Pinterest description length checker

A Pinterest description allows 500 characters and shows roughly 50 in the feed. The title is capped at 100, with about 40 visible.

Pinterest is the one platform where writing the full description is genuinely worth it despite the truncation, because Pinterest functions as a search engine and indexes the whole thing. A pin surfaces for months or years on search rather than hours on a feed, so description text keeps working long after the visible portion has stopped mattering. Write the first 50 characters for a human scrolling and the remaining 450 for the search index — which is the opposite of the advice for every other platform here, and is why the same social copy pasted across platforms underperforms on Pinterest.