📊How to Sort Pinterest Pins by Saves, Date & Popularity

Pinterest has no sort button. Here's how to sort pins by saves, date, and popularity using SortPin — plus how to turn a messy feed into usable research.

Pinterest gives you an infinite feed and no sort button. For casual browsing that's fine. For research it's a serious limitation — you can't tell a 10,000-save pin from a 12-save pin without opening every one. Here's how to fix that.

🎉 Trusted by 40,000+ Pinterest users worldwide — sorting is the feature the name "SortPin" comes from.

❌ What Pinterest Doesn't Let You Do

Sort you want	Available natively?
Most saved first	❌ No
Newest first	❌ No
Oldest first	❌ No
Most commented	❌ No
By creator follower size	❌ No
Filter out low performers	❌ No

Pinterest offers filters for pin type and some visual attributes, but nothing that ranks by performance. Everything is fed to you by the recommendation algorithm's logic, not yours.

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✅ How Sorting Works With SortPin

The key concept: SortPin collects pin data as you browse, then lets you order that collection however you want.

Step 1 — Install SortPin

Install the extension →. Guide: How to install SortPin.

Step 2 — Open the page you want to analyse

Any of these work:

• A search results page (pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=...)

• A board

• A profile

• Your own saved pins

Step 3 — Let Smart Collect gather the data

SortPin's Smart Collect captures pin data automatically as you browse — you don't have to start anything per page.

Check it's enabled: SortPin panel → Collect tab → Smart Collect → make sure Pins Collection is on.

⚡ Only turn on what you need. Smart Collect has separate toggles for Pins, Boards, and Pinners. Collecting all three when you only need pins makes your dashboard slower for no benefit — see why.

Step 4 — Scroll the page (manually or automatically)

Data is captured as Pinterest loads pins, so the page has to be scrolled. Two options:

Option	How
🖱️ Scroll yourself	Just browse normally — collection happens in the background
⚙️ Scroll Button	SortPin panel → General tab → enable Scroll Button, then click Start Scroll on the Pinterest page

The Scroll Button auto-scrolls with a configurable delay (set in seconds in the General tab). It mimics normal browsing rather than hammering the page.

Choosing a delay:

Delay	Suits
~5s (default)	Everyday browsing and small collections
8–12s	Large sessions of several hundred pins
15–20s	If Pinterest starts throttling you

General tab — enable the Scroll Button and set how many seconds to wait between scrolls

⏱️ Longer is safer, not slower overall. Pinterest rate-limits fast activity, and a throttled session collects nothing. See safe usage limits.

Step 5 — Open the dashboard and sort

Open the SortPin dashboard and go to All Pins. Filter first, then sort:

Filter tab	Shows
📋 All	Everything collected
🎬 Videos	Video pins only
💲 Promoted	Ads only — useful to exclude from research
✨ AI	Pins flagged as AI-generated
🖼️ Images	Static images only
🔖 Bookmark	Pins you saved inside SortPin

All Pins dashboard — filter tabs across the top, sort and CSV export below

Then choose a sort order. Nine are available:

Sort by	Use it when
💾 Most Saves	Finding what genuinely resonates — the default choice
😊 Most Reactions	Gauging emotional response rather than intent to keep
🔄 Most Repins	Seeing which specific uploads spread furthest
💬 Most Comments	Finding topics people have questions about
↗️ Most Shares	Spotting content people send to others
🆕 Newest Pins	Current momentum by pin publish date
📜 Oldest Pins	Evergreen content that has lasted
⬇️ Newest Added	Most recently collected by SortPin
⬆️ Oldest Added	Earliest in your collection

💡 "Pins" vs "Added" is a useful distinction. Newest Pins sorts by when the pin was published on Pinterest. Newest Added sorts by when SortPin collected it — handy when you re-scan the same query over several weeks and want to see what's new since last time.

The full sort menu, including collection-time ordering

🎯 Research tip: check the Promoted tab first to see how many ads are in your sample, then exclude them. Promoted pins are paid placement, not evidence of organic appeal — leaving them in distorts your read of the niche.

Step 6 — Act on the top results

Open the top 10–20, check destination quality, and record the pattern. Use Export CSV if you want to work in a spreadsheet.

