Media downloader alternatives, compared honestly
Every downloader is good at something different. These breakdowns are genuinely two-sided — real strengths and real trade-offs — so you can pick the right one, whether that’s MediaGrabber Pro or not.
Updated · By Mihir Vaghani, founder of The Plugins Company
What to look for
Six things that separate media downloaders
- Media types: images only, or video and audio too?
- Bulk & multi-tab: can it grab a whole page or many tabs at once?
- Hard cases: streaming, embedded, background, and lazy-loaded media
- Privacy: does it download locally, or route through a server?
- Interface: modern and simple, or powerful but dated?
- Pricing: free, subscription, one-time, or open-source?
Compare tool by tool
Video downloader
Video DownloadHelper
A long-established browser extension for downloading video from a very wide range of sites.
MediaGrabber Pro vs Video DownloadHelperBulk image downloader
Bulk Image Downloader
A powerful paid tool specialized in downloading images and galleries, popular with power users.
MediaGrabber Pro vs Bulk Image DownloaderImage downloader
Image Downloader (Chrome extension)
A simple, free Chrome extension that lists and downloads the images on the current page.
MediaGrabber Pro vs Image Downloader (Chrome extension)Download manager
DownThemAll!
A free, open-source download manager and accelerator that can mass-download links and files from a page.
MediaGrabber Pro vs DownThemAll!Batch image downloader
Fatkun Batch Download Image
A long-running Chrome extension for finding, filtering and batch-downloading the images on a page, popular for e-commerce and comic sites.
MediaGrabber Pro vs Fatkun Batch Download ImageVideo downloader
CocoCut
A Chrome and Edge extension focused on detecting and downloading video, including HLS (m3u8) streams that it merges into MP4.
MediaGrabber Pro vs CocoCut