10 Best Image Zoom jQuery & Vanilla JavaScript Plugins (2023 Update)

What is Image Zoom?

Image Zoom is a widely used web technology which enables the visitor to view the details about product/article/post images on hover or click/tap, just like a magnifying glass effect.

Zooming an image is one of the easiest ways to make a website more interactive. This definitely helps people understand what you're trying to say because an image can tell a thousand words and click interactions can tell another hundred thousand. 

The Best Image Zoom Plugin

Image zoom JavaScript plugin is the best tool for enlarging images on your website. This is a new trend for web designers as there was a time image-enlarging was tricky and even costly to implement. Now it’s as simple as adding a line of code.

There are many image zoom JavaScript libraries available online. Some of them are very light-weight and easy to implement, while others have much more advanced functionalities and require jQuery or other JS frameworks in your website that you might already be using. But, if you had the budget, which one would you use? What criteria will you use to select the best one for your web application?

In this post you will find the 10 best jQuery and Pure JavaScript Image Zoom plugins that enables your visitors to enlarge images within your document in an elegant way. I hope you like it.

Originally Published Dec 17 2017, updated Jan 09 2023

Table of contents:

• jQuery Image Zoom Plugins
• Vanilla JS Image Zoom Libraries

jQuery Image Zoom Plugins:

Medium Style Image Zoom Plugin with jQuery - zoom.js

A smart jQuery image zoom plugin that enlarges / shrinks your images in place on click, as you seen on Medium.com. You can click anywhere to exit the zoomed state or, more interestingly, just scroll away as if you were continuing past the image.

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Simple Image Inner Zoom Plugin - jQuery Zoom

A simple and easy-to-use jQuery zoom plugin that enlarge your images on mouse over, grab, click or toggle.

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Create Smooth Image Zoom and Pan Effects With jQuery and CSS - EasyZoom

A lightweight and touch-compatible jQuery zoom plugin which allows you to zoom and pan an image using your mouse cursor or finger on touch devices.

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Smooth Image Zoom & Pan Plugin With jQuery - ZooMove

A super tiny jQuery/HTML5 image zoom plugin which smoothly enlarges and pan a specified image when mouse hovering and moving.

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Versatile Image Zoom/Viewer/Gallery Plugin With jQuery - ezPlus

An extended version of the elevatezoom plugin that provides customizable, touch-enabled zooming, gallery, popup functionalities on your images.

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Vanilla JS Image Zoom Libraries:

Pure JavaScript Medium-style Image Zoom Library – medium-zoom

A lightweight and dependency-free JavaScript library used for creating a responsive, user-friendly image zoom / lightbox effect as seen on Medium.com pages.

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OpenSeadragon

An open-source, web-based viewer for zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript.

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Smooth Image Hover Zoom Effect with Pure JavaScript – Drift

A standalone and highly configurable JavaScript library that provides responsive, smooth hover (or touch) zoom effect on images.

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Minimal Inline Image Zoom In JavaScript – Amplify

A lightweight inline image zoom library which allows users to increase the size of images in their original positions. Press on the Enter and Space keys to close the enlarged images.

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Zoom Image On Hover – js-image-zoom

A lightweight and zero-dependency JavaScript image zoom library to enlarge part of your image and display the zoomed image in a specific container on mouse hover.

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Conclusion:

Here I have published best 10 Image Zoom JavaScript libraries. These are most popular, robust and superb JavaScript libraries for zoom effects. If you want to create stunning jQuery image zoom effects, then use these libraries to beautify your web design elements.

More Resources:

Looking for more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome Image Zoom Effects on the web & mobile? See jQuery Image Zoom and JavaScript Image Zoom sections for more details.

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