Photo Gallery Plugins Market Share & Usage Statistics (2026)
Slider Revolution runs on 1,266,930 live websites, 86.2% of the 1,469,023 sites we detect using photo gallery plugins. Below, all 29 tools we detect in this category, ranked by live websites, with market share and 30-day adoption momentum.
Data updated Aug 19, 2026
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Slider Revolution
Slider Revolution is a premium WordPress slider and visual editor plugin running on over 1.26 million active websites.
Live websites1,266,930Market Share86.24%Top CountryUnited States
Photo Galleries Market Data
Adoption and 30-day momentum across 29 photo galleries technologies, measured from our live detection crawl.
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Expert Insight: Photo Gallery Plugins Market Share & Momentum
One plugin holds 86% of this category, and it is not really a gallery.
Slider Revolution runs on about 1.27M of the 1.47M domains where we detect gallery software, roughly 86%. Nothing else clears 4%. It is a general visual editor bundled into thousands of commercial WordPress themes, measured here against single-purpose gallery plugins, and every substantial entry in the table is shrinking on both windows we track.
Eighty-six percent, then a long way down
Slider Revolution about 86%, Photo Gallery 3.4%, Responsive Lightbox and Gallery 3.2%, Master Slider 2.8%. NextGEN appears twice under two owners and combines to about 2.5%. This is the most lopsided category we publish, and the gap is roughly 26 to one between first and second.
Nothing in this category is growing
All six of the largest entries are negative across both 30 and 90 days. Five of the six biggest apparent gainers each added close to their entire footprint inside the window, which is a technology arriving in our detection set rather than one spreading, so discount them. The largest real gain anywhere in the table is in single digits.
Turnover runs about 2.9%, and it tracks redesigns
Slider Revolution shed roughly 34,900 domains over 30 days against about 9,400 added. A gallery plugin usually arrives with a purchased theme and leaves with the next redesign, so dropped here means the plugin stopped appearing in our crawl rather than a licence being cancelled. The smaller plugins churn at a similar rate on much smaller bases.
The category label is doing most of the work
Slider Revolution sits on jQuery on about 99% of its domains and on WordPress on about 88%, so roughly one install in eight is not WordPress at all and runs the standalone build. That profile belongs to a visual editor shipped inside commercial themes, not to a gallery product anyone shopped for. Read this table as the ThemeForest ecosystem's slider plus a handful of genuine gallery plugins underneath it.
Market Share
- Slider Revolution86.24%
Photo Gallery3.36%- RResponsive Lightbox & Gallery3.2%
Master Slider2.82%
Imagely NextGEN Gallery1.45%
NextGEN Gallery1.04%- …Others1.9%
Photo Galleries
FAQ.
What is Photo Galleries software?
Photo Galleries covers the tools a site can load or configure to handle this part of its stack. We detect one of the 29 photo galleries tools in this category on 1,469,023 live sites. A detection means we found the technology on the site, which is not the same as a paid account.
What are the most popular photo galleries platforms?
Across 1,469,023 detected sites, the most widely found photo galleries tools are: Slider Revolution (86.24% share, 1,266,930 sites), Photo Gallery (3.36% share, 49,432 sites), Responsive Lightbox & Gallery (3.2% share, 47,063 sites). Others we see regularly include Master Slider and Imagely NextGEN Gallery.
Which photo galleries tool has the largest market share?
Slider Revolution is the most widely detected photo galleries tool at 86.24% share, on 1,266,930 sites. The largest share of those sites belongs to Construction companies, and to businesses in the 1-10 employee band.
Which industries use photo galleries software the most?
The industries with the most detected sites in this category are Construction, IT Services and IT Consulting, Business Consulting and Services, Retail, Advertising Services. Industry mix follows where these tools get installed, so a category carried by website builders or agency templates will lean toward the verticals those platforms serve rather than the vendor's target buyer.
Which countries have the highest adoption of photo galleries tools?
We detect the most photo galleries sites in United States, India, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy. Country here is the company's registered location in our enriched data rather than where the site is served from, so read it as a ranking of markets rather than a measure of any single one.
How do I choose the right photo galleries platform?
Start from your own size, industry and primary use case rather than from share. Slider Revolution, Photo Gallery and Responsive Lightbox & Gallery are the three we detect most often in this category, which tells you what is common, not what fits you. Compare their integrations, pricing tiers and support commitments against the workflow you actually run, and check each vendor's own documentation for current capabilities.
How many companies use photo galleries software?
TechnologyChecker.io detects photo galleries tools on 1,469,023 live sites. That is a count of sites carrying the technology, not a count of paying customers, and a site running two tools in this category is counted under each. We crawl 2 billion+ URLs across 29.9M live business domains each sweep.
What is the source of this data?
TechnologyChecker.io's web crawling and technology detection platform. We've logged 2.12 billion total detections over 20+ years, covering 40,000+ technologies across the 29.9M live business domains we successfully crawl each sweep. Detection methods include JavaScript analysis, HTTP headers, HTML patterns, DNS records, and certificate transparency logs.