Here are 50 of our favorite free image galleries that you can quickly plug into a design. They've been built with everything from CakePHP to jQuery to Ruby on Rails. A shout-out to all the developers involved in sharing their work with the community!
1. Gallery 2
Gallery 2 has probably the biggest community and is one of the most used gallery scripts on the web.
2. Zenphoto
Zenphoto bills itself as the "simplest, most useful gallery software for your site". The script is built in PHP.
3. Minishowcase
Minishowcase is an simple and tiny php/javascript photo gallery.
4. TripTracker
TripTracker is a small JavaScript image viewer and animated slideshow player.
5. Dynamic Drive CSS Image Gallery
Instead of using JavaScript, the Dynamic Drive CSS Image Gallery is completely powered by CSS.
6. Ajax Photo Gallery
A free Ajax-powered photo gallery that pulls photos from Picasa from XML.
7. SimpleViewer
A free flash-based image gallery script that also comes with an optional Pro version that offers more options and customizations.
8. Jalbum
Jalbum is a hybrid online/offline software that you download to your computer that uploads the image galleries to your space at jalbum.net.
9. Coppermine
Like Gallery 2, Coppermine is another "old school" PHP photo album script that has been around for many years.
10. Plogger
Plogger is a PHP gallery script that has useful features like inline ajax photo editing, zip upload files, and the ability to build your own themes.
11. CSS Play
A slick, multi-page gallery built entirely of CSS.
12. Polaroid Gallery
Polariod Gallery is an interesting flash script that arranges your photos (from XML file or Flickr RSS feed) into a gallery of "polaroids".
13. dfGallery
dfGallery is a beautiful free flash gallery script, with customizable themes and an administration section built with the PHP framework CodeIgniter.
14. (E)2 Photo Gallery
An excellent JavaScript photo gallery built with MooTools.
15. AutoViewer
AutoViewer arranges images in a Flash gallery in a specified sequence with images and captions.
16. Smooth Gallery
Yet another JavaScript image gallery built upon the tiny framework MooTools.
17. Satellite
A photo gallery script that allows users to build customizable galleries from their Flickr accounts.
18. Hoverbox
Hoverbox is a simple, lightweight CSS-only image gallery.
19. Flash Gallery
Like the name suggests, Flash Gallery is a simple XML and Flash powered gallery that is easy to customize.
20. HighSlide JS
While not technically a gallery script, HighSlide allows you to easily zoom in and out on pictures, using a simple JavaScript effect.
21. Pixelpost
Pixelpost is a twist on an image gallery script that adds photo blogging into the mix. Open source, fast, and multi-lingual.
22. Script and Style Auto-Generated Photo Gallery
A nifty script that takes a directory of images and creates an image gallery. Built with PHP and JavaScript.
23. Postcard Viewer
A flash script that takes images, places them into "postcards" and rearranges them in a gallery.
24. Andrew Berg's Flash Photo Browser
A simple flash-animated photo browsing script. Simple but fun.
25. Flickr Photo Album for Wordpress
Tan Tan Noodles has a plugin for Wordpress that pulls your Flickr photosets and creates albums in Wordpress.
26. Galleria
Galleria is a lightweight image gallery script based on jQuery.
27. Lightview
A clean, lightweight solution for building simple image and media galleries in overlays.
28. Fancy Zoom
Fancy Zoom is a bit of JavaScript that allows you to zoom in on photos without requiring a second download of the image.
29. Imagevue
A nice flash image gallery that has photo albums, slideshows, and an admin area.
30. jpGalScroll Photo Gallery
A simple gallery snippet built upon jQuery that offers scrolling and pagination.
31. nextgen gallery
nextgen gallery is a robust image gallery plugin for Wordpress users, built upon jQuery.
32. Singapore
Dubbed as the "smallest big gallery", Singapore is a lightweight, powerful image gallery script built on PHP.
33. jQuery Cycle
A plugin for jQuery that let's you "cycle" through galleries of images in different ways.
34. Imagin
A flash photo gallery that can organize pictures into galleries and sub-galleries.
35. Phormer
PHP-based photo gallery that doesn't require a MySQL database and installs in under 3 minutes.
36. Gullery
Gullery is a simple image gallery built with Ruby on Rails. Perfect for a personal portfolio or small image gallery.
37. How to Build a Photo Gallery with CakePHP and Flickr
An interesting tutorial on how to build a web-based image gallery with the PHP framework CakePHP and Flickr.
38. filebrowser
A small PHP application that allows you to thumbnail images for use on the web. Built by Lussumo.
39. FAlbum
A Wordpress-powered image gallery that displays photos and photosets from Flickr.
40. Slimbox 2
A tiny, standards-compliant, fully customizable lightbox image viewer built upon jQuery.
41. Animated JavaScript Slideshow
A slideshow gallery feature script built upon Javascript, in under 5kb.
