100 best jQuery image gallery plugins

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Recently, I had a client that needed to create a one page portfolio in a tight deadline. Initially, I thought that an already available free jQuery plug-in could be an interesting starting point for the gallery. I’ve never used a pre made plug-in before, so I began browsing the net in search of my timesaving lazy solution. What I discovered is that I spent almost half a working day looking for a decent list, burning hours skimming through lousy demos and messy coding. I eventually found a cool plug-in and the site went well and was delivered at time. But I couldn’t believe that there weren’t many sites with a decent roundup of jQuery galleries. So, in the face of this opportunity, Webdesignshock will provide. We want this to be the most extensive roundup in the internet of high quality jQuery gallery plugins. Enjoy! Remember to click on the demo button to check more detailed info and to download.

Supersized

DEMO

Galleria

DEMO

CU3ER

DEMO

Anything Slider

DEMO

jQueryGlobe

DEMO

Featured Content Slider

DEMO

Horinaja

DEMO

Looped Slider

DEMO

Lightbox

DEMO

TN3 Gallery

DEMO

S3 Slider

DEMO

YOXview

DEMO

Thickbox

DEMO

Simpleslide

DEMO

Slide Deck

DEMO

Fancy Transitions

DEMO

Nivo

DEMO

Easy Slider

DEMO

Cycle Plug-in

DEMO

Pretty Photo

DEMO

Coin Slider

DEMO

Gallerific

DEMO

Gallery view

DEMO

Photo slider with transparent caption (with tutorial)

DEMO

Jmorph

DEMO

Zoom image

DEMO

Full Screen image gallery

DEMO

Image Rotator (Tutorial)

DEMO

News Slider with Caption (With Tutorial)

DEMO

Slick Slideshow (With Tutorial)

DEMO

Beautiful Slider (Tutorial)

DEMO

Fancy thumbnail hover (Tutorial)

DEMO

Fancy image gallery (Tutorial)

DEMO

Coda Slider (With Tutorial)

DEMO

Pikachoose

DEMO

Flickr photo gallery

DEMO

Mead Sliding image gallery

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Simple Controls gallery

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Popeye

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Smooth DIV scroll

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Image Flow

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Fancybox

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AD Gallery

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Moving Boxes

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Shadowbox

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Color Box

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Start/Stop Slider

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Slideviewer Pro

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Pirobox

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Panel Gallery Plug-in

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Simple Panorama Viewer

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Image Scroller

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Apple-like Style Slideshow Gallery

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Image overlay Plug-in

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jQzoom

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Crossslide

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Space gallery

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Step Carrousel

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EOGallery

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Gallery

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Slideviewer

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Zoomer Gallery

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jFow (With Tutorial)

DEMO

Ultimate Fade-in Slideshow

DEMO

Jon Raash Simple Photo gallery

DEMO

Innerfade

DEMO

jQGal Scroll

DEMO

Lazyload

DEMO

Panview

DEMO

Imagecube

DEMO

Super Duper news scroller (With Tutorial)

DEMO

Progressively enhanced image gallery (With Tutorial)

DEMO

Image gallery powered by Picasa

DEMO

Mosaic Slideshow (With Tutorial)

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Infinite Scroll Gallery (With Tutorial)

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Awesome lightbox gallery

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iTunes-like slider (With Tutorial)

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Really Cool gallery

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Nextgen Gallery

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Slimbox 2

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Animated Slideshow

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(E) 2 Gallery Pro

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Smooth Gallery

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Satellite

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Pixelpost

DEMO

Minishowcase

DEMO

jQuery Multimedia portfolio

DEMO

Enlarge it!

DEMO

Horizontal accordion

DEMO

Haccordion

DEMO

Revealing photo slider

DEMO

Facebook image and content viewer

DEMO

Highslide

DEMO

Nyro Modal

DEMO

Graybox

DEMO

Image slideshow with jQuery cycle (Tutorial)

DEMO

Image replacement gallery

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Awesome box

DEMO

Top Up

DEMO

Ceebox

DEMO

Thanks for scrolling all the way down here! That means the article got your interest and at least made you skim… By the way, hope you people enjoy your weekend in peace and harmony. Best regards to your family.

