How do I connect Pinterest and add my boards to a Hub?

Last verified 12 November 2026
Features Pinterest Integrations Hubs Imports
Read time 3 min
Plans Core, Growth
The short version

Open Business Center, select Connected apps, and select Connect on the Pinterest card. Then open a Hub's Hub Library, open Pinterest, and select Link from Pinterest to add boards or pins. Vai also learns your taste from your boards. Available on the Core plan and the Growth plan.

Connect Pinterest to bring your boards and pins into a client’s Hub, next to the rest of the project. Pins stay on Pinterest and update live.

Before you start

Pinterest is on the Core plan and the Growth plan. To link boards to a Hub, you need edit access to that Hub.

Connect Pinterest

  1. Open Connected apps. Open Business Center from the rail, then select Connected apps.
  2. Connect Pinterest. On the Pinterest card, select Connect, then sign in to Pinterest and allow access. Back in Connected apps, the card shows your Connected account.

You can also connect from a Hub: open the Hub’s Pinterest folder and select Connect Pinterest.

Add boards and pins to a Hub

  1. Open the Hub’s Pinterest folder. Open the Hub, select Hub Library, then select Pinterest.
  2. Choose boards or pins. Select Link from Pinterest. Tick the boards you want, or open a board to tick single pins. Boards already in the Hub show Linked.
  3. Link them. Select the Link button, which counts the boards and pins you chose. They appear in the Hub’s Pinterest folder.

Open a linked board to browse its pins. To remove one from the Hub, select More actions, then Unlink from Hub. Open in Pinterest opens it on Pinterest.

What Vai learns from your boards

When you first connect, Vai reads a sample of your boards and pins, private boards included. It adds what it finds about your taste to your profile: the colors, materials, compositions, moods, and references you return to. Vai doesn’t keep your pins, and it never quotes a private board’s name or text. Reconnecting doesn’t send your pins again.

You can see and correct what Vai knows in About me. See How do I teach Vai about me?

Disconnect Pinterest

Select Disconnect on the Pinterest card in Connected apps, or in a Hub’s Pinterest folder. Disconnecting also unlinks the boards and pins you linked into Hubs.

If something goes wrong

  • Connect opens a plan screen. You’re on the Free plan. Connected apps shows “Google and Pinterest integrations are available only on the Core and Growth plans.” See How do I change my plan?
  • You see “Failed to start Pinterest connection”. Select Connect again.
  • Link from Pinterest is greyed out. You have view-only access to the Hub, or the Hub is archived.
  • The folder shows “Couldn’t load Pinterest”. Use the retry button on the message.
  • A board shows “(unavailable)”. Visualist can’t read it on Pinterest any more. If you see “This board is no longer available. The person who linked it has disconnected Pinterest.”, ask them to reconnect and link it again, or unlink it from the Hub.
Good to know

If you connected Pinterest and then moved to the Free plan, Pinterest stays connected, but you can’t use the connection until you’re back on the Core plan or the Growth plan.

To bring Google Drive files into a Hub as well, see How do I connect Google Drive?

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