A free program that allows you to easily download videos from Facebook
A free program that allows you to easily download videos from Facebook
Pros
- Freeware
- Fast image archiving
Cons
- Barebones UI
The fbDownloader program is freeware that simplifies downloading images and albums from Facebook.
People who use Facebook a lot to keep in touch with family and friends tend to loosely build large collections of images. These are images uploaded by them as well as people in their network. fbDownloader is a tool that helps you gather all of those images so that you can store them locally or in the cloud or just have them on hand for viewing sans Facebook.
fbDownloader lets you log in to Facebook through the application. It then gives you three options concerning what you want to download: Your tagged photos, all your photo albums or your friends’ photos. The output path defaults to My Pictures, or you can click the Change button and enter or navigate to whichever path you prefer.
The application also gives you the option to download as colored or black and white. Downloading as colored is essentially downloading as is. Downloading as black and white automatically converts images to grayscale. fbDownloader defaults to colored, or as is, and if you change to grayscale, you can’t change this option on a per-image basis, which we think limits the usefulness.
fbDownloader automatically populates a horizontal list of albums. The user interface here is rather basic, and if you’re just dealing with a few albums, it works well enough. Unfortunately, if you’re dealing with many albums and images, the UI is simply too barebones to be practical. The list can be massive. The program only lets you view about three albums at a time, and the developer has disabled maximizing the window—presumably to preserve the UI layout. Being able to maximize the Window, however, would let us at least expand the image list to be somewhat more usable.
If you want a quick and dirty way to snatch some albums off of Facebook, fbDownloader can do the trick. If you want a toolbox addition that you’ll use somewhat regularly, it’s hard to recommend fbDownloader over the many other free image downloaders that are available.
Pros
- Freeware
- Fast image archiving
Cons
- Barebones UI
Pros
- Works with all Windows systems
- Retrieve almost any number of pictures
Cons
- Can only retrieve pictures
Get all of the information from Facebook on your desktop.
Instead of logging in to Facebook every time you want to see a new picture that someone else has posted or to see your own pictures, use fbDownloader instead. This is an easy program to use and works well with most computers. However, tf you have an older computer, you may want to keep in mind that it will take longer to get all of the pictures that you retrieve in caparison to the time it takes a newer system.
The program allows you to easily get all of the pictures that you have been tagged in by family and friends as well as those that you have shared on your page. You can get a few pictures at a time or entire albums. The program allows you to easily sort the pictures based by date, location or occasion. You can save the pictures in a file on your desktop to make them easy to find when you feel nostalgic and want to look back at special events in life.
One of the perks of the program is that you have the ability to print the pictures that are retrieved. You can also email pictures to others or re-share them on Facebook. This is a program that gives benefits to the novice who simply enjoy looking at pictures of family and friends, and it's great for those who are photographers and enjoy editing photos by adding small details that change the image to something pleasing to the eye. It can help you make the image look different than the original. FbDownloader will only work with Facebook, so make sure you don't try to use photos that are on other social media sites as you won't be able to put them on your desktop.
Pros
- Works with all Windows systems
- Retrieve almost any number of pictures
Cons
- Can only retrieve pictures