Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Pushpin, an iOS client for Pinboard, is now open source
Just wanted to share that I just open-sourced Pushpin today under the GPLv3 license. I've been building it since 2012 and it's become one of the most popular iOS clients for Pinboard [0] [1] [2]. It hasn't gotten a large update in quite a while, but it still runs perfectly on the latest iOS and iPad OS devices. Enjoy! [0]: https://pinboard.in/ [1]: https://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-pinboard-app-ios/ [2]: https://toolsandtoys.net/pushpin-for-pinboard/
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Pushpin▲3A beautiful, fast, feature-packed Pinboard client for iOS
2017 · lionheartsw.com · its alternatives →
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PastePal 2.0▲167Best universal pasteboard for Mac, iPhone and iPad
2021 · onmyway133.com · its alternatives →
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iPaste▲95Lightweight and efficient clipboard tool for iOS & macOS.
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Download Pins for Pinboard by Quang Anh Do on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Pins for Pinboard.
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Modern iOS/macOS Pinboard app for 2021
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Sprout▲109A kanban board that feels at home on your Mac
Dec 2025 · sproutformac.com · its alternatives →
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Reverse proxy for realtime APIs.
2015 · pushpin.org · its alternatives →
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Spool▲94A simple & beautiful lighting dock for iOS
2016 · houseonthehillaustin.com · its alternatives →
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Snap Deck HQ▲77Everything you need in one native macOS command bar
Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A completely new professional soundboard app for iPhone/iPad
2016 · soundboardstudio.com · its alternatives →
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KDE Connect▲65Open Source alternative of Pushbullet (For KDE users)
2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 16IM
I'm a iOS and Mac developer and the thing that mostly bothered me when I first started learning Cocoa programming was the lack of full featured sample code. Now things have changed and more projects have been released, but I still want to do my part. I've already released Color Picker Pro for Mac: https://raw.github.com/oscardelben/Color-Picker-Pro This time I built a copy of the iPhone Calculator which (I hope) will be simple to follow for beginners: https://github.com/oscardelben/iPhoneCalculator I hope this will be useful to people who are learning Cocoa. Feedbacks are very appreciated.
2011 · raw.github.com · its alternatives →
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- 18PA
2014 · pinninapp.com · its alternatives →
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I've just made the first "proper" release of a tool I've been wanting to work on for a while now. As a long-time user of Pinboard I've been wanting to build a terminal-based client for the service, one that works "just so" and which I can hack on. I hope it might be useful to other Pinboard users too. See https://blog.davep.org/2023/12/19/tinboard.html for some more background and detail on the project.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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After seeing a cool demo of a hack on Twitter, I built a cross platform version of it that works well and uses streaming. From anywhere on Mac and Linux, trigger Ollama and optionally feed it your clipboard. I built it yesterday and it's already very useful to me. I'm pretty excited about it and wanted to share!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I submitted as a link but failed miserably to get someone to download it, I hope you like: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wireframeapp/id602466053?l=pt&ls=1&mt=8 http://wireframeapp.com/ (github)
2013 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I've never posted on ShowHN before, but I wanted to share my Xmas 2025 project; to try a new approach to controlling our kids screen time. This also involved massively over-engineering a solution in order to play with a shiny new gadget (and avoid the in laws at Christmas, obviously) I've shared some learnings on AI coding with embedded devices, and how I approached the product design/hardware selection side of things. The Web App is at https://screenie.org - and I'm Open Sourcing the device and web app code later today (links to follow on that site)
Jan 2026 · partridge.works · its alternatives →
- 23BA
http://www.barebonesapp.com I run a web development company in the UK[1]. Last weekend, we participated in Leedshack[2], and we build Barebones, which is a really simple wireframing tool for the iPad. We spend a lot of time in meetings sketching in our notebooks, and often these sketches are a valuable artefact long before 'traditional' wireframing even enters the process; we wanted to replicated the speed and simplicity of 'back of a napkin' sketching, and combine it with really simple sharing (anything is better than taking a photo of a sketch with my iPhone and emailing it to a client!)…
2011 · barebonesapp.com · its alternatives →
- 24IM
Hey HN, Clipboard managers handle sensitive data such as passwords, personal notes, API keys, etc. To trust one you need to be sure that it doesn't send your data to third parties or store it on remote servers. With closed-source apps, you have to take the developer’s word for it. As a software engineer, I don't like that. Transparency matters. So, I decided to make my commercial clipboard manager open source. Anyone can inspect the source code, verify that data stays local and never leaves the user's device. Anyone can build the app from source and use it. At the same time, the app is still…
2025 · its alternatives →
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