Image Downloader for IW Chrome Extension Analysis
Video & Image DownloadersChrome extension ID: bcieicfnbnmlffkgbiemoofinidpgloa
A Chrome extension that adds a download button to images on the Instagram website. It is designed to simplify the process of saving visual content directly to the user's local machine.
Overview
Installs
70K+
Rating
★ 3.9
93 reviews
Languages
1 locales
Includes English
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Video & Image Downloaders
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
High review signal
Listing positioning
The product is positioned as a lite browser addon that allows users to save images from Instagram web with a single click. It claims to capture the highest-resolution images by integrating a download icon directly into the Instagram user interface.
Inferred product pattern
A simple utility extension that injects download triggers into a specific third-party website's DOM.
Review-backed pain points
Users report the extension is broken or non-functional following Instagram code changes. Specific complaints include files being saved with random numbers instead of usernames, and a failure to download videos or full-resolution images without opening posts individually.
Observed feature gaps
Lack of video download support, absence of bulk downloading for image stacks, and inability to customize or preserve original filenames.
- Instagram web users
- Content curators
- Social media researchers
- Saving images from Instagram posts
- Archiving visual content from web profiles
- Simplicity of one-click downloads
- Ease of use for basic image saving
- Breakage due to platform updates
- Poor file naming
- Limited resolution capture
- UI layout disruption
- Performance complaints detected
- No pricing friction observed as the product appears to be free.
Support
Users express frustration over a lack of updates to fix broken functionality, suggesting the developer has abandoned the app.
Reliability
Significant reliability issues reported, including the extension being completely non-functional for some and causing Instagram's website layout to align incorrectly (left-aligned) for others.
Privacy
No privacy or security complaints observed in the provided samples.
- Free usage observed
- No account requirement observed
- Free plan or free usage claimed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 1
- Videos: 0
- Languages: 1
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Version: 0.1.8
- Size: 38.0KiB
- Last updated:
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Links
Website: mybrowseraddon.com