Best Self Hosted Alternatives to Pintree

Pinry is a Pinterest-like tiling board for organizing and browsing images, videos, and web pages. It focuses on fast visual skimming, tagging, and sharing, and can be run as a multi-user service with public or private boards.

Key Features

• Tiling grid interface for quick browsing of saved items (pins)
• Save and preview images, videos, and web pages, including fetching remote images
• Tagging system and search by tags
• Public and private boards, with multi-user support
• REST API support via Django REST Framework
• Browser extensions for saving content
• Internationalization (i18n) support
• Docker-friendly deployment with official images

Use Cases

• Personal media and link bookmarking with tags and fast visual browsing
• Team inspiration or reference boards with shared, searchable collections
• Self-hosted alternative to commercial pinboard services for archiving web visuals

Limitations and Considerations

• Feature set is focused on pinboard-style organizing; it is not a full digital asset management suite

Pinry is well suited for individuals or small teams that want a clean, self-managed visual bookmarking workflow. Its tagging, search, and API support make it flexible for integrations and custom frontends.