# More flexible & modern photo gallery component in Glide

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/more-flexible-modern-photo-gallery-component-in-glide/86040>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [January 15, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/more-flexible-modern-photo-gallery-component-in-glide/86040 "2026-01-15T17:24:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roberto\_Roca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/roberto_roca/32/93063_2.png) [@Roberto\_Roca](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Roberto_Roca)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/more-flexible-modern-photo-gallery-component-in-glide/86040/1 "2026-01-15T17:24:21Z")

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Hi Glide Team 👋

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 🙌

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**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/more-flexible-modern-photo-gallery-component-in-glide/86040/2 "2026-01-15T17:53:09Z")

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Voted +1

Free feel to vote on your own submission.

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**Author:** ![Roberto\_Roca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/roberto_roca/32/93063_2.png) [@Roberto\_Roca](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Roberto_Roca)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/more-flexible-modern-photo-gallery-component-in-glide/86040/3 "2026-01-15T17:54:29Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/8/6/8699bcc2c96ff2fb337382d6e4ab88b675f5e262.jpeg)

Something like this would be amazing

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**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/more-flexible-modern-photo-gallery-component-in-glide/86040/4 "2026-01-15T17:57:20Z")

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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.