How to Import a Pinterest Board into Canva

Canva has no Pinterest import, and PinBoardSaver has no Canva app: the plugin we make is for Figma. What works is plainer than either. Download your board once, and every pin becomes a file you can drag into Canva's Uploads and use like any other image.

The whole job is three steps: get the ZIP, extract it, drag the folder in. The rest of this guide is about keeping the result usable once it is there.

What you need

• The PinBoardSaver extension in Chrome. It reads the board you have open and packs it into a ZIP.
• A Canva account. The free plan includes 5 GB of upload storage, per Canva's own help pages, which is a lot of pins.
• Your own board, or one you are allowed to work from. Downloads are your research copy, not a licence; what you can do with images saved from Pinterest covers where that line sits.

Step by step: board to ZIP to Canva

1. Open your board in Chrome and click the PinBoardSaver icon. The panel lists “All Pins” and each section of the board as a checkbox.
2. Leave “All Pins” ticked for the whole board, or untick it and pick the sections you want in Canva. To choose pin by pin, use “Select Pins Manually” and click the pins on the page.
3. Click “Start Download” and wait for the “ZIP Ready!” screen, then “Download to Device”.
4. Extract the ZIP. You get one folder per section, plus the pins that were in no section, plus 0_info.txt.
5. In Canva, open a design, go to the Uploads tab and drag the extracted folder, or a section folder, onto it. Canva uploads the files and keeps them in your library for later designs.

Uploading a section at a time is worth the extra minute: Canva's Uploads is one flat list, so a hundred pins arriving at once lose the grouping the board gave them.

Which files Canva takes

The ZIP holds whatever Pinterest served: mostly JPG, sometimes PNG or WebP, animated GIFs, and MP4 for video pins. Canva's help page lists the formats it accepts for uploads and a per-file size limit of 25 MB, which pin images almost never reach. If a file is refused, converting it to JPG or PNG is enough.

Video pins upload as video, not as images, so they land in the same Uploads list but behave as clips. For a printed moodboard you want the still files anyway.

Keep the board's structure

Two things in the ZIP survive the trip and are worth using:

• Folders. Each section of the board becomes a folder with the section's name. Import them separately and you can keep one Canva page per section instead of sorting thumbnails by eye.
• File names. Each name carries the pin ID, so https://www.pinterest.com/pin/<id>/ opens the pin the file came from. 0_info.txt records the board name, its URL, the owner and the export date.

That is the part a manual save-as workflow loses. A folder of image (14).jpg files is a moodboard you cannot trace back in a month.

Build the moodboard

Canva's grids do the arranging: search “grid” in Elements, drop one on the page, then drag your uploads into its cells. Frames work the same way when you want a shape other than a rectangle. For a quick version, Canva's photo-collage templates take images in the same way.

If you only need a flat picture of the board and not editable pieces, skip Canva for the export itself: “Export as Image” in the extension makes one collage file, and “Create PDF” makes an A4 document. Turning a board into a moodboard walks through both, with the column and width settings.

Canva earns its place when the moodboard needs more than a grid: a colour palette pulled from the images, text explaining each cluster, a client logo, or a second page for materials.

Limits worth knowing before you start

The free plan of PinBoardSaver saves the first 20 pins of a download. “Select Pins Manually” decides which 20, which matters more than it sounds: for a Canva page you usually want a curated dozen, not the whole board. Premium removes the cap.

Quality has one wrinkle. “Start Download” saves the original file where Pinterest has one. Pins picked through “Select Pins Manually” on the free plan come as medium-size copies, which is fine on screen and thin for print. If the Canva design is going to a printer, download with “Start Download” and pick afterwards.

FAQ

Is there a Pinterest app or plugin for Canva?

Not from us. PinBoardSaver's plugin is for Figma. The route into Canva is the ZIP: download the board, then upload the files.

Can I import a whole Pinterest board into Canva at once?

Yes, by dragging the extracted folder into Uploads. Canva takes the files together; it just does not keep the folder names, which is why importing section by section is easier to work with.

Do the images keep their original quality?

They keep whatever the download gave them. “Start Download” takes the original file when Pinterest has one, and Canva does not recompress uploads, so the file you place is the file you saved.

Can I import video pins into Canva?

Yes. MP4 files from video pins upload like any video and can go on a page as a clip. They are not usable in a printed moodboard, so most people leave them out of the selection.