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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
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.
I don't make an iPhone or Android app for Pinboard, but encourage any third-party apps that want to add Pinboard support.
Here's a short list of some of those great third-party apps:
iOS
- Pins for Pinboard is a modern (2021) Pinboard client.
- Yummy is a full-featured Pinboard client.
- Pushpin is a dedicated Pinboard client for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
- Pinner is a dedicated iPhone app for Pinboard.
- Reeder is a feed reader that lets you save items to Pinboard.
- Tweetbot is a Twitter iPhone client with Pinboard support.
Desktop Apps
- Shiori is a Pinboard and Delicious OS X client.
- Spillo. A pretty desktop client for OS X.
- ReadKit is a read later client for Mac that supports Instapaper, Pocket, Readability, Pinboard and Delicious.
- Little Bookmark Box is a browser assistant for bookmarking, with Pinboard integration.
Scripts
- evernote-bookmarks– converts Evernote XML format into something Pinboard can import.
- Launchbar. Search your Pinboard bookmarks with Launchbar.
- Stale. Stale link finder for Pinboard (note that archival users get this feature within Pinboard).
Developer Libraries
Perl
- Net::Delicious — OOP wrapper for the Pinboard API.
Python
- pinboard.py — a full-featured Python wrapper for the Pinboard API.
- python-pinboard — forked version of mudge/delicious.
PHP
- pinboard-api — a PHP library for the Pinboard API.
iOS
- ASPinboard — open-source Pinboard library for iOS (by the maker of Pushpin).
Node
- node-pinboard — a Node wrapper for the Pinboard API.
Ruby
- Pinboard gem — just what it says.
Alternatives
Don't like Pinboard? Try one of my fine competitors:
- Google Bookmarks — Store bookmarks within your Google account.
- Diigo — Freemium bookmarking site. Free tier shows ads.
- Historio.us — Freemium site with emphasis on search.
- Raindrop.io — a one-developer competitor!
- Pearltrees — Flash-intensive bookmarking and visualization tool.
- BibSonomy — University-sponsored bookmarking and publication tracking site.
- Wallabag — I think it's a bookmarking site?
- Pocket — bookmarking site bought by Mozilla and now baked into Firefox.
- Tefter — not even sure what this one is, but costs 12x what Pinboard does.