🆚 Lightbox vs. PhotoSwipe
- 📈 Lightbox is three times more popular than PhotoSwipe.
- 🌎 Lightbox is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
- 🌍 PhotoSwipe is more popular in Gabon.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Lightbox
PhotoSwipeType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
The original lightbox library used to overlay images on top of the current page.
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
San Francisco, California, United States
Kyiv, Ukraine
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #20
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #44
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Lightbox JavaScript library is 3 times more popular than PhotoSwipe.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Lightbox is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan, while PhotoSwipe is more popular in Gabon.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
India
Poland
Australia
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Faroe Islands in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Austria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Israel in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Uzbekistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Colombia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Sri Lanka in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in South Africa in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Lightbox is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while PhotoSwipe is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and real estate sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Internet Services
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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LightGallery🗃️ 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.