Pinterest Feed Template: Lyric Videos That Look Like a Pinterest Moodboard

Pinterest Feed is the most ambitious template Epitrite has shipped. It's the Pinterest mobile app, drawn entirely in CSS, as a 9:16 lyric video. Real 2-column masonry, status bar at the top, search bar with placeholder text, a horizontal row of category chips, the bottom tab bar, and 16 pin slots you fill with your own photos. Each pin can hold an image or a video.

Then the lyrics drop. There are three placement modes — masonry scroll, pin focus, and search typing — each one feels like a different in-app moment. A red Save button pulses on a featured pin every time a new lyric line lands.

The whole thing reads as native Pinterest. Viewers who use the app constantly process it before they realize what they're looking at. Then the lyric appears and they realize it's a music video. That whiplash moment is the template.

What the Pinterest Feed Template Is

A 9:16 frame where:

• The whole screen is the Pinterest mobile app, rendered in CSS (no image assets).
• Status bar at the top: time, signal indicator, battery percentage. All editable.
• Search bar below it with placeholder text ("Search for ideas" by default).
• Horizontal row of 5 category chips ("All Pins," "Aesthetic," "Fashion," "Recipes," "Travel" by default).
• 2-column masonry feed of pins below. Each pin is a media slot.
• Bottom tab bar with the standard Pinterest icons.
• Lyrics render in one of three placement modes.
• 16 default pin slots, up to 30 maximum.
• Light theme and Dark theme picker, matching Pinterest's in-app toggle.

The chrome adapts to theme. Light theme uses Pinterest's white-with-charcoal-text style. Dark theme uses Pinterest's near-black backgrounds.

The Three Lyric Placements

This is where Pinterest Feed gets interesting. The lyric isn't a static overlay — it appears as if it's part of the in-app interaction.

1. Masonry Scroll (default)

The feed scrolls upward at a constant rate. The lyric reveals word-by-word inside one of the visible pins. On every new line, a different pin highlights with the red Save button pulsing.

Best for: songs with steady tempo. The constant scroll feels like the viewer is browsing.

2. Pin Focus

A single pin is in detail view, filling most of the screen. The lyric becomes the pin's title. On every new line, the focused pin stack scrolls upward, swapping to the next pin.

Best for: songs with clear line-by-line structure. Each pin becomes a "post" with its own caption.

3. Search Typing

The lyric types into the search bar over a dark keyboard screen. Looks like someone searching Pinterest for a feeling.

Best for: short songs, intros, songs with very few lyric lines. Or for any track where the lyric reads as a "search" in itself ("am i lonely or just alone").

Genres It Hits

Pinterest Feed is built for the Pinterest user's emotional register:

• Aesthetic-coded indie pop
• Bedroom pop with girly aesthetics
• Dream pop and shoegaze
• Y2K revival
• Cottagecore folk
• Songs about feelings, longing, mood
• Lana Del Rey lane
• Mitski, boygenius, lucy dacus energy
• Cool-girl alt-pop

Skip it on:

• Aggressive trap, drill, metal (genre mismatch with Pinterest's emotional register)
• Country (different demographic visual literacy)
• Children's music (Pinterest skews older)
• Anything where the song should feel real, not curated

How to Use It

1. Open Epitrite, new project.
2. Upload your audio.
3. Paste lyrics or AI transcribe.
4. Pick Pinterest Feed from the template picker.
5. Pick Light or Dark theme.
6. Pick a lyric placement (masonry scroll, pin focus, or search typing).
7. Upload images or videos to the 16 pin slots. You can use fewer — empty slots show their fallback color.
8. Optionally edit category chips, search bar text, status bar values.
9. Preview. Export 9:16.

10-15 minutes total. Most of that is filling pin slots.

Picking the Pins

The pins are the visual content. They sell the template. Some directions:

| Concept | Pin content | |---|---| | Aesthetic moodboard | Cottagecore photos, sunset shots, vintage covers, polaroid scans | | Album rollout | 16 frames from your album shoot | | Outfit / style | 16 outfit shots from different days | | Travel | 16 location photos from one trip | | Mixed feed | Mix of your own album art, behind-the-scenes, and aesthetic mood shots | | Anti-pinterest | 16 deliberately ugly / chaotic images that read as a chaotic feed | | Lyric-themed | 16 photos that visually echo the song's themes |

You don't need 16 — 8-12 unique pins with the rest as fallback colors looks fine. The default fallback colors are a cohesive desaturated pastel palette specifically tuned to look like an authentic Pinterest feed.

Light vs Dark Theme

Pinterest's in-app theme toggle mirrors here. Pick based on:

| Vibe | Theme | |---|---| | Cottagecore, cottagey-bright | Light | | Y2K, late-night, sad-girl | Dark | | Daytime / dreamy / hopeful | Light | | Nighttime / melancholy / longing | Dark | | Editorial / fashion / minimal | Light | | Alt / indie sleaze / club | Dark |

Some artists ship two versions of the same song — Light Pinterest Feed for the optimistic post, Dark for the late-night repost.

