Pin Generator - Automated Pinterest Marketing Reviews

Pin Generator is useful, no doubt.

But, WOW this thing is buggy.

There is absolutely no way the developer uses this on a daily basis... or ever, really, if he is willing to accept how buggy it is, the crazy number of bugs, and how long they have been going on for. 0% chance.

Designing or editing Pins is a MASSIVE PAIN.

Pin Titles and Descriptions repeat themselves over and over, even when they are meant to all be different.

Pin scheduled "Auto Shuffle" that is meant to be smart and space things out based on title/URL/board/etc, as per Pinterest rules DOES NOT WORK - It CONSTANTLY puts the same Pins together, the same Pin titles together, and so on. Again, a MASSIVE PAIN, and one that could get you banned from Pinterest.

Pins change themselves, text changes back, image swapping is a pain, colours don't stick, AI titles repeat themselves over and over.

On top of this, the AI writing does not match titles of pins to content of the pin description.

Pin descriptions are too long and get truncated.

Changing pin titles is a pain, and resizing is a pain too.

AI Pin Descriptions don't really cover keywords well.

Also, there are some key missing things that would really help:-

You cannot group pins to only go out in a certain window. All your pins get put in the same list/schedule. So if you have timely pins that should only go out over a 1-3 month period, for example for a particular season, you cannot do that. You should be able to generate Pins, and choose for that set only to all go out between certain dates. This is such an obvious feature, it's frustrating the developer has not done this.

There is also no way to add new Pins you generate in to the schedule without messing with the schedule you have currently set. So you can't just, say, randomly insert new Pins between the ones you already have scheduled.

SUMMARY

Don't get me wrong - this program is really useful, but it could be SO MUCH BETTER! It's also ICNREDIBLY frustrating to use, that I never want to use it. It's just the results are good if you are willing to spend way longer than you should dealing with its bugs.

Pin Generator was my first AppSumo purchase, and what a find! It makes creating and scheduling Pinterest pins insanely fast and easy. Just enter your post or product's URL, and Pin Generator will pull the images, title and data to create as many pins as you need. You can change the pin templates, colors, fonts, or even import your own. Since buying Pin Generator in 2023, it's consistently been improving; the developer is very responsive and always adding & updating the app. Like anything, there's a small learning curve, but not too bad - and the YouTube training videos help. Highly recommend!

It’s very easy to make pins. I had my eye on this tool the first time i seen it on appsumo.

I can see this having use if you've never used Pinterest or have limited experience in marketing, but the output of these templates is not great, and I think you'd quickly find yourself designing your own in either Canva or using the new Google image. As someone who's been in marketing for a long time, I cannot introduce this to my clients, but maybe that's not their target market. Would bump up the taco rating if they improved their templates drastically, as it all looks a bit early 2000s.

There are several things on my wish list for this BUT the time saving is amazing. I've learned to add more images to my blog posts to get the pins I want. Since I have a visual product, that helps my posts, too.

I love the SVG import from Canva (beta). It has many items that won't work. Layered templates with the product image behind, doesn't really work. But most do.

There are a lot of good templates to favorite and I can create 30 pins faster than 10 in Canva.

I am very happy to have this. Would love to have it post to Instagram in the future. :-)