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The best Moveable alternatives

5 tools that do a similar job to Moveable, 5 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Moveable

A JavaScript library that adds drag, resize, rotate and related handles to web page elements.

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    interact.js

    Open source · MIT · ★ 12.9k

    JavaScript library for drag, drop, resize and multi-touch gestures in web pages.

    Best for: Web developers building drag-and-drop interfaces; Developers who need touch and mouse gesture support in one library

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    Fabric.js

    Open source · MIT · ★ 31.5k

    A JavaScript library for drawing, editing and exporting interactive objects on HTML canvas.

    Best for: Web developers building interactive canvas editors or drawing tools; Teams that need selectable, movable and resizable objects on a canvas without writing that logic from scratch

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    dnd-kit

    Open source · MIT · ★ 17.8k

    A toolkit for building drag and drop interfaces on the web, with adapters for several frameworks.

    Best for: Developers building sortable lists or grids in a React, Vue, Svelte, or Solid app; Teams that want keyboard and screen reader support built into drag and drop

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    Muuri

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.9k

    A JavaScript library for building responsive grid layouts that can be sorted, filtered, and dragged.

    Best for: Front-end developers building card or photo grids that need drag and drop or filtering; Developers who want custom layouts beyond what CSS alone can do

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    Sortable

    Open source · MIT · ★ 31.2k

    A small JavaScript library for drag-and-drop reordering of lists, with no framework required.

    Best for: Web developers adding reorderable lists to a site or app; Teams using React, Vue, Angular, or similar frameworks who want a framework-specific wrapper

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Moveable. We don't take payment for placement.