Ionic

Ionic

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About

Buildfire is a mobile app development platform that enables businesses and brands to build, publish, and manage native iOS and Android apps without custom development. The platform provides pre-built features, integrations, and app management tools through a visual editor and dashboard. Buildfire is a leading mobile app development platform trusted by thousands of businesses to build, launch, and scale high-performance mobile applications. With over a decade of experience and more than 10,000 apps built, Buildfire empowers organizations to bring their mobile strategies to life, faster and more affordably, through a powerful no-code platform and expert custom development services. Whether you're a small business, enterprise, or digital agency, Buildfire offers the flexibility, scalability, and support needed to succeed in today’s mobile-first world.

About

The Ionic Platform allows you to bring your apps to market faster with an integrated app platform built on the leading cross-platform mobile SDK. Build, secure, and deliver new mobile apps—and transform existing ones—across iOS, Android, and Web platforms from a single codebase. Full scalability—Grow from prototype to production to enterprise-scale, without having to think about capacity, reliability, or performance. Better apps, everywhere—Slash your development time and costs with a platform that lets you write once and deploy anywhere—iOS, Android, and Web. The core of the Ionic development experience is Ionic Capacitor, a cross platform native runtime that runs equally well on native iOS and Android mobile devices, as well as any web browser. The big difference is that, unlike traditional native development or cross-platform approaches, the UI of a Capacitor app runs primarily in the browser.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Companies that want to build custom mobile apps for their brand, or have Buildfire's professional team do it for them.

Audience

The Ionic Platform is built for architects, senior developers, and executives tasked with managing app development and identifying solutions that can accommodate their every need—while also simplifying and streamlining the development process.

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$189 per month
Billed monthly or annually.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

Free
The Ionic Platform offers multiple enterprise-grade cloud and native plans that enhance Ionic application functionality and security.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.6 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.5 / 5
support 4.9 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.8 / 5
ease 4.5 / 5
features 4.4 / 5
design 4.4 / 5
support 4.4 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Everything. The timing was fast. The price was fair. The knowledge was great. They helped get the app on the App Store and Google Play. It was a really good experience. I am a happy customer.
  • As a white label partner, it has allowed us to easily clone and resell apps. The software is well made and has allowed us to hire new employees and get them up to speed on the platform quickly.
  • I love using this app to create training plans for my company. Not being a very tech savvy person, this app is very simple to understand and creates top notch quality.
  • Overall the platform is great with many features that are available and can be customized if needed. The design interface is very cool as it allows you to make each app different while not looking like a template much like others out there. My support manager Jordan is great to work with as he made things very easy during my training as there are some learning curves to basically understand everything to this platform. If I have any issues or questions they're answered within a reasonable timeframe. Overall the features are really good and designing apps is pretty easy. I have only used this platform for about 6 month. But, I'm looking forward to reaching out to new industries now that I have my hands on this, and open to building apps for basically anyone in the future.
  • I was thoroughly impressed with the support from BuildFire that I received during our migration of our Mobile Claim App to BuildFire. I had many questions throughout the conversion and they were answered in a timely manner and I always had a follow up email to ensure I was happy with the results and to ask if I had any more questions. It was so nice that Sepopo was my main contact for a good portion of the re-creation of our app and she was aware of the issues I was dealing with without have to reiterate to many support people. Kudos to a job well done and I look forward to working with BuildFire.

Cons

  • I don't know it seemed like a really good experience. I don't really have anything bad to say.
  • Sometimes there can be some tickets that may take more time than expected to get fixed.
  • I don't have any cons for this app, everything works smoothly and customer support is some of the best I have experienced.
  • The admin console can be a little confusing with a few glitches here and there. But, like anything once you learn where things are and how things work it gets easier and easier each day, and the glitches get adjusted pretty quickly. The cost is more expensive from what I was paying in the past. But, it's not horrible and offers a lot and is a big upgrade from what I had before. The only thing you will have are additional costs along the way that are necessary in order to use the app platform correctly. You will just need a few third party products to really make this app even better. But, addition fees are expected in order to use this effectively. I would also like to see more loyalty features that are touch-less. Maybe offering QR codes to populate loyalty tabs, rather than punching in a code and having to have others handle your device.
  • It was a huge migration of many companies so it was very confusing in the initial stages and I was unsure if I would continue working with BuildFire. After a few discussions and when the wrinkles were ironed out, I was confident that BuildFire was the company to go with. I'm very happy I made that decision because our app is live and working well even before the deadline which was so important to us.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • The constant improvement, the community, the ease of implementation, how well it works on devices.
  • Ionic has a great set of tools and features that make it a breeze to create beautiful, interactive apps. It's easy to use, with a simple drag-and-drop interface, so even those with limited coding experience can quickly put together an app. It also supports both Android and iOS, so you can create apps for both platforms, and it integrates well with other frameworks like Angular and Cordova, so it's easy to add in additional features.
  • Hands down the best tool for ios and android development. Our church team just produced version 2 of our app using Ionic, VS Code and elbow grease. We love the ecosystem with Cordova's libraries Push notifications are also easier now! The speed is lovely.
  • When I was looking to build my first mobile application, I really wanted to write once and deploy to both Android and iOS. Everyone told me I would not be able to use native functionality if I did this. But they were wrong and the native integration just gets better and better. I now support web, PWA as well as Android and iOS from a single code base. I also love AppFlow which makes compiling and distributing apps to the Apple App Store easy.
  • We use a lot capacitor.js to enable every javascript framework to work well in mobile. Our team currently do not work with iOS, so AppFlow is a great tool to build, deploy and automate ours mobile apps updates.

