🆚 GSAP vs. Swiper

GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is an open-source JavaScript animation library that enables developers to create high-performance, cross-browser animations for HTML elements, CSS properties, SVG, canvas, and JavaScript objects.

It includes a fast, low-level tweening engine with advanced timeline sequencing, custom easing, motion paths, and optional plugins such as ScrollTrigger and Draggable for scroll-based and interactive effects.

Swiper is a modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions.

It offers touch and swipe navigation optimized for mobile, native-like momentum and resistance effects, support for vertical and horizontal modes, a modular plugin system with pagination, navigation, thumbnails, and parallax, accessibility features, and integrations with popular frameworks such as React, Vue, and Angular.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥈 Second most popular in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Animation category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Animation category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Animation category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Animation category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Luxembourg in the Animation category.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Sliders category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Sliders category.
• 🥇 Most popular in China in the Sliders category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Sliders category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Sliders category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• GSAP technology profile
• Webflow company profile

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• Nolimits4web company profile