Account required for most features
Anonymous pastes are limited. You cannot set a paste to private without an account. The free tier is increasingly restricted.
NoLoginNoLoginPastebin. Without the baggage.
Pastebin got complicated. This didn't
Custom page names, file uploads, passwords and expiry
WHAT IS PASTEBIN
Pastebin is one of the oldest text sharing tools on the internet. Launched in 2002, it became the default place for developers to share code snippets, error logs, config files and plain text.
For a long time it was the go-to tool for this. But Pastebin has changed significantly over the years, and many of those changes have made it harder to use for the simple sharing tasks it was originally built for.
Account requirements, random URLs, ads, no file uploads, and public indexing — Pastebin accumulated friction that newer tools like NoLogin were built to remove.
WHERE PASTEBIN FALLS SHORT
Anonymous pastes are limited. You cannot set a paste to private without an account. The free tier is increasingly restricted.
Pastebin is text only. You cannot share a PDF, image, build output or any binary file alongside your code.
Pastebin generates URLs like pastebin.com/xK8pQm3r. You cannot choose your own link or share it verbally.
The free Pastebin experience is heavily monetised with ads. The interface is cluttered and slow.
Unless you manually set an expiry, your paste stays up indefinitely. For sensitive or temporary content this is a problem.
Pastebin was built for desktop and the mobile experience reflects that.
WHAT NOLOGIN DOES DIFFERENTLY
NoLogin is built around the same core idea as Pastebin — get your text from one place to another quickly. But it solves the problems Pastebin has accumulated over two decades.
Every feature works without creating an account. Password, edit lock, expiry, file uploads — all free, all without login.
You choose your link. Short, readable, easy to share out loud or type from memory.
nologin.in/snippetUpload up to 5 files per page, up to 100MB each. Text and files on the same page.
Open the page, paste your content, share the link. That's it.
WHO SHOULD SWITCH TO NOLOGIN
You needed to share a file alongside your code but could not. NoLogin puts text and files on the same page.
You wanted a link you could say in a meeting but got a random string instead. NoLogin lets you choose the link.
Password protection on NoLogin is free and takes just 5 seconds. Edit lock prevents unwanted edits.
Expiry timers handle cleanup automatically — credentials and configs do not sit online indefinitely.
NOLOGIN FOR DEVELOPERS SPECIFICALLY
Share a code snippet with a colleague using a memorable link. Upload a build output, a log file or a config alongside the code that generated it.
Set edit lock so the recipient gets exactly what you sent — nothing modified or deleted.
Set an expiry so credentials or sensitive configs do not sit online indefinitely. Default is 48 hours.
Restrict who can view your page without creating an account on either end.
FAQ
A unique word or combination of letters and numbers you choose (nologin.in/yourpagename). Choose something memorable if the name you want is already taken, pick a different one.
Password is optional. Set one if you want to restrict who can view your page. Without it, anyone with your page name can open it.
Edit Lock makes your page read-only. Visitors can view and copy text or download files, but cannot edit, delete, or upload anything.
Controls how long your content stays on the page. Once time runs out, all text and files are automatically and permanently deleted. Default is 48 hours.
Up to 5 files per page, maximum 100MB per file.
Either the timer expired or someone deleted it before you enabled Edit Lock. We do not store previous versions, content cannot be recovered.