Free Pinterest Tools: 34 That Still Work in 2026, Sorted by Job

Free Pinterest tools can cover almost everything one person does on Pinterest: keyword research, writing pins, designing them, scheduling and reading the results. The trouble is the lists. Plenty of the popular ones still recommend tools that shut down years ago. These 34 work in 2026. We grouped them by job, named the one we’d start with for each, and said what’s actually free.

The best free Pinterest tools, by job

Every row has its own detailed comparison: see our guides to Pinterest keyword tools, title generators, pin makers and schedulers.

1–6. Keyword research and timing

Start here, because the words decide which searches a pin can appear in. Two of these come straight from Pinterest.

• 1. Pinterest’s search bar. Type a topic and read the autocomplete, then the colored chips under the results. Live keyword research, straight from the source, but without numbers.
• 2. Pinterest Trends. How searches rise and fall through the year, by country. Indispensable for seasonal pins; our Pinterest Trends guide shows how to read it.
• 3. Pinterest Predicts. Pinterest’s yearly report on the trends it expects to grow. Worth a skim each December.
• 4. SiteToSocial Keyword Tool. Paste a page or a topic and get keywords sorted by monthly Pinterest searches, taken from Pinterest’s ads data for English markets, with Trends data for 16 more languages. Three free uses a day without signing up.
• 5. KeySearch’s Pinterest keyword tool. Autocomplete-style suggestions with a few free lookups a day.
• 6. Google Trends. A second opinion on seasonality, from web searches rather than Pinterest searches.

7–12. Writing pins: titles, descriptions, hashtags, alt text

Most free generators write fluent text. The question is whether it’s built on a phrase anyone searches.

• 7. SiteToSocial Pin Title & Description Generator. Five pins per run, each on a different researched keyword, inside Pinterest’s limits. Our pick for pin text; the reasoning is in our title generator comparison.
• 8. RecurPost. Free title, description and hashtag generators with a choice of tone; you bring the keyword.
• 9. RightBlogger. Writes a title and description from a URL, in many languages.
• 10. Mailmodo. Simple, fast generators for titles, descriptions and board names.
• 11. Limey. A free alt text generator: upload an image, get a plain description.
• 12. ChatGPT. Fine for drafts if you give it the keyword and the limits; our ChatGPT prompts for Pinterest show how.

13–20. Designing pins

A word on stock photos: they work, but pins made from your own photos tend to feel more trustworthy, and they match the page people land on. Sizes for every format are in our Pinterest image size guide.

21–24. Profile, boards and checks

• 21. ContentStudio. Free bio and board name generators with a choice of tone.
• 22. SiteToSocial Board Name Generator. Ten board names with how often each is searched, plus a description for each.
• 23. SiteToSocial Pin Preview & SEO Checker. See the pin as the feed shows it and check its text against the limits. Unlimited and free.
• 24. SiteToSocial Rich Pins Validator. Checks a page’s Rich Pin data, share image and pin blockers, with a fix for each problem. More in our Rich Pins guide.

25–30. Scheduling and automation

• 25. Pinterest’s scheduler. Build a pin and publish it later, up to 30 days ahead.
• 26. Pinterest RSS auto-publish. New posts from your claimed website become pins automatically. No design, no keyword research, but free.
• 27. Buffer. Free for 3 channels with 10 scheduled posts each. Clean and simple; you make every pin.
• 28. Publer. A free plan for 3 accounts; Pinterest needs 100 followers or a claimed website to connect.
• 29. IFTTT. Free applets such as “new blog post, new pin”. The free tier checks for new items roughly hourly.
• 30. Zapier. Its free plan can create pins from other apps, within a monthly task limit. For bigger builds see Make and n8n for Pinterest.

31–34. Website and tracking

• 31. Yoast SEO or Rank Math. Both free WordPress plugins add the Open Graph tags that Rich Pins read.
• 32. Pinterest Analytics and the Pinterest Tag. Results per pin, and visits and sales from Pinterest on your site.
• 33. Google Analytics. Shows what Pinterest visitors do on your site: which pages, how long, whether they buy.
• 34. Google’s Campaign URL Builder. Adds UTM tags to pin links so you can tell campaigns apart.

Which free Pinterest tools do you actually need?

Fewer than this list suggests. A blogger making a few pins a week needs four: a keyword tool, something to write the text, something to make the image and Pinterest’s scheduler. A shop should add the Pinterest Tag and Rich Pins. Everything else is a nice-to-have.

1. Find the keyword in Pinterest’s search bar, with numbers from a Pinterest keyword tool.
2. Write the title and description around it, keyword first.
3. Make the image in Canva or another editor, at 1000 x 1500.
4. Check it in a pin preview before publishing.
5. Schedule it in Pinterest, to the board whose name matches the keyword.

Where free tools stop

Done by hand, that routine takes 10 to 20 minutes a pin. Fine for three pins a week. At ten fresh pins a day, what growing accounts tend to post, it’s two to three hours every single day. That’s where a paid tool earns its keep. The one we rank first, SiteToSocial, runs the same five steps for every page of a website for $10 a month; our ranking of the best Pinterest automation tools scores it against 14 alternatives, with the evidence.