Paste the link to an animated Pin and PinDown returns the original GIF file, full quality and full loop, ready to save to your device.
Animated Pins on Pinterest play as a looping preview inside the feed, but there's no direct "save GIF" option in the app — long-pressing usually only grabs a single still frame, not the animation. To get the actual moving file, you need the source Pinterest already has stored, which is exactly what PinDown's Pinterest GIF downloader pulls for you.
Paste a link to an animated Pin and PinDown loads the public Pin page, finds the animated file Pinterest has embedded — either a true GIF or the MP4-based animation Pinterest sometimes uses internally for smoother looping — and streams the highest-quality version straight from Pinterest's CDN to your device. No frames are dropped, no extra compression is applied, and nothing is stored on our end.
Short looping clips uploaded directly as .gif files by the original creator.
Individual pages within a multi-page Idea Pin that use looping motion.
Short auto-looping clips Pinterest displays like a GIF in the feed.
Shortened share links to any of the above resolve the same way as full URLs.
Some "GIF" Pins are technically stored by Pinterest as a small looping MP4 for smoother playback and a smaller file size — this is standard practice across most platforms now, not something specific to PinDown. When a true .gif file exists, PinDown returns that; when Pinterest only has the MP4-based version, you'll get that instead, and it will still loop and play the same way a GIF does in any modern browser, gallery app, or messaging app.
Open the animated Pin in the Pinterest app, tap the share icon, and choose "Copy Link." On desktop, copy the page URL from your browser's address bar while viewing the Pin. Paste either one into the box above.
Yes — PinDown returns the exact animated file Pinterest stores, so the loop, timing, and quality match what you see in the feed.
Some animated Pins are stored by Pinterest as a compact looping MP4 rather than a traditional GIF file. It still plays and loops the same way — PinDown always returns whichever format Pinterest has on file.
Yes — paste the link to that specific page of the Idea Pin and it resolves the same way as a standalone Pin.
Use the image downloader for photos or the video downloader for standard video Pins — or paste any link on the homepage and PinDown detects the type automatically.
Paste a Pinterest GIF link above and get the file in a few seconds.