⚡ JavaScript Carousel Libraries

JavaScript carousel libraries are libraries designed to create interactive sliders and carousels for displaying images, content, or media within web pages.

They typically provide touch and swipe support, responsive layouts, animation effects, navigation controls, autoplay options, and customization features.

Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading JavaScript carousel libraries in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Swiper with a share of 20.1%, followed by Slick with 10.1% and Owl Carousel with 9.7%.

Swiper 20.1%
Slick 10.1%
Owl Carousel 9.7%
Fancyapps 6.8%
Flickity 1.6%
Splide 0.8%
Tiny Slider 0.3%
Siema 0.03%

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of carousel libraries that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Slick is #2 in Japan ^(-4)
Owl Carousel is #2 in Azerbaijan ^(-5)
Fancyapps is #3 in Russia ^(-10)

✨ Best JavaScript Carousel Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of 8 JavaScript carousel libraries we detect, ranked by their market share.

Available filters: 2D-Graphics 3D-Graphics Animation Carousel CSS Data Grids DOM Editors Lightbox Scroll SPA State Utility UI

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions. FreeOpen source	20.1%
2	Slick An open-source, fully responsive and accessible carousel library. FreeOpen source	10.1%
3	Owl Carousel Germany A touch enabled jQuery plugin that lets you create a beautiful, responsive carousel slider. FreeOpen source	9.7%
4	Fancyapps A commercial library of JavaScript UI components that includes lightbox, carousel, and pan/zoom components. €29+	6.8%
5	Flickity A touch-friendly, responsive library for creating carousels, galleries and sliders. FreeOpen source$25+	1.6%
6	Splide A lightweight, flexible and accessible slider/carousel written in TypeScript. FreeOpen source$10+/month	0.8%
7	Tiny Slider A vanilla JavaScript slider for all purposes, inspired by Owl Carousel. FreeOpen source	0.3%
8	Siema A lightweight carousel with no dependencies and no styling. FreeOpen source	0.03%

👉 See Also

⚡Sliders

🗃️ 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 3,406,701 websites.
We currently track the presence of 310 JavaScript libraries across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.