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The Enterprise Mobile SDK and Superapp SDK

Ionic Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

Ionic FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Ionic offer?

Ionic has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $499.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription, Open Source
Free Trial: Available

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Q. Who are the typical users of Ionic?

Ionic has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business


Q. What languages does Ionic support?

Ionic supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Ionic offer an API?

Yes, Ionic has an API available for use.


Q. What level of support does Ionic offer?

Ionic offers the following support options:
Chat, FAQs/Forum, Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base

Ionic product overview

Price starts from

499

Per month

Usage Based

What is Ionic?

Ionic is an intuitive web-based all building platform. The platform allows users to build apps for iOS, Android, desktop, and web—all from a single codebase.

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Chat
FAQs/Forum
Email/Help Desk
Knowledge Base

Training options

Live Online
Documentation
In Person
Webinars
Videos

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Value for money

4.5

/5

28

Starting from

499

Per month

Usage Based

Pricing options

Free plan
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Ionic features

Functionality

4.5

/5

28

Total features

24

3 categories

Most valued features by users

API
Third-Party Integrations
Data Import/Export
Access Controls/Permissions
Collaboration Tools
Data Visualization
Graphical User Interface
Deployment Management

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Ionic users reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

/5

28

Positive reviews

96

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.75/10
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Pros
I love Angular and therefore love that Ionic uses the Angular platform. Ionic is very intuitive for an Angular developer.
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.
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.
Cons
Also the setup process for a new team member once your app is large enough gets stupidly complicated.
Occasionally there is a problem with integration, but nothing that can't be solved, there are messages like "Scrolling problem" after deploying some features.
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.

Overall rating contenders

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Rachel W.

Consumer Services, 10,001+ employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Ionic for hybrid applications development

Reviewed 10 months ago

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

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Juan N.

Restaurants, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Great solution for PWA and hybrid app building, if you like to tinker.

Reviewed 10 months ago

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.

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Rob v.

Consumer Electronics, 1-10 employees

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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Hmmmmmmmmm

Reviewed 10 months ago

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.

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Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Best tool for quicker mobile application development

Reviewed 2 years ago

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.

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Devin D.

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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The best way to Scale Mobile Apps

Reviewed a year ago
Pros

The Doumentation and pricing structure were cheap and well maintained

Cons

Sometimes hars to get good customer support

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