Maybe you're backing up your archive, moving to a new platform, switching computers, or closing an account. The catch is that Pic-Time downloads galleries one at a time, which becomes a serious time sink once you have dozens or hundreds of them. This guide covers both ways to do it: the manual method built into Pic-Time, and a faster method that downloads every gallery in a single pass.
The short answerTwo ways down — one of them is fast
Pic-Time itself only lets you download galleries individually, so backing up a large account by hand can take an entire weekend. To download all of your Pic-Time galleries at once, you can use Gallery Grab — an independent desktop app for Windows and macOS that signs into your own Pic-Time account and downloads every gallery for you while you do something else.
You can try it free on five galleries with no credit card at gallerygrab.com.
Why botherWhy download all your Pic-Time galleries?
- Backup and peace of mind. Your galleries live on someone else's servers. A local copy means you still hold your work if anything ever changes with your account or the platform.
- Migrating to a new platform. If you're moving away from Pic-Time, you need everything off it first. A clean copy of every gallery is the first step of any migration.
- A new computer. Moving your catalog to a new machine is far easier when you can pull everything down in one pass.
- Winding down or closing an account. Before you cancel, you want to secure years of client work so nothing is lost.
Method 1Downloading from Pic-Time manually
Pic-Time includes a download option for galleries. You open a gallery, choose to download it, and Pic-Time prepares the files for you to save. This works perfectly well for a single gallery.
The limitation is scale. You repeat that process for every gallery, one at a time, waiting for each one to prepare and download before you start the next. A photographer with a handful of galleries will be fine. A working studio with hundreds of galleries is looking at hours or days of clicking, waiting, and clicking again. There's no built-in button to grab them all together.
If you only have a few galleries, the manual method is genuinely the simplest path, and you don't need anything else. If you have a large archive, read on.
Method 2Bulk-downloading every gallery with Gallery Grab
Gallery Grab is a desktop app built to solve exactly this. It downloads all of your Pic-Time galleries at once, instead of one at a time. Here's how it works, start to finish:
- Install the app. Gallery Grab runs on Windows and macOS. Download it and open it.
- Connect your account. Enter your Pic-Time address, and the app opens a normal browser window where you log in yourself. This is the important part for trust, and it's covered in the next section.
- Let it find your galleries. Once you're logged in, Gallery Grab reads the full list of galleries in your account automatically.
- Choose what to download. Select every gallery, or pick only the ones you want. Then choose a folder on your computer to save them to.
- Start the download and walk away. The app works through each gallery on its own and saves them to your folder. You can leave it running and come back to a complete local copy.
- The result is a full set of your galleries on your own drive — organized and ready to back up, move, or archive.
TrustIs it safe? Does it see my password?
This is the right question to ask about any tool that touches your account, so here's the direct answer.
You log into Pic-Time yourself, in a real browser window, on Pic-Time's own page. Gallery Grab never asks for, sees, or stores your password. It acts only on the galleries inside your own account — the same ones you already have access to. Your login stays between you and Pic-Time.
The resultWhat you actually get
- Your galleries in full. Gallery Grab downloads the highest-resolution version available for each gallery, so you get your real work and not thumbnails.
- Archived galleries too. Older and archived galleries are included, not just your active ones.
- An organized local copy. Everything lands in the folder you choose, ready to back up to an external drive or cloud storage.
TimingHow long does it take?
That depends on how many galleries you have and your internet speed. The key point is that the time is unattended. Instead of you sitting and clicking through every gallery, the app does the work while you do something else. A backup that would have taken a whole weekend by hand becomes something you start and walk away from.
PricingWhat it costs
Gallery Grab is a paid app, and you can try it before you pay. The free trial downloads five galleries with no credit card, so you can confirm it works on your own account first. Full access is a flat yearly price. For a one-time backup or migration, a single year covers everything you need. For ongoing peace of mind, you keep it active and run it again whenever you want a fresh copy. See current pricing at gallerygrab.com.