Pinterest vs Crate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Discover endless inspiration for fashion, home design, and more. Save ideas to personalized boards, shop styles you love, and learn new skills. Unlock billions of ideas for everyday life.
- Discover inspiration
- Shop styles
- Learn new things
- Create boards
- Save Pins
- Make collages
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Pinterest is a place of endless possibilities. You can: - Discover everyday inspiration - Shop styles you love - Try and learn something new Create boards, save Pins and make collages of all your inspiration. Unlock billions of ideas, from fashion tips and easy recipes to DIY projects and fresh ways to redo your space. Creating the life you love? It's Possible.
Crate
This app offers personalized content discovery by learning your tastes. It curates recommendations based on your connected accounts, saved links, and direct requests, helping you find new content and understand your interests.
- Personalized content feed
- Taste ID building
- Account linking
- Content saving
- Interest analysis
- Natural organization with collections
- Content sharing
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The best place to discover new content, because it knows your taste. Most apps show the same trending content to everyone. Feeds get noisy, search gets manual, and finding what you actually like becomes work. Crate is built for discovery that feels personal. Crate creates a living model of what you’re into, so recommendations get more relevant the more you use it. Build your Taste ID in three ways: - Connect your accounts: Link platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, or X so Crate can learn what you already follow and engage with. - Save content you love: Add links from anywhere to teach Crate your taste in real time. - Ask for what you want to find: Talk to Crate about what you’re looking for, and get recommendations that feel relevant to you. What you can do in Crate: - Discover new content that matches you: A personalized feed that stays fresh without feeling random. - Crate curates what you need before you do: Crate predicts what you will want next and delivers a curated collection. Into Japan and cozy food? Get ramen ideas and nearby spots curated for you. - Understand your interests: See the themes and clusters behind your Taste ID as it evolves over time. - Turn “saved” into “more like this”: Every save improves what you see next. - Organize naturally with collections: Keep ideas grouped by trips, routines, projects, and deep dives. - Share what you’re into: Send collections to friends or collaborators. Download Crate and make discovery effortless!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Crate at 85% against Pinterest's 35%. Crate also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 12) and ads (none vs shown). Pinterest's advantage is ratings volume (5.8M vs 42) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pinterest sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Crate asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pinterest holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pinterest has 5.8M ratings behind it against 42, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of Pinterest's written reviews are positive against 85% of Crate's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pinterest ships an update weekly, Crate every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crate | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5.8M ratings) — better | 4.6 (42 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 34.6% of reviews | 85.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.8M — better | 42 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #2 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 406 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pinterest, Inc. | Crate, Inc. |
Customer experience
Crate
Bugs and requests
Reported bugs
5 issues- Pins not loading or showing up as blank squares
- Issues with saving pins to boards
- Notifications not working properly
- Scrolling and navigation glitches
- Inconsistent behavior across mobile and web versions
Requested features
5 requests- Restore ability to search and view boards by name
- Bring back photo comments and 'try' feature
- Add option to disable video autoplay and sound
- Improve personalization and relevance of recommended content
- Provide better customer support and communication
Crate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
- Funds for Ads$5.79
- Funds for Ads$11.49
- Funds for Ads$17.49
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- Funds for Ads$23.49
- Funds for Ads$35.00
- Funds for Ads$41.00
- Funds for Ads$70.00
- Funds for Ads2 variants$82.00
- Funds for Ads2 variants$163.99
- Funds for Ads$329.00
Crate
No in-app purchases
