Name: Ionic
Rating: 3.8 (51 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on Ionic

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Ionic?

Ionic is a software framework designed for the development of cross-platform mobile and web applications. It provides a set of UI components and tools that enable developers to build applications using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which can then be deployed on iOS, Android, and the web from a single codebase. The software includes features that simplify the integration with native device functionalities through the use of plugins and supports a modular approach to app development. Ionic addresses the business problem of resource-intensive development cycles by facilitating code reuse and reducing the complexity associated with maintaining multiple platform-specific projects.

Overall experience with Ionic

FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER

<50M USD, Travel and Hospitality

FAVORABLE

“Stable and flexible cross-platform mobile app development platform”

5.0

Dec 30, 2022

Ionic is a stable framework to build cross-platform apps using a single code base. The platform accelerates mobile app development with ready to use components working on multiple platforms at once while giving access to native functionalities for each device and mobile OS type. The framework simplified our application release process while increasing our development speed.

SENIOR MANAGER

1B - 3B USD, Consumer Goods

CRITICAL

“Navigating the Challenges of an Open Source Framework”

3.0

Jun 5, 2024

This is a good open source framework but my experience in UI is not as seamless as other platforms. Also, not many skilled resources are available.

About Company

Company Description

OutSystems offers a high-performing low-code platform, catering to the application development requirements of numerous organizations across the globe. The platform is engineered meticulously to assist businesses in creating enterprise-grade apps and expedite their business transformation. It merges design, coding, and deployment, significantly streamlining development and fostering innovation. It allows organizations to construct a wide range of critical applications, including both customer-oriented applications and internal business apps. OutSystems' unique solution integrates minimal coding with enhanced mobile capabilities, facilitating the visual development of comprehensive application portfolios and ensuring smooth integration with pre-existing systems. The company, with its numerous global offices, specializes in helping transform businesses faster.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2001

Head office location

Boston, United States

Number of employees

1001 - 5000

Website

https://www.outsystems.com/events/one-conference/

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Ionic Likes & Dislikes

Ability to build cross-platform UIs working same on each device, support for Angular, ability to preview apps in browsers, Appflow add-on supporting multi application store publishing at once (release management).

Its open source and has a good community. Can be used to build non critical business applications.

Many components to use. Documentation very extended.

Rare instabilities of native plug-ins, app performance is slower compared to real native apps (but everything comes with its price right?), getting lost in the extensive documentation is very probable - to the point step by step guides are missing.

The support is poor. Sometimes, we have faced issues in implementing some functionalities.

It has a license cost for support.

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1B-10B USD

Consumer Goods

Review Source

Navigating the Challenges of an Open Source Framework

<50M USD

Travel and Hospitality

Stable and flexible cross-platform mobile app development platform

SSE

50M-1B USD

Miscellaneous

Expensive but powerful

May 11, 2022

Tough curve to adopt this framework, but once you're beyond that, the benefits are extraordinary

SCRUM MASTER

IT Services

I like to develop applications with IONIC

4.0

May 9, 2022

This framework is awesome, it's usefull to develop mobile apps.

Senior Manager

Average Hybris App dev framework for quick deployments

Apr 29, 2021

We started using IONIC framework to build quick apps where native mobile app capabilities were not really required. The experience has been average. Although the apps turn out to be good and do what they are supposed to do, but the experience gap is felt by the users. Sometimes, integration challenges also come up which are not straight forward in getting solved.