picTrove

[lucy24]

Anyone know what this is?

68.2.239.nnn - - [05/Jun/2016:22:54:44 -0700] "HEAD /ebooks/alcott/images/M-main552.png HTTP/1.1" 200 344 "-" "picTrove%202%20pro/177 CFNetwork/758.4.3 Darwin/15.5.0" 
68.2.239.nnn - - [05/Jun/2016:22:54:48 -0700] "GET /ebooks/alcott/images/M-main552.png HTTP/1.1" 200 37163 "-" "picTrove%202%20pro/177 CFNetwork/758.4.3 Darwin/15.5.0" 
68.2.239.nnn - - [05/Jun/2016:22:55:07 -0700] "HEAD /ebooks/alcott/images/M-main534.png HTTP/1.1" 200 344 "-" "picTrove%202%20pro/177 CFNetwork/758.4.3 Darwin/15.5.0" 
68.2.239.nnn - - [05/Jun/2016:22:55:35 -0700] "HEAD /ebooks/alcott/images/M-main543.png HTTP/1.1" 200 344 "-" "picTrove%202%20pro/177 CFNetwork/758.4.3 Darwin/15.5.0" 

The percents decode to "picTrove 2 pro"; the rest implies something to do with a mobile. Three HEAD, only one of which was followed-up by a GET.

IP is, unhelpfully, Comcast. Can't match it up with any recent page visit, though in the circumstances this can't be considered dispositive.

They're all pictures of the same thing-- that is, not the same object, but the kind where a captcha would say "click all pictures of suchandsuch", and the same significant word occurs in all three alt texts. Some kind of image-searching utility?

[keyplyr]

picTrove 2 pro is an image search & scrape app. It is offered in the iTunes store.

Anything bunched in with Darwin is a browser add-on Apple app. Android displays add-ons more like a desk-top browser. Apps can be add-ons to the browser or stand-alone. Difficult to keeps track of them. They're like rabbits.