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Install the extension
Add Alamy Downloader to Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, or Opera and complete the quick activation with your license key.
Alamy Downloader
Download entire Alamy lightboxes or search pages in one click, with full metadata preserved for seamless compliance.
Browser extension
Current-page workflow
Browser downloads
40,000+ SERP Apps users
Alamy Downloader is an independent product not affiliated with or endorsed by Alamy, Alamy Limited or any subsidiaries or affiliates. All trademarks are property of their respective owners and use of them does not imply affiliation or endorsement.
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Your downloads never touch our servers
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One-time payment, lifetime updates
Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux
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About Alamy Downloader
When you’re working against a deadline, every click counts. Alamy Downloader scans your current Alamy page and lets you select individual files or grab an entire batch in seconds. You choose the format and resolution covered by your license, and the extension handles the rest.
Each downloaded file arrives with its original caption, photographer credit, and usage information embedded. The extension also flags any image already in your local library, so you never waste time on duplicates. Rights-managed and editorial labels travel with the files, keeping your compliance trail clean.
Once the extension is installed on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, or Opera, you simply log into Alamy and activate with your license key. From there, any lightbox, search result, or portfolio becomes a source for organized, metadata-rich downloads that are ready for print, web, or editorial layouts.
Trusted at scale
Trusted by 40k+ SERP Apps users.
Private & local
Private downloads. No ads or tracking.
One connected library
Part of the SERP Apps Extensions Library.
How It Works
Download in 3 clear steps
Open the page, let the extension detect what is available, and save the file to your computer.
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Browse Alamy content
Navigate to any Alamy search results page, lightbox, or contributor portfolio while logged in to your account.
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Select images to download
Click the extension icon to scan the page for available stock and editorial images. Select individual files or batch-select all assets.
Happy Users
Recent customer feedback
Short, practical feedback from people using Alamy Downloader in real workflows.
Useful for editorial photo workflows
Our newsroom licenses editorial images from Alamy daily. This extension lets me pull a full lightbox of press photos in under a minute with all the IPTC captions intact.
Eleanor Marsh
2025-02-20
Good for magazine photo research
I curate Alamy images for magazine layouts and the batch download from search results saves me hours. File naming with the Alamy ID makes re-licensing straightforward.
Tomasz Krawczyk
2025-03-05
Metadata preservation is spot-on
The rights-managed metadata preservation is critical for our compliance. Every caption and credit line comes through exactly as it should.
Anita Sharma
2025-01-30
These comments and ratings were collected during our July 2026 customer survey and reviewed against support records before publication.
Features
Everything it does
Core capabilities included in Alamy Downloader.
The tool is designed to locate licensable stock and editorial images across Alamy search pages, lightboxes, and contributor portfolios.
You will be able to export a selected lightbox as a neatly organized batch of images.
JPEG or TIFF files that your account license covers can be downloaded at their available resolution.
Provided captions, photographer credits, and usage details are preserved with each image.
An Alamy image ID is attached to simplify archiving and invoice lookups.
Editorial, rights-managed, and royalty-free labels stay with the relevant files.
The download queue can be filtered by license type or content category.
Images already present in your local library are flagged by the extension.
Files are tracked individually and interrupted transfers can be retried when possible.
Install: Add Alamy Downloader to Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, or Opera and complete quick activation.
Browse: Navigate to an Alamy search results page, lightbox, or portfolio while signed in.
Select: Click the extension icon to scan the page, then pick individual files or all assets.
Compare
Alamy Downloader Extension vs Online Downloader Website
Scan search pages, lightboxes, and portfolios directly, avoiding generic link tools that may miss session-based content.
Alamy Downloader
Online downloader website
Alamy Downloader
Scans the current Alamy page for licensable stock and editorial images
Online downloader website
Pasting the Alamy page link may lose login session or lightbox context
Alamy Downloader
Works on search results, lightboxes, and contributor portfolios
Online downloader website
Some sites may not handle all Alamy page types
Alamy Downloader
Flags images already present in your local library
Online downloader website
No local-library awareness; duplicates must be checked manually
Alamy Downloader
Captions, photographer credits, and usage details preserved per image
Online downloader website
Metadata preservation can vary or be absent
Alamy Downloader
Batch-select all assets or pick individual files
Online downloader website
Batch selection may not be available on every external tool
Alamy Downloader
Alamy image ID attached for archiving and invoice lookups
Online downloader website
Some services strip or alter Alamy IDs
Compatibility
Works where you work
Available on major desktop browsers and operating systems used in day-to-day workflows.
Browsers
ChromeEdgeFirefoxBraveOpera
Operating Systems
WindowsmacOSLinux
Supported Content
Licensed stock photos in JPEG and TIFF formatsEditorial and rights-managed images with preserved metadataBatch downloads from search results, lightboxes, and contributor portfoliosArchival and historical image collections
Not Supported
Safari and mobile browsersContent you have not licensed or purchasedWatermark removal from preview imagesDRM-protected or restricted assets
Downloads
Choose your browser
Pick the browser build you need. When a direct GitHub release is available, you can grab the ZIP there.
Chrome
Chrome support is in progress and will be enabled soon.
Coming soon
Firefox
Firefox support is in progress and will be enabled soon.
Coming soon
Edge
Edge support is in progress and will be enabled soon.
Coming soon
Opera
Opera support is in progress and will be enabled soon.
Coming soon
Brave
Brave support is in progress and will be enabled soon.
Coming soon
Whale
Whale support is in progress and will be enabled soon.
Coming soon
Yandex
Yandex support is in progress and will be enabled soon.
Coming soon
Install from GitHub releases or your user dashboard. ZIP builds include the full desktop extension.
Transparency
Extension permissions explained
Every requested permission and the job it performs inside the extension.
Saves licensed Alamy images directly to your downloads folder and tracks batch download progress for each file.
Reads the current Alamy page to detect available images, extract full-resolution URLs, and inject download controls into search results and lightboxes.
Stores licence activation, download history for duplicate detection, and user preferences between browser sessions.
Sends desktop alerts when batch downloads finish or if a transfer fails and needs attention.
FAQ
Common questions
It is designed to scan search results for licensable stock and editorial images, allowing you to select and queue them for download in one batch.
Know Before You Buy
What it cannot do
Better to know the boundaries up front than find out after checkout.
You must be logged in to your Alamy account to download licensed content.
Only assets you have licensed or purchased can be downloaded.
Watermarked preview images cannot be converted to full-resolution downloads.
Rights-managed images must be properly licensed before downloading.
Safari and mobile browsers are not supported.
Download speed depends on your internet connection and Alamy's servers.
Email activation is required before first use.
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Alamy Downloader
Pull licensed editorial and stock images from Alamy's 300M+ library directly to your local drive
Preserve rights-managed metadata and captions so compliance tracking stays intact
Batch-download entire lightboxes or search pages instead of saving images one at a time
Work offline with full-resolution assets ready for print, web, or editorial layouts
Alamy Downloader is an independent product not affiliated with or endorsed by Alamy, Alamy Limited or any subsidiaries or affiliates. All trademarks are property of their respective owners and use of them does not imply affiliation or endorsement.