New Pinterest app shows up on the Windows 10 Microsoft Store

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Published on March 28, 2019

published on March 28, 2019

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Pinterest, the popular social media service that lets you save content you find on the Internet and share it with your followers, now has a dedicated app on Windows 10 PCs (via MSPoweruser). The new Pinterest app in the Microsoft Store is actually a web app, and it doesn’t seem to offer much added value compared to the Pinterest website.

Unlike the well-made Twitter Progressive Web App (PWA), this new Pinterest app doesn’t support Live Tiles, Jump Lists, offline mode, and it also doesn’t appear in the Share Menu in Microsoft Edge. As a result, the app can’t replace yet the Pinterest Save button Edge extension that was released a couple of years ago.

Despite Microsoft wanting to make PWAs first-class citizens on Windows 10 thanks to support for service workers and other modern features, we have yet to see many high-quality PWAs appear in the Microsoft Store. A basic web app may be better than nothing, but we hope that more developers will follow Twitter’s lead and make their PWAs offer as much functionality as native apps.

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Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time). For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web. Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they're looking for.