Pinterest Image Search
Search Pinterest with a picture, in Pinterest’s own steps for your phone or computer. Or paste a Pin’s picture address and search it on Google Lens, TinEye and Yandex, to find who made it and where else it is posted.
On a computer, at pinterest.com
3 steps with Pinterest’s camera search
- Log in to your Pinterest account and click on the lens icon in the search bar.
- Upload an image in the search bar, then click the chevron-right icon.
- You can also select from your previously uploaded images.
Pinterest’s own steps, from Pinterest Help, Pinterest Lens: Lens lets you discover ideas inspired by anything you point your Pinterest camera at.
Checked 3 October 2026.
Find who made a Pin’s picture
On a Pin: press and hold the picture (phone) or right-click it (computer) and copy the image address.
Search inside a Pin you are looking at (in the app)
- Tap on a Pin to open it in closeup, then tap anywhere on the Pin to search the image
- Tap on a Pin to open it in closeup, then tap the magnifying-glass-sparkle icon
- Tap and hold a Pin in your home feed or boards, then drag and select the magnifying-glass-sparkle icon
Note that visual search features are not available on ads or collage Pins at this time. (Pinterest Help, Use visual search features)
The picture address you paste stays on this page until you open a search: then it goes to that search engine, the way it would if you pasted it there. Nothing is sent from here before you click.
Quick answer: To search Pinterest by image, tap the camera icon in the Pinterest app’s search bar and take or choose a photo. On a computer, log in at pinterest.com, click the lens icon in the search bar and upload the picture. Pinterest calls this Lens. To find where a Pin’s picture came from, copy its image address and paste it above: the buttons search it on Google Lens, TinEye and Yandex.
How to use it
- Pick what you are searching on: a computer, an Android phone, or an iPhone or iPad. The tool picks your device for you when it can.
- Follow Pinterest’s steps. They are Pinterest’s own, from its help article on Lens, with the date we checked them.
- To find who made a picture, copy the picture’s address from the Pin and paste it into the box. Then open it in Google Lens, TinEye or Yandex.
Searching Pinterest with a picture
Pinterest’s help describes Lens this way: Lens lets you discover ideas inspired by anything you point your Pinterest camera at.
In the app you point the camera at something, or pick a photo from your camera roll. On a computer you upload a picture. Pinterest then shows Pins that look like it: a plant you can’t name, a chair you want to find again, a recipe from one photo of the dish.
Inside a Pin you are already looking at, you can search one part of the picture. In the app, open the Pin and tap the picture, or tap the magnifying glass with sparkles, then drag the corners to choose the part you want. Pinterest notes that this visual search
does not work on ads or collage Pins.
Finding where a Pin’s picture came from
Pinterest’s own image search finds similar Pins, not the person who made the picture. For that, search the picture across the web:
- Copy the image address. On a computer, right-click the picture on the Pin and choose “Copy Image Address”. On a phone in a browser, press and hold the picture. A Pin’s picture address starts with
https://i.pinimg.com/. - Paste it above and pick a search. Each of the three searches its own index of the web, so one often finds copies another misses. TinEye can sort what it finds by date, which helps you find the first copy.
- Look for the earliest, largest copy. That is usually the maker’s: a photographer’s site, a shop or a blog. Then ask them before you use it (our image copyright checker quotes Pinterest’s own Terms on that).
A small copy finds fewer matches, so when you paste a small Pinterest copy (such as a 236x address from the grid), the tool searches Pinterest’s larger 736x copy of the same picture instead.