Looking for a PinClicks Alternative? Read This First

If you are here, you have probably already decided something is not working — either the price stopped matching the use, or you went looking for a number the tool would not give you.

Both are fine reasons to look around.

Neither is a reason to switch on the strength of a comparison table.

So this is not a table.

I am not going to tell you what PinClicks costs this month or which features it shipped last week, because I do not track their product and I would be guessing — and a guess with a competitor’s name on it is worse than no page at all.

They have a pricing page; it is the authority on them, not me.

What I can do is tell you the four questions that actually decide this, what our answers are, and how to test any of it without paying anybody a penny.

The four questions that decide it

Ask these of every tool on your shortlist, including the one you are already paying for.

Most comparison posts skip straight to feature counts, and feature counts are the least useful thing on the page.

1. Where does the demand number come from?

This is the one that matters most and gets asked least.

Pinterest does not publish per-keyword search volume to anybody — not to us, not to any tool you can buy.

So when something shows you a monthly number, the honest question is what it is a number of.

Ours is engagement: how much the pins currently ranking for a phrase are actually earning in saves.

That is a measurement of pins we crawled, and we say so on every report rather than dressing it up as a search figure.

Whatever you end up using, find out what the number is measuring before you plan a quarter around it.

2. Can you check the tool before you pay?

A trial that needs a card is a subscription you have to remember to cancel.

That is not the same thing as trying something.

Our keyword checker runs with no account at all — type a phrase and see what comes back.

If our data on your niche is thin, you will find that out in about fifteen seconds and you will not have given us an email address.

I would rather lose that visitor than take three days of their attention first.

The trial itself is three days and takes no card either.

3. Does it follow the keyword all the way to a result?

Research tools are good at the first step and often stop there.

You get a list of phrases, you write pins around them, and then nothing in the tool ever tells you whether it worked.

The parts that close that loop are rank tracking — where your pins actually sit for the phrases you chose, checked over time — and the pin-level read on what is winning that phrase now.

Ranking pins higher covers why the second measurement matters more than the first list.

4. What does it cost you when you make the pin?

This is the question nobody asks of a research tool, and it is the one that quietly costs the most.

You finish the research and then you still have to make the image, which is usually a second subscription somewhere else.

Our Pin Designer is free and unlimited on every plan, including during the trial — upload a photo, pick a template, crop to size, download.

You can use it without an account too.

It is not a bonus feature; it is half of what the product is for, and it is the half that is free.

What PinPinterest actually is

Short version, so you can decide whether to keep reading: it is a Pinterest research tool that measures demand from real pin engagement, tracks where your pins rank for the phrases you picked, reads competitor accounts, and includes a free pin maker so the research ends in something you can publish.

• Keyword Explorer — demand measured from the saves the ranking pins are earning, how contested the term looks, and the phrases the top pins are actually ranking for.
• Keyword rank tracking — the phrases you chose, checked over time, so a decision can be graded instead of remembered.
• Account intelligence — read any Pinterest account: followers, monthly views, what they post and how often, and who else is winning the same niche.
• Pin Score & analytics — which pins in a niche are earning, and what they have in common.
• Trends and alerts — what is moving in your categories, and a warning when a pin of yours stops getting traffic.
• Pin Designer — free and unlimited on every plan, and usable with no account.

Plans start at $9/month — the pricing page has all three.

The three-day trial takes no card, and there is no free tier — I would rather say that plainly here than have you discover it at the end of a signup form.

Where we are genuinely weaker

A comparison page that only lists strengths is an advert, and you can already tell the difference, so here are the three things I would want to know if I were you.

We do not schedule pins

At all, and it is not on the way.

If your shortlist includes tools that publish for you, we are not a replacement for that half of the job — you would be running us alongside a scheduler rather than instead of one.

What to look for in a scheduler is a separate question with separate answers.

Our index is deep in some niches and thin in others

We crawl continuously, but coverage is uneven, and a niche we have barely touched will give you a thin report.

This is exactly why the free checker exists and why it is the first thing I point people at: test your phrases, not the demo ones.

Fifteen seconds now beats a refund conversation later.

There is no board-level data

We hold a board count for an account and nothing about what is in the boards.

If your workflow is built on board-level analysis, that gap will annoy you, and I would rather you hit it here than in week two.

How to actually run the comparison

If you are going to do this properly, do it on your own phrases and give it an afternoon rather than a month.

1. Write down the ten phrases your account genuinely lives or dies on. Not the head term everybody in your niche chases — the ten you would defend.
2. Run all ten through the free checker, with no account. Note which ones come back thin.
3. Do the same on whatever else is on your shortlist, on the same ten phrases, on the same afternoon.
4. Compare what each tool says the number MEANS, not just which number is bigger. A larger figure from an estimate is not better data.
5. Only then start a trial, and start it with a question you want answered rather than a tour you want taken.

If step two goes badly for us, you have lost a quarter of an hour and you should keep what you have.

That is a genuinely acceptable outcome from my side and it is why the checker is free and ungated.

The honest bottom line

Switching tools is a cost, and most people underestimate it — the real bill is the week you spend rebuilding a workflow, not the monthly fee.

Switch when a specific thing is missing and you can name it.

"I want to see where my pins rank."

"I want the pin maker included."

"I want to know what the demand number is measuring."

Those are reasons.

"Something feels off" is not one yet.

Find the specific thing first; it might turn out the tool you have already does it.

And if the specific thing is one of ours, the way to find out is fifteen seconds on the checker, not three days of a trial.

Start there.