Piny brings the Pinterest experience to Windows 10

While many companies take released apps to the Microsoft Shop, some big names are still missing. Pinterest is withal to release an official app for Windows ten, merely luckily, as they often exercise for Windows 10 users, a third-party developer has stepped up.

Pinterest allows you to browse epitome boards and create your ain. Y'all can check out practice it yourself projects, makeup tutorials, inspirational quotes and more. It's a great way to get inspiration for projects and share your own with others.

Piny is an fantabulous style to use Pinterest on Windows 10, providing a by and large total feature set and an attractive pattern.

The app is available for free on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile, though if you want to remove ads, you'll have to pay $1.99.

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Beating the web

The first major step of any third-party app is to replicate the experience of a service, being as close to feature parity as possible with beginning-party apps on other platforms and the experience of the service on the web. The next step is to go beyond that and enhance the service. Piny does a expert job completing both of these steps.

The app has the majority of features that Pinterest provides, including browsing boards, messaging, managing boards, and uploading photos. It also has some nice additions such equally a nighttime theme and support for multiple accounts.

The best part well-nigh Piny is that it scales well. That might non seem like a big deal but if yous look at the photo above y'all tin see the frustration of using Pinterest on the web. When you resize a window in Border, Pinterest doesn't move any content on the screen, information technology merely chops it off. Conversely, Piny moves elements to fit the screen, which results in a better experience on PCs, tablets, and phones. Piny too doesn't let elements such every bit messages hover over the page, which the web version does. These are trivial things that Pinterest should probably do on its own, but it doesn't, and Piny does. That'due south one indicate to Piny.

Unfortunate ads

The only real downside to Piny is its arroyo to ads. I understand that developers demand to make money, I regularly purchase apps and desire the Microsoft Store to have high quality apps, which cost money to create and maintain, but generally, apps similar this accept an advertizement-based version which has basic features and and so paying to upgrade removes advertisements and also gets y'all more than features. Paying to upgrade Piny seems to simply remove the ads.

This isn't horrible, but information technology would exist prissy to become a little somethinge extra for paying for the app other than removing a big rectangular ad from the corner of the application.

Overall thoughts

Piny isn't a basis breaking app that provides a libary of new features to a service similar myTube! does for YouTube. Instead, Piny fixes some of the issues that Pinterest has, enhances them with things similar a nighttime theme, and does all this while all the same providing a characteristic-rich feel.

Pros

Scales well on unlike screen sizes
Simple design
Feature-rich third party customer

Cons

Paying to upgrade just removes ads

It'south peachy to run into an app similar Piny in the Microsoft Store because Pinterest is a major social media platform that notwithstanding lacks an official app for Windows.

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