Facebook quietly releases a Pinterest clone

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A new app from Facebook’s new products division looks an awful lot like Pinterest, The Information reports. Hobbi is a photo-sharing app where you can “capture and organize your creative process” like cooking, baking, arts and crafts, fitness or home decor, according to its page in the App Store.

Aimed at hobbyists, the app organizes photos of projects into collections so users can track their progress over time, TechCrunch notes. It doesn’t have a social sharing component, but Hobbi can be used to create videos of projects after they’re finished.

App Store preview of Hobbi

Facebook introduced its New Product Experimentation team last summer to develop experimental apps outside of the company’s core brands. So far…

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