🆚 Cordova vs. Ionic

📈 Ionic is noticeably more popular than Cordova.
🌍 Ionic is more popular in Germany, India, and France.
🌎 Cordova is more popular in the United States, Indonesia, and Australia.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Cordova

Ionic

Type

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

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

Japan

Italy

Canada

Australia

Singapore

Awards

⭐ 7th most popular in Indonesia in the Frontend Frameworks category.
🔥 20th most popular in the United States in the Frontend Frameworks category.

🔥 13rd most popular in India in the Frontend Frameworks category.
🔥 20th most popular in France in the Frontend Frameworks category.
⬆️ 21st most popular in the United States in the Frontend Frameworks category.

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 general news, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and media sharing sites.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Fashion/Beauty

Education/Reference

Sports

Internet Services

Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#96

#122

#242

#274

#276

Name

Rank

#1,765

#3,892

#6,832

elephantbetzone.com

#9,788