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PrivateBin

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PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data.

This is a bootstrap CSS based PrivateBin template and the default as of 0.20:

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
  • Cloudron
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Pastebin
  2.  End-to-End Encryption
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  Client side encryption
  5.  AES Encryption
  6.  Password protection
  7.  No registration required
  8.  Encrypted Notes
  9.  Support for MarkDown
  10.  Collaborative writing
  11.  Real time collaboration
  12.  Encrypted Documents
  13.  Protected by Password

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  • Developed by

    Simon Rupf
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    65 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  7,005 Stars
  •  850 Forks
  •  111 Open Issues
  •   Updated Mar 17, 2025 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about PrivateBin, and it has gotten 76 likes

PrivateBin was added to AlternativeTo by fnadde42 on Dec 2, 2016 and this page was last updated May 5, 2021.

Comments and Reviews

   
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astrarrow
  
Top positive commentJan 27, 2024

Very easy to use.

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leahyra
  
Positive commentDec 25, 2022

Very simple to use w/ clean UI. Can attach files and do pastes in plaintext, markdown, or source code. Also is open source & uses strong 256-bit AES encryption.

0
mascrit
  
Positive commentAug 2, 2022

simple, easy to install

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rico com
  
Positive commentMar 5, 2021

I love it because it is simple, everything!

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Aleksey Lobanov
CommentMay 8, 2017

Many options, simple interface, open source

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What is PrivateBin?

Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256bit AES in Galois Counter mode.

This is a fork of ZeroBin, originally developed by Sébastien Sauvage. It was refactored to allow easier and cleaner extensions and has now much more features than the original. It is however still fully compatible to the original ZeroBin 0.19 data storage scheme. Therefore such installations can be upgraded to this fork without loosing any data.

What PrivateBin provides

  • As a server administrator you don't have to worry if your users post content that is considered illegal in your country. You have no knowledge of any of the pastes content. If requested or enforced, you can delete any paste from your system.

  • Pastebin-like system to store text documents, code samples, etc.

  • Encryption of data sent to server.

  • Possibility to set a password which is required to read the paste. It further protects a paste and prevents people stumbling upon your paste's link from being able to read it without the password.

Options

Some features are optional and can be enabled or disabled in the configuration file:

  • Password protection
  • Discussions, anonymous or with nicknames and IP based identicons or vizhashes
  • Expiration times, including a "forever" and "burn after reading" option
  • Markdown format support for HTML formatted pastes, including preview function
  • Syntax highlighting for source code using prettify.js, including 4 prettify themes
  • File upload support, images get displayed (disabled by default, possibility to adjust size limit)
  • Templates: By default there are bootstrap CSS, darkstrap and "classic ZeroBin" themes and it is easy to adapt these to your own websites layout or create your own.
  • Translation system and automatic browser language detection (if enabled in browser)
  • Language selection (disabled by default, as it uses a session cookie)

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