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.
Enjoyed this Post?
Subscribe to our RSS Feed, Follow us on Twitter or simply recommend us to friends and colleagues!
By Glen Stansberry
Premium Members
Source Files, Bonus Tutorials & More for all relevant Tuts+ sites in one subscription. Join Now
Related Posts
Premium Membership
Source Files, Bonus Tutorials & More for all relevant Tuts+ sites in one subscription
Tom Elders - More
Web Basix
Just getting started? Start with our basix tutorials on the fundamentals. View All Basix Tutorials
Other Plus Sites ...
aetuts+ audiotuts+ vectortuts+ tuts+ phototuts+ cgtuts+ nettuts+ psdtuts+ activetuts+Create a Tutorial, Get Paid!
Have something to teach the world? Want to earn money doing it? Tutorials, screencasts, and articles published here on Nettuts+ are largely contributed by readers just like you! We'll pay you great money for good content. Find Out More
Nice collection! Thanks for the effort!
Best wishes
BORABORA
great list! Thanks for sharing
smashy ! …. thx 4 saving my time… its a great collection…. love You guys 4 this one…
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?
This is TOTALLY AWESOME !!!!
Thanx a billion !!
wow.. i was searching the same.. and now i got the best…
i loved Polaroid Gallery v.1.01 the most
Max, nice work on jbGallery!!!
Another one nice gallery:
http://pageflipgallery.com
It’s wordpress gallery, with page flip effects.
nice pack
I use the Stack Photo Gallery
http://flash-gallery.com
It allows to display images from flickr
Missed one:
M o n o s l i d e s h o w
http://www.monoslideshow.com/
Thanks a lot
The Gallery WP Plugin allows for WP Users to upload images.
Wow, this is amazing guys some crazy dedication!!
Thanks
I love JQuery Cycle!
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
Excellent collection, its going to help us a lot…. cheers
Vivekanand
[http://www.developersnippets.com]
quite nice work~
Another good option http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox
I’m one of the developers for Plogger (http://plogger.org). Thank you for including it in your list.
WoW, fantastic and cool collection!
Super D duper! Great post!
I always liked filebrowser
Here is a nice one to add to your great list, very customizable. flash image gallery
excellent collection and explanation. I am in the process searching for an online gallery and this is a great resource. Thanks for sharing.
I was looking for a list like that for a few weeks now. Thanks for sharing and writing very useful descriptions.
So impressive list! It’s easy to get lost. I’m using Origramy gallery at http://origramy.com/gallery/. Good for simple purposes.
http://www.phatfusion.net/slideshow/
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.
Here is one of other gallery …..Anyone know which is this one
http://www.desertgroup.ae/en/section/project-portfolio
Ohh!! Good work!! Thak you very much. Good gallery
Ohh!! My God very very Very nice collection
kind of old actually
Yes I have view your topic and this is very usefull for everyone.
Excellent information. Finding a few such solutions has taken hours in the past.
Thank u.
This is really beautiful. Inspiration by the design literally!
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.
Great, professional job opportunities for working .This is very interesting gallery and data . Thanking you
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?
great post. Pixelpost is my favorite of those!
What a great list !! Thanks a lot
I use lightview in a lot of projects. Very useful and simple.
Nice collection. I like “CSS Play”, gd rating will be perfect with this theme.
I’d like to throw xFlow! into this little mix:
http://xflow.pwhitrow.com
xFlow!, the PHP and Javascript Coverflow replacement.
Written in PHP and Javascript, it’s a breeze to setup and administer, and boasts a wealth of features.
Great resource…glad to see Gallery is still number one…though I would prefer to pay and go for a paid gallery script. Not many themes for Gallery makes it a little troublesome to use for someone not good at designing their own themes.
Wuau… gran aportación, muchas gracias desde Madrid.
Wuau, gracias desde Madrid!!
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?