Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a field of communication, and provide a method and device for downloading pictures at a client terminal. The method includes: simultaneously downloading, by the client terminal, according to a received downloading request, a first picture corresponding to a picture characteristic value in the downloading request and text information corresponding to a text characteristic value in the downloading request; determining whether the first picture and a second picture that has been pre-stored in a server and corresponds to the text information, are derived from a same picture; and downloading, by the client terminal, the second picture from the server if the first picture and the second picture are not derived from the same picture and the client terminal has not downloaded the second picture in advance, and displaying only the text information and the second picture on the client terminal.