7 Juicy Pinterest Alternatives for Creatives & Designers
Need design inspiration for your next creative project? want to see some really thought provoking and intriguing designs? not finding inspiration on pinterest? I have got you covered.
If you are from the design industry or a collector like me then you already know about Pinterest. It has been the go-to website when it comes to finding inspiration or making mood boards.
Pinterest has a huge collection of images and collections to keep the creative juices flowing by exploring similar content types.
But let's agree its not enough it kind of feels saturated and crowded sometimes.
To help my fellow readers get better and expand their horizons here are 7 alternatives to Pinterest which offer amazing features and a vast collection of visuals to get inspired from.
Top 7 alternative to Pinterest
1.Cosmos.so
Ever since I discovered COSMOS I am just stunned to see the landing page of the website. "It captures your imagination of you floating in an expanded space which is infinitely filled with visuals. "
Don't worry they have features to easily navigate the website and find relevent visuals.
It also offers a Chrome extension to save artifacts such as images, paragraphs or even website URLs from all around the web with just a click.
2.Same.energy
As teh description of the website says "It's a visual search engine" it is actully one. You can search by text or upload an image to find similar looking images. It is good if you are looking for inspiration.
Well it is a search engine like google images or bing images so fundamentally it is gatering images from different sources.
You can see the source of the image by right-clicking on the image. Additionally, you can save the image in your collection by creating an account and logging in.
P.S. While I am writing this article it seems to me that the project is under the beta version. There are some articles suggesting that the project is no longer being updated. But anyways you can find some good visuals for your next project here just copy can paste in your mood board.
3.Are.na
By the sound of it, Arena focuses more on long term knowledge & content organization.
You can see the content only after logging in. they have a free guest plan to explore the content inside.
There are 2 ways to explore the content in are.na First, CHANNELS which is content curated by other users and the second way is BLOCKS which filters the content by its type i.e. images, test, link, embed, and attachment.
Are.na is a rabbit hole to find random and mind-stimulating visuals curated by other users.
4.Mix.com
Mix is another website which is full of visuals and videos. Mix feels much like shorts/ reels/ isntagram for creatives.
Instead of a mosaic layout of images like pinterest, cosmos, are.na Mix image/ video one at a time just like you see a youtube short or a instagram reel.
To filter out something specific you can use tags, or just search the topic. And explore the images related to the tag in a mosiac layout.
5.Sav.ee
Save is more like Pinterest but it's limited as in you have to upgrade to a paid tier to explore and save unlimited.
6.Design Inspiration
If you are looking for inspirations based on a color palette, design inspirations do a good job of showing content based on the color palette. Additionally, you can explore the visuals based on categories such as typography, packaging, website, 3d, animation, illustrations, etc.
7.Godly.Website
If you are a web designer you must check out this website. It is a collection of some of the best website designs. The content is curated by the creator and is updated regularly. Believe me, if appreciate storytelling via website design check out this.
Bonus: Check out https://public.work/ if you are looking for retro creative commons work.
Did you find these alternatives useful? Share your thoughts in comments.