Pinboard puts your favourite photos and sticky notes onto your Mac’s desktop: above the wallpaper, below every window.
Coming soon for Mac Not out yet, but you can try Peek below ↓Pinboard is a Mac app, coming soon. Send yourself the link to check back on your Mac.
Pins live on the desktop, so they never cover your work. Press ⌃⌥P to lift them above every window, and again to drop them back.
Resize and rotate pins like in a design app. Double-click to crop: pan and zoom the photo inside its frame. Add a caption, then hold it all in place with a thumbtack, washi tape or a paperclip.
Sticky notes in five paper colours, written in handwriting, sans or serif. Make words bold, italic or underlined, type - for a bullet or [ ] for a checklist, then tick things off right on your desktop.
Keep separate sets of pins for work, a trip or a moodboard, and switch in a click from the menu bar, or with ⌃⌥B and ⌃⌥1–9. Each board remembers where every pin goes.
Moved, cropped or removed something by mistake? ⌘Z brings it back, step by step.
Apple Photos, Finder, the clipboard or drag & drop, even big batches at once.
Never goes online. No account, no tracking. Your photos are copied to your Mac and stay there.
Every feature is free: no ads, no account, no tracking. If Pinboard makes your desktop a little nicer, a tip helps pay Apple’s developer fee and keeps updates coming.
☕ Leave a tip on Ko-fiFree download, coming soon. Works on Apple silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 26 Tahoe or later.
Open Pinboard.dmg. A window with Pinboard and your Applications folder appears.
Drag Pinboard onto the Applications folder in that window.
Pinboard isn’t notarized by Apple yet, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
Just once, promise.
Pinboard appears as 📌 in the menu bar. Click it to add your first photo.
Pinboard is a Mac app, coming soon. Send yourself the link to check back on your Mac.
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Yes, free, with every feature included. If you’d like to say thanks, there’s a tip jar on Ko-fi ☕
That’s on purpose: pins sit on the desktop, so they never cover your work. Press ⌃⌥P to peek at them above all windows, or use Show Desktop (spread your thumb and three fingers on the trackpad, or press Fn+F11).
Pinboard keeps its own copies in ~/Library/Application Support/Pinboard, so pins don’t depend on your Photos library, along with daily backups of your boards. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Pinboard isn’t notarized by Apple yet. Allow it once under System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway. A notarized version will follow.
Quit Pinboard from its menu bar panel, then move Pinboard.app to the Trash. To remove your pins too, delete ~/Library/Application Support/Pinboard.
Never. It just covers the boring bits with nicer ones.