sift private image board

Keep this

Save to a board

A new collection

New board

The seed is kept locally and used to suggest related images. You can leave it blank.

By hand

Add an image link

Sift stores the URL only. The image stays on its original host.

A door from Pinterest

Bring your boards over

Sift cannot read Pinterest directly, so a small bookmarklet does the reading inside your Pinterest tab and hands the boards to Sift. Your Pinterest password never touches Sift.

1

Name the account

Use the name in pinterest.com/name/.

2

Install the importer

Drag this button to your bookmarks bar.

Sift Pinterest Importer

If the bar is hidden, press Ctrl+Shift+B on Windows or ⌘+Shift+B on a Mac.

3

Run it on Pinterest

Open Pinterest, sign in for private boards and the fullest public feeds, then click the importer in your bookmarks bar. Sift opens with a preview before anything is saved.

Private boards appear only when the username belongs to the account signed in to Pinterest in this browser. Pinterest may limit anonymous sessions to a preview of each board. Imports merge into boards with the same name, and duplicate links are skipped.

From Pinterest

Receiving boards

Extra image sources

Absorb the image tab

Before Sift reaches out

Check your connection

The fine print, in plain words

Private by architecture

Sift has no account system, no analytics, no cookies, and no server of its own. There is nothing to monetize, so there are no ads to serve.

  • Your boards live here. Names, image links, and a little metadata are stored in this browser's localStorage. No image files are downloaded into your archive, and no data is sent to us.
  • Searches go straight to the source. Your query is sent directly from your browser to the open collections, museums, archives, and meme streams you search. Sift has no backend in the middle. Each source's own privacy policy applies to those requests.
  • Every source sees an IP address. Image hosts and APIs can see the address that asks for a page or a picture, even with no-referrer set. A VPN puts the VPN's address in those logs instead of your home address. Sift works without one, but it is more private with one.
  • The connection check is optional. Before the first search, Sift can ask ipquery.io to classify this connection as VPN, Tor, proxy, datacenter, or residential. That lookup also sees your IP, so turn on a VPN first if you want even the check masked. The result stays in this browser and expires after 30 minutes.
  • No search history is stored. Sift keeps the current search in memory only. Reload the page and it is gone.
  • Pinterest import stays in your browser. The optional importer is a bookmarklet that runs inside your Pinterest tab, reads the boards your browser session can see, and passes them directly to Sift. Pinterest credentials are never shared with Sift, and nothing passes through a third-party server.
  • Web image capture is deliberate. Search engines and art sites do not allow this static page to read their results. The optional absorber runs only when you click it on an image-search tab, reads the images already displayed there, and writes their links to this browser's display buffer. It does not read cookies or send anything to a server.
  • You own the escape hatch. Export your boards as JSON at any time. Clearing this site's browser storage removes them permanently.

Openverse and Wikimedia Commons return openly licensed images. Museum, archive, and meme sources carry their own rights and licenses; check the original source before reusing an image.

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A VPN keeps your home IP out of the logs of every museum, archive, and image host Sift queries.

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Your data

Boards and links are stored only in this browser.

Image sources

Search draws directly from Openverse, Wikimedia Commons, the Art Institute of Chicago, The Met, the V&A, Are.na, NASA, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, and a public meme stream. Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Reddit, Giphy, ArtStation, Unsplash, Pexels, and more are read through the displayed-image-tab absorber. Sift is a static page; there is no backend.

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