42. iPhotoToGallery
An iPhoto plugin that makes publishing photos to a Gallery 2 installation much easier.
43. FrogJS Gallery
A simple, unobtrusive gallery script built upon Lightbox, but showcases galleries in a different manner.
44. Create a Spectacular Photo Gallery with MooTools
Nettuts+' very own Jared Rhizor has an excellent tutorial on how to build a simple image gallery with MooTools.
45. Django-based photo gallery tutorial
Simple tutorial on how to build a photo gallery with the Python framework Django.
46. Zen Gallery
Elegant flash gallery scripts and tools for putting photos on your site.
47. folderblog
A free, lightweight PHP script that displays images from a folder into a gallery.
48. Duh Gallery
Yet another simple Wordpress gallery plugin.
49. Original Photo Gallery
A set of scripts that provide a client side script to scale images and publish the images in gallery form.
50. Making the ultimate dynamic image gallery in Flash 8
A guide for intermediate Flash users to build a dynamic image gallery, loaded by XML.
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )noWice web solutions March 30th
Great Collection guys!!!
( )Yoosuf March 30th
nice stuff, but you missed the dfgallery_v2.005 at http://tinyurl.com/chab42 and Simple Gallery with jQuery at http://tinyurl.com/dc5wfh
( )Mr.Pain March 30th
Nice List
First Comment Cheers
( )Justin Scheetz March 30th
A [mostly] fantastic list, thanks!
( )Yoosuf March 30th
dfgallery_v2.005 at http://tinyurl.com/chab42
Simple Gallery with jQuery at http://tinyurl.com/dc5wfh
( )redwall_hp March 30th
Obligatory immature “First!?” comment.
( )Yoosuf March 30th
i have added but still awaiting for moderation :S
( )RandomGuy March 31st
Yeah, and I’m purposely NOT clicking on your shameless links.
RandomGuy March 31st
@yoosuf, it was usefull
Justin Scheetz March 31st
Nope, sorry. Beat you to it.
( )elmystica March 30th
I really missed slideshowpro!
( )Yoosuf March 31st
13. dfGallery is an alltanative and free
( )f2 March 30th
Great overview! Thx a lot….
( )Fabio nowaki March 30th
Excelent!!! Thanks!!!
( )Gelay March 30th
Zen Photo is very good.
( )Daphne March 30th
Which would be the best / easist one to use to extend a wysiwyg editor such as MCE?
( )abhijit March 30th
OK…. nice. But hey give us some nice tutorials rather than just lists of resources etc.
( )Yoosuf March 30th
exactly find the Simple Gallery with jQuery at http://tinyurl.com/dc5wfh
( )Abhijit March 30th
Thanks….
Daphne March 30th
Perhaps a really good tutorial would be one covering the art of link baiting!
“Tut, tut, child! … Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it”
( )Lewis Carroll.
insic March 30th
its quite a list. 50? I only know less than 10 in the list. i better check the other.
( )saurabh shah March 30th
Agree with Insic.. quite a huge and nice list … have to check other galleries… thanks for the nice post ..
( )Sebish March 30th
Thanks for the list, I will have to check a few of these out!
I know its not really important, but for us lazy people around it might be worth while in future articles to have a direct link to a demo on the same page without having to go to the website first. Just my two cents.. Thanks again
@redwall_hp … and that’s why you don’t write “First”… sigh..
( )crysfel March 30th
Thanks for the collection!!
( )Jarryd March 30th
Wow, what a selection. I’d probably make my own when I get on to my portfolio but there’s some really nice ones here
. Thanks a lot Glen!
( )Bengt March 30th
Xodagallery is a nice one too…
( )http://www.xodagallery.com/
saurabh shah March 30th
wow ! nice list … have to check many of them … and have to dirty my hands on it … thanks for sharing ..
( )Jocke March 30th
Great collection, personally I almost exclusively use NextGen at the moment. But to the next couple projects I will have a look on some of the rest galleries..
( )Rahul Chowdhury March 30th
This is just great. I liked it. Great List Dude!
( )Koistya `Navin March 31st
Great collectin. Thanks.
( )Macbook Dreamer March 31st
I think it would be better if you could pick out a couple of them and write tutorials on how they could be implemented, it’s really pointless to post 50 scripts, it would have been better if we had to choose between only a couple.
( )spirit March 31st
Really nice round-up!
Have a look to Picsviewr (http://www.picsviewr.com). It uses several of them to fetch photos from a Flickr user.
( )Patternhead March 31st
Nice list but there are tons of sites doing these already. Lets get back to the thing that makes tuts great, more tutorials please
( )Hezi March 31st
thanks alot! this is very helpfull!
( )Vinay March 31st
Great list.
And what about tiltviewer… I loved it! A 3D flash gallery.
