🆚 Masonry vs. Swiper

Type

JavaScript library
JavaScript library

About

Masonry is a JavaScript layout library that produces a Pinterest-style cascading grid where elements are organized in a compact, space-efficient layout.

It positions items based on available vertical space, recalculates layouts dynamically as content or viewport changes, and is commonly used for image galleries, portfolios, and feed-based interfaces with variable-height content.

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.

Headquarters

Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Weston, Florida, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

JavaScript Libraries › Rank #27
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #2
Sliders › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Swiper JavaScript library is 5 times more popular than Masonry.
Total websites

Market share

JavaScript Libraries

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Swiper is more popular than Masonry in all countries.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
China
France
Spain
Italy
India
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Swiper is more popular than Masonry in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Entertainment
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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See also

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