A 47KB small extension that ranks #1 for "download photos" searches on Avito: 4 people a day, 991 in half a year
What it is A free Chrome extension that, on an Avito listing page, bundles all photos into a ZIP in order with one click.
Why it took off It didn't really take off. It just holds the search terms "download Avito photos" on the Chrome Web Store and Google, which nobody was specifically serving, and naturally brings in about 4 people a day.
CHow you could play it Don't build another Avito tool. Instead, go after other major local sites with a specific action in the keyword, ship a few a week, and only add paid features to the one that organically grows to a few thousand users.
970 users · rating 5.0 (2)
Avito Image Downloader does one thing: on Avito, Russia's largest classifieds site for used goods and services, it packs all the photos in a listing into a ZIP with one click. No website, no promotion, no payment. Launched in May, it had 991 users by Nov 6. It didn't break out, but it shows something: a big platform plus one specific action can be a search term nobody owns on the Chrome Store. Below: where these users come from, why there are so few, who actually makes money on this, and whether this playbook is worth copying.
"I have 3,500 of these links"
A few years ago, a user named Дмитрий С asked a question on Habr Q&A titled "Как скачать фото с авито?" (How do I download photos from Avito?). He was an Avito seller with a shop export file containing 3,500 image links: "Avito seems to have changed something yesterday... I used Content Downloader to batch download, but only got three or four dozen images before it stopped. Avito support can't help, or doesn't want to. What now?" By Nov 6 the question had 10,912 views.
Moving your own product photos, agents moving listing photos to other sites, buyers saving a car's photos to look at later: it's all the same need, and it's very old. Searching Russian for "how to download photos from Avito" turns up countless articles and videos, some telling you to right-click and save, others telling you to set up a scraper.
What it is
Open any listing on avito.ru, click the browser extension icon, check a few photos or click "select all", then click "download". The photos are numbered in order and packed into one ZIP. The store description says "maximum resolution, 1280×960", and it works in all categories: goods, cars, real estate. The description also says: no data collected, no login needed, everything runs locally in the browser.
Its English blurb is a single line: "Download all photos from Avito listings as a ZIP. Free. No login." The package is 46.97KB and needs permission for only 3 avito domains. Version 1.0.1, published 13 May, last updated 22 May, and untouched since. It doesn't remove watermarks.
How the 991 users came in
| Date | users | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 633 | 2 ratings, 5.0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 775 | 2 reviews |
| 2026-10-08 | 839 | 2 reviews |
| 2026-11-01 | 970 | 2 reviews |
| 2026-11-06 | 991 | 2 ratings, and not a single written review in the store |
The first four rows come from extops.dev's curve; the last row comes from the Chrome Store page (11-06).
Gained 350 new users over 90 days, roughly 4 a day, with no spikes on the curve. From launch to late August it averaged about 5.5 a day, and the pace barely changed. It wasn't a wave of traffic that rose and fell, just a few people a day finding it and installing it.
Those few people were found through search. On Nov 6, searching the Chrome Store for the Russian "скачать фото авито" (download Avito photos) put it first; searching the English "avito photo" also put it first. On Google, searching "скачать все фото с авито расширение" (download all Avito photos extension) puts its store page first. It has no website, so Google traffic lands directly on the store page.
The naming is deliberate: the name is in English, "Avito Image Downloader"; the blurb is in English; the long description is entirely in Russian. That way, searches in both English and Russian can match.
Nobody has mentioned it on X in nearly 90 days. What you can find online are auto-indexing sites like chrome-stats and extops. No ads, no bloggers, no tutorial videos.
One person, 7 extensions
The developer account is haysessophie, a personal gmail address, with no EU trader status declared. Around May of 2026, this account published 7 extensions in a cluster (extops developer page, 11-06):
| Add-ons | users |
|---|---|
| Avito Image Downloader | About 980 |
| VPN ROCKET for Youtube | 698 |
| Ozon Image Downloader | 136 |
| OLX Image Downloader | 53 |
| eBay Image Downloader | 253 |
| TWITCH-KIRPICH | 22 |
| Quick CSS | 9 |
Together they have about 2,000 users. Avito and Ozon are both Russian platforms, and VPNs for YouTube and Twitch quality are long-standing issues for Russian users, so the author is most likely an individual developer in the Russian-speaking market (inference). I found no evidence of cross-promotion between these extensions.
Site-specific downloaders have been done before: WebStar's eBay Image Downloader has 10k users and in-app purchases; Turkey's Sahibinden Toplu Fotoğraf İndir has 3,000 users; image-download extensions for Amazon, Alibaba and Temu have anywhere from a few thousand to 30k users. The Avito slot was empty before, and this is the first one built specifically for it.
