grabbit

right-click save gives you a blurry crop.

Social networks ship a shrunken copy to your screen and keep the real file on their servers. Screenshot it and you have made a photo of a photo. Grabbit goes and gets the original.

get it free. no account. no signup.

hover. click. done.

There is no interface to learn. Put your pointer over any picture or clip and a small button shows up in the corner. Click it and the file is in your Downloads folder before you have moved the mouse away.

grabbing a lot, without getting yourself blocked

Scroll a profile, hit start, and Grabbit works through what has loaded. One file at a time, with a pause between each. If the site starts pushing back, it waits longer, and if it keeps pushing back, it stops and tells you instead of hammering away.

There is a ceiling on every run. That is deliberate. The tools that promise to vacuum up an entire account in one go are the ones that get your account throttled, and you are the one who pays for that, not the tool.

nothing leaves your browser

Most free downloaders are a funnel. You paste a link, their server fetches it, and now they have a list of everything you have ever saved. Grabbit has no server, so there is no list.

read the privacy policy, which is short because there is not much to say.

what it will not do

Two things, said plainly, so you are not disappointed after installing.

get it

Grabbit is in review for the Chrome Web Store. This page goes live before the listing does, so the button below is not wired up yet.

coming to the web store Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc.

Want to know when it lands? follow @Delahuntagram, which is where it gets announced.