Gmedia Photo Gallery vs Responsive Lightbox & Gallery
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| Feature | Gmedia Photo Gallery v1.25.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.3/5 Visit Details | Responsive Lightbox & Gallery v2.7.11.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.9/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 7,000+ | 100,000+ |
| Last updated | October 14, 2026 | October 20, 2026 |
| Editions | Gmedia Photo Gallery · Gmedia Photo Gallery Premium ($) | Responsive Lightbox & Gallery · Responsive Lightbox premium extensions ($) |
| Pros | Several gallery modules and shortcodes; Private galleries for logged-in users; Media library manager in wp-admin | Eight lightbox scripts to choose from, with per-script settings; Gallery builder with grid, slider and masonry layouts plus block and widgets; Media folders and remote image library built in; No usage tracking |
| Cons | Some gallery modules are capped at 100 items without a licence; Premium features are sold through the vendor's Freemius store; Large plugin with many admin screens | Additional gallery types and lightboxes are paid extensions; Extensions page loads its list from dfactory.co; Galleries are a custom post type, so they do not move cleanly to another gallery plugin |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 2 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Gallery display modules (amron, cubik-lite, photomania and others), Private galleries shown only to logged-in users, Import media from online services, Scheduled cron job for gallery app updates, Item cap of 100 on some modules without a licence ($) | Choice of bundled lightbox scripts, Gallery builder custom post type, Basic grid, slider and masonry layouts, Gallery shortcode and block, Media folders and media tags, Remote image library (Unsplash, Flickr, Wikimedia), Lightbox for WooCommerce product galleries, Gallery and image widgets, Licence keys for premium extensions ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Storage | — | Unsplash, Flickr, Wikimedia Commons |
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | — | WPML, Polylang |
| Other | Gmedia online service, Freemius ($) | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.4.0 | 6.4 |
| Requires PHP | 5.6 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | No |
| External services | gmediaservice.codeasily.com, sandbox-api.freemius, codeasily.com | www.dfactory.co, api.unsplash.com, api.flickr.com, commons.wikimedia.org |
| Blocks | — | 2 |
| Shortcodes | 2 | 1 |