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Helpful resources for Pinboard users. Know something that belongs on this list? Drop us a line!

Browser Extensions

Here are the official Pinboard browser plugins:

Opera users can try a third-party extension - Pinboard Toolbar buttons - for quick bookmarking and tagging.

Javascript Widgets

Little pieces of Javascript code you can paste into a blog or web page template to display your tags and links, styled however you want.

  • Linkroll: show a list of your most recent bookmarks.
  • Tag cloud widget: create a handsome javascript tag cloud on any web page.

Mobile Apps

We don't make an iPhone or Android app for Pinboard, but encourage third-party apps that want to add Pinboard support.

There's a mobile version of Pinboard. You can post bookmarks by email, which can be easier than regular bookmarking when on a mobile device.

Here's a short list of some of those great third-party apps:

iPhone + iPad

  • Instapaper, the widely-beloved mobile reader app, now lets you automatically save items to Pinboard.
  • Delibar offers built-in support for Pinboard, global search for all your bookmarks, multi-account support, saved searches, and many more features.
  • Yummy is a full-featured delicious client that now supports Pinboard in 'experimental' mode.
  • Reeder is a feed reader and Google Reader client that lets you save items to Pinboard.
  • Delicious Bookmark Discovery (DBD) is a full-featured Delicious client for the iPad that has recently added support for Pinboard.
  • Cyberspace is a universal Web browser for iOS.

Android

  • Save to Pinboard allows you to save links from other apps to your Pinboard.in account. It has support for tags, read later and private links.
  • Pindroid is a free, full-featured Pinboard client issued under the GPL.

Desktop Apps

OS X

  • Delibar. Full-featured bookmarking app with very nice interface.
  • Pukka. Desktop app with Delicious and Pinboard support. Allows multiple accounts.
  • NetNewsWire. User patrix has posted instructions for posting to Pinboard from NetNewsWire.

Web Apps

  • Google Reader. You can configure Pinboard to automatically import items from your shared Google Reader feed, or use Google Reader's new 'Post To' feature, described here.
  • Tumblr. You can auto-post your Pinboard bookmarks to Tumblr using Pummel.
  • Twitter. Pinboard has extensive built-in support for Twitter. You can automatically add all links from your tweets and Twitter favorites as bookmarks, and store your tweets on the site for future reference.

  • Wordpress. We maintain our own Wordpress plugin. Both it and the popular Postalicious let you display your most recent public bookmarks in your Wordpress blog

Developer Libraries

Perl

Python

Ruby

  • SingAlong — Ruby wrapper for Pinboard API.

Alternatives

Don't like Pinboard? Try one of our fine competitors:

  • Delicious. Granddaddy of them all.
  • Google Bookmarks. Store bookmarks within your Google account.
  • Diigo. Freemium bookmarking site. Free tier shows ads.
  • Mr. Wong. Paid bookmarking site popular in Europe.
  • Zootool. More visually-oriented bookmarking.
  • Historio.us. Freemium site with emphasis on search.
  • trunk.ly. New bookmarking startup out of Australia.
  • Pearltrees. Flash-intensive bookmarking and visualization tool.