 

 

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103 Responses to “100 best jQuery image gallery plugins”

1. Julian
   July 30th

   Oh, what a nice article, I’m a huge jQuery fan, sure this will help me.

   Reply
2. Theo
   July 31st

   Huge list, will take time to get thru. Thanks for sharing!

   Reply
   • WebDesignShock
     July 31st

     Hi Theo, we are glad you find useful this article, coming soon more great reviews and countdowns…
3. Chris Ward
   August 3rd

   I have another one that I created. It is like supersize, but allows albums, for a portfolio.

   http://www.cyberward.net/blog/code/bgstretcher2/

   Reply
   • WebDesignShock
     August 4th

     Oh, that´s nice Chris, we will be taking into account your blog from now on :)…
4. Vlad Carp
   August 3rd

   wow…i think this is the most complete colection of jQuery plugins i have ever seen…nice job…

   Reply
   • WebDesignShock
     August 4th

     Thanks Vlad, we are glad you find it useful…
5. Jonath Lee
   August 4th

   Speechless, this is the most complete great jquery image gallery plugin list ever. A must bookmark. Great job!!

   Reply
   • WebDesignShock
     August 4th

     Awesome that you liked it Jonath, coming soon more great articles…
6. Selch
   August 6th

   Thanks, great resources for webmasters

   Reply
   • WebDesignShock
     August 6th

     No problem man, It’s nice to know that our work is useful for someone…
7. Yvonne
   August 14th

   Great collection though the words’ hey man COOL SLICK AWSOME are used quite a lot to describe image gallerys unfortunately like 99.99% of  developers of galleries flash or jquery galleries have any idea about real world practical applications, for example there is no multi category functions/features (albums) that I can see for any image gallery.
   Take an example of a kitchen business owner who needs to have OAK KITCHENS in one section and MODERN KITCHENS in another gallery and so on..maybe up to 10 categories,where is the album function for this in your collection and why when I see the odd multi category gallery that there is just an album button to click on ( tiny and missable ) at the bottom, instead of featuring all the categorys on display with text and pics. Maybe you can source 20 multi category galleries without the usual web album button and a properly previewed multi cagegory section – If you find 2 you’d be lucky!! 

   Reply
   • Mark
     September 12th

     http://www.ajax-zoom.com/examples/example8.php as an example of the comment below…
   • WebDesignShock
     September 13th

     That’s amazing Mark, what a nice jQuery plugin, for sure that it should have made the cut on this roundup, feel free to leave us all your suggestions regarding this and other topics…
8. Mark
   September 12th

   You should defently add ajax-zoom to this great list. The jQuery plugin – http://www.ajax-zoom.com – is an image gallery and zoom image viewer…

   Reply
9. santo
   November 14th

   Wooow, great compilation, thnx!!

   Reply
10. Katis
    December 1st

    Nice list! Must have taken forever to find all of these. You should add ppGallery by pp plugins… a really elegant photo gallery… http://www.ppplugins.com

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      December 1st

      Hey nice suggestion Katis, that’s a great jQuery plugin too :)…
11. MundoCaco
    December 11th

    very useful selection!!!

    thanks!

    Reply
12. Nadia
    December 22nd

    Oh, what a nice jQuery article,
    see more jquey..
    http://www.tutorials99.com

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      December 22nd

      Thanks Nadia, we will definitely take a look to your suggested site…
13. webb
    December 29th

    This is the best collections of galleries ever.

    Reply
14. Stick & Stuck
    January 8th

    GMAP3 is a JQuery plugin to wrap Google Map API V3

    available on :

    http://night-coder.com/jquery-plugin-gmap3.html
    http://plugins.jquery.com/project/gmap3

    Reply
15. rahil
    January 27th

    best collection i have ever seen…….

    heartly thankful……….

