About MarkdownBin

Rendering is the whole point. A README, a runbook, a set of release notes or a table of results is written to be read, and markdown shown as raw text makes the reader do the parsing.

The second reason is privacy. A lot of what gets pasted is work-related — logs, configuration, drafts of things not yet announced. Most sharing tools store that in readable form on someone else's server. Encrypting in the browser removes that exposure for the cases where it matters, without demanding it for the cases where it does not.

Full GitHub Flavored Markdown: headings, tables, task lists, footnotes and inline HTML. Syntax highlighting across a hundred-plus languages via Shiki. Maths through KaTeX and diagrams through Mermaid, both rendered rather than shown as source.

Optional end-to-end encryption using AES-256-GCM, with the key derived in your browser. Every paste has a /raw endpoint that returns the original source.

There are no accounts. Adding them would mean storing identities and linking pastes to people, which is precisely what the tool is trying to avoid. The cost is real — no dashboard, no list of your pastes, no editing after the fact.

There is no discovery: no public feed, no trending pastes, no search. A paste is reachable by its link and nothing else, and paste pages are marked noindex so search engines do not list them.

Normal pastes are Brotli-compressed before storage and served as static pages, since a paste never changes after it is written.

Expiry options are the most requested gap — the ability to have a paste disappear after an hour, a day or a week. Beyond that: editing via a secret token, a syntax-aware editor, and a view counter.

Nothing on that list involves accounts, tracking or advertising.

Built by Sivaram. It is free, has no ads, and is not trying to become a business.