Pick by what you need
| You want | Better fit | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A paste that disappears on its own | LogShare Text Share | Expiry is required, 30 minutes to 7 days; nothing is listed or indexed. |
| A public, permanent, searchable paste | Pastebin | Built for exactly that, with an API and a large community. |
| The one-second hastebin habit | LogShare Text Share | Paste, Share, link; the original hastebin.com was archived in 2025. |
| Type together in an interview | LogShare Code Share or Codeshare.io | Both are live editors; LogShare needs no sign-in, Codeshare.io adds video. |
| A snippet you will keep and version | GitHub Gist | Permanent, forkable, embeddable, attached to your account. |
| Show a log to one person, privately | LogShare Log Share | Line numbers, error highlighting and search, gone when you said. |
Last checked September 2026. Feature notes about other products describe them at that time.
Side by side
Pastebin Alternative — Expiring, No Signup
A Pastebin alternative that forgets: paste logs, code or text and get a link that expires in 30 minutes to 7 days. No account, no ads on the paste.
Read the comparison →Hastebin Alternative — Fast, Expiring Pastes
hastebin.com was archived in 2025. LogShare Text Share keeps the one-second paste-and-link habit and adds an expiry you choose, no account and a log view.
Read the comparison →Codeshare.io Alternative — Free Live Code Rooms
A Codeshare.io alternative with no signup: open a Code Share room, send the link, edit together in real time, PIN-lock it if needed, keep it for 7 days.
Read the comparison →GitHub Gist Alternative for Temporary Snippets
Gist is for snippets you keep; LogShare is for the ones you do not. Share code or a log with an expiring link, no GitHub account, and edit live with others.
Read the comparison →Why expiry is the whole difference
Most sharing tools optimise for keeping things: accounts, history, permalinks, search. That is right for code you are proud of and wrong for the text developers actually paste all day, which is logs, stack traces, configs and scratch code, full of hostnames, identifiers and the occasional token. LogShare starts from the other end. Every share has an expiry you choose, every room is removed seven days after the last visit, nothing is indexed, and nothing needs an account on either side. The comparisons above are honest about the cost of that choice: no permanence, no history, no API yet.
FAQ
What is LogShare, in one sentence?
A free, no-account way to share logs, code and text through links that expire, plus live code rooms and browser-side developer tools.
Which LogShare feature replaces which tool?
Text Share replaces a pastebin for plain text, Log Share replaces pasting logs anywhere, Code Share replaces a shared interview editor, and a Private Room adds a PIN to any of that.
Are these comparisons kept up to date?
Each page states when it was last checked (September 2026). If you spot something that changed on the other product, use the security or contact address on the About page and it will be corrected.
Does LogShare pay for placement or run affiliate links?
No. Nothing on these pages is sponsored, and no link earns a commission. The pages exist because people search for these comparisons before choosing a tool.
Why does everything on LogShare expire?
Because the common use case is text that should not be around later: logs with identifiers in them, configs, interview scratch code. Expiry by default removes the clean-up step people forget.
Ready to try it? Share a log, paste some text or open a code room. No account, ever.