More flexible & modern photo gallery component in Glide

Hi Glide Team :waving_hand:

I’d like to submit a feature request regarding the Photo / Image Gallery experience in Glide, which currently feels quite limited for real-world use cases.

Current limitations

At the moment, Glide only offers:

  • A single image component, or
  • A basic carousel that shows one image at a time

For apps that rely heavily on visuals (real estate, travel, rentals, e-commerce, portfolios, etc.), this makes it difficult to present content in a practical and modern way.

What would greatly improve Glide

It would be amazing to have more gallery visualization options, such as:

  • Grid / mosaic gallery (multiple thumbnails visible at once)
  • “Hero image + thumbnails” layout (similar to Airbnb)
  • Built-in lightbox (tap → full screen swipe)
  • Better swipe & zoom behavior on mobile
  • Ability to show multiple images without forcing users to scroll through a single-image carousel

Why this matters

Many builders are currently forced to:

  • Create complex relational tables just to fake a gallery
  • Use Web Embeds and external tools
  • Or compromise UX entirely

A native, flexible gallery component would:

  • Improve user experience dramatically
  • Reduce app complexity
  • Make Glide even more attractive for visual-first apps

I truly believe this would be a high-impact improvement for a wide range of Glide builders.

In my case I’m developing my real estate long term rental and managing app, and the UI looks so basic and most of the things I can customized trought CSS but the Imagen-gallery are my biggest problem.
Also I have an app for restaurants and I’m having the same limitant.

Thanks for considering it, and keep up the great work :raising_hands:

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Voted +1

Free feel to vote on your own submission.

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Something like this would be amazing

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Have you tried building something like that with the AI custom component? Maybe it would take a lot of iterating, but it might work.