11 Pinterest Apps And Tools To Enhance Your Pinning Experience

Now that your Pinterest page has been revamped (thanks to the new profile pages the site rolled out on March 16), you might as well brush up on your pinning skills, too.

We've compiled some of the best applications, websites, and browser extensions to help both beginners and pros get the most out of the web's hottest new photo-sharing site.

Flip through the slideshow below for tools that will help you find more "Pinteresting" images, measure your influence on Pinterest, streamline control of your Pinterest page, and more. For more on Pinterest, check out our picks for the 27 best pinboards on Pinterest.

Do you have any favorite Pinterest tools? Tell us about them in the comments, and make sure to include a link! You can also tweet them to us at @HuffPostTech or email us: [e-mail]. We can't wait to see what you've got to share!

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[liveconnection]

07:34 AM on 07/09/2012

mappin.kurkla.com map your favourite travel and places pins

[HBsurfergirl]

01:58 PM on 06/22/2012

Just curious.. why do people come to a post (about enhancing something they don't do) And then comment?

[Hasu Like]

12:36 AM on 04/11/2012

make more traffic with pinterest
http://www.crashcoder.com/tutotials-to-add-cool-things-to-your-pinterest-boards/

[Max Hutchins]

11:59 PM on 03/25/2012

Do you people really have nothing better to comment about than the legality of Pinterest? (which, by the way, is currently operating completely within legal boundaries) This is a post about great Pinterest tools, not about whether Pinterest is infringing on some law.

[HBsurfergirl]

01:59 PM on 06/22/2012

Yea! I agree! :)

[philss]

09:27 AM on 03/21/2012

another useless article from aol
more pictures and less information
arrianna you deserve to spend time in purgatory for selling HP to aol
they will destroy your creation just like they almost destroyed time warner

[Dogma]

09:18 AM on 03/21/2012

All those Pin-puns are annoying.

[NormaCluster0101]

09:12 AM on 03/21/2012

I've tried using the site, but can't really find any use for it beyond collecting pictures of things that I like. From what I can gather, as Facebook is about "me", Twitter is about "them", and Pinterest is about "my awesome taste."

[CastleDawn]

09:30 AM on 03/21/2012

Ive seen some pretty cool stuff on the site but as for me, I agree with you completely. I have relatives and friends who are addicted but to me its boring and frustrating.

[TankGirlz]

11:51 AM on 03/21/2012

It's more of a compendium of some really cool things the internet has to offer. You can choose categories that interest you and keep them in one convenient location.

[traveler291]

12:24 PM on 03/21/2012

and put yourself in legal peril when doing so. use of content not owned by you is copyright infringement. just because images are out there, they aren't yours to freely use.

[SmotPoker]

09:06 AM on 03/21/2012

Tomorrows article will detail how to get the best experience on torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay or Demonoid.

[traveler291]

12:30 PM on 03/21/2012

huffpo just doesn't get it. they refuse to acknowledge promoting a site that infringes on the owners of intellectual property.

[gemini68]

01:31 PM on 03/22/2012

I use Pinterest and have never seen it that way. I use it a lot for the blogs that I read and interesting photos from them. I think if anything it helps draw interest to those blogs.

[HBsurfergirl]

01:42 PM on 06/22/2012

All pinners are doing is grabbing an image (which is actually just making a shortcut to another website) that they want to showoff (for whatever reasons). I do not know a single pinner that makes money or say the images are their own. AND most websites like that people pin from them, cause it is free advertisement for them.
It's just another social networking fix for some.
I have a Pinterest account, but I don't have Twitter or Tumblr or the other hundreds of social networks out there. I like Pinterest because I use it as bookmarks to things around the internet that I would like to revisit and /or projects to do or dream about. No harm done. I do my very best when pinning to only take images from an original source, doesn't mean that is the case for everyone, but I do.
Intellectual property? Honestly, that is like saying noone should have the right to even speak/ take pictures, cause I am sure someone came up with a word that you use (without crediting) , like huffpo. Or taking a picture of my son playing baseball is somene elses intellectual property cause it looks a lot like another parents pic of their kid playing baseball 5, 10, 50 years ago.
It's just the way things are now. Tech progress.
I feel, to each his own, and be willing to actually "own" what you do.

[Parade Keegan]

09:05 AM on 03/21/2012

The only way to sign up is with twitter or Facebook. Wow. I'm passing it by, it's just another information aggregate site to use us for advertizing revenue.

[TankGirlz]

11:51 AM on 03/21/2012

I'm signed up through neither...

[Parade Keegan]

07:56 PM on 03/21/2012

How, every link I get from them requires me to do it through Twitter or Facebook, every one. I just want to "check it out" but I can't seem to "get there". I'm a Luddite but willing to expand though I'm not willing to sign over my soul. I don't Tweet or FB.

[HBsurfergirl]

01:45 PM on 06/22/2012

Not true.. this is one of the few places I have seen lately where you do not have to connect using a Facebook or twitter account. That is the only reason I signed up.

[KenInd]

08:59 AM on 03/21/2012

The first thing to do is to consult an IP lawyer before posting any copyrighted material.

Pinterest is a copyright lawyer's dream. I shall stay away.

[BlueOnBlue]

08:55 AM on 03/21/2012

Please respect copyright when pinning to Pinterest. Just because you can see or read something on the web does not mean you have the right to copy it and post it as your own.

Pinterest does not make it clear to users, but YOU are going to be the one sued if you steal and pin copyrighted material.

[KenInd]

09:00 AM on 03/21/2012

Each item you pin will be traceable with your IP address.

[husky22]

03:19 AM on 03/23/2012

I am yet to use Pinterest, but I just don't get it: how can you steal something that's basically there for everyone to share? I might not understand something because if I just "pin/share/whatever" the picture is not the same if I claim that some pictures are mine.

[ChicagoBob]

08:48 AM on 03/21/2012

I think I can do without this.

[DonMadrid1500]

08:42 AM on 03/21/2012

Huffpost and Pinterest...perfect together.

You REALLY want us to use that utterly worthless site.

[HBsurfergirl]

01:56 PM on 06/22/2012

Just curious.. why did you come to a post about enhancing something you don't do?

[DonMadrid1500]

02:55 PM on 06/22/2012

It's the internet...isn't this the place for that sort of thing?

[DRaymond]

02:21 AM on 03/21/2012

What's with all the articles regarding this footnote of a web site. Is Huffpost being paid to shill? Does AOL have an equity stake?

[ItsEmu]

02:11 AM on 03/21/2012

Up until I found this article I didn't even know what the heck a Pinterest was.

[wf101]

11:09 AM on 03/21/2012

I still don't know! :-)