End-to-end encrypted
An online clipboard that stays live between your devices.
Pair your phone and your computer once, by scanning a QR code. After that it is a live channel: copy on one device and it is already on the other, send files in either direction, and nothing needs a code typed in again.
No account. No app. No setup. And the content is encrypted in your browser with a key our server never receives — so we cannot read it, even if we wanted to.
How the online clipboard works
Open one clipboard
One click. No account, no email, no app install. You get a link and a QR code.
Scan it with your phone
The QR holds the whole link, key included, so scanning drops your phone straight into the live session. Nothing to type.
Now both ends are live
Copy on one device and it is already on the other. Send a file, then a link, then a screenshot. No code to re-enter between items.
What our server can and cannot see
Most tools in this category say “encrypted” and mean encrypted in transit — the connection is protected, but the server still reads your content on arrival. This one is built so that it cannot.
Never leaves your browser
- The encryption key — it lives after the # in your link, and browsers never send that part to a server.
- Your text, before it is encrypted.
- File contents and file names, before they are encrypted.
What we do hold, briefly
- A block of ciphertext we have no key for.
- The clipboard's random id, its name, and when it expires.
- Byte counts and timestamps.
All of it deleted on expiry, and files are never stored at all — they are relayed straight between your devices.
Read the full explanation, including what this design does not protect against
What you can move across
A clipboard that carried only plain text would not be worth pairing two devices for. Everything below crosses the same live clipboard, in either direction, without re-entering anything.
Text and links
Paste a paragraph, a URL, an error message, a Wi-Fi password. It appears on the other device as you type it, and one tap puts it into that device's own clipboard, ready to paste wherever you were going.
Images and screenshots
Send a screenshot from your phone and it arrives on the desktop as a preview you can save or copy — an online clipboard for images, not only a text box. It is encrypted before it leaves the device that took it.
Files, relayed and never stored
Online clipboard file transfer with nothing kept on disk. Files stream between your two devices in 64KB chunks, each encrypted separately, with the file name and type encrypted too. There is no quota and no retention policy to take on trust.
One-time secrets
Tick “destroy after the first read” and the clipboard erases itself the moment your second device opens it. The right shape for a password or a recovery code you would rather not leave sitting in a chat thread.
Ways people share a clipboard between devices
Most of what a clipboard is for stops working the moment two screens are involved. You find a link on your phone and want it on the desktop. You are reading a long serial number off a laptop and need it in a form on your phone. The usual ways to copy and paste between devices — emailing yourself, messaging yourself, a notes app that syncs eventually — all turn a five-second job into a document.
Send text from phone to PC, and back again
Type or paste on the phone and it is on the computer before you have looked up. There is no send button and no second step, because both ends are already watching the same clipboard. Transferring text from phone to computer stops being a task and becomes the same gesture as copying.
Across operating systems that do not talk to each other
Handoff syncs the clipboard between Apple devices. Nearby Share covers Android and Windows. Neither helps when it is an iPhone and a Windows desktop, an Android phone and a Mac, or a personal phone and a work laptop you cannot sign into with your own account. This runs in a browser tab, so clipboard sync between devices stops depending on who made either one.
On a computer that is not yours
A hotel business centre, a client's machine, a library terminal. Nothing is installed and nothing is signed into, and closing the tab — or letting the ten-minute timer run out — takes the whole session with it.
Between two browsers on the same machine
Two profiles, a container tab, a virtual machine, a remote desktop session: anywhere the system clipboard refuses to carry across, this does.
Free, with no login and nothing to install
There is no account, no email to confirm, no app and no browser extension. You can pair a phone and PC without signing up for anything. Opening a free online clipboard is one click, and the link you get back is the entire session — the address of the clipboard and the key that decrypts it, in one string you can scan or paste.
That is not a trial that turns into a paywall once you depend on it. The design makes the usual business model impossible: because the decryption key sits in the page URL, any third-party script on a clipboard page could read it and send it somewhere. So clipboard pages load zero third-party scripts — no ads, no analytics, no tag managers, no libraries or fonts from a CDN. Every ad-supported tool in this category monetises exactly the page this one forbids ads on.
The price of that is a shorter feature list, which we would rather state than hide. Files must be relayed while both devices are connected, because nothing is stored. Clipboards expire on a timer you choose. Those are properties of an ephemeral tool, not gaps waiting to be filled.
Questions people ask
Every answer here describes what the tool does today. Where it is limited — files needing both devices connected, background clipboard sync being impossible in a browser tab — that is said rather than skipped.
