Magnific-Popup vs colorbox

Magnific-Popup

Light and responsive lightbox script with focus on performance. (by dimsemenov)

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colorbox

A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery (by jackmoore)

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Magnific-Popup		colorbox
	Project
7	Mentions	-
11,385	Stars	4,759
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Magnific-Popup

Posts with mentions or reviews of Magnific-Popup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

What package would you use for large photo viewing on a webapp?
1 project | /r/webdev | 22 Feb 2023

I've used magnific popup in the past, but it (understandably per the README) hasn't been updated in a while.
Magnific Popup Replacement for 2023?
1 project | /r/webdev | 29 Dec 2022

I used Magnific for years and loved it for its ease of use, options, and lightweight footprint; however I've been looking elsewhere for a non-jquery dependent ES6 solution.
How to open an image on a web page?
1 project | /r/CodingHelp | 6 Dec 2022

Magnific-popup
Simple and easy lighbox-gallery
1 project | /r/Frontend | 12 Sep 2022
Narrow-screen menus that look good?
1 project | /r/elementor | 8 Sep 2022

I usually use this one: https://github.com/dimsemenov/Magnific-Popup
How to specify the video width in popup ?
1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 18 Aug 2021

Hi, I use this pop up video script from https://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/
Magnific popup module works for me, but doesn't display how I want
1 project | /r/drupal | 12 Feb 2021

It looks like the devs of magnific popup are actively maintaining the project on their github, found here. You might want to try posing your question to the issues forum.

colorbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of colorbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning colorbox yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Magnific-Popup and colorbox you can also consider the following projects:

fancyBox - jQuery lightbox script for displaying images, videos and more. Touch enabled, responsive and fully customizable.

bootstrap-modal - Extends the default Bootstrap Modal class. Responsive, stackable, ajax and more.

SweetAlert - A beautiful replacement for JavaScript's "alert"

swipebox - A touchable jQuery lightbox

sweetalert2 - ✨ A beautiful, responsive, highly customizable and accessible (WAI-ARIA) replacement for JavaScript's popup boxes. Zero dependencies. 🇺🇦

baguetteBox.js - :zap: Simple and easy to use lightbox script written in pure JavaScript

css-modal - A modal built with pure CSS, enhanced with JavaScript

X-editable - In-place editing with Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery UI or pure jQuery