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      January 27th

      You’re welcome Rahil, is there any other jQuery image gallery plugin that you know about?…
16. Rahmy
    April 12th

    Nice Jquery collection, very good work and this was very helpful for slideshow developers. great work. I expect more different type of slideshow if possible

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      April 12th

      Thank you Rahmy, we’re glad you liked it…
    • WebDesignShock
      April 13th

      Thank you Rahmy, we will look forward to include more great jQuery plugins in upcoming articles…
17. DCS Solution
    April 14th

    Hi, check out our 3D jQuery Image Gallery: http://www.dcs-solution.com/blog/?p=11#more-11

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      April 14th

      Hey pal, that gallery is great!, does it work in all browsers?…
18. Yoonmi76
    April 16th

    wow, but how do you download. I’ve been to the demo page and I don’t see download links or instructions. Am I just not seeing it?

    Reply
19. Yoonmi76
    April 16th

    wow, but how do you download. I’ve been to the demo page and I don’t see download links or instructions. Am I just not seeing it?

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      April 16th

      You’re right, we did not put the actual download links on this showcase, you will have to go back to the original post, there’s usually a ‘go back’ button somewhere in the demo page…
20. Web Design Mauritius
    April 18th

    Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
21. CL
    May 12th

    Piecemaker is not jQuery, it’s flash…please remove it from your list of jQuery plugins!!

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      May 12th

      You’re right!, thanks for the heads-up…
    • WebDesignShock
      May 12th

      Yes you’re right, thanks for the heads-up!!!
22. James Pollman
    May 19th

    My company offers a free easy-to-use jQuery slider builder, EasyRotator: http://www.dwuser.com/easyrotator/ 

    Would you consider adding it to the list?

    Reply
    • Anonymous
      May 19th

      Yes, we will check it :)
    • WebDesignShock
      May 20th

      Hey that’s a nice suggestion James, thanks for stopping by :)…
23. Firedragon_8888
    May 21st

    Hi – great selection of jq gallery plugins and thanks for your effort@   I’m particularly interested in no.83 smooth gallery, the screen shot above looks just what i am looking for, but the demo links to jon smoothweb, his site doesn’t show the same screen shot.   Is no. 83 screenshot from jondesign smooth gallery? If not, could you give me the link.  I am looking for this type of grid layout which turns into a slide show (manual/automatated).  Many thanks     

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      May 23rd

      Hello buddy, it seems like that plugin has been upgraded since we wrote this article, this new version looks pretty cool, though as you said on your message, you’re looking for a gallery that emulates a slideshow.

      We made a quick search and we found these two nice solutions that might work just fine for you:

      http://www.smoothdivscroll.com/
      http://fancybox.net/
    • Firedragon_8888
      May 23rd

      Many thanks for your quick reply.  Today i have found something i like, but it is in flash:-

       http://www.flashcomponents.net/component/full_photograper_xml_website_gallery/preview/4880.html

      I will try to keep on searching for something similar using jquery. But your website has certainly opened my eyes to the power of Jquery which i never had a clue could do this cool stuff.  If you know of anything similar to the above please do drop me a line. 
    • WebDesignShock
      May 23rd

      Sure we will, we’re glad that you’re finding our blog useful, you can count on us for more great jQuery posts…
24. Guest1
    May 26th

    hi, good thing

    Reply
25. UgraStroyInfo ru
    June 28th

    best

    Reply
26. Sanjibt
    July 6th

    it’s really help me…

    Reply
27. Melissa
    July 6th

    jQuery Peepshow was just released – it’s another great image gallery plugin:

    http://demos.zulius.com/jquery/peepshow

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      July 7th

      Oh that’s really nice Melissa, thanks for letting us know :)…
28. Faisal
    July 8th

    test

    Reply
29. WebDesignShock
    July 13th

    You’re welcome Völgyesi, enjoy it!…

    Reply
30. Mohsin Fancy
    July 21st

    Woollaa..:p
    this is amazing Collection.. 
    100/100.. all the scripts are coool . 
    keep posting. 

