🆚 Chosen vs. Select2
- 📈 Select2 is three times more popular than Chosen.
- 🌎 Select2 is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Chosen is more popular in Korea, Libya, and New Caledonia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ChosenType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Chosen is a select box enhancer for 
jQuery and Prototype that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user friendly.
Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #49
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #31
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Select2 JavaScript library is 3 times more popular than Chosen.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Select2 is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Chosen is more popular in Korea, Libya, and New Caledonia.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
France
Italy
Australia
India
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- 🔥 18th most popular in Korea in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 31st most popular in Tajikistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in Israel in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Iran in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Armenia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Bangladesh in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Lithuania in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Latvia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Tanzania in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Palestine in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Select2 is more popular than Chosen in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Internet Services
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Typeahead.js
Choices.js
Gijgo🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.