Who it's competing with, and who makes money
On the Chrome Store, it's the largest of the extensions that download images specifically for Avito. The others are either smaller or do something different:
| Who | Where | Scale | How it differs from the others |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image Downloader, Imageye, Fatkun | Chrome, general-purpose | 2M, 2M, 200k users | Works on any site, but also grabs thumbnails and avatars, so you have to pick manually; doesn't show up in "Avito" search results |
| Parser Avito, Парсер Avito | Chrome | 243, 44 users | Scrapes a listing's title, price and description; images are a side benefit |
| avToolsPro, LikeStats, etc. | Chrome | 2,000 to 10k users | Built for sellers to view data and analyze competitors; doesn't download images |
| АнтиЗнак(antiznak.ru) | Web | Top results in Russian search | Paste a link, remove the Avito and CIAN watermarks, starting at 5 rubles per link |
| Various Telegram watermark-removal bots | Telegram | There are YouTube tutorials | Works on your phone too, and removes the watermark |
The last two are where the money actually comes in. The АнтиЗнак site says: "prices start at 5 rubles per link"; one link is processed no matter how many photos it has. You top up and buy a bundle, and the bundles expire.
Users will pay to remove watermarks, and they want to do it on their phone. Most of Avito's traffic comes from mobile, while this extension only works on desktop Chrome and does not remove watermarks. So the only people it can reach are those sitting at a computer, who found it through search, and don't mind watermarks. That's why it gets 4 a day.
What you can learn, and what you can't
The formula you can copy is a big platform × one action × search terms in the local language. Pick a site locals use every day that has no dedicated tool on the Chrome Web Store yet, like Avito, OLX, Sahibinden, Mercari, Kufar, or Wallapop. Name it "site + Image Downloader", write the long description in the local language, make one per site, and ship them in batches. Then wait for on-site search to bring users. Building an extension is cheap; this one is only 47KB.
What you can't copy is scale. The best one has around 1,000 users after six months. 7 together add up to 2,000, and none of them make a cent. To earn real money you have two paths: copy eBay's in-extension in-app purchases, or copy АнтиЗнак's charge for watermark removal. Watermark removal touches the platform's image copyright and rules. A redesign, complaints, or a takedown could end it at any time (inferred).
If it were you
C: You can learn a cheap placeholder play here, but copying it isn't worth it. One site, one extension, a few users a day, no revenue. The ceiling is visible in the curve.
Who it suits: individual developers who want to practice, or who want to test search patterns on the Chrome Web Store with a batch of small extensions. Also people who already sell tools for a local platform and want this as a free entry point.
Who it doesn't suit: anyone who wants to make money from this, or anyone who wants to build a real product.
How to do it: if you build one, don't make another Avito image downloader. That slot is taken. Look for open combinations of "big local site + action", launch a few a week, and see which one's search volume holds up. Only add paid features (batch-processing multiple listings, exporting to other platforms, watermark removal) to the one that grows organically to a few thousand users.
How to get users: through Chrome Web Store search and long-tail Google queries. Put the site name in the title, write the description in the local language, and include the way locals actually search (for example "скачать фото авито").
When to get in early: there's no window. This kind of demand won't suddenly disappear or suddenly spike.
Signs you've misread it: ① this extension or a similar one suddenly gains several thousand users in one month, which would mean a channel you haven't seen; ② the author adds a fee and users don't drop off; ③ someone brings the same thing to mobile (Telegram bot, mobile apps) and gets users an order of magnitude higher. If the first two happen, the desktop extension route is wider than it looks. If the third happens, the money is on phones, not in Chrome.
