Magnific-Popup vs fancyBox

Magnific-Popup

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

fancyBox

jQuery lightbox script for displaying images, videos and more. Touch enabled, responsive and fully customizable. (by fancyapps)

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Magnific-Popup		fancyBox
	Project
7	Mentions	1
11,385	Stars	7,253
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	3.9
3 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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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.

fancyBox

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

Simple Lightbox
1 project | /r/Wordpress | 17 Jun 2021

There are a ton of plugins for this, but I've always just found it easier to go straight to the source https://fancyapps.com/fancybox/3/

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

lightgallery.js - Full featured JavaScript image & video gallery. No dependencies

colorbox - A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery

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

swipebox - A touchable jQuery lightbox

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