Pinterest is built for visual discovery and pinning into boards. It is excellent at that. But Pinterest only stores Pinterest - you cannot pin a YouTube tutorial, a WhatsApp screenshot, a Reddit thread, or a recipe blog post into your boards. MarkIt is one library across every source you save from, with AI search by what the save actually means.
Save pins to Pinterest the way you always have - that workflow stays. MarkIt is for the saves Pinterest cannot hold: forward the destination link of a pin (the source article, recipe blog, or product page) to the MarkIt bot, alongside everything else you save from other platforms. AI summary, auto-categorization, semantic search across pins + every other source. Free up to 40 saves per month.
Pinterest is the visual discovery and pinning engine. Boards as mood-boards, the recommendation algorithm surfacing new ideas, the inspiration-to-action flow for home renovations, weddings, recipes, fashion, travel - that is what Pinterest does well and what no other tool replaces.
MarkIt is the AI-search-across-everything-you-save layer. It does not compete with Pinterest's discovery side. The honest framing: keep Pinterest for finding new visual ideas. Use MarkIt when you need one searchable home across every platform you have saved from - pins, YouTube videos, WhatsApp screenshots, Instagram posts, Reddit threads, recipe blogs, articles, PDFs.
Most people end up with the same multi-tool mess: pins in Pinterest, recipe screenshots in their camera roll, YouTube videos in Watch Later, articles in browser bookmarks, restaurant recs in WhatsApp chats. None of it is cross-searchable. MarkIt sits across all of it.
These are Pinterest's structural limits, not bugs. They are real and they are the reason people end up with a Pinterest workflow plus four other save tools.
When a pin links to a recipe blog, a product page, or a tutorial post, copy that destination link (or use Pinterest's share-link option) and send to MarkIt's WhatsApp or Telegram bot. Or paste into the dashboard. MarkIt now has the full source article, not just the Pinterest thumbnail.
The bot fetches the destination page, runs OCR on any images, generates an AI summary of the full article, and categorizes the save into one of your 12 categories. The result is searchable by the actual content of the article - not just the keywords on the pin caption.
Find a save by what it means - 'the spinach lasagna recipe with bechamel' returns the right save whether it came from a Pinterest pin, a YouTube video, a recipe blog, a WhatsApp screenshot, or a Reddit thread.
Pins have two layers: the pin itself (title + image + description on Pinterest) and the destination URL (where the pin links to). MarkIt captures both:
The pin caption text as displayed on Pinterest, indexed as searchable text.
The external link the pin points to (recipe blog, product page, article).
The pin thumbnail, proxied so it survives in your library.
The name of the board you pinned the original to, captured as a soft tag.
When the pin links to an external article or recipe, MarkIt fetches that page and generates a summary so the save is searchable by the actual content.
One of your 12 categories (Recipes, Home, Travel, Style, etc.) picked from the content.
Your saves are yours. MarkIt does not train AI on your library, does not sell data, and does not share what you save with other users. AI summary runs server-side via OpenAI under their 30-day-retention API terms. Export your full library as JSON anytime by emailing [email protected].
Pinterest only stores Pinterest. MarkIt sits across YouTube videos, WhatsApp screenshots, Reddit threads, recipe blogs, articles, and Pinterest pins all in one searchable workspace. The pitch is not 'replace Pinterest' - it is 'one place to find anything you have ever saved across every platform.'
No, and we do not recommend it. Keep using Pinterest for visual discovery and pinning. Use MarkIt when you want one searchable home across every platform.
Yes. When the pin links out to a recipe blog or article, MarkIt fetches the destination page, runs OCR on any images, and generates a summary so the actual article content is searchable - not just the pin caption.
Yes. The pin image is captured as the save preview, the source link is preserved, and the AI summary references both.
Bulk import of an entire board is not currently supported. You save pins individually via the share sheet, Chrome extension, or by sending the destination URL to the bot. A guided board-import flow is on the roadmap.
MarkIt saves the URL, title, description, and cover image. The multi-page video playback still happens on Pinterest itself.
MarkIt is one library across every source you save from. The bot understands Pinterest and these:
Free up to 40 captures a month. Includes the WhatsApp bot, Telegram bot, AI summaries, auto-categorization across 12 buckets, semantic search across every source, and full export. No credit card.
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