Sources
- Chrome Web Store listing and reviews page (11-06): user count, description, version, permissions, developer info
- extops.dev single-extension page and developer page (11-06): user-count curve, the developer's 7 other extensions
- Chrome Web Store search for "скачать фото авито" and "avito photo"; Google search for "скачать все фото с авито расширение" (11-06)
- Habr Q&A question 1122348 (10,912 views, 11-06)
- antiznak.ru pricing page (11-06)
- User counts for generic downloaders and similar extensions: Chrome Web Store (around 11-01)
Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report
- Competitors
Name Where Launched Scale How it differs from this one АнтиЗнак (antiznak.ru) Web Several years ago (exact year not verified) The Russian search "скачать фото Авито" has ranked high for a long time; scale not verified Paid (from about 5 rubles per link). You paste a link into the site and it processes it. The selling point is removing the Avito/ЦИАН watermark. This extension is free and works with one click on the page, but doesn't remove watermarks. Telegram watermark-free download bots (several) Other Not verified Promoted through YouTube tutorials; scale not verified Works on mobile and removes watermarks; this extension only runs on desktop Chrome Image Downloader / Imageye / Fatkun and other general-purpose batch image downloaders Chrome 2012–2025 Image Downloader 2M, Imageye 2M, Fatkun family 200k users (chromestore library) General tools make you filter images yourself and pick up thumbnails and avatars. This extension only recognizes Avito listing galleries, automatically grabs the largest size, and packages them in numbered order. Парсер Avito / Parser Avito — парсер объявлений Chrome 2026-07-31(Parser Avito) 44 users / 243 users (extops / chromestore) Parses every field of the listing (title, price, description, etc.), with images as a side feature. This extension does only one thing: photos. avToolsPro, bananlab, LikeStats and other Avito seller analytics extensions Chrome 2023–2024 2,000–10,000 users (chromestore) Do competitor analysis and data, not bulk image downloads General-purpose scraper extensions such as WebScraper Chrome Years ago Large (unverified) Requires configuration and is aimed at people who like to tinker; this extension needs zero setup - Where users come from
- Verified Chrome Web Store on-site search: 2026-11-06 Using Jina to pull Chrome Web Store results for "скачать фото авито", this extension ranks #1; for "avito photo" it ranks #1. The name is in English, "Avito Image Downloader", and the long description is all Russian, so it covers keywords in both languages.
- Verified Google and other search engines (SEO long tail): When Jina searched "скачать все фото с авито расширение", its store page ranked #1. There's no official website, so traffic can only land on the store page.
- Inferred Developers' portfolio cross-linking: The same developer, haysessophie, released a cluster of extensions around 2026-05: image downloaders for eBay / Ozon / OLX / Avito, plus VPN ROCKET, TWITCH-KIRPICH and others, 7 extensions in total with about 2k users combined (extops developer page). The store's "related extensions" may group them together, but there's no direct evidence of that.
- Inferred Ads, social media, creators: Zero mentions on X; no recommendation posts, videos, or ads found on the web.
Avito Image Downloader (Chrome extension) research report
- Store page: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/avito-image-downloader/hmic…
- Developer: haysessophie ([email protected], non-EU seller, no website)
- Research date: 2026-11-06
Bottom line
It never really "took off". It's one of many site-specific image downloaders an individual developer built in bulk. It holds the long-tail search term "Avito + download photos" on the Chrome Web Store, and almost nobody else builds dedicated extensions for it, so it picks up 3–6 users a day organically and has gathered about 980 people in six months. The demand is real, but the user ceiling is very low.
What it is
On any Avito listing page (avito.ru, Russia's largest classifieds and secondhand platform), click the extension icon, select some or all photos, and they're numbered in order and packaged as a ZIP download. The official claim is "maximum resolution 1280×960". It covers every category: goods, cars, real estate. The description states it collects no data, needs no login, and runs entirely locally. The package is 46.97KiB, version 1.0.1,2026-05-13 was released, and 2026-05-22 was the last update (source: store page, scraped 2026-11-06). It offers no watermark removal.
Data
| Date | users | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 633 | 2 | extops.dev curve |
| 2026-09-28 | 775 | 2 | extops.dev |
| 2026-10-08 | 839 | 2 | extops.dev |
| 2026-11-01 | 970 | 2 | chromestore library snapshot / extops |
| 2026-11-06 | 982 | 2 | extops.dev (30 days + 162,90 days + 349) |
- The curve is smooth, with no spikes in 90 days, and averages about 3.9 new users a day. From launch to the end of August it averaged about 5.5 users/day, and the growth rate barely changed.
- The rating has stayed at 2 reviews, 5.0, with no sign of prompted five-star reviews.
- chrome-stats search snippets showed readings of 469, 775, 946 and so on, matching the curve above (specific dates blocked by a captcha, not verified).
