🆚 LightGallery vs. PhotoSwipe
- 📈 PhotoSwipe is twice as popular as LightGallery.
- 🌎 PhotoSwipe is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 LightGallery is more popular in Russia, the Czech Republic, and Turkey.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
LightGallery
PhotoSwipeType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
A customizable, modular, responsive lightbox gallery plugin with no dependencies.
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 #58
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #44
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The PhotoSwipe JavaScript library is 2 times more popular than LightGallery.
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 LightGallery is more popular in Russia, the Czech Republic, and Turkey.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
France
Spain
India
Japan
Australia
Russia
Awards
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in Nepal in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 34th most popular in Korea in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in Belarus in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 41st most popular in Latvia 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.
PhotoSwipe is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while LightGallery is more commonly used on government and military sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Education/Reference
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.