Pinterest image sizes and Pin specs

Pinterest is a vertical, mostly mobile feed, and its spec pages recommend shapes to match. These are the recommendations Pinterest publishes; it doesn't give a separate size for board covers or profile pictures on these pages.

• Pinterest warns that images with a ratio beyond 2:3 may get cut off in people's feeds.
• Its performance guide also recommends 2:3 for images, and for videos of 15 to 60 seconds.

Sources: Pinterest Business Help: Pinterest product specs, checked 14 October 2026; Pinterest Help: Review Pin specs, checked 14 October 2026; Pinterest Business Help: Pin performance and distribution, checked 14 October 2026

From Pinterest's Pin specs page for organic image Pins:

Sources: Pinterest Help: Review Pin specs, checked 14 October 2026; Pinterest Business: Creative best practices, checked 14 October 2026; Pinterest Business Help: Add alternative text to your Pins, checked 14 October 2026

Pinterest publishes two sets of video numbers. The organic Pin specs page applies to videos you post yourself; the ad specs page covers standard-width video Pins and ads, and allows longer files.

Sources: Pinterest Help: Review Pin specs, checked 14 October 2026; Pinterest Business Help: Pinterest product specs, checked 14 October 2026

Parts of a Pin can be covered by buttons and labels, depending on the device. Pinterest's specs give safe zones for both image and video Pins: keep text, logos and other key elements inside these margins so they stay visible everywhere.

• The bottom margin is the largest, so don't put your headline or call to action at the very bottom of a full-screen Pin.
• On image Pins with a white or near-white background, Pinterest adds a faint dark layer in light mode (black at 4% opacity). Black backgrounds get a faint white layer in dark mode (white at 10%). It doesn't apply to video.

Source: Pinterest Help: Review Pin specs, checked 14 October 2026

Pinterest handles several images differently depending on where you create the Pin. On the web you can upload up to 10 images at once, but each becomes a separate Pin. In the app, selecting several photos or videos stitches them into a single video Pin. Swipeable carousels with 2 to 5 images appear in Pinterest's ad specs, in 1:1 or 2:3, with each image up to 20 MB.

Sources: Pinterest Help: Create a Pin from an image or video, checked 14 October 2026; Pinterest Business Help: Pinterest product specs, checked 14 October 2026

Yes, within limits. When you create a Pin on a computer, click the pencil icon at the top right of the image or video to edit it: you can add text and change the aspect ratio there before you publish. In the app, the editing menu at the bottom of the screen adds text and other effects.

Do this before you publish. Once a Pin is live, Pinterest lets you edit its title, description, link and board, but not the image or video itself, so a badly cropped Pin has to be deleted and made again.

Sources: Pinterest Help: Create a Pin from an image or video, checked 14 October 2026; Pinterest Help: Edit or delete a Pin, checked 14 October 2026

Most people scroll Pinterest on a phone, where a Pin is only a few centimetres wide. Pinterest's creative guidance suggests a simple layout:

1. Start at 1000 x 1500 pixels, or 1080 x 1920 for full-screen video.
2. Put the main visual in the middle, key words near the top and extra detail lower down, inside the safe zones.
3. Make your logo or brand name visible without letting it take over.
4. Use sharp, well-lit, high-resolution images. Pinterest warns that blurry or distorted images make an idea hard to see.
5. Keep any text on the image short enough to read at phone size.

Sources: Pinterest Business: Creative best practices, checked 14 October 2026; Pinterest Business Help: Pin performance and distribution, checked 14 October 2026; Pinterest Help: Review Pin specs, checked 14 October 2026

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