We work on jQuery image slideshows all the time and it’s a great way to showcase content on your website. Thankfully, there are a number of wonderful jQuery slideshow plugins available that integrate well with responsive web designs. Most of them are available free for non-commercial/commercial use, depending on their license agreement. We are listing a handful of them in this post.

Cycle2

Cycle2 is our favorite jQuery plugin for developing image slideshows. It’s a versatile slideshow plugin for jQuery built around ease-of-use. It supports a declarative initialization style that allows full customization without any scripting.

ResponsiveSlides

ResponsiveSlides is a jQuery slideshow plugin built for simplicity. It’s a tiny jQuery plugin that creates a responsive slider using elements inside a container. The biggest difference to other responsive slider plugins is the file size.

SlidesJS

SlidesJS is a simple slideshow plugin for jQuery. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows.

Camera

Camera is a powerful and highly customizable jQuery plugin for creating responsive and touch-friendly slideshows with a lot of options and animation effects. It uses a light version of jQuery mobile, you can navigate the slides by swiping with your fingers.

FlexSlider

FlexSlider, an image carousel complete with slide effects and fade animations created by Woothemes, FlexSlider 2 showcases photos and/or videos, and works on all major browsers.

Nivo Slider

Nivo Slider is a jQuery plugin that makes displaying your gallery of images a beautiful experience, by using amazing transition effects ranging from slicing and sliding to fading and folding. It’s one of the most popular options for jQuery slideshows and best of all it’s free.

Unslider

Unslider is a responsive and cross-browser jQuery plugin for creating clean and flexible content sliders on your website. Unslider currently supports almost all the HTML elements like image, text, video, etc.

bxSlider

bxSlider is a fully responsive jQuery Slider Plugin that allows you to create a content slider which can contain images, video, or HTML content.

If you know any good plugin, feel free to suggest in the comments section…