🆚 Cordova vs. Ionic

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Cordova
Ionic

Type

Frontend framework
Frontend framework

About

Apache Cordova is a mobile development framework that enables cross-platform application development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

It includes a plugin architecture that lets developers call native device APIs (camera, accelerometer, GPS, file system, etc.), uses a CLI for building and packaging apps, and wraps web applications in native WebViews for iOS, Android, Windows, and other platforms.

Ionic is an open-source UI toolkit and framework for building native-quality apps for iOS, Android, and the web using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

It provides over 100 pre-designed UI components, built-in adaptive styling, native device access via Capacitor, hardware-accelerated transitions, dark mode, and tree-shakable builds.

Headquarters

Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Website

cordova.apache.org
ionicframework.com #15,300

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Frontend Frameworks › Rank #23
Frontend Frameworks › Rank #21

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Ionic frontend framework is 1.3 times more popular than Cordova.
Total websites

Market share

Frontend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Ionic is more popular in Germany, India, and France, while Cordova is more popular in the United States, Indonesia, and Australia.
United States
Indonesia
Germany
India
France
Australia
Japan
Italy
Canada
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Ionic is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and entertainment, while Cordova is more commonly used on online shopping, general news, and media sharing sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Sports
Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#96
#122
#246
#250
#274
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Name
Rank
#1,547
#1,765
#3,892
#6,832
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See also

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