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mwaterfall/mwphotobrowser — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-06-24

8,719Objective-CAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5Setup · easy

tl;dr

A ready-made iOS photo and video viewer you drop into your app, handles zooming, swiping between images, grid thumbnails, captions, and auto-downloading images from the web.

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    What it does
      Photo and video viewer
      iOS drop-in library
    Features
      Zoom and pan
      Grid thumbnails
      Captions
      Multi-select
    Image sources
      Web URLs
      Device library
      Local files
      In-memory cache
    Integration
      CocoaPods
      Two delegate methods
    Audience
      iOS developers

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Add a full-featured photo gallery with pinch-to-zoom and swipe navigation to an iOS app without writing the UI from scratch

VIBE 2

Show a grid thumbnail view of photos that users tap to open in full-screen inside an iOS app

VIBE 3

Let users select multiple photos inside your app for sharing or batch actions using the built-in selection mode

what's the stack?

Objective-CiOSCocoaPods

how it stacks up fr

mwaterfall/mwphotobrowsertttattributedlabel/tttattributedlabelcodetips/baidunetdiskplugin-macos
Stars8,7198,7158,846
LanguageObjective-CObjective-CObjective-C
Setup difficultyeasyeasymoderate
Complexity2/52/53/5
Audiencedeveloperdeveloperdeveloper

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · easy time til it works · 30min

in plain english

MWPhotoBrowser is an iOS library that gives developers a ready-made photo and video viewing screen to drop into their apps. Instead of building a photo gallery from scratch, you add this library to your project, give it a list of images or videos, and it handles displaying them with a polished interface that supports zooming, panning, and swiping between items. The browser can display content from several sources: images already loaded in memory, photos and videos from the device library, URLs pointing to images hosted online, or local files. When images come from the web, the library downloads and caches them automatically so they do not need to be fetched again. Optional captions can appear below each photo, and users can also select one or more photos, which is useful for building features like sharing or batch actions. A grid view is available that shows all photos as thumbnails at once, letting users jump to a specific photo rather than swiping through one by one. The browser can start in either the full-screen swipe view or the grid view, depending on what makes sense for the app. Navigation arrows, action buttons for sharing, and selection checkboxes can each be turned on or off independently. Integration requires implementing two delegate methods that tell the library how many items there are and what object to use for each one. Beyond that, the setup is a small number of configuration properties. The library works on iOS 7 and later, and all displayed text is localized so it can be used in multilingual apps. The project is available through CocoaPods, a common iOS package manager, which simplifies adding it to an Xcode project. A demo app is included in the repository.

prompts (copy fr)

prompt 1
I'm building an iOS app and want to add a photo browser using MWPhotoBrowser. Show me the Objective-C code to initialize it with an array of image URLs and present it modally.
prompt 2
I need to show captions below photos in MWPhotoBrowser. How do I implement the delegate method that provides a caption string for each photo index?
prompt 3
I want MWPhotoBrowser to open in grid view by default instead of the swipe view. How do I configure this in my view controller?

Frequently asked questions

what is mwphotobrowser fr?

A ready-made iOS photo and video viewer you drop into your app, handles zooming, swiping between images, grid thumbnails, captions, and auto-downloading images from the web.

What language is mwphotobrowser written in?

Mainly Objective-C. The stack also includes Objective-C, iOS, CocoaPods.

How hard is mwphotobrowser to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is mwphotobrowser for?

Mainly developer.

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