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Free and excellent for personal inspiration, planning, and visual discovery.
Comparison
Pinterest vs Milanote
Pinterest and Milanote both land on Depends.
Milanote
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Buy it if you're a designer, writer, or small creative team that plans visually with images, notes, and mood boards.
| Compare | Milanote | |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Visual planners (home, weddings, style) | Designers and creative studios |
| Who it's not for | Anyone buying a CRM or work tool . this is a mood board, not business software | Teams needing task management, deadlines, or Gantt views |
| Privacy | No major open CVEs on the core platform found; risks center on a 2024 claimed data leak and vulnerable third-party plugins.11 | No known public breaches; Milanote publishes security practices, a vulnerability disclosure policy, and a DPA, but scammers abuse its links to host phishing pages. |
| Support quality | Users plead for attention; Trustpilot service complaints | No evidence found |
| Public sentiment | Polarized: app-store and Capterra reviewers love it for inspiration, while many Reddit and Trustpilot users complain about a degraded feed, collapsing organic reach, and ignored feedback.⁶ | Users love the visual, easy feel; the recurring gripe is the pricing structure.15 |
| Biggest gotcha | Organic reach can collapse without warning; businesses report sudden traffic loss with no appeal path.⁵ | Free tier is limited; growing boards means paying |
Pick Pinterest when
- Visual planners (home, weddings, style)
- Recipe and DIY collectors
- Ecommerce brands with strong product photos
- Designers building mood boards
When Pinterest is not a fit
- Anyone buying a CRM or work tool . this is a mood board, not business software
- Creators needing dependable organic reach to pay rent
- Privacy-sensitive users wary after a 2024 data-leak claim
- Ad-averse browsers . sponsored pins are heavily woven in
Pick Milanote when
- Designers and creative studios
- Mood boards and visual briefs
- Writers and researchers organizing ideas
- Solo creators planning projects
When Milanote is not a fit
- Teams needing task management, deadlines, or Gantt views
- Big orgs wanting real-time workshop whiteboarding . Miro fits better
- Self-hosters and data-control purists
- Anyone wanting a structured notes base with backlinks and markdown
Sources
- Pinterest Reviews . G2g2.comreview
- Pinterest Reviews . Capterracapterra.comreview
- Pinterest Customer Service Reviews . Trustpilottrustpilot.comreview
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- Pinterest ruined my business . Redditreddit.comreview
- Pinterest Reviews . App Storeapps.apple.comreview
- Get Started With a Pinterest Business Accountbusiness.pinterest.comofficial
- Pinterest Analytics . Pinterest Business Helphelp.pinterest.comofficial
news
- Essential Pinterest Statistics . Sprout Socialsproutsocial.comnews
- Pinterest Data Leak . Cybersecurity Newscybersecuritynews.comsecurity
- CVE-2025-58248 . NVDnvd.nist.govsecurity
- Pinterest . Crunchbasecrunchbase.comnews
- Plans & pricing . Milanotemilanote.comofficial
- Milanote Reviews . G2g2.comreview
- Milanote . Capterracapterra.comreview