This app works reasonably well at downloading images from Tumblr blogs. But it has a very bad memory leak which shows up when downloading larger blogs and can crash your Mac if allowed to seize all of memory. The lack of an update in 2.5 years is not reassuring.It has a limited ability to skip downloading some images (it caps out at 9999) this could easily be improved. Even better would be the ability to set either a date or number range for downloads. This would bea huge plus for capturing updates to blogs.

I ran the program, put in my Tumblr details, and clicked the Downlad Likes button. Voila!In just a few short minutes, my first 1,147 pictures were downloaded! (a limit set by Tumblr)I'll run it again tomorrow, where it should continue, without overwriting or re-downloading files.One caveat was I tried to download photos to a folder already having some (from another program). This Tumblelog Picture Downloader didn't want to use that folder (nothing happened). Choosing a new, empty folder got the results described above.

It provides the basics well. It allows you to download all the images from a tumblr blog. You can even filter your download by tags. Unfortunately it does not tag the files that it downloads. I would give it 5 stars if it added the tags to the image using the new Spotlight tags. Or even OpenMeta 2.0 tags. It would also be great if you could pull up your history/log of what you’ve downloaded. Sometimes I forget where I saved a blog and this would be a nice way to keep track.

I can appreciate that this app isn’t perfect, but my first use of it—which ended 20 minutes ago—was such a success that I had to give it 5 stars. It grabbed EVERY pic, at the highest available resolution, from one of those "continuous scrolling” blogs (the kind where as you scroll down the page, earlier pics appear, so you have to keep scrolling forever to get ALL the pics on screen). I just entered the blog’s address and sat back—it was freakin’ magic.