Image Downloader Apps and Alternatives

With over 40 billion photos on Instagram alone, the Internet is one of the best places to find and download pictures that you could use for various projects. While grabbing a single picture is a quick matter or right-clicking and choosing "save image", the same cannot be said when you are downloading in bulk. This is where image downloader software comes in.

Image downloaders are desktop applications that will allow users to search dedicated image websites and easily download various item of interest to their computer. Typically, these utilities target a specific destination website, such as Flickr, Tinypic, National Geographic and Bing, and even Megaupload or Tumblr blogs, just to name a few.

Generally speaking, can search for images by keyword or by the date they were published on the respective website. A noteworthy feature is that some of these applications will also offer users the possibility to place the images as wallpapers or to use their download folder as the source for rotating the desktop background picture.