Large format Pinterest?

March 19, 2019 10:08 AM

I'm looking for an alternative to Pinterest that will allow me to save photos in albums/groupings, but will display them by default as full-size or at least page-width. Something like The Big Picture (but hopefully with even bigger pictures) where I can just scroll through a long list of photos. I don't need any of Pinterest's social or suggestion features and my "page" can be either private or public, but needs to be accessible on multiple computers.

I've tried just saving to a Google doc or sheet but I would prefer a more elegant solution. The Google apps can be a bit laggy.

I would be fine, possibly, with paying a nominal price for this.

posted by acidic to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Would instagram be large-format enough for you? You can make your account private so no one could follow you.
posted by LeeLanded at 10:48 AM on March 19, 2019

Response by poster: Instagram uses rows of three thumbnails which is definitely not what I'm looking for. To clarify, when I say page width I mean page width on a computer, not a phone.
posted by acidic at 11:04 AM on March 19, 2019

Profile pages (one's own or someone else's) appear on instagram as rows of three thumbnails, but your feed appears as individual, large format pictures. You could create two accounts -- post the content from one, and then follow it with the other so that the pictures are full-sizes.

Complicated, I know, but if you can't find anything else it should work.
posted by LeeLanded at 12:30 PM on March 19, 2019

Response by poster: Instagram's feed is about 25% of the width of my computer screen. It is not "large format". I am looking for something that fills up the entire screen, that doesn't force-shrink photos UNLESS it is to full-screen width which would be acceptable although not ideal.
posted by acidic at 1:12 PM on March 19, 2019

This is what Tumblr and Squarespace are made for.
posted by Hermione Granger at 1:32 PM on March 19, 2019