Best jQuery Image, Photo Gallery Plugins for 2014 or 2015

Today, I had a client that want to create a web page portfolio in a distracted deadline. in the first instance, I thought that an already available free jQuery plug-in could be an entertaining 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 time saving slothful solution. What I discovered is that I spent almost half a working day looking for a nice list, burning hours skimming through lousy demos and messy coding. I in conclusion 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 plugin. So, in the face of this chance, htmluse.com will provide. We want this to be the most comprehensive roundup in the internet of high quality jQuery gallery plugins. Enjoy!

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prettyPhoto

This remains as one of the most popular gallery plugins for jQuery. It offers a wide variety of styles, but most importantly it offers an API which you can use to build applications, even those that require flash support. It has not been updated in a while, but it works with all major browsers and will continue to do so for years to come. The official page has all of the demo and preview pages available.

GalleryView

GalleryView is a gallery designed and developed by Jack Anderson, another one that has stayed very popular over the years, and has actually moved over to GitHub as a result, to enable the community to contribute to the source code and create improvements. Includes a great deal of options and features.

Shadowbox.js

I really like the simplicity Shadowbox brings to the table, and the amazing amount of options. You can easily embed galleries in your content and show them by different kinds of sizes, I’m specially fond of clipped and draggable galleries which enable to view high quality photos in their full glory. Check out the full list of options and be amazed.

fancyBox

fancyBox is a tool that offers a nice and elegant way to add zooming functionality for images, html content and multi-media on your webpages. It is built on the top of the popular JavaScript framework jQuery and is both easy to implement and a snap to customize.

Galleriffic

I love Galleriffic, it enables a ton of useful features that can help to save bandwidth, and also help to display images the way they should be displayed. You can easily create galleries that require no maintenance at all, and look spectacular to say the least. Try the demo previews and judge for yourself.

Colorbox

One of the most used lightbox plugins in the world currently, is very lightweight (~10kb) and the style of the plugin is being controlled through CSS, which can be customized very easily. Jack Moore is behind the project, and there are hundreds of people contributing to this amazing plugin on GitHub. Join in!

s3Slider

I think this slider will appeal to those who’re looking for something professional to use on a business website, for really modern and stylish images. I’m actually pretty impressed myself by the design it uses, and will probably take another look at this amazing plugin when I need the functionality it provides.

TN3 Lite

TN3 Lite is a free version of TN3 Gallery. It’s branded with the TN3 logo and a link to the TN3 Gallery website. While this is fully functional and not a limited trial version, some of the premium features, such as albums, skinning, Flickr, Picasa, Facebook and XML support (as well as other features), are not included in this version.

PikaChoose

This jQuery gallery comes integrated with a pre-made theme that you can use, but you’re also able to build your own and style it to your liking. I really like how transparent this gallery is and how easy it is to set it up and get it going. It supports classic layouts, and also tooltip style galleries.

SlidesJS

I’m actually not sure if all of the jQuery galleries in this list are responsive, but if you need a responsive slider – this is the one to take a look at. You can easily produce modern and stylish slideshows, powered by smooth CSS3 transitions to provide support for new and modern devices.

3D Gallery – jQuery & CSS3

The last jQuery gallery plugin on our list is from Codrops, it’s a 3D gallery / slider based on jQuery and CSS3. I really like the concept, and the code is extremely tiny and doesn’t require much knowledge to implement in your WordPress installation for example.