Bulk-download Pinterest boards without the clicking

Bulk-download an entire Pinterest board with Unpinned. A big board arrives as one ZIP of full-resolution files in a few minutes, with every section kept as a folder.

"Download all pins from a board" is one action, not a loop

You might call this bulk downloading, saving every pin, or grabbing the whole board. In Unpinned it is one click. Open the board in Chrome, Firefox or Edge, click Unpinned in the bottom-right corner of the page, then Download. The extension pages through the board for you and hands back one ZIP with every image and video at the size Pinterest stores. Sections come down as subfolders. A pin saved to the board twice comes down once.

There is no per-pin step and no list of URLs to paste. The only limit is the free plan's 50 pins a day; Pro removes it. If you have never done it, the step-by-step guide to downloading a whole board takes about two minutes to read. The rest of this post is about why I start every project that way.

One of the weirdest parts of being a designer is imagining all the edge cases before you've even made something. What screen size is this for? What if someone uses it in landscape mode? What if the poster needs to scale to A0?

All good questions. But not helpful at the start.

Start with a whole board, not one pin at a time

I start with a moodboard. And not one I built pin-by-pin for 3 hours. I download an entire Pinterest board in one click using a Pinterest bulk downloader Unpinned. That's what actually gets things moving.

Before I even open Figma, I collect references. Atmosphere. Layouts. Weight. Contrast. A board that already captures a vibe.

Then I grab the whole thing in one click, and suddenly I have all of it offline, ready to remix, slice, and play with.

At this stage you are just trying to get moving.

Too many designers collect inspo pin-by-pin. It's slow and disconnected, and it is easy to forget why you saved something in the first place.

Then make things up

Then I start making stuff up.

Fake headlines. Imaginary products. Made-up stats. Doesn't matter. Or better said for me, it means giving myself permission to play.

I'll ask ChatGPT to generate fake headlines, imaginary product features, or even made-up statistics, anything that gives me a creative spark and a reason to start designing. From there, I just start building.

One time that led to an app for a wearable mood ring for plants. (Don't ask.)

None of it needs to be functional or polished. That's not the point. What matters is the freedom to explore without constraints, to experiment with tone, layout, and style. You are discovering what a brand could look like if it lived out in the real world.

Because I'm not worried about specs, breakpoints, or actual content yet, I'm free to experiment.

It can look like a Dribbble post, or it can just be pretty for its own sake.

Treat it as a playground.

Why play beats research at the start

Especially when working with smaller clients, this kind of exploration often leads to more honest conversations. You can show someone a direction and talk about how it feels before locking into real structure or content.

Yes, research is important, and so is logic.

But I'd argue that play and exploration are just as important in the early stages maybe more especially for brands that haven't found their voice yet.

Once the vibe is nailed, then I go back and refine. I think about real users, real breakpoints, real content flows. But that only works once the design has a spine.

This creation-first mindset isn't always the norm. But for small and mid-size projects?

It gets things moving fast. And that's usually the hardest part.

Bulk downloading vs. dragging pins one by one

Designers waste time dragging single pins into chaotic moodboards. It's slow, fragmented, and hard to use once you're in flow.

A Pinterest Board Downloader like Unpinned fixes that. I get full boards instantly, with everything I need to start. No browser tabs, no screen grabs, and no Pinterest rabbit holes mid-project. Try the Pinterest board downloader if you want the product page, read the step-by-step guide to downloading a whole board, or flip Pinterest into dark mode first if you collect at night.