🆚 Hammer.js vs. TouchSwipe
- 📈 TouchSwipe is three times more popular than Hammer.js.
- 🌎 TouchSwipe is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Hammer.js is more popular in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Hammer.js is an open-source 
JavaScript library for detecting gestures from touch, mouse, and pointer events.
TouchSwipe is an open-source 
jQuery plugin that adds touch gesture recognition to web applications on mobile and touch-enabled devices.
It detects one-finger and two-finger swipe gestures in four directions, pinch in and pinch out, tap, double tap, long tap, and hold events, and falls back to mouse drag events on desktop browsers.
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #80
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #42
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The TouchSwipe JavaScript library is 3 times more popular than Hammer.js.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
TouchSwipe is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Hammer.js is more popular in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
United States
Russia
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- 🔥 17th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 31st most popular in Kazakhstan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 41st most popular in Ukraine in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 42nd most popular in Belarus in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 67th most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Spain in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Malta in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Iceland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 34th most popular in Australia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 35th most popular in Italy in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
TouchSwipe is more popular than Hammer.js in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
jQuery UI Touch Punch
FastClick
SwiperSee also
🗃️ 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 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.