See our review of 5 of the best photo magnifiers jQuery and javascript plugin

Top 5:  Best javascript and jQuery photos magnifier plugins

This kind of plugins are really useful if you work on a market app (e-Commerce). The fancy effects and beautiful desing are factors really important when you try to decide which to choose, as this will be the experience of your user.

Enjoy the following collection of 5 of the most imponent magnifiers free plugins and expose the products of your client with them.

5. jQuery Zoom

Github | Demo

jQuery Zoom is a plugin to enlarge images on touch, click, or mouseover events and support touch events. Zoom appends html inside the element it is assigned to, so that element has to be able to accept html, like <a>, <span>, <li>, <div>, etc.

jQuery zoom plugin

4. Magnifier.js

Github | Demo 

Magnifier.js is a Javascript library that enables a magnifying glass effect on images.

Magnifier.js

3. Drift

Github | Demo

Drift is a simple, lightweight, no-dependencies JavaScript "zoom on hover" plugin. You can move your mouse over the image (or touch it) to see it in action. Easy to implement and customizable.

Drift js

2. EasyZoom

Github | Demo

EasyZoom is an elegant, highly optimised jQuery image zoom and panning plugin. EasyZoom supports touch-enabled devices and is easily customisable with CSS. Supports Overlay and adjacent mode.

Easy Zoom jQuery plugin

1. jQuery Image Zoom

Demo

jQuery Image Zoom is a really flexible plugin which offers a lot of zoom modes, You can attach a set of images to the zoom, the Zoom Window Size can be adjusted to any proportions and you can use the lens zoom setting to "Magnify the image" instead of a square.

Jquery Image Zoom Plugin

Honorable mentions

CloudZoom

Cloud Zoom is a super-smooth, touch-enabled jQuery image zoom plugin used on many high profile retail sites. Pitifully, you need to buy a license to use it, but if you're smart enought you can find a solution to this "problem".

CloudZoom

Zooming

Github | Demo

Zooming is an easy to implement image zoom library:

  • Pure JavaScript & built with mobile in mind.
  • Smooth animations with intuitive gestures.
  • Zoom into a hi-res image if supplied.
  • Easy to integrate & customizable.

Zooming Magnifier plugin

Magnificent

Github | Demo

Magnificent is a very simple and functional jQuery plugin to create a responsive zoom effect in images and more.

The basic features in the version 2.0 of Magnificent are:

  • Scroll-to-zoom
  • Drag interaction
  • Inline option
  • Control buttons
  • Different proportions for thumb vs. zoom
  • CSS 3D transforms
  • Event support, e.g. for stats/HUDs

Magnificent image zoom example

If you know another awesome magnifier plugin, don't be shy and please share it with the community in the comment box.


Senior Software Engineer at Software Medico. Interested in programming since he was 14 years old, Carlos is a self-taught programmer and founder and author of most of the articles at Our Code World.

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