Category Chips

The 5 default chips ("All Pins," "Aesthetic," "Fashion," "Recipes," "Travel") read as authentic Pinterest. Custom directions:

| Vibe | Chips | |---|---| | Default authentic | All Pins, Aesthetic, Fashion, Recipes, Travel | | Album-themed | All Pins, Album Art, Demos, Tour, Studio | | Personal | All Pins, Mood, Outfit, Photos, Notes | | Cheeky | All Pins, Feelings, Crying, Coping, Healing | | Anti-pinterest | All Pins, Stupid, Bored, Done, Whatever | | Editorial | All Pins, Editorial, Style, Inspo, Saved |

The activeCategoryIndex setting (0 by default) highlights one chip with the red Pinterest active state. Change it to spotlight a non-default chip.

Search Bar Text

In masonry scroll and pin focus modes, the search bar text is static. In search typing mode, this gets overwritten by the lyric. Either way, set the default to something meaningful:

• "Search for ideas" (default, authentic Pinterest)
• "looking for something" (vibes)
• "sad girl summer aesthetic"
• "what now"
• "tour outfit ideas"
• Your song name in lowercase

Status Bar — The Detail That Sells It

The status bar shows time, signal, battery. Defaults are "10:53," "Wi-Fi," "86%."

This is a tiny detail but it's the difference between "video that looks like Pinterest" and "screenshot you can't tell isn't real." Set the time to something that means something:

• 3:33 (the angel-number time)
• 11:11 (make a wish)
• 22:22 (Pinterest girl rabbit-hole hour)
• 02:47 (cant-sleep hour)
• 04:00 (early morning)

Set battery to something realistic. Sub-20% reads "dying phone in a moment." Above 80% reads "fresh charged." Both are emotional choices.

Save Button Pulse

When enabled (default on), one pin in the visible feed shows the red Pinterest Save button. On every new lyric line, a different pin lights up. This is what makes the template feel responsive to the music — each line "saves" a pin.

Turn it off if you want a cleaner, more passive scroll. But most projects benefit from the pulse — it's the template's signature interaction.

Pacing the Lyric

Pinterest Feed uses word-by-word reveal with no word delay (0ms) and a 12-frame animation duration. That's fast on purpose — Pinterest scrolling is fast, and the lyric needs to keep up.

Adjustments:

• Slower songs: bump animation duration to 18-24 frames.
• Faster songs: leave the defaults.
• Songs with very dense lyrics: shorter line breaks help readability.

Pairing It With Other Templates

Pinterest Feed pairs naturally with:

| Combo | Why | |---|---| | Pinterest Feed + Slideshow | Both restrained, both Pinterest-girl coded. Pinterest Feed for the in-app moments, Slideshow for the slow-roll lyric posts | | Pinterest Feed + Album Art Story | Pinterest Feed for the social-coded version, Album Art Story for the streaming-platform-coded version | | Pinterest Feed + Video Viewer | Both internet-aesthetic but different eras. Pinterest Feed for 2020s mobile, Video Viewer for 2000s desktop | | Pinterest Feed + Notepad | Both intimate, both Pinterest-saver psychology |

Skip pairing with Trap Drip, Live Cams, Brat Flash — the aesthetic doesn't translate.

Common Questions

Is this a real Pinterest screenshot?

No. The chrome is drawn entirely in CSS — no image assets of the Pinterest UI. Trademark exposure would be too risky.

Can I use Pinterest's red color?

The Save button red (#E60023) is Pinterest's brand red, which is widely considered fair use as part of an obvious visual reference. We use it for the Save button only. If you want to be conservative, swap it to a different red in the typography panel.

Does the masonry actually use my pin sizes?

Yes. The masonry math calculates pin heights based on the natural aspect ratio of each uploaded image or video, then balances the two columns. Don't expect every column to come out the same height — that's authentic masonry behavior.

Can I use this for a desktop Pinterest aesthetic instead?

The current version is mobile-only. The mobile feed is what most people scroll daily, so the visual literacy is sharper for mobile. A desktop variant might come in a future update.

Why does my video pin look stretched?

Videos in pins are cover-fit by default. If your aspect ratio is significantly different from the pin's natural aspect, you'll get cropping. Pre-crop videos to vertical or square before upload for best results.

Will the Save button pulse for instrumental tracks?

It pulses on every new lyric line. If you have no lyrics (instrumental), there's nothing for it to react to. For instrumental Pinterest content, manually add timestamps or short interlude text in the lyric panel so the pulse has something to follow.

Takeaway

Pinterest Feed is the template for the song that wants to feel like a Pinterest rabbit hole. Pick Light or Dark, fill the pins with photos that share a palette, pick the right lyric placement for your song's structure, set the status bar time to something that matters. The red Save button does the rest.

Try the Pinterest Feed template free — no watermark, no upgrade required, chrome rendered entirely in CSS.