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The best Sortable alternatives

6 tools that do a similar job to Sortable, 6 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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Sortable

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

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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

    Full review Sortable vs dnd-kit
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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

    Full review Sortable vs Muuri
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    Dragula

    Open source · MIT · ★ 22.1k

    A small JavaScript library for drag and drop between lists and containers.

    Best for: Front-end developers who want drag-and-drop without a large framework; Developers building sortable lists or kanban-style boards in plain JavaScript

    Full review Sortable vs Dragula
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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

    Full review
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    Swiper

    Open source · MIT · ★ 41.9k

    A free JavaScript touch slider for mobile-friendly carousels and image galleries.

    Best for: Front-end developers adding a swipeable slider or image gallery to a website; Teams building mobile web or hybrid apps that need touch-friendly carousels

    Full review
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    Moveable

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.8k

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

    Best for: Front-end developers building editors or interactive canvases in the browser; Teams using React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, or Lit who want a wrapper package for their framework

    Full review

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 Sortable. We don't take payment for placement.