Free, private, open source

No-fuss Pinterest, on your own computer.

See a picture you love anywhere on the web. One click and it is on your board. Arrange it, tag it, find it later. Nothing leaves your machine.

The playground is shared and wipes itself every few hours. Your own copy is private, and free forever.

roomswith good light
Red arches by the sea
Lighthouse river in pixels
Leopard in the current
Satin bow
Sunday daybed
Lily at night
Strawberry candy
What it does

Everything you pin, none of the feed.

Clip from anywhere

Hover any image in Chrome or Edge and a small Save button appears. It lands on your board at the best size the page has.

Boards with no grid to fight

Drop pictures anywhere. Tilt them, crop them, add notes, frames and sketches. Folders keep the boards tidy.

Finds things for you

Search titles, tags and collections. On a Mac it also reads what is in each picture, so untagged ones still turn up.

Yours, entirely

One folder: a database file and your originals. No account, no cloud. Export everything as a ZIP any time.

Run it

Two minutes, start to finish.

Any computer with Python 3.10 or newer. No account, no database server.

  1. Download the latest release and unzip it, or git clone the repository.
  2. Start it. On a Mac, double-click Open Visual Brain.command. Anywhere else:
    python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
    python3 server.py
  3. Add the extension. Open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, choose Load unpacked, and pick the extension folder. Paste the pairing key from the board's Extension setup.

Start a board in under a minute.

Open the playground to feel how it works, then keep your own private copy.