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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated October 21st, 2026 # Reviews of Ionic Ease of use 4.5 Customer Service 4.4 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews Vansh K Software DeveloperInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Great support, community, and documentation go a long way for developers.“ January 30, 2025 CD Ciro D DeveloperComputer Software, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Still some aspects are poorly covered by the official documentation and need community support to go through complex scenarios.“ November 28, 2023 Vansh K Software DeveloperInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “They are very straightforward to use thanks to their amazing documentation.“ January 30, 2025 CZ Chritina Z it specialistInformation Technology and Services, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Occasionally there is a problem with integration, but nothing that can't be solved, there are messages like "Scrolling problem" after deploying some features.“ February 26, 2023 MC Mario C Software EngineerInformation Technology and Services, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “A great framework to add to projects that have strict deadlines or budgets.“ December 27, 2023 TR Tumelo R DeveloperInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The ease of use and documentation provided it made coding easy“ September 28, 2024 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 32 available reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use R Reviewer Software Engineer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Ionic simplifies cross platform mobile development with web tech" October 27, 2026 4.0 Ionic provides great ease of use for web engineers shipping mobile apps with solid value for money. When plugin compilation broke, customer support helped resolve native bridge configs. Pros Unified React and TypeScript code management simplifies multiplatform builds. Flexible CSS customization options and Appflow cloud services speed up packaging native iOS and Android binaries. Cons Capacitor plugin updates occasionally introduce unexpected build bugs and issues, requiring tedious debugging in Xcode and Gradle build scripts. Review Source Vansh K. Software Developer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Great Developer Experience" January 31, 2025 5.0 Easy out-of-the-box components is making it fast to develop and launch our app. Also being able to work on one code base and deploy to both iOS and Android apps is a huge benefit for us. Pros Mostly the components. They are very straightforward to use thanks to their amazing documentation. Great support, community, and documentation go a long way for developers. Cons There are not many downsides but working with the shadow-DOM to customize components would probably be one. If you can avoid having too many customizations then this is the perfect product. Review Source Verified Reviewer Senior Software Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Best tool for quicker mobile application development" June 6, 2022 5.0 we have developed 2-3 application for the inhouse employees such as for Sales People, Management People for their day to day activities. Overall experience is very good. Saved lots of $ by developing application in Ionic. Pros 1\. Feel like a native application is one of the key feature Ionic is having. 2. Its feature to code once and deploy multiple times is very useful and saves lots of efforts in terms of money and time. 3. Ready made templates are available Cons 1\. Customize application development is little bit challenge sometimes when you need to build customized controls. 2. Continuous updates are required as new version of ionic and angular is coming very frequently. Review Source R Reviewer Engineer Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Hmmmmmmmmm" December 5, 2023 3.0 Please give me some handouts of how to work with ionics Pros It looked very promising. It is far more complicated as i expected it. Cons The demo that was delivered did not run. Review Source R Reviewer CTO Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Great solution for PWA and hybrid app building, if you like to tinker." December 19, 2023 5.0 Despite the drawbacks, it's a good solution to start building a PWA or hybrid app. You can start with little code copy-paste from the tutorial and have "something" to start building on. We have apps and portals build with it and are generally quite happy once you get used to some of the drawbacks. Also I've started using the new streamlined wizards to setup new projects and it seems the've solved a lot of the issues and complexity. Pros That it's very extensible, and it uses HTML/SCSS, which allows us to leverage a million of external plugins, codepens etc. It's brilliant and allows for a afantastic looking app that everyone on the team can add to with little previous knowledge. Cons The quirks. The build system is slow and oftentimes fails for no particular reason. Deleting the cache, node\_modules and rebuilding from scratch (which can take a long time) slowed down our team more time than I'd like. Also the setup process for a new team member once your app is large enough gets stupidly complicated. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Flexibel and powerful" November 20, 2023 5.0 Pros I use it for rapid app development. As web app, I can develop and test fast. And it's great that you can deploy it as native mobile app. Cons I could not find a fast and easy way to choose or change to a dark mode color scheme. Review Source R Reviewer software engineer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "The best way to Scale Mobile Apps" November 29, 2023 5.0 Pros The Doumentation and pricing structure were cheap and well maintained Cons Sometimes hars to get good customer support Review Source R Reviewer Engineering Manager Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Cross-platform (Android/iOS) mobile component library" March 17, 2025 5.0 Positive experience - but with the larger screens today a similar responsive display can be achieved with Bootstrap/MUI. Pros Good range of cross-platform mobile React components. We used it for creating our iOS/Android mobile apps. Cons Good for what it is. Component library is simple compared to Bootstrap/MUI. Review Source Rachel W. Technical support Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Ionic for hybrid applications development " November 30, 2023 5.0 I started using it with my thesis advisor recommendation, am building an app that should fully function on ios and Android, so we decided to ionic and that's the best decision i made. Pros Ionic is best app development environment if you are planning to build hybrid applications and wants avoid double work ,which is writing code for Android and ios in separate. And for people who wants ready for use design they can just pick one template and customize it as their own needs .that's so helpful and time saving for most users. Cons I don't have anything that i can mention as a drawback of ionic but since this days there are many new competitors with same features and functionality, ionic should keep updating itself Review Source R Reviewer CEO, CTO Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Great flexible development platform with a