Download Imgur images, animations and entire albums at full quality. Resolves gifv links to the real MP4. Free, no signup, works in any browser.
An Imgur downloader retrieves files from i.imgur.com given a gallery, album or direct link. Imgur stores images as JPEG, PNG or WebP with no authentication required. Uploaded GIFs are converted to MP4 and labelled gifv, so an Imgur animation downloads as a video file unless it is converted back.
Imgur is one of the simplest places to save from, because everything is a plain static file — with one exception that catches everyone out. Uploaded GIFs are silently converted to MP4, so saving an Imgur animation gives you a video. This tool handles that properly, resolves gifv links to the real media, and pulls entire albums in one go rather than only what has loaded on screen.
Copy the URL of an image, a gifv, a gallery or an album. Direct i.imgur.com file links work too.
Imgur is detected automatically, and album URLs are expanded to their full contents rather than just the cover.
Single items download directly. Albums show every image with individual and download-all options.
A gifv link is a page, not a file. We follow it to the MP4 Imgur actually stores, so you get working media rather than a saved HTML page.
Imgur albums load progressively as you scroll. We fetch the complete list, so a three-hundred-image album returns all three hundred rather than the forty you had scrolled past.
If you genuinely need an animated GIF rather than an MP4, we can rebuild one — and we tell you upfront what that costs in colour depth and file size.
Imgur returns a placeholder graphic for deleted images instead of an error, which looks like a successful download. We detect that and tell you rather than handing you a useless file.
Public Imgur content requires no authentication and we never ask for a login.
Download as much as you need. A short rate limit applies only to very rapid bulk submissions.
| Format | Resolution | Audio | Typical size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Original imageThe file exactly as stored, with no resizing applied. | as uploaded | No | 50 KB – 8 MB |
| MP4 (from gifv)What Imgur actually stores for an animation. Silent by design. | as uploaded | No | 200 KB – 6 MB |
| Converted GIFRebuilt from the MP4. Larger file and reduced colour depth. | as uploaded | No | 2–40 MB |
| Medium thumbnail | 640px on the long edge | No | 30–180 KB |
Saved to: Files → Downloads (then Save Image for Photos)
Saved to: Internal storage → Download → Pictures
Album downloads arrive as separate files, so expect several download notifications.
Saved to: C:\Users\<you>\Downloads
Saved to: ~/Downloads
GIF is a remarkably inefficient way to store animation. The format dates from 1987, compresses poorly, and supports only 256 colours per frame. A few seconds of high-quality animation can easily reach twenty megabytes as a GIF, which at Imgur's scale is an enormous bandwidth problem. Imgur solved it by converting every uploaded GIF to MP4 — typically around a tenth of the size, at visibly better quality — and inventing the "gifv" label for the page that plays it on loop.
The important consequence is that gifv is not a file format. It is a web page. Saving a gifv link with a naive tool gives you an HTML document rather than any media at all, and following it correctly gives you an MP4. Neither is a GIF, because there is no GIF anywhere on Imgur's servers to retrieve — the original was discarded after conversion.
If what you actually need is an animated GIF, for a chat application or a forum that will not accept video, it has to be rebuilt from the MP4. That conversion is genuinely lossy in a way worth understanding: reducing to 256 colours per frame introduces banding in gradients, and the resulting GIF is usually several times larger than the MP4 it came from. Both trade-offs are unavoidable properties of the format, not a limitation of the conversion.
One smaller Imgur quirk worth knowing: when an image has been deleted, Imgur serves a placeholder graphic rather than returning a not-found error. To an automated tool that looks like a successful download, which is how people end up with folders full of identical placeholder images. We detect the placeholder and tell you the image is gone instead.
Imgur stores animations as MP4. Rebuilding a GIF costs something in both directions.
| MP4 (what Imgur stores) | Converted GIF | |
|---|---|---|
| Colours | Full colour | 256 per frame |
| Typical size | 200 KB – 6 MB | 2–40 MB |
| Gradients | Smooth | Visible banding |
| Audio | None — silent by design | None |
| Works in chat apps | Usually | Yes |
| Best for | Storage, editing, most uses | Places that reject video |
Because Imgur converted it on upload. GIF compresses poorly, so Imgur stores an MP4 roughly a tenth of the size and labels the display page a gifv. No GIF exists on the server to retrieve.
Not a file format — an Imgur label for a web page that loops an MP4 while looking like a GIF. The underlying media is a standard MP4 file.
Because GIF compresses far less efficiently than H.264 and stores each frame with its own 256-colour palette. A larger file with worse quality is an inherent property of the format.
Yes. Imgur albums load progressively as you scroll, but we fetch the complete list, so a large album returns every image rather than only the ones that had loaded.
That image was deleted. Imgur serves a placeholder rather than returning an error, which looks like a successful download. We detect this and warn you instead.
No. Imgur strips audio during GIF conversion because the source GIFs never had any, so the resulting MP4s are silent by design.
Yes. Direct file links, gallery URLs, album URLs and short imgur.com identifiers all resolve here.
No. Public content requires no authentication and we never request a login.
No. Files stream from Imgur directly to your device and nothing is retained on our side.
We do not host any content. All files are fetched directly from the source platform and streamed to your device — nothing is stored on our servers. Download only content you own or have permission to use. If you believe content has been made available in breach of your rights, see our copyright policy.