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react-responsive-carousel vs react-image-gallery

UI component librariesPackage data 25 Sept 2026
react-responsive-carouselv3.2.23, 3 Mar 2022

React Responsive Carousel

$ npm install react-responsive-carousel
react-image-galleryv2.1.2, 26 Feb 2026

React carousel image gallery component with thumbnail and mobile support

$ npm install react-image-gallery
Metricreact-responsive-carouselreact-image-galleryDifference
Weekly downloads560,711307,569react-responsive-carousel 1.8x higher
12-month download growth+36%+3%react-responsive-carousel +32 pts
Gzip size---
Minified size---
Dependencies30react-responsive-carousel 3 more
Unpacked size183 kB120 kBreact-image-gallery 1.5x smaller
Latest release3.2.23, 3 Mar 20222.1.2, 26 Feb 2026react-image-gallery 4.0 years more recent
Releases, last 12 months011react-image-gallery 11 more
First published9 Feb 20154 Mar 2015react-responsive-carousel 23 days earlier
GitHub stars2,6753,942react-image-gallery +47%
Open issues01react-image-gallery 1 more
Open pull requests413react-image-gallery 9 more
Contributors---
Commits, last 52 weeks476react-image-gallery 19.0x higher
TypeScript typesBundledBundledSame
Module formatCommonJSESM + CommonJSDiffers
Runtimes---
LicenseMITMITSame

Green marks the smaller size or the more recent release. Bold marks the higher count, with no judgement implied. Sizes are for the whole package per Bundlephobia. Growth compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series.

react-responsive-carousel565.8k latest weekreact-image-gallery307.6k latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
Weekly npm downloads, 52 weeks. Y axis starts at zero. Values are not smoothed.

react-responsive-carousel

Major versions
  1. 0.0.19 Feb 2015
  2. 2.0.021 Nov 2015
  3. 3.0.07 Jan 2016
Last 5 releases
  1. 3.2.233 Mar 2022
  2. 3.2.2221 Oct 2021
  3. 3.2.2118 Aug 2021
  4. 3.2.2019 Jul 2021
  5. 3.2.192 Jul 2021
119 releases in total, 0 in the last 12 months

react-image-gallery

Major versions
  1. 0.1.04 Mar 2015
  2. 1.0.022 Dec 2019
  3. 2.0.031 Jan 2026
Last 5 releases
  1. 2.1.226 Feb 2026
  2. 2.1.119 Feb 2026
  3. 2.1.016 Feb 2026
  4. 2.0.810 Feb 2026
  5. 2.0.77 Feb 2026
125 releases in total, 11 in the last 12 months
react-responsive-carousel

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react-image-gallery

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react-responsive-carousel

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react-image-gallery

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  • Need no runtime dependenciesreact-image-gallery (react-responsive-carousel has 3, react-image-gallery has 0)
  • Need both ESM and CommonJS entry pointsreact-image-gallery (react-responsive-carousel: CommonJS; react-image-gallery: ESM + CommonJS)
  • Need to load it with require()Both
  • Need TypeScript types in the package itselfBoth
  • Need the more recent releasereact-image-gallery (2.1.2 on 26 Feb 2026 vs 3.2.23 on 3 Mar 2022)
  • Higher weekly npm downloadsreact-responsive-carousel (560.7k vs 307.6k)

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