How prompt sharing works in AI PromptShot.
PromptShot has no accounts and no backend, so "sharing" doesn't mean uploading anything. Here's exactly what happens when you use Copy Share Link, Share, or Copy Image — and what that means for your prompt's privacy.
Create a PromptShotWhat a share link actually contains
When you click Copy Share Link, PromptShot doesn't send anything to a server. It takes your prompt text along with the selected platform, theme, and size, turns that into JSON, and encodes it as a URL-safe base64 string in a single query parameter. That string is appended to the page URL — nothing more.
When someone opens the link, the same page loads and reads that query parameter straight out of the URL, decodes it back into your prompt, platform, theme, and size, and restores the editor to match. There is no lookup, no database row, and no ID pointing at storage somewhere — the link is the data.
What stays private, and what doesn't
While you're editing, your prompt never leaves your browser — there's no server for it to be sent to, and PromptShot makes no network requests with your prompt text.
A share link changes that. Because the full prompt is encoded directly in the URL, anyone who has the link can read the prompt inside it, and so can anything that logs URLs — browser history, a chat app's link preview, an analytics tool on a page you paste the link into. Treat a share link the same way you'd treat pasting the raw prompt text: fine for something you're happy to have read, not the place for anything sensitive.
If you want the visual without exposing the prompt as re-editable text, use Download PNG or Copy Image instead — the image is flattened pixels, not encoded text, so it doesn't carry the prompt back out in a reversible form.
Four ways to get a PromptShot out of the editor
| Action | What it produces | Carries the prompt as text? |
|---|---|---|
| Copy Share Link | A URL that reopens this exact PromptShot | Yes — encoded in the URL |
| Share | Opens your device's native share sheet with the PNG (and the link, if supported) | Only if the link is included |
| Download PNG | A PNG image file saved to your device | No — flattened image only |
| Copy Image | The PNG placed on your clipboard, ready to paste | No — flattened image only |
Share uses the browser's Web Share API. It isn't supported in every browser — where it isn't, the button tells you so and suggests downloading the PNG instead. Copy Image depends on your browser supporting image writes to the clipboard; where it doesn't, PromptShot tells you to download instead of failing silently.
What happens when someone opens your link
Opening a valid share link restores the prompt text, platform, theme, and size, and shows a short confirmation that the PromptShot was restored from a shared link. If the link is malformed or was edited by hand, PromptShot can't decode it — it falls back to a blank editor and says so, rather than showing a broken or partial prompt.
The link-length limit
Because the entire prompt lives inside the URL, very long prompts produce very long links. PromptShot caps share links at 8,000 characters. Past that, Copy Share Link won't generate a link at all — it tells you the prompt is too long and points you to Download PNG or Copy Prompt instead, both of which have no such limit.