Pinmate 1.3.0 is out. This update is about three things: making your tags genuinely useful, keeping Pinmate within reach on Mac, and sync that stays out of the way when you just want to save something quickly.

If you have been using Pinboard for years, you know how fast a collection grows. Tags help you stay organised — but only if you can find and apply them easily. That is what 1.3.0 sets out to fix.

Browse all your tags

The Tags tab is no longer an empty-looking list of manually added favourites. You now see all tags from your Pinboard collection, with counts for each one.

Search by name, pin favourites with a star, and jump straight to bookmarks with a given tag. Pull down to refresh if you have just saved something and it has not appeared yet.

Tag faster when saving

When adding or editing a bookmark — in the app and in the share extension — there is now a “Your tags” section.

Type to search your existing tags, tap to add one, and see at a glance what you already have. Everything is sorted alphabetically, so you are not scrolling through a random order.

The share extension also fetches tags via Pinboard’s tags/get endpoint, so you can work with your full tag list on the go. And Save is no longer blocked while metadata is fetched in the background. Sharing from Safari should be quick — and now it is.

macOS: always there, never in the way

On Mac, Pinmate gets a menu bar icon. From the menu you can show or hide the window, create a new bookmark, open preferences, or quit the app.

Cmd-Shift-P shows or hides the main window. Cmd-F focuses the search field. The red traffic-light button hides the window; the app keeps running in the background.

Do not want a Dock icon? Turn it off in Settings. Pinmate then lives only in the menu bar — handy if you want it as a quick bookmark tool without cluttering your Dock.

More than web pages

The share extension now works for PDFs in Safari as well, and you can save PDFs, images, feeds, and other non-HTML URLs via the share sheet.

Open links in the in-app browser with Reader mode, or keep using the system browser — whichever you prefer.

Sync that feels steadier

Behind the scenes, a lot of work went into reliability:

  • Each tab (Mine, Popular, Recent, Network) has its own cache and loads independently
  • Pinboard 503 errors are handled with serialised requests, automatic retries, and longer backoff
  • Corrupt bookmarks in a download are skipped rather than failing the whole list
  • Settings shows a clearer connection status: “token saved, last sync failed” vs “not connected”
  • Token validation now genuinely tests against posts/all
  • Last refresh shows date and time; whilst refreshing, you see a clear status

Small but important fixes: Popular items could accidentally appear in Mine, the review prompt waits until sync is idle, and retry on an error banner no longer opens the bookmark underneath by mistake.

Tip

Tags or bookmarks not showing straight away? Pull down on Mine or Tags to refresh manually.

Update now

Pinmate 1.3.0 is available for iOS and macOS. Open the App Store or Mac App Store and tap Update — or search for “Pinmate” if you do not have the app yet.

Questions or feedback? Get in touch via the app or on social media. Happy reading — and happy tagging.

Pinmate is your fast bridge to Pinboard. Share any URL from Safari or other apps, fill in title, description, and tags, then save instantly. Your feeds are cached locally, so there is always something to read — even offline.