huge potential" November 20, 2023 4.0 Took a long time to install and get all operational, but time well spent as it looks like. Hope to deliver a great app to the designers to dress up my basic app but should be a breeze. Pros I like the fundamental idea of a common javascript codebase for all our front end apps. I like Angular so it's a match made in heaven. Large installed base and user groups, tips and help on the Internet. Cons It's a handful to install and configure, both on Android and iOS. Did not make it easier with a beta release installed of Xcode.. All issues were eventually fixed and all working smoothly. Review Source R Reviewer Application Developer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Great Framework " November 29, 2023 5.0 Pros I love Ionic for the ease of development and deployment to 2 different mobile apps Cons teaching new developers how to use it can be a challenge Review Source R Reviewer Design Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Versatilidad" November 29, 2023 4.0 me pareció bastante buena, dado que me sirvió para aprender a realizar una app. Pros Lo que más me gustó de IONIC fué lo fácil de usar, y lo simple de conectar APIs Cons lo que menos me gustó de ionic, pero que va de la mano, es que algunos temas o complementos (cosas externas) estaban un tanto deprecadas Review Source R Reviewer dezenvolvedor Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Just produce" March 16, 2023 5.0 The benefits are many: integration with libraries and frameworks on the market, plugins, the fact that a single project can run on multiple platforms (IOS, android, web), documentation with examples. Pros The fact that it is a technology capable of producing fast and agile results for different types of platforms makes development very simple. Cons at the moment there is nothing I should regret. Review Source Verified Reviewer Staff Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Ionic- A Hybrid app development framework" September 22, 2022 4.0 Pros I have used Angular based Ionic framework to develop and release my app in Android play store and iOS app store. Ionic with its libraries and packages and build process has made this very easy to develop. Cons App is a hybrid app. It offers near native experience but not exactly native. Review Source R Reviewer App developer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Good beginnert tool" October 29, 2024 5.0 Pros It´s a good tool to start building apps. Cons The documentation is a bit sparse. I wish it was more explicative. Review Source Verified Reviewer Software engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "web/mobile app development just needs Ionic" January 17, 2022 5.0 Pros you can reuse your web development skills to build mobile and web apps. Basically, apps that run everywhere and are very relevant. Cons perhaps the docs with the APIs for the components could be better explained, I always feel there is a gap between what the docs say and how I write the code in my apps. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Developer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "The Revolution of lonic" December 6, 2023 5.0 Pros The developer API and the easy use of the system and the moderate price of lonic products. Cons I don't think if their is anything at all. Review Source R Reviewer IT SUPPORT Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "IONIC is easy" December 6, 2023 5.0 Pros easy to use and lots of references and easy to find on the internet Cons Maybe the plugins that have been provided are lighter because sometimes the plugin load is very heavy Review Source R Reviewer Software Engineer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "A good mobile UI toolkit for quick projects" December 28, 2023 4.0 Pros A great framework to add to projects that have strict deadlines or budgets. It's great that it integrates with Angular and helps build cross-platform mobile apps with a consistent and polished user interface. Cons The main thing was the learning curve, for people who are new to the framework. Review Source R Reviewer Senior system engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Ionic review" October 8, 2022 5.0 Pros Itnis easy to use and the learning curve is not too steep. Cons Overall it is very good but sometimes the integration with 3 party libraries a bit tough Review Source R Reviewer it specialist Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Ionic" March 1, 2023 4.0 Pros This platform provides a well-structured set of tools for development. I like the Ionic CLI which makes all configurations quick and makes it very easy to troubleshoot application issues. Cross-platform UI option that works on the same device and supports Angular. Very suitable tool for fast apps where native mobile app capabilities are not required. This app is very poplar, has very good documentation and some good third party libraries. Integration is a bit tricky at times, but the documentation makes it manageable. It's a very widespread option, user friendly, meets expectations. Cons Occasionally there is a problem with integration, but nothing that can't be solved, there are messages like "Scrolling problem" after deploying some features. Customizing the app if we need to create customization controls is not always easy, but still the pros outweigh the cons and I enjoyed using the app. Review Source R Reviewer Developer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Try ionic to fast track your developing " October 1, 2024 5.0 This is one of the best react platform out there i used ionic to test out my development skills on android and developed simple apps which had dynamic content Pros The ease of use and documentation provided it made coding easy Cons Downloadable components, the ease of use . Fast trackind development Review Source Mohamed E. Technical Services Team Lead Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Easy to Use" December 19, 2023 5.0 Pros Easy to use and build the app and the capability to deploy the app on different platforms. Cons Nothing they keep adding new features to the tool Review Source Christopher S. Founder Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Multiplatform Mobile Development" June 28, 2021 5.0 Overall I like Ionic. The fact that you can have one code base for multiple platforms is definitely a benefit. Plus when you develop your changes are reflected real time in the browser which is great for UI development. Pros The best thing about the Ionic framework is the ability to write for multiple platforms with a familiar project structure. You can initialize your project as an Angular or React project and write code as if you are writing for a web app. With one code base you can deploy to ios and Android. Write an app once and reach any audience. Cons What I like least is that the framework automatically puts in a lot of permissions when you use certain components. Once you deploy to a platform, you can remove the permission that aren't being used; however, it's an extra step. Review Source R Reviewer IT Consultant Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "It just works" December 26, 2023 5.0 Pros It's the low barrier of entry and the fact that there's tons of documentation out there to help you build out what you're trying to with it. Cons The pricing for the app builder service — Ionic Creator. Review Source Similar Products Featured