Free Companion

IMG Flow for Chrome

Grab images from any webpage straight into your IMG Flow queue. No copy-paste, no save-and-drag. One click — done.

View developer build on GitHub

Chrome Web Store listing is in review. For now you can install the developer build from the repo.

The extension needs IMG Flow installed

The Chrome extension is a thin handoff layer — it sends image URLs to the desktop app, which does the actual download. If you don't have IMG Flow yet, grab it here.

Two ways to grab an image

Click the toolbar icon

A small magenta badge appears in the top-right of every image on the page. Click any badge to send that image to IMG Flow — the other badges disappear immediately. Click the toolbar icon again to re-scan.

Right-click any image

Pick “Send image to IMG Flow” from the context menu. Always available, no toolbar click needed first. The fastest path when you just want to grab one image and move on.

How to install (developer build)

The extension is in review for the Chrome Web Store. While we wait, you can install the developer build directly from the repository — works exactly the same as the eventual Web Store version.

  1. 1
    Make sure IMG Flow is installed on your Mac. Download it here if you don't have it yet.
  2. 2
    Clone or download the IMG Flow repo from github.com/russtanner6/imgflow.
  3. 3
    Open Chrome and visit chrome://extensions/.
  4. 4
    Toggle Developer mode on (top-right corner of the page).
  5. 5
    Click Load unpacked and select the chrome-extension folder inside the repo.
  6. 6
    Pin the IMG Flow icon to your toolbar via Chrome's puzzle-piece menu, then try the right-click flow on any image to test.

The very first time you trigger the extension, Chrome will show an “Open IMG Flow?” dialog with an “Always allow” checkbox. Tick it once and Chrome will route image URLs to the app silently from then on.

Privacy & permissions

  • No storage, no telemetry, no third parties. The extension keeps zero state and makes zero network calls of its own. It hands the image URL to IMG Flow and exits.
  • Three permissions: contextMenus (right-click item), scripting (inject the badge overlay), and activeTab (limits all of the above to the tab you're currently on).
  • No broad host access. We deliberately don't request <all_urls> permissions — the install prompt stays scoped to “the website you're currently visiting.”
  • Image bytes never enter the browser. IMG Flow downloads each image directly through its existing “From Link” path, which validates the URL against SSRF attacks, follows redirects safely, and stores the file in ~/.imgflow/imports/.

Browser support

Chrome 88+ (January 2021), Microsoft Edge 88+, plus any Chromium-based browser — Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera GX. macOS only for now, because the extension launches the IMG Flow Mac app. Firefox support possible in a future release.