Pinterest has no button to download Pinterest boards. Saving pins by hand works for small boards; an extension handles large ones. Four methods, compared.
Pinterest has no built-in way to download a whole board. There are exactly four methods that work, and which one you want comes down to how many pins the board has.
- Save pins one at a time: free, no install, fine up to about 30 pins.
- Use a browser extension: the only one of the four that downloads a whole board in one go. If you are here to bulk download, this is the answer and the rest of this list is context.
- Paste a URL into a downloader site: one pin at a time, for when you can't install anything.
- Request your Pinterest data: an account backup, not an image folder. Know this before you wait on it.
Then three things worth knowing whichever you pick: private boards, image quality, and a side-by-side comparison.
Can you download a Pinterest board directly from Pinterest?
No. There is no "download board" button and no setting that turns one on. The closest Pinterest gives you is saving one pin at a time (method 1) and an account data export (method 4), and neither produces a folder of a board's images. Everything below works around that gap.
Method 1: Save pins one at a time
Best for: boards under ~30 pins, or grabbing a handful. Cost: free.
Open the pin, then either right-click the image and choose Save image as, or use the download option in the pin's ⋯ menu.
That is the whole method, and for 20 or 30 pins it is a sensible choice: nothing to install, nothing to trust, works on any device. What it costs beyond that:
- Thumbnails by mistake. Saving from the board grid gets the downscaled preview, not the full image. You have to open each pin.
- Hash filenames. Pinterest's defaults look like
f8a02c1e9b.jpg, so you rename as you go or accept an unsearchable folder. - No progress, no record. Lose your place at pin 140 and you are comparing the board against your download folder by eye.
- Lazy loading. Long boards only render as you scroll, so the later pins don't exist until you get there.
A 40-pin board is a tolerable evening. A 600-pin board is not a method, it is a project.
Method 2: Use a browser extension
Best for: whole boards, large boards, private boards. Cost: free tier available.
This is the only method on this page that downloads a board in bulk. The other three are all one-pin-at-a-time by design: method 1 needs a right-click per pin, method 3 takes a single pin URL per paste, and method 4 returns no images at all. If the board has more pins than you want to click through, the choice is already made.
It works differently from the paste-a-URL sites, too. Instead of you handing a URL to a service, an extension adds a download control to the board page you already have open, reads the pins from that page, and packages them. Two consequences:
- It sees what you see. Including boards that aren't public, because it reads your logged-in session's view of the page.
- It acts on every pin at once. Select the whole board, or a subset, in one pass.
SuperPin is one option. Open a board, click the control it adds, pick your pins, get your files. It runs locally in your browser, with no account and no login, and the free tier covers up to 25 pins per board at original quality.
What you get: a ZIP of the images as individual files, in one flat folder with sensible filenames. Worth knowing up front: the ZIP does not mirror your board's sections as subfolders, and videos sit alongside images rather than in a folder of their own. If you need section-per-folder, you are sorting that yourself.
Method 3: Paste a URL into a downloader site
Best for: a single pin, on a device where you can't install anything. Cost: free.
You give the site a Pinterest link, it hands back the image. These work, and the trade-off is real in both directions.
- For: nothing to install, not tied to a browser. On a locked-down machine or a phone this may be your only option.
- Against: most handle one pin at a time, which is method 1 with extra steps. Heavily ad-supported, often with misleading download buttons around the real one. Public pins only. And you are sending a URL to a third party you know nothing about.
We won't name specific ones. They appear and disappear constantly, and any recommendation would be stale within months.
Method 4: Request your Pinterest data
Best for: an account record before you delete your account. Cost: free.
Go to Settings → Privacy and data → Request your data. Pinterest emails you a download link, which it says can take up to 48 hours.
Be clear about what arrives, because people often try this first and lose a day to it:
- It is an account record: your profile, boards, pin entries, follows and activity, as data files.
- It is not a folder of images from your boards.
- It covers your own account only, so it does nothing for a board someone else made.
How do I download a private or secret Pinterest board?
- A board you own, or a secret or group board you were invited to. Your logged-in session can already see it, so a browser extension (method 2) works exactly as it does on a public board, because it is reading the page in front of you.
- A downloader site (method 3). Can't do it. It fetches from its own servers, where it isn't logged in as you, so a private board looks like a dead link.
- A board you have no access to. Cannot be downloaded, by any method. If you can't open it in your own browser, there is nothing to download.
What image quality do you get?
Lower than you expect, if you save from the board grid.
Pinterest serves downscaled previews into the grid so pages load fast, and the
size is right there in the URL: a pinimg.com link contains a segment like
236x, 474x or 736x, and that number is the width being served. Save
straight from the board view and that thumbnail is what you get.
The full-size file sits at the same path with that segment replaced by
originals. Two ways there:
- By hand. Open the pin, copy the image address, swap the size segment for
originals, load it, save from there. - Let the tool do it. SuperPin defaults to original quality on every tier.
One thing no method fixes: the original is only as big as whoever uploaded it made it. A pin uploaded at 600px wide gives you 600px. Nothing upscales.
Which method should I use?
| Method | Best for | Limits | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. One at a time | Boards under ~30 pins, one-off grabs | No multi-select; hash filenames; easy to save the thumbnail by mistake | Free |
| 2. Browser extension ✅ | Bulk: whole boards, large boards, private boards | Needs an install; desktop browser only | Free tier; see pricing |
| 3. Downloader site | One pin, on a device where you can't install anything | Usually one pin at a time; ad-heavy; public pins only; sends the URL to a third party | Free |
| 4. Pinterest data export | An account record before deleting your account | Not image files; your own account only; up to 48 hours | Free |
Under 30 pins, method 1 is fine and costs you nothing but clicks. For anything bulk, whole boards, long boards, private boards, method 2 is the only one that actually does the job. Either way, check that what landed is the original and not a 236px preview, because that is the mistake that costs people the whole download twice.
Also worth reading: how to bulk download Pinterest images and saving Pinterest images without losing quality. Both coming soon.