Are you one of those with a sneaking desire to try out some good Pinterest alternatives out there. You’re probably tired of using the same platform over the years and trust us you’re not the only one sailing in this boat. This boat is very much overcrowded. Or else you just want to try out a new platform with the fledging hope to find a better image discovery platform than Pinterest. Whatever be your reasons or motivations, this blog post will fulfill your inkling by bringing the top Pinterest alternatives. We are not claiming that these platforms are better than Pinterest but they are definitely worth trying. Who knows one of these platforms may end up becoming your new go-to platform for finding awesome visual content.
Websites or apps similar to Pinterest – Quick Overview
1)
Behance
If you’re a website or graphic designer who is on a lookout for some good professional looking images then Behance can really be a good choice. It has certainly earned a good reputation in the graphic and web design world. What really stands out Behance is that it goes much beyond than just being another image discovery platform. It also boosts a pretty large community of designers and also a marketplace for hiring professional designers. This means designers can even money through this platform. Seriously, there aren’t many image discovery platforms that offer these services under one roof.
But what about features? It offers several standard features, just like Pinterest. You can add and save images to your Moodboards (similar to Pinterest’s Board) to build your own collection and portfolio. Furthermore, to help users make better and efficient search, it also offers custom search filters like 3D art, fashion and many other filters.
Behance offers a fermium model. There is a free version and paid version – known as Behance Pro – that comes with several extra features. Behance Pro is charged at $9.99 per month.
Strength
- Engagement & Networking: Itsproactive community of designers offers many creative as well as career growth opportunities. From seeking feedbacks, sharing your projects to increasing your network.
- Adobe Integration: Many may not know but Behance is owned by Adobe and therefore this platform is well integrated with many of Adobe’s popular tools like Photoshop and illustrator.
- Professional oriented: Owing to its strong community network coupled with solid freelance marketplace as well as its project-based approach, Behance is a perfect platform for highly ambitious designer professionals.
Weakness:
- The platform’s image catalogue and collection are still very small. Compared to Pinterest’s massive catalogue, its collection certainly pales.
- Not so user-friendly interface: There have been growing complaints and negative reviews about Behance’s less intuitive interface.
2)
Pearltrees
It is actually quite unthinkable to talk about Pinterest alternatives and not mention about Pearltrees. Although it is still not as popular as Pinterest, it is certainly a rising star. The real good thing is that it a good curation platform where you can collect and curate everything and anything you want – photos, videos, notes, web pages and links. You also get cool customization features, allowing you to customize your collections with different themes and backgrounds.
Strength:
- It is certainly one of the best bookmarking platforms with some pretty good customization and visual organization features.
- Pearltrees has a pretty unique visual organization structure, using a tree-like structure to visually organize content. This makes it pretty easy to find and navigate for users.
- It facilitates collaboration, allowing you to share your ideas and concepts with groups and teams. This is especially helpful if you are starving of ideas and are on a lookout for some fresh ideas.
Weakness:
- One of the biggest let down is that you get only 1 GB space for free while you have to opt for paid subscription for enjoying additional space.
- Apart from the limited space, its basic plan offers very limited features with many advanced features requiring paid subscription.
- While the platform may be relatively easy to use, many new users have complained about the platform requiring steep learning curve.
3)
Dribble
The next one in our list of apps similar to Pinterest is Dribble, another one of those budding stars that is grabbing lot of attention especially among the designer community. Dribble is just the thing you need if you as a professional graphic or website designer is continuously looking for fresh ideas and also want to showcase your maverick designing talent to the world. Without sounding too flattery, Dribble is as good as a paradise for ambitious designers.
Strengths:
- The stock images of Dribble have a wow factor about them. These high-quality images can seriously make your projects and designing work stand out. While you get to enjoy high quality images, you don’t face any dearth of quantity either with Dribble boosting literally millions of photos on its platform.
- Just like Behance, Dribble boosts pretty solid community of professional designers and a job marketplace. Today thousands of professional designers use Dribble to connect with their potential employers or clients as well as to grow their networking.
- It has earned a reputation for being a go-to platform for seeking fresh and innovative ideas for all kinds of design work, from UI, graphic design to illustration work.
Weakness
- Dribble is too focused on catering the needs of professional designing community, making it less appealing for people searching for images catering to other niche or categories. In a nutshell, if you’re not a designer, this platform is simply not for you.
- While it surely offers several good features but most of these features have been included in the paid plans. This leaves free users with very basic features that is unlikely to help their work or project to standout.
- The overwhelmingly competitive nature of the platform makes it very difficult for new designers to make their work standout or grab the attention of the prospective employers.
4)
Designspiration
Designspiration doesn’t quite abide by the William Shakespeare’s famous quote ‘What’s is in a name?’ The platform does take its name quite seriously, serving tones of ideas for designers for their creative works and projects. It is again one of those platforms that is steadily solidifying its reputation as a one stop destination for designers who don’t want to be strained by mediocrity.
Designspiration follows a fermium model with pro version offering additional features. Its pro plan, which is available at $5 per month, offers pretty good features like unlimited vision mood boards, deeper inspiration searches and early access to new features.
Strength
- Its clean and non-cluttered interface really makes searching and browsing images really a very pleasant experience.
- It offers several standard features like allowing to browse through different categories or themes for discovering new ideas and letting you create your own collection and saving them.
- It seriously has some good collection of high-quality images including quirky and creatively bold images.
- This platform offers enhanced and intuitive search functionality, allowing you to search for images based on different parameters like specific keywords, styles and colors.
- It regularly updates its collection with trending designs, catering to the changes and on-going trends in the design world.
Weakness
- Its free plan offers very basic features, seriously curtailing the potential of this platform.
- Its narrow focus on designing community makes the platform unappealing for non-designing community and general public. For instance, this platform is hardly useful for someone who looking for ideas for home décor or fashion designing.
5)
Mix
Thankfully, the last platform in our list is not a design related platform as we aim to make this list as diverse as possible. Mix is slowly emerging as a good alternative to Pinterest especially for those who are specifically looking for images that has a very artistic feel or vibe to it. Despite its artistic feel, it offers wide varieties of categories like fashion, architecture, music and more.
Strength:
- It does not cater to only one particular niche or segment as it includes images from all popular categories that you can think of. Its diverse content categories pretty much do justice to its name ‘Mix.’
- One of the good things about Mix is that it lays focus on personalized content curation, making it easy to find images that are tailored to your needs and requirements. Once you start selecting and bookmarking images based on your interest, its algorithm starts giving recommendation based on your actions and data.
Weakness:
- Compared to its peers, Mix still has very limited set of advanced features.
- The platform has been attracting lot of negative reviews for pushing too much spammy content.
Final thought
Although most of these platforms have lot of catching up to do with Pinterest, they have emerged as a good alternatives and substitutes. With Pinterest getting too overcrowded and not withstanding its other limitations, these platforms can offer you fresh breadth of air. And it is always wise to remain to open to change. For the good or the worse, change is the way of life. Therefore, you might as well want to try out these platforms.
Do let us know your feedback about our list. Feel free to recommend other platforms that you feel deserves to be in our list. You can reach out to us through our official e-mail address.