# Pinboard

> Paid bookmarking site with tags, privacy and page archiving

Pinboard is a bookmarking site, run independently since 2009, for saving links with titles, descriptions and tags. Bookmarks can be public or private, and a read-later status holds pages to come back to. A higher-priced archival account stores a copy of every bookmarked page and adds full-text search and dead-link checks. The site carries no ads or trackers, and every account is paid for by the year.

- **Category:** Read Later & Bookmarks
- **Made by:** Nine Fives Software (since 2009)
- **Website:** https://pinboard.in
- **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

Pinboard is a paid product, starting at $22 per year.

- **Pricing model:** Paid
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Regular account | $22 per year | Bookmarks with tags, private bookmarks, read later, notes, tab sets, the API and RSS feeds. Refundable within seven days of signup. |
| Archival account | $39 per year | Everything in a regular account, plus a stored copy of every bookmarked page, full-text search and dead-link checks. |

Read from https://pinboard.in/signup/ on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Pinboard before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Discounts for paying for several years** (Other savings): The sign-up page says there are steep discounts for signing up for multiple years, chosen on the payment page. The amounts are not shown publicly. Source: https://pinboard.in/signup/

## Key features

- **Bookmarks, tags and privacy:** Each bookmark has a title, URL, a description of any length and optional tags. Any bookmark can be private, and an account can default to private.
- **Read later:** A read-later bookmarklet adds a page to an unread list without asking for details. Unread bookmarks are visible only to you until marked as read.
- **Archiving and full-text search:** Archival accounts get a crawled copy of every bookmarked page that stays viewable if the original goes offline, plus search across page text.
- **Bookmarklets, extensions and email:** Save with a bookmarklet, with browser extensions for Safari, Chrome and Firefox, or by emailing a URL to a personal Pinboard address.
- **API and RSS feeds:** A full API modeled on version 1 of the Delicious API supports third-party clients, and every bookmark page has a matching RSS feed.
- **Notes, tab sets and tag bundles:** Notes save snippets of text as bookmarks, tab sets store all open browser tabs for later, and tag bundles group related tags on one page.

## Good for

- People who want a fast, text-based bookmark archive without ads or trackers
- Users who keep most or all of their bookmarks private
- Developers who want an API and RSS feeds for their bookmarks

## Worth knowing

- There is no free plan and no free trial; a payment is refundable within seven days of signup.
- Stored page copies and full-text search require the $39 archival account.
- There are no native mobile apps: Pinboard offers a mobile website and relies on third-party apps.
- The archive crawler cannot save paywalled pages, and the FAQ says YouTube and Twitter links are not saved properly.

## Works with

Instapaper, Reeder

**Tags:** Bookmarks, Read later, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Raindrop.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/raindrop-io): Bookmark manager with collections, tags and highlights. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pinboard-vs-raindrop-io)
- [linkding](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkding): Minimal, self-hosted bookmark manager with tags and archiving. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkding-vs-pinboard)
- [Diigo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/diigo): Bookmarking with highlights and sticky notes on web pages and PDFs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/diigo-vs-pinboard)
- [Linkwarden](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkwarden): Open-source bookmark manager that preserves a copy of each page. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkwarden-vs-pinboard)
- [Karakeep](https://toolgpa.com/tools/karakeep): Open-source bookmark app that tags saved links, notes and images. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/karakeep-vs-pinboard)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://pinboard.in/signup/
- https://pinboard.in/
- https://pinboard.in/tour/
- https://pinboard.in/faq/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/pinboard
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