to your clipboard, or download a file. The same list is live on every device on the room.
4What you can share
Anything you’d put on a clipboard. Text and files of any type ride the same wire:
- textA snippet, a note, a block of code. No length limit.
- linksURLs paste like any other text — copy them straight back on the other side.
- imagesScreenshots and photos, sent as files up to 15 MB each.
- filesAny type — documents, archives, anything. Filenames are preserved.
Each file can be up to 15 MB, with 100 MB of total storage per room. For bigger transfers, a dedicated file-transfer service is a better fit — pastehere is built for quick, clipboard-style sharing.
5Where it works
There’s nothing to install. pastehere runs in any modern browser, so the same room works across whatever you happen to be holding.
6Encryption
Everything is sealed on your device with AES-256 before it leaves. The room key is established during pairing and never reaches our servers — they only ever hold ciphertext, sizes, and timestamps. There is no convenience path that exposes your content to us.
When you pair a device, the two ends run a password-authenticated key exchange (a PAKE) over the six-digit code, derive the shared room key on-device, and never transmit it. Your content stays in the room until you remove it — delete a single item, clear the room, or destroy the room, which permanently wipes everything in it. You can also turn on auto-cleanup, which drops the oldest items once a room reaches 80% of its storage.
7What’s not on this page
Limits, expiry rules, device support, and the security details live in the FAQ. If something here is unclear, the fastest way to understand pastehere is to open a room and paste something into it.