The basics
What is an online clipboard?
An online clipboard is a page that two devices can both read and write, so something copied on one turns up on the other. It exists because the clipboard you already have stops at the edge of the device it lives on, and the usual ways around that — emailing yourself, messaging yourself, a notes app that syncs eventually — turn a five-second job into a chore. This one is a live session rather than an account: you open a clipboard, pair a second device by scanning a QR code, and text, links, images and files cross in either direction until it expires.
How does this online clipboard work?
Your browser generates an encryption key and a random clipboard id, then hands you one link holding both — the id in the address, the key after the hash, which browsers never transmit. Scanning the QR code puts that whole link on your second device, and from then on the two are joined. Everything either device sends is encrypted before it leaves, and our server relays the result without holding a key for it.
Is this online clipboard free?
Yes, and there is no paid tier holding features back. Nothing is stored on our side, so what we run is a relay rather than a warehouse.
Do I need to sign up or create an account?
No. There is no signup, no login and no email address to hand over. The link you get when you open a clipboard is the only credential involved — which is also how you share one on purpose, and why anyone you send the whole link to can read it until it expires.
Do I need to install an app or a browser extension?
No. Both ends are an ordinary browser tab: open the site, scan the code, and the pair is live. Nothing to install means nothing to update and no permissions to grant on either device, and it works on a machine you are not allowed to install software on — a hotel desktop, a client's laptop, a library terminal. The one thing a native app can do that a browser tab cannot is watch your system clipboard while it is in the background, which is the last question below.
Between devices
How do I copy and paste between my phone and my PC?
Open a clipboard on the computer and scan the QR code with your phone's camera. Both ends are then live: type or paste on either device and it lands on the other, and one tap copies received text into that device's own clipboard, ready to paste wherever you were going.
Can I transfer files between my phone and my computer?
Yes, and nothing about the file touches our disk. It is split into 64KB chunks in the browser and each chunk is encrypted separately, with the file name and type encrypted along with the contents, then relayed straight to the other device — up to 100MB per file, with no quota and no retention policy to take on trust. The trade-off of storing nothing is that this is a live transfer rather than an upload you come back for: both devices have to be connected at the same time.
Can I send images and links, or only text?
Text, links, images and files all cross the same clipboard. Text appears on the other device as you type it, with a Copy button that puts it into that device's own clipboard. An image arrives as a preview with Save beside it, and a screenshot — a PNG on every platform — also gets a Copy button that puts the picture itself on the clipboard, ready to paste into a document or a message without saving a file first.
Does it work between iPhone and Windows, or Android and Mac?
Yes. It runs in a browser tab at both ends, so it does not care which company made either device, and there is nothing to install on either one. Handoff syncs a clipboard between Apple devices and Nearby Share covers Android and Windows; neither helps with the mixed pairs, or with a personal phone and a work laptop you cannot sign into with your own account.
Privacy, and how long it lasts
Is an online clipboard secure?
Most are less secure than they sound, because “encrypted” usually means encrypted in transit while the server still reads your content on arrival. Here it is encrypted in your browser, and the key stays in the part of the link after the hash, which browsers never transmit to any server. What reaches us is ciphertext we hold no key for.
Is my clipboard private?
We cannot read your content, and there is no clipboard history for anyone to read later: the server keeps one encrypted snapshot in memory, overwrites it when you send the next thing, and drops the clipboard entirely when it expires or when the process restarts. Nothing is written to a database or to disk, and files are never held at all. What we can see is metadata — that a clipboard exists, roughly how large it is, when devices connected. What we cannot do anything about is who else you hand the link to.
How long does my clipboard session last?
You choose ten minutes, one hour, twenty-four hours or seven days when you open it. You can also destroy it by hand at any moment, or have it delete itself as soon as a second device reads it.
Can I delete my clipboard session?
Yes, immediately. Every clipboard has a “Destroy now” button that deletes it and its contents from the server and drops the other device out on the spot. You can also let the expiry timer do it, or tick “destroy after the first read” when you open it so it erases itself the moment a second device reads it. There is no undo and no copy sitting in a backup — once it is gone, we cannot restore it either.
Can it sync my system clipboard automatically?
Partly, and only while the tab is in front of you. Chrome and Edge can poll the system clipboard once you grant permission; Firefox and Safari need a manual sync. No browser can read your clipboard while the tab is in the background — that needs a native app or an extension, and anything claiming otherwise from a browser tab is overstating what it does.