🆚 GLightbox vs. PhotoSwipe
- 📈 PhotoSwipe is five times more popular than GLightbox.
- 🌎 PhotoSwipe is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 GLightbox is more popular in Nepal, Laos, and Kyrgyzstan.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PhotoSwipeType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
GLightbox is a pure 
JavaScript lightbox that can display images, iframes, inline content and videos.
PhotoSwipe is a modular JavaScript image gallery and lightbox library for displaying responsive image collections with interactive viewing features.
It supports responsive images, zooming, panning, touch gestures, keyboard navigation, fullscreen viewing, customizable UI controls, and galleries created from 
HTML elements, external data, or dynamically generated image collections.
Headquarters
Kyiv, Ukraine
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #100
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #40
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The PhotoSwipe JavaScript library is 5 times more popular than GLightbox.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
PhotoSwipe is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while GLightbox is more popular in Nepal, Laos, and Kyrgyzstan.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
India
Spain
France
Japan
Italy
Australia
Canada
Awards
- ⬆️ 51st most popular in Bangladesh in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 54th most popular in Pakistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 55th most popular in India in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 61st most popular in Indonesia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 65th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Israel in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Uzbekistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in Malaysia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in Pakistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in Ecuador in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
PhotoSwipe is more popular than GLightbox in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Entertainment
Internet Services
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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🗃️ 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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.