Research, design and teaching

A design inspiration library your whole team can find things in

Linkbry keeps design references and resources in one shared, tagged library with visual previews, and publishes any folder as a page for a client or the rest of the company.

In short

Linkbry is a shared reference library for design teams: save sites, UI inspiration, tools and assets in one click (images and screenshots too), organize them with folders and tags, search by what you wrote about them, and share a folder with clients as a read-only page. It isn’t a moodboard canvas; for free-form boards, pair it with your design tool, Milanote or Are.na.

What it’s for

What design teams use Linkbry for

Week to week

How it works in practice

  1. 01

    Set up folders and tags

    Create folders for inspiration, resources, the design system and each client, and a fixed set of tags for pattern, platform and style.

  2. 02

    Save references as you go

    Save pages in one click, or use “Save image” and “Save screenshot” for flows that won’t be there next month, with a note on why it’s good.

  3. 03

    Critique in context

    Comment on a reference and @mention a teammate, who gets an in-app notification with the conversation attached.

  4. 04

    Hand off to engineering

    Keep design files, prototypes and specs in the project folder. Engineers insert them into tickets and pull requests by typing ;;.

  5. 05

    Share a direction

    Publish the references folder as a branded, password-protected page, and update the folder instead of exporting another PDF.

Linkbry’s grid view of saved design references with preview images, sites, descriptions, tags and folders such as Inspiration and Research.
01

Why inspiration folders stop working

Every designer has saved thousands of references. The trouble is getting them back, and getting them to anyone else.

  • Pinterest and Are.na boards are personal, and discovery feeds bury what you saved
  • Screenshots pile up in a desktop folder with names like “Screen Shot 2026-03-14”
  • Browser bookmarks have no previews, tags or notes
  • References shared in Slack scroll away within a day
  • When a designer leaves, their library leaves with them
02

Visual previews, searchable notes

Paste or save a URL and Linkbry fetches the page’s title, description, preview image and favicon, so the grid view reads like a board. Add tags for pattern, platform and style, and a note on why it’s good, such as “great empty state for a data-heavy table”. Search matches titles, URLs, descriptions, notes and the readable text of saved pages.

03

Save it before you lose it

The Chrome extension saves the page you’re on in one click, with a folder and tags. Right-click any link to save it without opening it, or use “Save image” and “Save screenshot” to keep a stored copy, which is useful for campaign pages and product flows that won’t exist next month. Uploaded images and files count toward the plan’s storage: 100 MB on Free, 20 GB on Pro.

04

Share references with clients and stakeholders

Publish any folder, subfolders included, as a read-only page with the client’s name, your logo and accent colour. Add a password and an expiry date, see views and clicks per reference, and let a signed-in visitor save a copy into their own workspace. Your notes stay private.

05

Linkbry and moodboard tools

Be clear about what Linkbry is. Milanote and Figma are canvases where you arrange things spatially; Are.na and Pinterest are for discovery and personal collecting; Eagle is a local asset manager. Linkbry is a shared, searchable library of links, images and files organized in folders and tags, with pages you can hand to a client. Many teams use it as the source library and build the moodboard itself in their canvas tool.

06

What it costs a design team

A solo designer can use the Free plan: 100 items and shared pages. On Pro, each designer who curates is $10 a month or $100 a year, and engineers, PMs and marketers who only need to browse are free viewers.

A starting point

A starter workspace for a design team

FolderWhat goes in itWho sees it
Inspiration / UI patternsOnboarding, pricing, dashboards, empty states, tagged by patternThe design team
Inspiration / Brand & typeIdentity work, type pairings, illustration, motionThe design team
ResourcesFonts, icons, plugins, stock, colour and accessibility toolsEveryone (viewers are free)
Design systemDocs, component library, tokens, guidelines, go linksDesign and engineering
Clients / Meridian / ReferencesApproved direction, examples, the moodboard linkThe client, via a password-protected page
FAQ

Questions designers ask.

Is Linkbry a Pinterest alternative for designers?

For keeping and sharing references, yes: it’s ad-free, private to your workspace, has folders, tags and notes, and is built for teams. It has no discovery feed; you bring the references in.

Can I save images, not just links?

Yes. The Chrome extension has “Save image” and “Save screenshot”, and the web app accepts uploads. They’re stored copies, so they don’t disappear when the source page does. Storage is 100 MB on Free (10 MB per file) and 20 GB on Pro (100 MB per file).

Is Linkbry a Milanote alternative?

Not for canvas-style boards: there’s no free-form arranging. It’s the better fit when the job is a searchable, shared library of references and resources that you can publish as a page.

Can I share inspiration with a client without them signing up?

Yes. Share the folder as a read-only page; the client opens it without an account. Add a password and an expiry date if the work is confidential.

Does it work with Figma?

There’s no Figma plugin. Save Figma file and prototype links like any other link, and use the extension’s ;; picker to insert saved links into text boxes in the browser, including Figma in the browser.

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