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title: "What are the differences between Pinterest and Instagram?"  
description: "What are the differences between Pinterest and Instagram?"  
author: "Steilla Mitchel"  
published: 2022-03-23  
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tags: ["troubleshooting", "pinterest"]  
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# What are the differences between Pinterest and Instagram?

What are the [differences](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300750/what-is-the-link-between-resting-metabolic-rate-and-basal-metabolic-rate) between Pinterest and Instagram?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

![What are the differences between Pinterest and Instagram?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/78db13db-9674-4be3-8606-4053d9ac83b2/images/e454ad6a-ae66-44ec-94ef-622953ab691c.jpeg) **\**

- **Instagram and [Pinterest](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96452/what-does-pinterest-consider-an-active-board)**provide two distinct functions.
- **Instagram** is largely used to post a user's own images, whereas **Pinterest** is primarily used to curate and store material from other users.
- Instagram focuses on sharing, whereas Pinterest focuses on discovering new things.
- The Instagram audience is far more diversified than that of Pinterest. It's also significantly bigger than Pinterest's.
- **Pinterest's** audience is overwhelmingly female (despite the fact that the number of male users is increasing).
- Both the **desktop and mobile versions of Pinterest** are completely functional. Instagram, on the other hand, is almost entirely designed to be a smartphone app.
- Images with blueish colours as the primary colour receive 24 percent more likes on Instagram than those with reddish hues.
- Images with a lot of reds, on the other hand, earn twice as many repins on Pinterest as those with other main hues.

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