Pinterest has always been a slightly different kind of social platform. People do not go there to argue or to chase the latest outrage. They go there to plan a kitchen, save a recipe, put together a wedding mood board, or find the paint colour they have been circling for weeks. That calmer intent is exactly what makes Pinterest so good for giveaways. When someone comments on your pin to enter a contest, they usually mean it.
The hard part has always come at the very end, when it is time to choose who wins. If you have run a Pinterest contest before, you know the moment. The comments stack up under your pin, and now you have to turn that pile into one fair winner. Count by hand and you lose an evening. Pick "someone" by eye, and you invite whispers that you favoured a friend. Post a screenshot of a number generator and half your audience still is not convinced. A campaign that felt fun right up to the finish can turn awkward in a single reply.
PNT Picker exists to remove that awkwardness. It takes the comments on your pin, applies whatever rules you set, and draws a random winner you can announce without a second thought. That is the whole promise, and we work hard to keep it simple.
Who we are
PNT Picker is owned and built by Maetheon Limited, a software company based in the United Kingdom. We make practical tools for people who actually work online, and PNT Picker follows the same rule as everything else we build: do one job properly, make it fast, and make it fair. We would rather ship a tool that nails a single task than one that does ten things badly.
What the tool actually does
Underneath, PNT Picker gathers the comments on a Pinterest pin and turns them into a clean list of entries. You set the conditions, the tool applies them to everyone in the same way, and then it selects your winner or winners at random.
Comments sit at the centre of it, because comments are how most Pinterest contests collect entries. PNT Picker pulls them in, lets you shape the list, and shows you the qualifying entries before anything is drawn. Choosing a winner from there is a single action.
What lifts it above a basic randomiser is what you can do with those comments before the draw. Want only people who used a specific word or hashtag? Add a keyword filter and everyone else drops out. Worried about someone commenting five times to boost their chances? Remove duplicate comments from the same account with one toggle. Prefer to keep it open to everybody who replied? Leave the filters off. The rules are yours to set, and you can set them differently for every contest.
Why fairness is the point
A lot of tools say they are random. The part that matters is whether the randomness is real and whether the same rules apply to everyone. That is what we care about most.
In PNT Picker, every qualifying comment has the same chance. There is no quiet bonus for the earliest reply and no advantage for the comment that collected the most likes. When you run the draw, each valid entry is treated identically, which is the only thing a giveaway should ever guarantee.
Because you can see the filtered list before you draw, the process stays open from beginning to end. If a follower asks how you chose the winner, you can walk them through it and show that the rules were applied to everyone equally. On a platform built around taste and trust, being able to prove your draw was fair protects the reputation you have spent years earning.
Who uses PNT Picker
Our users come from a few different corners of the internet, but they tend to want the same thing. Creators and bloggers use it to grow their following without losing a night to counting comments. Small shops and online stores use it to reward the people who engage with their pins and to pull fresh eyes onto their boards. Agencies and marketing teams use it for client work, where proving a draw was fair is simply part of the job. Hobby accounts and niche communities use it to keep their audiences active and to say thank you for joining in.
In every one of those cases, the aim is a winner that is quick to choose and easy to stand behind.
Built for how Pinterest really works
Pinterest is not Facebook and it is not Instagram, so a contest tool should not pretend otherwise. People save pins to boards, plan projects months ahead, and engage at a slower, more deliberate pace. We designed PNT Picker around that reality. It focuses on the comment-based entries that suit Pinterest contests, with filters that match the way people genuinely take part. You shape the draw to fit your campaign rather than reshaping your campaign to fit the tool.
Running a draw, quickly
People sometimes expect a capable tool to be fiddly. This one is not. You point PNT Picker at your pin. It gathers the comments. You set your conditions, or leave them off. You check the list of valid entries so there are no surprises. You pick how many winners you need and run the draw. The result appears straight away, ready to announce. That review step matters more than it looks, because seeing the entries first is what makes the outcome feel settled rather than lucky.
The company behind it
Maetheon Limited builds tools for people who work online, and we care about the things that make a working day smoother: speed, reliability and fairness, plus a product that does what it says. PNT Picker keeps improving because real users tell us what they need, and when you send feedback, a person reads it.
Say hello
We like hearing from the people who use PNT Picker, whether you have a question, an idea, or a business matter to raise. Email us any time at [email protected] and a member of our team will get back to you. If you run contests on Pinterest, try PNT Picker on your next giveaway and see how much easier a fair winner becomes.