Free Pinterest Schedulers: How to Schedule Pins in 2026

The cheapest free Pinterest scheduler is Pinterest itself: business accounts can set a publish date on any Pin from the web or the app, at no cost. If you want to plan Pinterest alongside other networks, Buffer, Publer, Metricool and a few others include Pinterest on their free plans at the time of writing. One thing to say plainly: BroadcastPost does not publish to Pinterest yet, so this guide covers the native scheduler and the tools that do.

Why schedule Pins at all#

Pinterest works differently from Instagram or TikTok. Pins keep surfacing in search and home feeds for months, and a steady trickle of new Pins tends to do better than a burst on Sunday night followed by silence. Across published guidance from scheduling tools, evenings and weekends are the most common windows for engagement, which is exactly when most small business owners would rather not be pinning by hand. Scheduling lets you batch a week or a month of Pins in one sitting and drip them out at a sensible pace. If you are working out that pace, how often to post on Pinterest covers the numbers.

Before you pick a tool, get the Pin specs right. As of late 2026, a Pin title can be up to 100 characters and a description up to 500, and the standard image is 1000 x 1500 pixels (a 2:3 ratio); verify in-app, because limits change.

Option 1: Pinterest's built-in scheduler (free)#

Pinterest's own scheduler is free, needs no third-party access, and is enough for many small accounts. You need a business account (free to convert), and scheduling works in the web composer and in the app.

How to schedule Pins on Pinterest#

1. Log in to your Pinterest business account and click Create to start a new Pin.
2. Upload your image or video and add the title, description, link and alt text.
3. Choose the board the Pin should go to.
4. Instead of publishing right away, choose the option to publish at a later date and pick the date and time.
5. Confirm. The Pin appears in your scheduled list, where you can edit or delete it before it goes out.

The limitations are practical rather than technical. Pinterest caps how far ahead and how many Pins you can schedule (check the current numbers in the composer), each Pin is scheduled one at a time, and there is no shared calendar with your other networks. For an account posting a handful of Pins a week, that is fine. For a shop pinning every product across several boards, it gets slow.

Free Pinterest schedulers from third-party tools#

Every tool below supports Pinterest and offers a free plan at the time of writing, unless noted. Free-plan caps on accounts and posts change often, so check each pricing page for current free-plan limits.

Buffer#

Buffer's queue model suits Pinterest well: set your posting times once, then add Pins to the queue and let them fill the slots. The composer lets you pick a board and add the destination link. The free plan limits how many channels you connect and how many posts you can queue per channel, so it works for one Pinterest account and a week or two of Pins.

Publer#

Publer's free plan includes tools others keep for paid tiers, notably bulk scheduling from a CSV and recycling of evergreen posts. If you have a catalog of products or blog posts to pin repeatedly, that alone can justify the learning curve.

Metricool#

Metricool started as an analytics product and still leads with reporting, so it is the pick if you want to see which boards and Pins actually bring traffic. The planner covers Pinterest and most other networks.

Tailwind#

Tailwind has been a Pinterest-first tool for years. It offers interval scheduling (the same Pin to several boards, spaced days apart), board lists and a browser extension for pinning from any page. Whether the current free tier fits your volume is something to check on its pricing page.

Vista Social and Planable#

Both are broader suites that happen to include Pinterest. Vista Social's free plan is a limited version of a full product with an inbox and reports; Planable's free plan gives a capped total number of posts and is best used as an extended test of its preview and approval workflow.

Where BroadcastPost fits (and where it does not)#

BroadcastPost does not support Pinterest today, and we would rather say so than let you find out after signing up. It publishes to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit and Google Business Profile, with a queue, a calendar, best-time suggestions built from your own results and per-account analytics.

A common setup for a small business that lives on Pinterest and Instagram: use Pinterest's native scheduler for Pins, and BroadcastPost for everything else. The same batch of product photos can become Pins on Pinterest and posts on Instagram and Facebook in the same sitting; our guide on how to schedule Instagram posts shows the Instagram half. You can try BroadcastPost free for the networks it does support.

A simple weekly Pinterest workflow#

1. Batch the visuals. Make five to ten Pin images at 1000 x 1500 in one sitting. Reuse one layout with different photos and titles.
2. Write titles and descriptions in a spreadsheet. Keep titles under 100 characters, front-load the keyword, and write descriptions as a helpful sentence or two, not a hashtag list.
3. Schedule across the week. Spread Pins over different days and boards rather than posting all at once. Evenings and weekends are worth including in your test; our guide to the best time to post on Pinterest explains the patterns.
4. Add the link. Every Pin should point somewhere useful: a product, a post, a sign-up page.
5. Check monthly. Note which Pins earned saves and outbound clicks, and make more of those.

If you also schedule Stories or posts on other networks, the beginner's guide to scheduling social media posts covers the general approach, how to schedule Instagram Stories handles the Story-specific rules, and how to schedule tweets covers X, which, like Pinterest, needs its own tool.

Key takeaways#

• Pinterest's built-in scheduler is free and enough for a few Pins a week; third-party tools add bulk scheduling and a shared calendar.
• Buffer, Publer, Metricool, Vista Social and Planable include Pinterest on free plans at the time of writing; Tailwind is the Pinterest specialist, so check its current free tier.
• BroadcastPost does not publish to Pinterest yet; pair the native scheduler with BroadcastPost for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and the rest.
• Use the current Pin specs (title 100, description 500, image 1000 x 1500 as of late 2026) and spread Pins across the week.