Pinterest image and video downloader
Save any public pin at its true original resolution — not the resized preview Pinterest shows in the grid.
Works with pins, video pins and pin.it short links.
- Images & video
- Original resolution
- pin.it links work
How it works
From a pin to a full-resolution file
Copy the pin link
Open the pin and use Share → Copy link. Both the full pinterest.com/pin/… address and a pin.it short link work.
Paste it above
Short links are followed to the real pin automatically, so there's nothing to expand by hand first.
Save the original
Images download as the source JPEG or PNG. Video pins download as an MP4 with audio.
Built for Pins
Original files, not thumbnails
The originals file, every time
Pinterest serves images from a size-bucketed CDN — the 236px, 474px and 736px copies you see while browsing are all downscaled. We resolve the originals path, which is the file the pinner actually uploaded.
Video pins muxed properly
Pinterest delivers video pins as an adaptive stream. We assemble the highest rendition into a single MP4 with the audio track already merged in.
No Pinterest overlay
Files come back clean, without the logo Pinterest's own save button can stamp onto shared images.
Works without an account
Pinterest increasingly pushes visitors to sign in just to view a pin. Anything still publicly reachable can be downloaded here without one.
The resolution problem nobody mentions
Saving a Pinterest image the obvious way — right click, Save image as — almost always gives you the wrong file. Pinterest's image CDN stores every upload at a series of fixed widths, and the address in the page points at whichever of those the layout needed. A pin that looks crisp in the browser can save as a 474-pixel-wide JPEG, which falls apart the moment you use it for anything.
The full-size file is still there. The same image path exists under an originals segment, and that copy is the untouched upload. FastReels resolves that path for you, which is why a download here is frequently several times the size of what a right-click produces — and why it survives being printed, cropped or used as a reference at full scale.
Video pins have a parallel problem. Pinterest delivers them as an adaptive stream split into segments, so a naive save produces either a playlist file or a video with no sound. We reassemble the highest-quality rendition into a single MP4 with the audio already muxed in, which is the file you would have expected to get.
It is worth knowing why the reduced copies exist at all, because it explains why the problem is so easy to miss. Pinterest's grid loads dozens of images at once, and sending full-resolution files for a page of thumbnails would be enormously wasteful — so the CDN serves whichever width the layout needs. That is good engineering for browsing and precisely wrong for saving. The interface gives no indication that the file behind the image is a fraction of the original, so the loss only becomes visible later, when the image is enlarged, printed or cropped and turns out to be soft.
The gap is larger than people expect. A pin displayed at 474 pixels wide might have been uploaded at 2000 or more, which is a difference of roughly eighteen times the pixel count. For a moodboard viewed on screen that may not matter. For anything you intend to print, use as a design reference, or crop into, it is the difference between a usable asset and an unusable one — and the point at which you discover it is usually the point at which the original pin has disappeared.
Pinterest FAQ
Pins, boards and resolutions
Both. Images are the more common case and are fully supported — paste any pin link and the image downloads at its original resolution.
Pinterest stores every image at several widths and shows you a small one while you browse. Right-clicking and saving from the grid gives you that reduced copy. FastReels requests the originals variant, which is the unresized file as uploaded — often several times larger.
Yes. A pin.it link is resolved to the canonical pin address before extraction, so you can paste whatever the mobile share sheet produced.
Not currently. FastReels works one pin at a time. Board and profile URLs are rejected rather than partially handled.
Carousel pins are recognised and the primary image is prepared for download, with the item count shown on the result card.
Pins on private or secret boards, and pins that have been deleted or made unavailable in your region, cannot be reached without logging in — so they cannot be downloaded here.
Open the pin, tap the share icon and choose Copy link, then paste it here. On iPhone the image saves through Safari into Files → Downloads, from where Share → Save Image puts it in Photos. On Android it goes to Downloads and appears in Gallery shortly afterwards. Long-pressing the image inside the Pinterest app saves the reduced display copy instead, which is the version most people end up with by accident.
Yes. Pinterest serves video pins as an adaptive stream where audio and video are separate, which is why a naive save so often produces a silent clip. The highest-quality rendition is reassembled into a single MP4 with audio already muxed in.
Whatever was uploaded. Pinterest keeps the original file type, so a photograph normally arrives as a JPEG and a graphic or logo with transparency arrives as a PNG. We do not convert between them, because converting a PNG to JPEG would silently flatten its transparency.
No. A secret board is visible only to you and the people you invited, and reaching it requires being logged in as one of them. FastReels never uses an account, so anything that needs a login is out of reach by design — including your own secret boards.
No. Nothing about a download reaches Pinterest as an interaction — it is not a save, a click-through or an impression, and it appears in no analytics the pinner can see.
Usually not, and this matters more on Pinterest than elsewhere. A pin is frequently several steps removed from whoever created the image, so the person who pinned it often holds no rights at all. Downloading changes nothing about ownership. For moodboards, personal reference and design research you are on ordinary ground; for anything commercial, trace the image back to its source and license it properly.