Swiper VS PhotoSwipe

Compare Swiper vs PhotoSwipe and see what are their differences.

Swiper

Most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions (by nolimits4web)

PhotoSwipe

JavaScript image gallery for mobile and desktop, modular, framework independent (by dimsemenov)
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Swiper PhotoSwipe
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38,551 23,746
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9.1 6.7
5 days ago 14 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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Swiper

Posts with mentions or reviews of Swiper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.

PhotoSwipe

Posts with mentions or reviews of PhotoSwipe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-28.
  • Looking for Advice on Imagely Premium?
    1 project | /r/Wordpress | 22 Mar 2023
    Depending on your requirements and your experience with software development, you could give https://photoswipe.com/ a go. Alternatively, you could use the native gallery block with https://wordpress.org/plugins/lightbox-photoswipe/.
  • Looking for lightbox/gallery library for jetpack compose
    1 project | /r/androiddev | 17 Mar 2023
    Hello, I want to add a photo view dialog to view the photos in my app, it's not the gallery app so I don't want to implement all the interactions/animations by myself, is there any gallery library available for jetpack compose that works similar to web's version of photoswipe.com ?
  • 클리앙이 IT 커뮤니티가 맞나요?
    1 project | /r/Mogong | 22 Feb 2023
  • [Update] Simple static website for an artist friend
    4 projects | /r/webdev | 28 Jan 2023
    In the end I went back to pure html/css and only used the PhotoSwipe javascript module for the Image Gallery.
  • HEY :) a little hand?
    2 projects | /r/web_design | 26 Aug 2022
    photoswipe or lightgallery
  • Best NPM Package for React.js
    18 projects | dev.to | 21 Jun 2022
  • PhotoSwipe v5 released
    1 project | /r/webdev | 29 Mar 2022
  • Tell HN: If You Are in Russia
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2022
    I am in Ukraine right now. In a small village to the north of Kyiv. I am the author of PhotoSwipe (https://github.com/dimsemenov/photoswipe).

    Yesterday I was filling bags with sand to make a fortification for local defenders. I hear artillery as I am writing this. And by the way, you get used to it.

    In the last few days I received about 20 emails offering support, none of them were from russian devs. One asked a technical question about my lib, I answered "do you know what's happening in Ukraine right now?" - no reply.

    I see a few russian companies and personalities openly condemn the aggression (such as JetBrains) and I'm very grateful to them. However most are silent, or have very weak Instagram post "no war" with a sadface, or even worse - post with "we are out of politics".

    And that's IT people, which are presumably more informed. Unfortunately, due to misinformation most russian people have no idea what's happening here, that's why sanctions should affect regular people, and not just putin and his close allies.

  • Is there a website where i can buy a image gallery like this?
    2 projects | /r/node | 2 Jul 2021
    Or do you mean something like https://photoswipe.com or https://www.lightgalleryjs.com?
  • PhotoSwipe v5 beta now available
    1 project | /r/webdev | 29 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Swiper and PhotoSwipe you can also consider the following projects:

slick - the last carousel you'll ever need

Owl Carousel 2 - DEPRECATED jQuery Responsive Carousel.

splide - Splide is a lightweight, flexible and accessible slider/carousel written in TypeScript. No dependencies, no Lighthouse errors.

Flickity - :leaves: Touch, responsive, flickable carousels

awesome-blazor - Resources for Blazor, a .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly.

Glide.js - A dependency-free JavaScript ES6 slider and carousel. It’s lightweight, flexible and fast. Designed to slide. No less, no more

react-slick - React carousel component

FlexSlider - An awesome, fully responsive jQuery slider plugin