ShareText turns notes into private, shareable links. Enable end-to-end encryption and your note is encrypted before it ever leaves your browser — our servers only store ciphertext.
Add a password, set an expiry, and the note is accessible only to people who have the link. Use it for credentials, sensitive instructions, or anything you need to share once and not worry about later.
What you get
Everything included. No paid plan required.
End-to-end encryption
Enable E2E encryption and your note is encrypted in your browser using AES-GCM-256 before it's sent. The key lives only in the share link — our servers store ciphertext and cannot read your note.
Rich text editor
Write formatted notes with headings, lists, bold, italic, and code blocks. Share them as clean, readable pages.
Password protection
Add a password to any note link. Recipients must enter it before the note is shown.
Auto expiry
Set notes to expire in 1 hour, 24 hours, 1 month, or 3 months. After expiry, the note is deleted from our servers.
Burn after reading
Set the view limit to 1. After the first person opens the note, the link becomes inaccessible to everyone else.
Optional comments
Enable comments on shared notes so recipients can respond inline. You control whether comments are on or off.
No account to share
Anyone with the link can open the note in a browser. No sign-in or app required for recipients.
How it works
Write the note
Type or paste into the editor on the home page. Headings, lists, code blocks, and links are all supported, and nothing is saved until you create the link.
Turn on encryption if you need it
Toggle E2E encryption and the note is encrypted in your browser before upload. The key never reaches our servers, so we hold ciphertext we cannot read.
Choose how it should end
Set an expiry, or set burn-after-reading so the note self-destructs the first time it's opened. Add a password on top if the link may travel.
Share the link
You get one short URL. Anyone with it can read the note in a browser — no account, no app, nothing to install.
What end-to-end encryption actually changes
When you enable encryption, the note is encrypted in your browser with AES-GCM-256 and the key is placed in the URL fragment — the part after the '#'. Browsers never send the fragment to the server. So the request that creates your note carries ciphertext, and the request that opens it also carries ciphertext; the key travels only inside the link, in the recipient's browser.
The practical consequence is that 'trust us' stops being part of the arrangement. We can't read an encrypted note, can't produce its contents in response to a legal request, and can't leak it in a database breach — the stored rows contain no readable content. The trade is that we also can't help you recover it: lose the link, lose the note.
It also means an encrypted note can't be edited after creation or indexed, and features that need to read content — search, AI summaries, previews — don't apply to it. That's the honest cost of the guarantee, and it's why encryption is opt-in per note rather than forced on everything.
Burn-after-reading, and what it's good for
A burn note is destroyed the moment it's first opened. It suits anything that should exist exactly once: a temporary credential handed to a contractor, a recovery code, an API key someone needs to paste into a config, a password for a different system.
It also turns the note into a tamper signal. If your recipient tells you the link was already burned when they clicked it, you know somebody else opened it first — a scanner in an email gateway, a preview bot in a chat app, or a person who shouldn't have had it. That's information you'd never get from a document sitting in a shared drive.
Because link previews in some messengers fetch URLs automatically, send burn links through channels that don't unfurl, or warn the recipient to open it directly. A burn note consumed by a preview bot is working exactly as designed — just not for you.
Notes instead of chat messages and email
Sensitive text pasted into email or chat is permanent in ways that are hard to see. It sits in the sender's outbox, the recipient's inbox, both mail providers' storage, any backup either organisation runs, and the search index of every device that synced the thread. Deleting your copy removes almost none of that.
A note link inverts the default. The content lives in one place with an expiry attached, and what travels through email or chat is a URL that becomes inert on a schedule you set. When the note expires, the copies in all those inboxes turn into dead links rather than readable text.
It's the same reason the note page is deliberately plain: a shared note is meant to be read, acted on, and to stop existing — not to become another document that outlives its purpose.
Frequently asked questions
How does end-to-end encryption work?
When you enable E2E encryption, your note is encrypted in your browser using AES-GCM-256 before it's sent. The encryption key is embedded in the share link's URL fragment — a part of the URL that browsers never transmit to servers. Our servers store only ciphertext and cannot decrypt your note.
Can anyone without the link read my note?
No. Notes are only accessible via their unique link. With a password set, the password is also required before the note is shown. With E2E encryption enabled, even we cannot read the content.
What does burn after reading mean?
Set the view limit to 1. After the first person opens the note, the link returns a gone response and the note is deleted.
Can I allow comments on a shared note?
Yes. If you have an account, you can enable comments so recipients can discuss the note. You can turn comments on or off at any time.
Does ShareText store my notes permanently?
Only if you choose no expiry. With an expiry set, notes are deleted from our servers after the link deactivates.
Can I edit a note after sharing it?
Yes for ordinary notes — you keep edit access to notes you created. Encrypted notes cannot be edited, because the server has no readable copy to update.
Are shared notes indexed by search engines?
No. Note pages are served with a noindex directive, so they do not appear in search results even though anyone with the link can open them.
What happens if I lose the link to an encrypted note?
The note is unrecoverable. The decryption key exists only inside the link, so without it there is no way — for you or for us — to read the stored content.
Do I need an account to share a note securely?
No. Encryption, passwords, and expiry all work as a guest. An account adds longer expiry options, burn-after-reading, comments, and a dashboard of everything you have shared.
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