🆚 Owl Carousel vs. Swiper

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Swiper is twice as popular as Owl Carousel.
🌎 Swiper is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Owl Carousel is more popular in Vietnam, Nepal, and Azerbaijan.

Owl Carousel

Swiper

Type

JavaScript library

About

Owl Carousel is a touch enabled jQuery plugin that lets you create a beautiful, responsive carousel slider.

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

Germany

Weston, Florida, United States

Website

owlcarousel2.github.io/OwlCarousel2/

swiperjs.com #16,176

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Swiper JavaScript library is 2.1 times more popular than Owl Carousel.

Total websites

Market share

JavaScript Libraries

Sliders

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Swiper is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Owl Carousel is more popular in Vietnam, Nepal, and Azerbaijan.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

India

China

Japan

Italy

Spain

France

Brazil

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Sliders category.
🥇 Most popular in Nepal in the Sliders category.
🥇 Most popular in Azerbaijan in the Sliders category.
🥇 Most popular in Tunisia in the Sliders category.
🥇 Most popular in Tanzania in the Sliders 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.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Swiper is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Owl Carousel is more commonly used on health, real estate, and fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Entertainment

Sports

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO