Best NextGEN Gallery alternatives

7 gallery plugins compared with NextGEN Gallery on features, pricing and WordPress.org stats.

Bloggers and photographers who want an easy gallery editor and plan to buy the Pro plan for albums, video and selling.

$79/yr

Designers and portfolio sites that want hand-crafted grid layouts and will pay for the Trio or Business plan for extras.

− Lacks Sell photos & prints $78/yr

Site owners who want a capable free gallery plugin and photographers who want affordable WooCommerce photo selling.

− Lacks Instagram & cloud imports $59.99/yr

Photographers and bloggers who want albums, watermarks and many layouts for free in a traditional gallery manager.

− Lacks Password-protected galleries, Sell photos & prints $30

Budget-conscious sites that want varied image and video gallery layouts with an inexpensive one-time upgrade.

− Lacks Watermarks, Instagram & cloud imports $30

Photographers and bloggers who want fast, good-looking galleries in the block editor with minimal setup.

− Lacks Filterable galleries & tags, Watermarks $29/yr

Sites that want a dependable lightbox across all content plus straightforward galleries, without a heavy photography suite.

− Lacks Albums, Image optimisation & CDN $69/yr