ColorBox Alternatives

ColorBox is described as ': light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.3 & 1.4' and is a Image Viewer in the development category. There are eight alternatives to ColorBox, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, JavaScript, Wordpress and Node.JS apps. The best ColorBox alternative is PhotoSwipe, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to ColorBox are Fancybox, Magnific Popup, Shadowbox and Lightbox 2.

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ColorBox

Free • Open Source
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ColorBox: light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.3 & 1.4.

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PhotoSwipe
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Free • Open Source
Online
Self-Hosted
7 PhotoSwipe alternatives
Touch-friendly JavaScript image gallery for mobile and desktop, without dependencies. Responsive layout. Swipe and zoom gestures.
- - PhotoSwipe is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to ColorBox.
- - PhotoSwipe is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ColorBox.
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Photo Gallery
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Fancybox
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Freemium • Proprietary
Image Viewer
Online
9 Fancybox alternatives
FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page. It was built using the jQuery library.
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Magnific Popup
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Free • Open Source
Online
Self-Hosted
JavaScript
8 Magnific Popup alternatives
Magnific Popup is a responsive lightbox & dialog script with focus on performance and providing best experience for user with any device (for jQuery or Zepto.js).
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Shadowbox
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Image Viewer
Online
6 Shadowbox alternatives
Shadowbox is a web-based media viewer application that supports all of the webs most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can showcase a wide assortment of media in all...
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Discontinued
Seems to be discontinued. Download section is broken so downloads are unavailable.
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Lightbox 2
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Free • Open Source
Online
9 Lightbox 2 alternatives
Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. Its a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.
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frescoJS
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Freemium • Proprietary
Image Viewer
Online
6 frescoJS alternatives
Create stunning overlays that work great at any screensize, in all browsers on every device. Fresco is a beautiful responsive lightbox. It can be used to create stunning overlays that work great at any screen size, in all browsers on every device.
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Featherlight.js
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Chrome OS
Self-Hosted
Wordpress
Node.JS
jQuery
16 Featherlight.js alternatives
Featherlight is a very lightweight jQuery lightbox plugin. It's simple yet flexible and easy to use. Featherlight has minimal css and uses no inline styles, it offers image, ajax and iframe support out of the box.
- - Featherlight.js is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to ColorBox.
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1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsFeatherlight.js can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Discontinued
The last version (1.7.14) is from 2019.
Simple lightbox
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Free • Open Source
Self-Hosted
6 Simple lightbox alternatives
Lightweight and responsive lightbox library with no dependencies.
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1. LightweightSimple lightbox consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
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