🆚 PhotoSwipe vs. Shadowbox
PhotoSwipe is much more popular than Shadowbox.- PhotoSwipe is more popular in all countries.
- Shadowbox is particularly popular in Japan and Italy.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
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.
Shadowbox is a lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014.
Headquarters
Kyiv, Ukraine
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The PhotoSwipe JavaScript library is 16 times more popular than Shadowbox.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
PhotoSwipe is more popular than Shadowbox in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
France
Italy
Australia
India
Canada
Awards
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Israel in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Uzbekistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in Malaysia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in Pakistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in Ecuador in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Russia in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Spain in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Switzerland in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in the Netherlands in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
PhotoSwipe is more popular than Shadowbox in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Travel
Internet Services
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.