7 Best Bulk Image Downloader Chrome Extensions in 2026

The Chrome Web Store has dozens of extensions promising to download all images from a webpage in one click. Most break on lazy-loaded galleries, miss CSS background images, choke on Pinterest, or silently dropped to Manifest V2 and stopped getting updates in 2025. We installed and tested the most popular ones against five real workflows: a Pinterest mood board, a Behance project page, an e-commerce product gallery, a Reddit subreddit, and a Midjourney reference dump. This is the honest ranking.

How we tested

Every extension below was scored on five criteria that actually matter when you are trying to ship work:

• Scan completeness: does it find images embedded in CSS backgrounds, srcset responsive images, picture elements, and lazy-loaded sources, not just plain img tags?
• Format support: WebP, AVIF, SVG, GIF, and data URIs, not just JPG and PNG.
• Filter quality: can you exclude tracking pixels and tiny icons by dimension and file type, or are you stuck downloading 200 garbage files?
• Speed at scale: we threw 500-image galleries at each extension. Some froze.
• Privacy and Manifest V3: still updated, no telemetry to third parties, no remote code, no broad host permissions outside the active tab.

1. Bulk Image Downloader (our pick)

Bulk Image Downloader is what we use day to day. It is Manifest V3, actively maintained, and built around a real preview gallery so you can see what is on the page before you commit to a download. Open the popup, click Scan Page for Images, and a thumbnail grid appears with every detected image, including the lazy-loaded ones once you have scrolled them into view.

What we like: filename pattern tokens that let you rename batches by page title, hostname, dimensions, alt text, or sequential index. ZIP packaging for batches of 50+. Filters by minimum width and height, file type, and aspect ratio. Catches CSS backgrounds, srcset, picture elements, and data URIs. AVIF and WebP are first-class.

What we do not like: the free tier caps at 25 downloads per day. Past that the upgrade modal appears. If you are downloading several hundred images per day this is a forced choice, fair, but worth noting.

Verdict: the only extension that did not break on any of the five test workflows. Free is enough for casual use. Power users will hit the cap and upgrade.

2. Image Downloader (Vlad Sabev)

The classic. Probably the most installed image downloader on the store, around 2 million users. The UI is minimal: a popup with a thumbnail grid, a couple of filters, a Download button.

What we like: simple, fast, no nonsense. No daily cap. Works on most basic gallery pages.

What we do not like: CSS background images and srcset responsive images get missed on a lot of modern sites. No ZIP packaging. Filename patterns are limited to a sequential prefix. Filter UI is basic.

Verdict: good for occasional downloads on simple pages. Falls apart on Pinterest, Instagram, and any site using next-gen image loading.

3. Imageye

Polished UI, popular on the store, around 1 million users. Imageye scans the page and shows a fullscreen overlay with detected images.

What we like: the overlay UI is nice for browsing what is on a page before downloading. Filters by size and type.

What we do not like: overlay can be slow on large galleries. We saw it freeze on 500-image test pages. Lazy-loaded images are sometimes missed unless you scroll the entire page before invoking. No ZIP. No filename patterns.

Verdict: fine for casual use, not great at scale.

4. Fatkun Batch Download Image

Veteran extension, has been on the store for years. The popup opens a new tab with all detected images in a gridded view.

What we like: the all-tabs mode where you can scan every open tab and download from all of them at once is genuinely useful if you have spent 20 minutes opening Pinterest tabs.

What we do not like: the UI feels dated. Settings are buried. Some users report ad-supported behaviour on certain builds, double check before installing. No ZIP. Filename rename is limited.

Verdict: the all-tabs feature is a real differentiator, but the rest of the experience is rough.

5. DownloadStar / DownThemAll alternatives

DownThemAll itself is a Firefox classic and never ported cleanly to Chrome. Several Chrome extensions market themselves as the DownThemAll replacement, with mixed results. They tend to focus on links and downloadable files generally, not images specifically.

What we like: if your workflow includes downloading PDFs and other files alongside images, a generic batch downloader can be a single tool for the whole job.

What we do not like: none of them have a real image preview. You pick from a flat list of URLs. Filtering is by file extension only, not by image dimensions.

Verdict: overkill if you only want images, but useful if your workflow is broader.

6. Pinterest-specific image savers

A small ecosystem of extensions targets Pinterest specifically, marketing themselves as faster than the official Pinterest save button. They use the Pinterest API or scrape the rendered DOM.

What we like: they often grab the original-resolution image, not the scaled thumbnail. For mood boards that matters.

What we do not like: single-site tools. The moment you leave Pinterest you need a second extension. Pinterest also occasionally breaks them by changing its DOM, and updates can lag.

Verdict: worth it as a complement to a general bulk image downloader if Pinterest is 80% of your downloads, but not as your only tool.

7. Tab Save / Save All Tab URLs

Honourable mention for the workflow where you have a folder of Pinterest pins, Behance projects, or product pages open in tabs and want to grab every image across all of them. Tab Save extensions export your open tab URLs as a text file. You then pair that with a bulk downloader that accepts a URL list.

What we like: ideal for research and archiving workflows where the tabs are already curated.

What we do not like: a two-step workflow. You need a second tool to actually pull the images.

Verdict: not a bulk image downloader itself, but a useful piece of the pipeline.

Quick comparison

Which one should you pick?

• Designer building mood boards from Pinterest, Behance, Dribbble: Bulk Image Downloader. The combination of CSS background detection, ZIP packaging, and filename patterns matches the workflow.
• Researcher archiving pages occasionally: Image Downloader (Vlad Sabev). Simple, fast, no cap, good enough for non-edge-case pages.
• E-commerce manager pulling product galleries: Bulk Image Downloader, because srcset responsive images are everywhere on Shopify and Etsy and most other extensions miss the original-resolution source.
• Power user doing 100+ image batches several times a day: Bulk Image Downloader Pro or the Peak Productivity bundle, because the cap will bite within the first week.
• Pinterest-only workflows: a Pinterest-specific saver complements a general tool. Use both.

Frequently asked questions

Do bulk image downloaders work on Instagram and Facebook? Yes, on the public-facing parts of those sites. Private accounts and DRM-protected content are out of scope for any extension. Story content depends on which extension and how recently it was updated.

Is it legal to bulk download images from a website? The download itself is not illegal in most jurisdictions, but what you do with the images matters. Personal use, research, and journalism are generally fine under fair use or its equivalents. Republishing copyrighted images without permission is not. We cover this in more detail in the section on copyright in our main bulk download guide.

Why are some images missing when I scan a page? Three usual suspects. Lazy-loaded images that you have not scrolled into view yet are the most common. Sites using JavaScript-rendered galleries that load on user interaction are second. DRM or protected content is third and rare.

What about Firefox and Edge? Most Chrome extensions also publish to Edge. Firefox has its own ecosystem with different leaders, including the classic DownThemAll. Edge users can install Chrome extensions directly from the Chrome Web Store.