Pain Point: Mainstream image download tools silently miss most images
When designers build moodboards, researchers build resource libraries, or e-commerce operators archive competitor materials, their common workflow is: open the page → install a "Save All Images" type extension → one-click download.
But you probably don't know: mainstream image download tools miss 60-90% of images on modern webpages.
Real test on apple.com homepage:
- Mainstream tool A: captured 8 images
- Mainstream tool B: captured 11 images
- Image Harvest: captured 60+ images
Technical reason for missed images: modern webpage images aren't just in
<img> tags. They're hidden in:
- CSS
background-image (most hero banners are stored here)
- Shadow DOM (commonly used in design system components)
- Lazy-loaded async content (standard for e-commerce product lists)
srcset high-resolution candidates (for Retina display adaptation)
<picture> / <source> elements
Mainstream tools only scan <img> tags, so they miss 60-90% of images.
What Image Harvest Does
We implemented 5 technical measures to ensure no images are missed:
- Recursive Shadow DOM traversal — digs into closed components to capture images
- CSS background extraction — covers both inline and external stylesheets
- Lazy load waiting + MutationObserver real-time monitoring — captures newly loaded images that appear when scrolling
- srcset parsing — automatically selects the highest resolution version, no low-quality thumbnails
- Same-origin iframe content extraction
Core Features
- 🔍 Smart capture (full coverage of 5 modern web technologies)
- 🎛️ Flexible filtering (by size, format, layout, URL keywords)
- 📥 Batch ZIP download (free for up to 50 images per download, unlimited for paid users)
- 🌐 Simultaneous capture across multiple tabs (paid feature)
- 🔎 Automatic duplicate removal for similar images (pHash perceptual hashing)
- 🎨 Dominant color extraction (5 colors per image)
- ⭐ Local image favorites (stored in IndexedDB, works offline)
- 🔍 Reverse image search (Google / TinEye / Baidu / Yandex)
- 🔒 100% local processing, zero data reporting
Pricing Model (independent developer style)
- Free version (permanently available): 20 images per download + single/full selection + ZIP packaging + Google reverse search
- Paid version (one-time purchase of ¥69): unlimited batch downloads / multi-tab support / similar image deduplication / 4-engine reverse search / custom naming templates
No subscriptions, no recurring fees, no data reporting. One-time purchase for permanent use.
Ideal For
- Designers building moodboards / conducting visual research
- Researchers / content creators collecting resources
- E-commerce operators archiving competitor materials
- Photographers organizing inspiration references