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      July 21st

      Thanks mate, sure we will!!!…
31. fahad
    August 8th

    it’s time to filter it a bit.

    Reply
32. Michael
    August 28th

    Thanks for publishing this list – very helpful!

    Just wondering which plugin you chose for your project?

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      August 29th

      Thanks Michael, which project are you talking about specifically?…
33. April
    October 18th

    Hi,

    I want something really simple but a multi album slideshow.  Is this really simple stuff to update and make?
    Thanks!

    Reply
34. Swapan Chakraborty
    October 31st

    This collection for helpful for jQuary user.

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      November 1st

      yeah, very useful, fresh and updated !
35. Helen
    November 2nd

    WOW… such a great collection Thank you :)

    Reply
36. matbaa
    November 9th

    thanks very good gallery plugins…

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      November 11th

      You’re welcome Mate!
37. Riya
    November 16th

    I found the one and only plugin for photo gallery with mac dock effect here.. Its cool & smooth http://www.apptha.com/category/extension/Wordpress/Mac-Photo-Gallery

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      November 17th

      Thanks, Riya for this great resource
38. steve
    November 24th

    holly cheat! very hard work!

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      November 25th

      Thanks steve, don’t miss the next ones.
39. Free Plugin
    January 1st

    I truly appreciate how you’ve worded your material in this article. I am very impressed with this information and you’ve managed to keep it interesting.

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      January 2nd

      You’re welcome, always glad to see that our pieces are of great use to visitors’ projects. Best regards
40. free plugin
    January 2nd

    If this article hasn’t been posted anywhere else, it should be. You have definitely learned much from the ideas you came up with to put into such a wonderful article.

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      January 2nd

      Always glad to see that our pieces are of great use to visitors’ projects. Best regards
41. ukash
    January 16th

    good arshives.  Tnx  WDS :P

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      January 16th

      thanks for the recognition to our work. Best regards.
42. dew drop
    January 31st

    Thanks for your nice display…

    Reply
43. dew drop
    February 6th

    really nice site….

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      February 7th

      hank you for the recognition to our work. Best regards.
44. duplicate file finder review
    February 10th

    fantastic issues altogether, you just received a emblem new reader. What would you recommend about your post that you just made a few days ago? Any certain?

    Reply
45. Johnny Q
    February 18th

    Wow! Really great set! Here’s what I found today: http://carousel.mgechev.com/

    Reply
46. Robert
    March 12th

    jQuery mouseSwipe with touch

    It’s not open source but this plug-in works on all browsers plus ipod, ipad, android devices and is under 4kb. Jquery MouseSwipe with touch, vertical or horizontal.

    http://torontographic.wordpress.com/

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      March 13th

      Thanks for the tip! we’ll have it in mind for an upcoming post of ours without a doubt……best regards!
47. jeremy_1980
    March 30th

    This is good article for me.
    I choose AnythingSlider because support image and video both.
    Can you split this listing into section: WordPress, Image & Video, Only Images.

    Reply
    • editorial
      March 30th

      Hi Jeremy! We’re glad to see you’re enjoying this entry, you can subscribe to our RSS Feed or Follow us on Twitter in order to keep updated with our blog
48. Sam
    June 12th

    Thanks for such brilliance !

    Reply
49. Zet
    August 20th

    Thanks for the compilation! Bookmarked! :)

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      September 21st

      you are welcome, feel free to check our future posts.
50. Mayank
    February 6th

    Wonderful work helpful for designer and coder…Thanks

    Reply
    • WebDesignShock
      April 10th

      Appreciate your feedback! Glad you liked it. Stay tuned for upcoming posts.
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