Cons

  • In some of the services, the lack of reliability.
  • The biggest downside to Ionic is that it has limited native capabilities. If you want to access device hardware or use native functions, you'll need to use a platform-specific SDK. Additionally, Ionic can be a bit slow and resource-intensive, so if you're looking for a lightweight solution, it may not be the best option.
  • Honestly nothing yet. Our app is simple but good looking. We haven't needed to push the limit just yet.
  • I would love to see better integration to local/native applications. Example download a PPTX and show using a local/native copy of PowerPoint.
  • Some features like .env in AppFlow is a little expensive to small projects.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Buildfire
Founded: 2012
United States
buildfire.com

Company Information

Drifty
Founded: 2014
United States
ionic.io

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Categories

Categories

App Makers Features

Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
For eCommerce
Forms Creation
Iteration Management
Mobile Apps
No-Code
Pre-Built Templates
Visual Modeling
Web Apps
Workflow Management

Application Development Features

Access Controls/Permissions
Code Assistance
Code Refactoring
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Data Modeling
Debugging
Deployment Management
Graphical User Interface
Mobile Development
No-Code
Reporting/Analytics
Software Development
Source Control
Testing Management
Version Control
Web App Development

Mobile App Development Features

Access Controls / Permissions
Any App Development Language
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Data Modeling
Debugging
Drag and Drop Editor
Enterprise Mobility (EMM/MAM)
FaceID and TouchID
For Consumer Apps
For Enterprise Apps
Integration Options
Mobile App Security
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Multiple Apps from Same Base
No Dependencies
No-Code
Reporting / Analytics
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Source Control
Visual Editor

Low-Code Development Features

AI-Assisted Development
Business Process Automation
Collaborative Development
Data Aggregation and Publishing
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
Integrations Management
Iteration Management
Performance Monitoring
Requirements Management
Templates
Visual Modeling
Web / Mobile App Development
Workflow Management

No-Code Development Features

AI-Assisted Development
Business Process Automation
Collaborative Development
Data Aggregation and Publishing
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
Integrations Management
Iteration Management
Performance Monitoring
Requirements Management
Templates
Visual Modeling
Web / Mobile App Development
Workflow Management

Application Development Features

Access Controls/Permissions
Code Assistance
Code Refactoring
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Data Modeling
Debugging
Deployment Management
Graphical User Interface
Mobile Development
No-Code
Reporting/Analytics
Software Development
Source Control
Testing Management
Version Control
Web App Development

Mobile App Development Features

Access Controls / Permissions
Any App Development Language
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Data Modeling
Debugging
Drag and Drop Editor
Enterprise Mobility (EMM/MAM)
FaceID and TouchID
For Consumer Apps
For Enterprise Apps
Integration Options
Mobile App Security
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Multiple Apps from Same Base
No Dependencies
No-Code
Reporting / Analytics
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Source Control
Visual Editor

App Design Features

Change Management
Collaboration
Design Templates
Drag & Drop
Feature Library
Prototyping
Testing Management
Visual Interface

DevOps Features

Approval Workflow
Dashboard
KPIs
Policy Management
Portfolio Management
Prioritization
Release Management
Timeline Management
Troubleshooting Reports

Integrations

ADEVI
Alan AI
AnyChart
Approov
Cloud Hotel ERP
DexProtector
Google Pay
Google Sheets
IDWise
Pintura
RxDB
Scanbot SDK
Shopify
SoluLab
Stackreaction
TDX360
ToDesktop
TypeORM
YouTube
Zapier

Integrations

ADEVI
Alan AI
AnyChart
Approov
Cloud Hotel ERP
DexProtector
Google Pay
Google Sheets
IDWise
Pintura
RxDB
Scanbot SDK
Shopify
SoluLab
Stackreaction
TDX360
ToDesktop
TypeORM
YouTube
Zapier
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