Best Free jQuery Carousel Plugins for Developers

With jQuery carousel plugin you can manage and display your pictures, videos and related content on websites. These plugins are responsive and come with touch swipe gesture feature to work on your mobile devices as well. In this article we have amassed a list of best free jQuery carousel plugins for our audience which you can use for your websites to make them look distinctive from others.

If you are aware of some other carousel jQuery plugin then please drop a comment below, we would love to update the list.

1. Siema


Siema is a lightweight (only 1kb gzipped) carousel plugin with no dependencies and no styling. It is 100% open source and available on Github. It is free to use on personal and commercial projects. Use it with your favourite module bundler or by manually injecting the script into your project.
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2. jCarrotCell


jCarrotCell is a jQuery carousel plugin that does all the popular carousel things. This plugin includes swipe support, auto generate the paging navigation, nested scrolling, usable fallback in case JavaScript is disabled and much more.
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3. Hover Carousel


Hover Carousel is a lightweight carousel which only moves left and right in relation to the mouse position inside it’s area.
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4. jRCarousel


jRCarousel is a jQuery plugin for responsive carousel with modern effects and multiple options. This plugin offers modern effects, fullscreen carousel, infinite scroll, tiny plugin, browser support, easy to install and minimal configuration.
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5. jQuery Brazzers Carousel


jQuery Brazzers Carousel is a lightweight, responsive thumbnails hover carousel plugin for Blogs & Online Stores.
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6. Cloud 9 Carousel


Cloud 9 Carousel is a 3D perspective carousel for jQuery/Zepto focused on performance. This plugin is easy to use, fast and works with jQuery and Zepto. This plugin is jam packed with plethora of options like mouse wheel support, auto play, reflections, smooth animation, create multiple instances and GPU acceleration through CSS transforms.
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7. Super Simple Slider


Super Simple Slider is a jQuery slider plugin that automatically generates your slider and gives you a balanced amount of settings to configure. Also it can be use as carousel.
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8. jQuery touchSwipe Carousel


jQuery touchSwipe Carousel/Slider plugin is required for detecting swipe events on touch input devices and falling back to mouse ‘drags’ on the desktop.
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9. Owl Carousel 2


The plugin is touch-friendly and capable of featuring any HTML content with almost any markup. In new version you will find thumbnail support too.
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10. jCider


jCider is an extensive and responsive jQuery plugin that enables you to create awesome carousels.
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11. FilmRoll


FilmRoll is a lightweight jQuery carousel (12 kb minified) that focuses on one item at a time, centering it in the view, regardless of the relative sizes of the carousel items.
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12. TikslusCarousel


Tikslus carousel is a jQuery based fully responsive image carousel with following features: pause/resume support, switch to full screen view, navigation icons, zoom in zoom out effects, and display number of current slide playing.

This plugin is fully Responsive and can be used without providing width and height of the images Support custom animation Via CSS3 classes also can be used with JQuery Mobile plugin.
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13.SilverTrack


SilverTrack is a jQuery plugin designed to be extensible through other plugins. It has a small core and comes with very useful plugins.
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14. Rondell


This is a jQuery plugin for displaying galleries and other content the way you want. The rondell demos can be controlled with your keyboard, by clicking the controls or by clicking the rondell items. Touching items and swiping on a phone or tablet computer will work too. The plugin has been tested with and should work fine with: IE 7-9, Firefox 3.6+, Chrome, Safari 4+, Opera 11+.
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15. SwipeView


SwipeView is the super simple solution to endless seamlessly loopable carousels for the mobile browser. It’s memory conservative as it uses only three elements at any given time, it’s smooth as velvet since it takes advantage of hardware acceleration, it’s bandwidth friendly with its 1.5kb minified/gzipped footprint.
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