Swiper JS is a modern, mobile-first slider library designed for smooth, touch-friendly navigation across all devices. Lightweight yet powerful, it enables developers and designers to create sleek carousels, galleries, and sliders with responsive layouts and fluid transitions. Designed for high performance, Swiper is fully supported across all modern browsers.
What sets Swiper JS apart from many other carousel libraries is its deep support for mobile gestures and its native-feeling swiping behavior. Unlike older or heavier libraries that rely on jQuery or rigid layouts, Swiper utilizes pure JavaScript and CSS to deliver real-time responsiveness, customizable slide animations, and a seamless user experience — even on low-powered devices. It’s also modular, allowing developers to include only the features they need.
Swiper offers a wide variety of options and effects, including looping, autoplay, keyboard and mouse wheel navigation, lazy loading, and RTL (right-to-left) support. It also includes six distinct transition effects: slide, fade, cube, flip, coverflow, and creative — each offering a unique visual style. With additional features like breakpoints, pagination, and virtual slides, Swiper JS gives both beginners and advanced users the tools to build interactive, high-performance sliders tailored to any design need.
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MaxGalleria Pro comes loaded with hooks so you can easily customize and extend it to fit your exact needs
Swiper JS’s slide effect creates smooth, touch-friendly motion, allowing visitors to swipe or drag through images with responsive looping, autoplay, lazy loading, and intuitive keyboard, mouse wheel, or pagination controls—all adjustable.
Swiper JS’s Fade effect creates elegant cross-dissolve transitions between images, pairing touch-friendly swipes with responsive looping, autoplay, lazy loading, and optional keyboard, mouse wheel, or pagination navigation—all easily tuned in a streamlined settings panel.
Swiper JS’s Flip effect creates dynamic 3D card-flip transitions between images, blending touch-friendly swipes with responsive looping, autoplay, lazy loading, and optional keyboard, mouse wheel, or pagination controls.
Swiper JS’s Coverflow effect creates a stacked carousel with angled depth, allowing users to swipe through images in a sleek, 3D layout while enjoying responsive looping, autoplay, lazy loading, and optional keyboard, mouse wheel, or pagination controls.
Swiper JS’s Cube effect creates immersive 3D cube rotations, allowing visitors to swipe through images as if turning the faces of a cube. It features responsive looping, autoplay, lazy loading, and optional keyboard, mouse wheel, or pagination controls.
Swiper JS’s Cards effect creates a deck-style interface where each slide stacks neatly and flicks away like a physical card, delivering an engaging, tactile experience. Users can swipe or drag through the stack while enjoying responsive looping, autoplay, lazy loading, and optional keyboard, mouse wheel, or pagination controls.
Other Notable Features
Swiper JS combines a deep feature set with thoughtful engineering to ensure both users and developers get a seamless experience. Responsive breakpoints let you specify different slide counts, spacing, and even directions at various viewport widths, so the same slider can feel perfectly tailored on phones, tablets, and desktops. For galleries with hundreds—or even thousands—of items, its Virtual Slides feature keeps only what’s visible in the DOM, maintaining smooth performance, while built-in lazy loading fetches images just in time to keep initial page weight low and perceived speed high.
Accessibility and universal input support are equally robust. The dedicated A11y module injects ARIA attributes, focus management, and screen-reader cues automatically, and optional keyboard and mouse-wheel navigation ensure every visitor—not just touch users—can explore your content comfortably. Right-to-left mode mirrors slides, navigation, and pagination at the flick of a switch, making Swiper an easy drop-in for multilingual sites.
For developers, Swiper’s modular architecture means you import only the features you need—Navigation, Pagination, Parallax, and so on—keeping bundles lean. A revived Plugins API and an extensive event-emitter system (on, once, off) let you hook into every lifecycle stage for analytics, custom animations, or business logic. Official wrappers for React, Vue, Svelte, and Web Components expose the same API in idiomatic ways, while parallax layers and hardware-accelerated 3-D transforms add visual polish without extra libraries.
Taken together, these capabilities let Swiper JS scale from a lightweight image carousel to a fully featured, accessible, framework-integrated media gallery with enterprise-grade performance.
1 full year of dedicated support
1 full year of free updates
View all the features by clicking on any individual addon
MaxGalleria Pro comes loaded with hooks so you can easily customize and extend it to fit your exact needs
