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FotoGrids vs Robo Gallery

Robo Gallery has a capable free plugin and an unusually honest habit of showing you what you can’t have. Its new-gallery wizard lists fifty-one layouts, its image manager greys out the link fields, and the tag and search settings ship as hidden fields — all inside the free build.
FotoGrids
44
Pro presets Robo Gallery shows in the free wizard, then prices
30+ vs 11
Templates in FotoGrids Free vs Robo Gallery free, by their own count
16
Controls in Robo Gallery’s free grid panel that render disabled with a PRO badge
$30
Where tags, gallery search and per-image links begin in Robo Gallery
15
15

15 features Robo Gallery keeps for Pro — or doesn’t offer at all — are free in FotoGrids.

Why FotoGrids

Four reasons to pick FotoGrids over Robo Gallery

FotoGrids
Robo Gallery
Choosing a layout
FotoGrids
Eight layouts in Free, every one of them selectable
Robo Gallery
Seven free types; 44 more are shown, then priced
Starting a new gallery
FotoGrids
30+ ready templates in Free
Robo Gallery
Eleven themes in free, by their own published count
Tagging and searching a gallery
FotoGrids
Tags and filtering in the free plugin
Robo Gallery
Tag mode and gallery search ship as hidden fields
Linking an image somewhere
FotoGrids
Per-image links in the free plugin
Robo Gallery
The link fields are greyed out and unclickable
Building a gallery

Fifty-one layouts, and seven of them build

The new-gallery wizard is the first screen you see, and it is also the first sales page.

Robo Gallery — 7 free types, 44 priced presets

The free plugin’s own source comments do the splitting: seven entries under “Free version”, forty-four under “Pro version”. The wizard lists all fifty-one. Pick one of the forty-four and the Create Gallery button is replaced by Buy Premium Version.

FotoGrids — Eight layouts in Free

Grid, masonry, justified, slider, image viewer, single item and more, all selectable in Free. Pro Starter adds the carousel and video playlist and takes it to eleven.

Templates

Eleven starting points against thirty

A template is the difference between building a gallery and choosing one, and it matters most on the third gallery of the month.

Robo Gallery — Eleven themes free, 55 with Pro

Their pricing table puts it at 11 for free against 55 paid, and the free theme registry is thinner still — five preset files, with the rest merged in from a Pro class that isn’t in the free build.

FotoGrids — 30+ templates in Free

Pick one close to the job, change what matters, publish. Free ships 30+; Pro Starter raises it to 70+. Nothing is shown to you that you can’t then use.

Tags & filtering

The tag setting is there, set to hidden

Tags are how a gallery stops being a pile of images, and filtering is how a visitor finds the one they came for.

Robo Gallery — Hidden fields and two PRO tabs

Tag mode and all three gallery-search settings are registered as hidden fields in the free build, two of the three Menu Options tabs render disabled with a “pro” label, and a complete search renderer ships but is commented out of the module registry.

FotoGrids — In the free plugin

Tags, people and locations on every image, with filtering and predefined sorting in Free. Pro Starter adds advanced, dynamic and user-controlled filtering.

In fairness

A strong free build under all the signposting

Robo Gallery gives away more than most, and the comparison is better for saying which parts.

Robo Gallery — Plenty that costs nothing

Password-protected galleries, tokenised share links, caching, lazy loading, infinite scroll, breadcrumbs, right-click protection, a justified layout and a Gutenberg block are all in the free plugin, backed by 78 knowledgebase articles.

FotoGrids — The same, minus the signposting

We ship those in Free too. The difference is what happens when you open the layout picker, the theme list, the tag field or the link box — in FotoGrids every one of them is a control rather than an advertisement.

Feature by feature

What Robo Gallery keeps for Pro

Robo Gallery is unusual in showing you the paid features inside the free plugin. This table is what sits on the other side of those badges.
Feature
FotoGrids
Robo Gallery
Flexible Gallery Layouts
Free
7 free types — 44 more are priced
Templates Library
Free
11 free — 55 with Pro
Tags, People & Locations
Free
Pro — from $30
Filtering
Free
Pro — from $30
External URL Manager
Free
Pro — from $30
Hover Effects
Free
8 predefined, not editable
Image Filters
Free
Not offered at any tier
Custom Fonts
Free
Not offered at any tier
Autosave & Live Preview
Free
One of eight layouts
Page Builder Integrations
Free
Not offered at any tier
Import, Export & Backup
Free
Not offered at any tier
Migration from Other Plugins
Free
Not offered at any tier
Migration

Move from Robo Gallery in an afternoon

Step 1
Bring the galleries across
FotoGrids imports from other gallery plugins, so the galleries you already built don’t need rebuilding image by image.
Step 2
Keep the URLs
Galleries get their own addresses, and the permalink settings let you keep the URLs you already have indexed.
Step 3
Try it alongside
Free is a full plugin, not a trial. Build one gallery in FotoGrids next to a Robo one and compare them on your own site.
Step 4
Make it yours
Turn on the tags, the links and the templates that were badged, then save them as defaults for every gallery after this one.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Both ship a genuinely capable free plugin. The difference is how much of it you can touch: in Robo Gallery the layout picker, the theme list, the tag field and the per-image link box all contain things you can see but not use, and in FotoGrids they don’t.
Eight selectable layouts, 30+ templates, tags with filtering, per-image links, twelve hover effects, image filters, custom fonts, EXIF viewing, import and export, and live preview across every layout rather than one — on unlimited sites.
Yes, with a native widget in Elementor and a module in Divi, plus a Gutenberg block — all in Free. Robo Gallery has no native widget for either; you create the gallery, copy the shortcode and paste it in, which their own dashboard describes as the method.
The same as this year. Pro Starter, Pro Plus and Pro Agency are $39, $79 and $129, and those are renewal prices as well as joining prices. Free stays free, on unlimited sites. The tiers are on the pricing page.
We read each plugin’s own source rather than its marketing pages, then run a second pass whose only job is to disprove what the first one found. Anything that doesn’t survive gets dropped before publication. The method is in the methodology section, and every line in the table has a source behind it.
Every layout, every tag, every link. Free, on unlimited sites

Install the free plugin, apply a template, and change the parts that are not yours yet. Customize every detail from your very first gallery.

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