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🎯 Four Sorting Workflows That Actually Pay Off

Workflow 1 — Validate a niche before committing

1. Search your target topic

2. Collect ~200 pins

3. Sort by saves

4. Look at the top 20

Read the result:

What you see	What it means
Several pins with very high saves	Real demand exists
Everything clusters low	Weak or very narrow niche
Only huge accounts at the top	Hard to break in without reach
Small accounts at the top	Content quality can win here ✅

Workflow 2 — Find what's working right now

1. Collect from your topic

2. Sort by date, newest first

3. Among recent pins, look for unusually strong saves

Recent + high saves = current momentum, not historical accumulation. This is the closest you get to a reliable trend signal.

Workflow 3 — Audit a competitor honestly

1. Open their profile

2. Collect their pins

3. Sort by saves

Their top performers tell you far more than their latest posts. Most accounts publish steadily and win occasionally — you want the wins.

👉 Deeper method: How to see repin & save counts

Workflow 4 — Clean up your own boards

1. Open one of your boards

2. Collect and sort by saves

3. Identify pins that never performed

Low-performing pins dilute a board's topical focus. Pruning them tightens what the board signals about your account.

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📤 Export for Deeper Analysis

For anything beyond a quick look, get the data into a spreadsheet.

After collection, export to CSV — you get pin URLs, titles, descriptions, save counts, and creator info in one file.

What that unlocks:

In a spreadsheet you can	Example
Filter by threshold	Show only pins above 5,000 saves
Calculate saves-per-follower	Normalise for account size
Group by format	Compare infographics vs photos
Track over time	Re-scan monthly and diff the results
Share with a team	Hand off a research file

👉 Bulk collection & CSV export guide

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🛠️ Troubleshooting

"Collection stops partway through"

Pinterest may be throttling the session. Wait 10–30 minutes, then restart with a longer scroll delay (15–20 seconds) in the General tab.

"Nothing is being collected"

Check Collect tab → Smart Collect → Pins Collection is toggled on. Also confirm the master Turn On switch at the top of the panel is enabled.

"Some pins have no save data"

Not every pin exposes the same fields. Promoted pins and very new pins often carry less. Sort on the ones that do.

"Sorting is slow with lots of collected pins"

Everything is stored locally, so large archives get heavy. Clear old data between projects: How to clear cache.

"The same pin appears more than once"

Pinterest genuinely serves duplicate repins of the same image with different URLs. Deduplicate by image or title after export.

"Results don't match what I see in the feed"

Expected — your feed is personalised. A search page collection is a much more neutral sample than your home feed.

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❓ FAQs

Q: Can you sort Pinterest pins by most saved? A: Not natively — Pinterest has no sort control. With SortPin you collect pins from a page, then sort that collection by saves, date, comments, or creator size.

Q: How do I sort a Pinterest board by date? A: Open the board, run a SortPin collection, then sort by date. Pinterest itself doesn't offer board sorting.

Q: How many pins can I collect at once? A: There's no hard limit in SortPin. Practically, Pinterest may throttle very long sessions, so a few hundred pins per session is comfortable. Increase the scroll delay if you're going bigger.

Q: Does sorting change anything on Pinterest? A: No. Sorting happens on your device with data SortPin already collected. Nothing is altered on Pinterest.

Q: Can I sort someone else's board? A: Yes, as long as it's public (or private and shared with you). Open it and run a collection as normal.

Q: Why does collection take so long? A: Pinterest loads pins lazily and rate-limits fast activity, so the scroll delay is deliberate. You can shorten it in the General tab, but a throttled session collects nothing — slower is usually faster overall. See safe growth limits.

Q: Do I have to start collection manually each time? A: No. Smart Collect runs in the background whenever it's enabled — browsing Pinterest normally collects data. The Scroll Button just automates the scrolling for you.

Q: Can I export sorted pins to Excel? A: Yes — export to CSV, then open it in Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers.

Q: Is sorting available on mobile? A: No, it needs the desktop extension. Mobile browsers don't support extensions. For mobile downloads use the Telegram bot.

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👉 Related Guides

• 📈 How to See Pinterest Repin & Save Counts

• 🔍 Pinterest Sort Extension — Browser Support

• 📦 Bulk Download & CSV Export

• 📈 Pinterest Trends & Predicts

💬 Working on a large research project? Our chat support team can advise on safe pacing for big collections.