CloudKit

CloudKit

Apple
Ionic

Ionic

Drifty
+
+

Related Products

  • Codemagic
    138 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Odoo
    1,729 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Google Cloud SQL
    554 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Retool
    598 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • TelemetryOS
    282 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Bacula Enterprise
    125 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Grafana Cloud
    861 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • RaimaDB
    12 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Google Compute Engine
    1,169 Ratings
    Visit Website
  • Orca Security
    635 Ratings
    Visit Website

About

​CloudKit is a cloud framework that enables developers to store app data in iCloud and keep it synchronized across devices and the web. It offers automatic syncing across several devices and web platforms. By organizing apps in containers, CloudKit ensures each app's data remains siloed, preventing entanglement with other apps. Specialized databases and zones allow for easy separation of app information by access type or function. Developers can configure fields in private CloudKit databases to be encrypted, ensuring data protection in storage and during transport. The CloudKit Console provides a web-based control panel to view server activity, manage containers, maintain database schemas, and edit test data throughout the development lifecycle. It also offers telemetry charts to measure performance, reliability, and usage, as well as logs for analyzing app performance while maintaining user privacy.

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 Not Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Supported
iPad Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Supported
iPad Supported
Android Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Anyone seeking a solution to build apps that require seamless iCloud data synchronization and secure cloud storage across multiple devices

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 Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Free
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

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

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review:

Review this Software

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

  • 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 Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Supported

Company Information

Apple
Founded: 1976
United States
developer.apple.com/icloud/cloudkit/

Company Information

Drifty
Founded: 2014
United States
ionic.io

Alternatives

Alternatives

Core Data

Core Data

Apple
Alpha Anywhere

Alpha Anywhere

Alpha Software Corporation
Appery.io

Appery.io

Appery

Categories

Categories

Mobile App Development Features

Access Controls / Permissions Not Supported
Any App Development Language Supported
Collaboration Tools Not Supported
Compatibility Testing Not Supported
Data Modeling Not Supported
Debugging Not Supported
Drag and Drop Editor Not Supported
Enterprise Mobility (EMM/MAM) Not Supported
FaceID and TouchID Not Supported
For Consumer Apps Supported
For Enterprise Apps Supported
Integration Options Supported
Mobile App Security Supported
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Not Supported
Multiple Apps from Same Base Not Supported
No Dependencies Not Supported
No-Code Not Supported
Reporting / Analytics Not Supported
Single Sign-On (SSO) Supported
Source Control Not Supported
Visual Editor Not Supported

App Design Features

Change Management Not Supported
Collaboration Not Supported
Design Templates Not Supported
Drag & Drop Not Supported
Feature Library Supported
Prototyping Not Supported
Testing Management Not Supported
Visual Interface Supported

Application Development Features

Access Controls/Permissions Not Supported
Code Assistance Not Supported
Code Refactoring Not Supported
Collaboration Tools Supported
Compatibility Testing Not Supported
Data Modeling Not Supported
Debugging Not Supported
Deployment Management Supported
Graphical User Interface Not Supported
Mobile Development Supported
No-Code Not Supported
Reporting/Analytics Not Supported
Software Development Supported
Source Control Not Supported
Testing Management Supported
Version Control Supported
Web App Development Supported

DevOps Features

Approval Workflow Supported
Dashboard Not Supported
KPIs Not Supported
Policy Management Not Supported
Portfolio Management Not Supported
Prioritization Not Supported
Release Management Supported
Timeline Management Not Supported
Troubleshooting Reports Not Supported

Integrations

AWS Marketplace Not Supported
Active Directory Not Supported
Airia Supported
Alan AI Not Supported
AnyChart Not Supported
Apache Cordova Not Supported
Apple Pay Not Supported
Chromosis CRM Not Supported
Cloud Hotel ERP Not Supported
Codemagic Not Supported
Couchbase Not Supported
DexProtector Not Supported
Froala Not Supported
IDWise Not Supported
Pintura Not Supported
RxDB Not Supported
STRICH Barcode Scanning SDK Not Supported
Scanbot SDK Not Supported
UI2CODE Not Supported
iCloud Supported

Integrations

AWS Marketplace Supported
Active Directory Supported
Airia Not Supported
Alan AI Supported
AnyChart Supported
Apache Cordova Supported
Apple Pay Supported
Chromosis CRM Supported
Cloud Hotel ERP Supported
Codemagic Supported
Couchbase Supported
DexProtector Supported
Froala Supported
IDWise Supported
Pintura Supported
RxDB Supported
STRICH Barcode Scanning SDK Supported
Scanbot SDK Supported
UI2CODE Supported
iCloud Not Supported
Claim CloudKit and update features and information
Claim CloudKit and update features and information
Claim Ionic and update features and information
Claim Ionic and update features and information