Best Responsive jQuery Gallery, Carousel and Content Slider Plugins for your Website

If your website has many photographs, artwork or other images, then it may be a good idea to use a slider plugin, carousel, slideshow or content slider. These are space savers and help to organize images and content. Finding a good gallery or slider plug in isn’t easy, as there are so many available to choose from. To make it simple for you, we have compiled a list of some of the best carousel, slider and gallery plugins.

These come with a range of features and options, so that any can be easily adjusted to match your website. All plugins are responsive, meaning they are ideal for websites viewed on different mobile devices and screen sizes.

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Royal Slider – jQuery Image Gallery

“RoyalSlider is easy to use jQuery image gallery and content slider plugin with animated captions, responsive layout and touch support for mobile devices. As navigation you can use thumbnails, tabs or bullets. Use it as image slider, slideshow, HTML content slider, gallery, banner rotator, video gallery, carousel or even presentation. Developed in best practices of HTML5, CSS3 transitions are used for all animations (with fallback).”
Layer Slider jQuery Responsive Plugin

“LayerSlider is the most advanced Responsive jQuery Slider Plugin with the famous Parallax Effect and hundreds of transitions! You can use LayerSlider to create a breathtaking Image Slideshow, Banner Rotator or Content Slider to your site! It is SEO and mobile friendly, it has tons of features and customizable options.”
jQuery Banner Rotator - Slideshow

“This is a jQuery banner rotator plugin featuring multiple transitions. The thumbnails and buttons allow for easy navigation of your banners/ads. The banner rotator is also re-sizable and configurable through the plugin’s parameters.”
jQuery Banner Rotator – Carousel - Content Slider

“All In One is an Advanced Jquery Slider which comes in 5 flavors: Banner Rotator, Thumbnails Banner, Banner with Playlist, Content Slider, Carousel. It allows you to easily create powerful sliders with animated text using HTML standard tags, making the slider very easy to setup and maintain.”
Estro Slider – jQuery Ken Burns and Swipe Effect

“This jQuery plugin uses unobstrusive javascript to transform a block of simple HTML markup into a georgous elegant slider, which can be completely customized using HTML5 data attributes. The markup is valid HTML5 and SEO optimzied, with all content always being available to search engines. When using this plugin, your page layout will be consistent even if javascript has been disabled.

This slider includes a smooth and powerful Ken Burns effect which is completely configurable and compatible with all major browsers (including ie7 to ie9, Firefox Chrome, Opera, Safari) and mobile platforms like iphone / ipad. If the Ken Burns effect is not your thing, that’s OK because the “Estro” slider also includes a 2-way “Swipe” mode with configurable transitions.”
Slider Revolution jQuery Responsive Plugin

“Turn simple HTML markup into a responsive(mobile friendly) or fullwidth slider with must-see-effects and meanwhile keep or build your SEO optimization (all content always readable for search engines). See the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page! Customize this slider with just a little HTML and CSS to your very needs.

This plugin features tons of unique transition effects, an image preloader, video embedding, autoplay that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects. All customization can be handled via jQuery Options, HTML 5 data-attributes and CSS!”
Touch Carousel – Content Scroller and jQuery Slider

“TouchCarousel is mobile-friendly and lightweight jQuery content scroller with touch navigation for mobile and desktop. May be used as carousel, banner rotator and image gallery.”