I got it from http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/tiltviewer/
And I’ve used it in one of our sites here at http://artu.in/gallery/gallery.php
( )max March 31st
Great post!
I just released my jQuery jbgallery:
http://www.maxb.net/scripts/jbgallery/
( )Nikola March 31st
This is just great. I liked it. THX
( )Andris March 31st
That’s one huge list. I have to check some of those I don’t know yet.
( )Kim March 31st
If you really feel you HAVE to do all these lists all the time, insted of concentration on the tutorials, that your name promises, could you at least put a little more work in to it?
( )Add some comments about each offering, list som pros and cons for each. In short: Put in something that makes it your post, rather than just trying to score money by listing other peoples work.
If you feel it’s too much work to try out 50 galleries, then make the lists shorter, and only list the ones You actually feel you can recommend!
Shane March 31st
I know another site that listed 51 Image Galleries. It was called ‘51 Brilliant Image Galleries’.
Excuse my rather flippant comment. At some point, these lists get too much
( )Dainis Graveris March 31st
I created one a while ago too, although here I see a little bit different selection.
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/57-free-image-gallery-slideshow-and-lightbox-solutions/
( )arif March 31st
thanks
( )Creamy CSS gallery March 31st
Wow, really helpful list of best galleries on the web,.. Thanks for hard work, Glen!
( )Igor / vellkan March 31st
Excellent job!
( )It’s really helpfull, but I think You should add one more.
http://www.twospy.com/galleriffic
It’s really good gallery based on jQuery with multiple options.
Brett March 31st
I would add Picasa to the list.
http://picasa.google.com/
It easy to sync galleries to the web so updating is as simple as adding pictures to a folder on you own desktop, it also has an RSS feed so the skys the limit really with what you can do. This option is very similar to your Flikr + CakePHP.
Here is a link on how to parse the Picasa Feed
( )http://code.lawpower.net/2008/01/21/picasa-gallery-googles-cruel-rss-feed/
Diego SA March 31st
WOW!
( )Alex March 31st
How about a tut on creating your own image gallery, rather than a list of em?
( )Sirwan March 31st
Is there a gallery that can intergate into Wordpress and at the same time allow all users to upload to it.
( )Brett March 31st
How many users do want to be able to add images to the gallery?
( )Sirwan March 31st
all the registered users… so the gallery can be “user based” rather than just have editors and admins upload images.
Alex Wilson March 31st
Very happy to see ZenPhoto here. It’s a great gallery, and a great framework if you want to tweak it. I was able to add jCarousel and Galleria functionality to my art photography gallery:
( )http://alexwilsonphoto.com/gallery/
libeco March 31st
I miss another gallery which has been around for years: 4images http://www.4homepages.de/ . I haven’t used it in a while, but I know installing and themeing it was far easier than coppermine and gallery2.
I also think this list should be split up. I think there’s a big difference between a photoblog (pixelpost) and a gallery (gallery2). Other than that, it’s a great list!
Oh, nearly forogot, I use Drupal (with some modules) as a photoblog/gallery, works very good for me…
( )MATT. March 31st
Galleriffic is the best imo, and it’s a jQuery plugin!
( )Randy March 31st
Thanks, finally one place to find them all!
( )Jeff Adams March 31st
Wow – this is pretty darn good thanks!
I particularly like the look of Zen Photo cos i can imagine tweaking it with a lightbox rather than linkig to the photo itself. Nice.
( )Webdesigner Depot March 31st
Beautiful collection, thanks….
( )Paul Morales March 31st
Thanks for the great collection
awesome. Stumbled!
( )Phelan Riessen March 31st
Stumbled and bookmarked!
Seriously, I’ve searched and researched for hours looking for decent but flexible photo and image galleries. There’s a ton out there but they never seem to have all the components needed for my web clients. This list will help save some serious time. Post #1 Gallery is awesome.
Thanks for the post.
( )Ricardo April 1st
Great List! Thanks, way better than searching for all of them!
( )h-a-r-v April 1st
This one has just been realeased:
http://www.thesoul75.de/anipan/index.html (for mootools 1.2) – it’s inspired by Wii Photobrowser.
There is much more, like.. Phatfusion Multibox (yet to come for the newest mootools – there are working clones though – but it’s definetely most powerful ligthbox for this framework – it handles everything – see on http://www.phatfusion.net ). Uvumi Gallery is also worth checking, it has a pretty unique interface ( http://tools.uvumi.com/gallery.html ).
( )jone April 1st
thanks
( )Sharon April 1st
I’ve never done much with photogalleries so this list will give some research starting points!
I am looking for a gallery that you can upload photos to easily (for non-techie person) poss by web interface or similar but can also be password protected as the photos are of children.
Any suggestions about which ones I should look into first?
Thanks
( )BORABORA April 2nd
Nice collection! Thanks for the effort!