Competitors
| Competitors | Form | Launched | Scale | How it differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| АнтиЗнак antiznak.ru | Web | Many years (unverified) | Top of Russian-language search | Paid (from about 5 rubles per link). Paste a link and it gets processed; removes the Avito/ЦИАН watermark. This is the point where users actually pay. |
| Various Telegram watermark-removal bots | Telegram | Not verified | There are YouTube tutorials | Works on mobile and removes watermarks |
| Image Downloader / Imageye / Fatkun etc. | Chrome, general purpose | 2012–2025 | 2M / 2M / 200k users (chromestore library) | General-purpose tools; you have to filter out thumbnails and avatars yourself, and they don't understand Avito galleries |
| Parser Avito, Парсер Avito | Chrome | 2026 | 243 / 44 users | Parses every field of the listing, with images as a side feature |
| avToolsPro, bananlab, LikeStats | Chrome | 2023–2024 | 2k–10k users | Seller data analytics, not doing the chart below |
| Realtor Photo Pack | Chrome | Not verified | 13 users | Covers several property sites, so fewer users |
| Scrapers like WebScraper | Chrome | Years | Big | Needs manual setup; there are tutorials on pikabu |
On other platforms, the same "site-specific downloader" play has been done: eBay Image Downloader (WebStar, 10k users, with in-app purchases), Sahibinden Toplu Fotoğraf İndir (3k users), Amazon/Alibaba/Temu image downloader extensions (a few thousand to 30k users). The Russian-language Avito slot was empty before, and this is the first one to fill it.
Takeaway: Among Chrome extensions built specifically for bulk-downloading Avito images, this is the largest. Across the whole web, paid watermark-removal sites and Telegram bots are the dominant solutions.
Growth channels
- Chrome Web Store search (confirmed): 2026-11-06 ranks #1 for both "скачать фото авито" and "avito photo" in Chrome Web Store search results. It uses a keyword play: the name is the English "Avito Image Downloader", the short description is in English, and the long description is fully in Russian, so searches in both languages hit it.
- Google long tail (confirmed): Searching "скачать все фото с авито расширение" puts its store page at #1. It has no website, so traffic lands directly on the store page.
- Portfolio (inferred): The same developer appears to have published about 7 extensions around 2026-05: eBay (gpkmnjg…), Ozon 136, OLX 53, Avito 982, plus VPN ROCKET for Youtube 698, TWITCH-KIRPICH 22, and Quick CSS 9, roughly 2k users in total (from the extops developer page). VPN and Twitch-quality extensions target pain points of Russian users, so the developer is likely an individual Russian speaker. No evidence was found that the extensions cross-promote each other.
- Ads, social, creators (none found): x-radar shows zero mentions in 90 days; the web only has auto-indexed pages like chrome-stats, extops, and crxsoso.
Why it has these 980 users
- The need is old and real: There are plenty of Russian-language tutorials on "как скачать фото с Авито", and one such question on the Habr Q&A has over 10k views. The people who need it include sellers moving photos, agents reposting listings, and buyers keeping records. Some people also pay for this (АнтиЗнак charges per link).
- The shelf is empty: In the Chrome Web Store, similar dedicated extensions have only tens to a couple hundred users. General-purpose downloaders have more users, but they don't show up in "Avito" search results.
- Lowest barrier: Free, no login, only needs permission for 3 avito domains, and it declares that it runs locally.
- No promotion: The growth curve is smooth, which means it's all passive search traffic, and that's why the scale is this size.
Differentiation, and whether it's the reason for the traction
Its differentiator is being narrow: it does one action on one site, needs zero setup, and names ZIP files in sequential order. That's how it ranks #1 in store search and why it has these 980 users. But the needs that would actually make people pay are watermark removal and mobile support (Avito traffic is mostly mobile). It does neither, so its ceiling is the people who find it via desktop Chrome search.
Visibility
Almost nobody knows about it yet. There's no revenue, no pricing, no coverage from media or big accounts, and no copycats.
What others can borrow
- The formula is "big platform × single action": pick a site with long-tail local-language search demand that nobody dedicated on the Chrome Store (Avito, OLX, Sahibinden, Mercari, Kufar, Wallapop…), name it "site name + Image Downloader", write a long description in the local language, publish one extension per site in bulk, and collect passive traffic from in-site search.
- To monetize, you could copy АнтиЗнак and sell watermark removal or bulk link processing, or copy WebStar's eBay downloader and add in-app purchases. A single extension brings in very little, so you'd have to build a portfolio to add up to a meaningful total.
Unknowns
- Actual usage and retention are unknown; the store only shows install counts.
- The developer's identity and whether they plan to charge are unknown.
- Whether an Avito redesign or complaints could break or delist the extension is unknown.
- The historical data on chrome-stats was blocked by a captcha, so it wasn't obtained.
Sources
- Chrome Web Store detail page (scraped via Jina, 2026-11-06); Chrome Web Store results for "скачать фото авито" and "avito photo" (2026-11-06)
- extops.dev single page, alternatives page, developer page (2026-11-06)
- Our chromestore database: item / item_snap, search "avito" and "image downloader"
- antiznak.ru/ (pricing), qna.habr.com/q/1122348, creatmedia.ru/objavlenija/kak-skachat-foto-s-avito/, pikabu WebScraper tutorial
- x-radar search "avito photos": 0 posts in 90 days