Pinry

An image collection as a tiled wall: save, tag, see it side by side.

about €1.97 / month Reading & archive 3,432 stars on GitHub Latest commit on July 9, 2025

What Pinry does

Pinry collects images and videos on a tiled wall. Everything gets tags, and the wall filters by them.

Made for idea boards, references and finds — your own pinboard, without an account somewhere else.

  • A tiled wall that adapts to the window width
  • Tags instead of folders
  • Add images from the web by address
  • Boards set to public or private

Good to know before the first start. You create the first account yourself and become the administrator. Whether anyone else may register is a setting you choose afterwards.

Pinry instead of Pinterest

What you get out of it

  • Only your images, no feed of suggestions in between
  • Boards public or private, as you like
  • Tags instead of folders, and the wall filters by them
Pinterest and PodlessPinterestOn Podless
Where the data livesPinterestOn the provider’s serversOn PodlessIn your own instance in the EU
Source codePinterestNot open to readOn PodlessOpen, you can read what runs
Ads and profilingPinterestPer the provider’s termsOn PodlessNone
Your own domainPinterestUsually not offeredOn PodlessIncluded, certificate too
Getting out againPinterestAs far as the provider allowsOn PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage
If it gets shut downPinterestYou have to moveOn PodlessYou decide when you leave

Additional information

Replaces
Pinterest, Are.na, Screenshot folders
Recommended size
0.25 cores · 0.5 GB RAM · 10 GB Storage
Estimated per month
€1.97 At the recommended size, running around the clock. Stop the app and CPU and RAM stop costing.
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Common questions

At the recommended size (0.25 cores · 0.5 GB RAM · 10 GB Storage) about €1.97 a month, billed by the hour. Stop Pinry and you only pay for storage.

Goes well with

  • Karakeep Reading & archive· Instead of Pocket about €5.70 / month

    A bookmark manager that keeps things: links, notes and images with a full copy of every page.

  • Readeck Reading & archive· Instead of Pocket about €2.80 / month

    Read later without ads: save articles, highlight them, take them along as an e-book.

  • ArchiveBox Reading & archive· Instead of Wayback Machine about €6.50 / month

    Archive web pages permanently — as HTML, PDF, screenshot and WARC.

Your own Pinry, in under a minute.