( )Best wishes
BORABORA
Hazel Q. April 2nd
great list! Thanks for sharing
( )macias April 2nd
smashy ! …. thx 4 saving my time… its a great collection…. love You guys 4 this one…
( )Roman April 2nd
Hello, I love this gallery/showcase of galleries! Except I have one problem, there is a gallery i liked that was basically, you have a picture, and when you click on it, it opens in the center of your web browser, dims everything into the background and shows a zoomed/full size picture. Can anyone point me in the right location here?
( )Bass P April 2nd
This is TOTALLY AWESOME !!!!
( )Thanx a billion !!
shital April 2nd
wow.. i was searching the same.. and now i got the best…
( )web designer london April 3rd
i loved Polaroid Gallery v.1.01 the most
( )hcabbos April 4th
Max, nice work on jbGallery!!!
( )AnderWoterson April 4th
Another one nice gallery:
http://pageflipgallery.com
It’s wordpress gallery, with page flip effects.
( )strony internetowe szczecin April 6th
nice pack
( )bora April 6th
I use the Stack Photo Gallery
http://flash-gallery.com
It allows to display images from flickr
( )Jimbo April 6th
Missed one:
M o n o s l i d e s h o w
( )http://www.monoslideshow.com/
danyhenri April 6th
Thanks a lot
( )Sirwan April 7th
The Gallery WP Plugin allows for WP Users to upload images.
( )Gav April 8th
Wow, this is amazing guys some crazy dedication!!
Thanks
( )Alt Design April 11th
I love JQuery Cycle!
( )Mohammed Helewa April 12th
good job Glen,,
i loved the Lightview gallery, i am working with long time ago, the power
of this gallery is not in viewing images only. i and my friend Khalid are using it
to view add and edit forms in websites, the power in this usage is that you can
manage all tasks from one and only one page, i mean that if there is a page
listing all accounts you can add a link to add new account which open the
add form in the lightview and when add button pressed the refresh made on
the parent page (the page listing all accounts). and the same for edit.
thanks again Glen
( )Vivekanand April 13th
Excellent collection, its going to help us a lot…. cheers
Vivekanand
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andol April 14th
quite nice work~
( )Leandro Vieira April 19th
Another good option http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox
( )Kim Parsell April 21st
I’m one of the developers for Plogger (http://plogger.org). Thank you for including it in your list.
( )Trish April 22nd
WoW, fantastic and cool collection!
( )Lisa April 27th
Super D duper! Great post!
( )Andy Feliciotti May 7th
I always liked filebrowser
( )Jake May 10th
Here is a nice one to add to your great list, very customizable. flash image gallery
( )Suzuki May 13th
excellent collection and explanation. I am in the process searching for an online gallery and this is a great resource. Thanks for sharing.
( )Module23 May 25th
I was looking for a list like that for a few weeks now. Thanks for sharing and writing very useful descriptions.
( )Henry Trant May 26th
So impressive list! It’s easy to get lost. I’m using Origramy gallery at http://origramy.com/gallery/. Good for simple purposes.
( )Tom May 27th
http://www.phatfusion.net/slideshow/
( )Fred Campbell May 30th
I’ve been back here a dozen time, already tried out a couple of galleries on my clients. Going to steadily work my way down the page – really great stuff. Thanks for taking the time to put such a massive list of fantastic web design galleries together.
( )jak May 31st
Here is one of other gallery …..Anyone know which is this one
http://www.desertgroup.ae/en/section/project-portfolio
( )accounting homework June 3rd
Ohh!! Good work!! Thak you very much. Good gallery
( )Egypt Web Design June 7th
Ohh!! My God very very Very nice collection
( )campuscodi June 11th
kind of old actually
( )Accounting Homework June 22nd
Yes I have view your topic and this is very usefull for everyone.
( )Reiki July 1st
Excellent information. Finding a few such solutions has taken hours in the past.
Thank u.
( )excel help August 28th
This is really beautiful. Inspiration by the design literally!
( )jupiter September 3rd
I’ve been using this one from Invent Media. http://www.inventmedia.com.au/downloads.html
Requires no flash or action script programming and reads the image paths from an xml file. I literally cut and paste the code into my site and had it working in about 30 seconds. It’s nice and slick and has cool full screen and zoom controls.
( )Prashanth September 3rd
Great, professional job opportunities for working .This is very interesting gallery and data . Thanking you
( )Hayley Hewitt September 5th
I am struggling at moment trying to find which image I can either freely use or put in Photo Courtesy of or just the ones to steer clear of. Been on creative commons but when put in the search ones to use for commercial reasons the list comes back with garbage images. Can someone give me an idea of a good place to go?
( )JLSantiago October 19th
great post. Pixelpost is my favorite of those!
( )del November 6th
What a great list !! Thanks a lot
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