Pinner for Pinboard app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 1088 ratings )

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Developer: Sam Oakley

4.99 USD

Current version: 4.3.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 17 Jan 2013
App size: 17.05 Mb

"The best Pinboard app for iOS" - The Sweet Setup

Pinner is a fast, full-featured app for your Pinboard bookmarks. Designed for all users of Pinboard, you can browse, edit, read, manage, and much more. Pinner has cutting-edge iOS integration including Share Extensions, Spotlight Search, Today Widgets, 3D Touch, and more.

Share Extensions
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Create a new bookmark in Pinner from anywhere you can share a URL or web page, using the two Share Extensions.

Quickly save a webpage to Pinboard without ever leaving the current app. Like to automate your apps? Pinner also supports a URL scheme.

Spotlight Search
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Search your bookmarks from within iOS Spotlight Search.

Universal search integration presents Pinner bookmarks alongside web and other app results. Search for a topic and find just the page you wanted, without having to launch Pinner.

Today Widgets
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Add Pinner to your Today view with the two widgets.

"Recent Bookmarks" shows your most recent 5 bookmarks. Add it to your Today View, or 3D Touch the App Icon. "Popular on Pinboard" shows whats popular with other users of Pinboard. Add it to your Today View to see the latest bookmarks.

Split View & Slide Over
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If you have an iPad that supports Slide Over or Split View, you can multitask with your bookmarks and even open them directly in Safari when split (enable in Settings).

Continuity
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Keep reading a bookmark when switching between devices using Handoff.

Transfer a bookmark directly between copies of the app running on iPhone & iPad, or send the page to Safari on devices where Pinner isnt installed - including Macs running OS X Yosemite.

Social Bookmarking
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Along with your bookmarks - synced and saved to your device - browse through categories of bookmarks from other users, including Popular, Recent, Wikipedia & Fandom.

Customisation
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Create custom searches on both your bookmarks and community bookmarks.

Get fast access to your most important bookmarks & the newest ones from around the web. Filter by tag, title, author and URL.

Integrated
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Pinner utilises Safari View Controller, meaning your bookmarks open in the familiar Safari UI with all your sessions and cookies available.

Theming
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Triple-tap the top bar to switch to Dark Mode, designed to be perfect for night-time reading.

Choose between a huge selection of app fonts, including ones you have installed yourself.

All Devices
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Pinner is a universal app available on iPhone and iPad, optimised for Retina displays, 64-bit CPUs, and all sizes of device.

AutoLayout & Dynamic Type support means Pinner looks great on every size of device - from iPhone 4 to iPad Pro.

Praise for Pinner
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“Pinner is one of the best ways to interact with Pinboard on iOS. If you’re a fan of Pinboard (and you should be), do yourself a favor and buy this app because it’s the best.” — The Sweet Setup

“Pinner 3 is an elegant Pinboard client that cleverly implements new iOS 8 features.” — MacStories

“Overall Pinner 3 is one of the best Pinboard apps available today.” — Beautiful Pixels

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Use del.icio.us, Pocket or Instapaper? Give Pinner & Pinboard.in a try! Its flexible enough to be used to archive all your bookmarks forever, or just as a read later list.

Follow @pinner_app on Twitter or visit blog.pinnerapp.net for news.

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Pinner requires a Pinboard.in account for online syncing functionality, but can be used without sign up for local bookmarking.

Pros and cons of Pinner for Pinboard app for iPhone and iPad

Pinner for Pinboard app good for

I tried them all and this is the best Pinboard client. I love the offline read later feature.

I thought I could get by with the mobile Pinboard website, but if you use Pinboard with any frequency, this app is a must. I should have bought it a long time ago.

App is reallf fast, search if very nice. "Edit" should be little more simple with less taps and a bit modern tagging view and icon. But app does what it does well. Also iPad support is great!

Slick, fast, and easy on the eyes. Also has a solid url scheme and Safari bookmarklet. This app has allowed me to use Pinboard for my huge bookmarks library and my "read later" collection.

Pinboard doesnt try to do more than whats needed for the task it set out to help with, and this app perfectly compliments that design ethic.

Im not the heaviest Pinboard user, but there is a lot to like about this app. Design is clean, it syncs very quickly, comes with an iPad app. I find Im using Pinboard a lot more.

Some bad moments

Its been about 6 months since Pinner removed auto-fetch of title for tweets, and this made me stop using it since all of a sudden I have to manually copy and paste the title of every bookmark before tweeting. Rather than posting a negative review right away, I emailed them and received a reply to "wait". I am still waiting. Very disappointing when a developer removes a feature like this and doesnt communicate properly with their customers.

I have to send the article to Safari to follow links in it. If this is by design, its a gaping usability defect.

I wanted to like Pinner….the problem is that it doesn’t work. I couldn’t get Pinner to show my Pinboard bookmarks. Repeated attempts to connect Pinner to Pinboard (logout/login) didn’t help. At some point I uninstalled Pinner, and after reinstalling it downloaded some of my bookmarks, but was clearly missing most of them. I saved a few new bookmarks to Pinboard…and Pinner didn’t show the new bookmarks. I’ve communicated with the developer but haven’t heard back after supplying the requested info. In fact, I have neither bookmarks or a response after 17 days.

The UI gets stuck after a couple of minutes using the app, with no way to navigate away except from killing the app and opening again.

I.e. there is no way to post bookmarks as private by default. This is one of the most basic features for a Pinboard client and a no-brainer to code. Also, some colors seem to be off (status bar sometimes is white on bright background). Sending in-app feedback requires an email address, I already get enough spam all day long. This App seems to need some work to be really useful, shiny and iOS worthy.

Normally a great app, in this version the browser view is broken and does not display anything.

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