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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.	About platformOS works with brands like Intel, Arab Bank, NEOM.com, Hallmark, UiPath, Spark Digital (NZ), and funded startups, delivering 100% business rule flexibility for web applications, with a strong pedigree in multi-sided marketplaces. Whether Progressive Web Apps, IoT integration, native Mobile or any Web Browser supported frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js etc, platformOS meets the Enterprise scaling needs to build and run any and every business application scenario. As an APIs-for-Everything 'low code' application development platform’, platformOS offers an advanced developer / web agency supported ecosystem supporting Channel Partners and Enterprise Clients building powerful, zero limits, API centric solutions; with a much shortened time to market (lower cost) that what is typical, especially for multi-sided marketplaces. In addition, platformOS provides multi-cloud devops infrastructure support “out of the box” which saves many thousands in operational costs.
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	Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Supported iPad Supported Android Supported Chromebook Supported
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.	Audience Front End Developers and Marketplace Owners
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Not Supported	API Offers API Supported
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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	Pricing $50.00 Specialised hosting includes system devops in a box that is infrastructure agnostic, and includes support. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported
Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.8 / 5 ease 4.5 / 5 features 4.4 / 5 design 4.4 / 5 support 4.4 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 4.3 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 4.3 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
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.	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros The design team is outstanding - we continually get compliments on how professional and intuitive our app is - they truly made us look good. The tech dev team is brilliant and solution orientated. All are accessible and willing to help us succeed on their platform. The dev ops platform enabled us to get our start-up off the ground in a scalable way. The power and flexibility of the platform is exactly what we were looking for. We wanted a tech stack that allowed us to achieve whatever project we needed to build for our customers, whilst not handling the devops and raw infrastructure. That is all taken care of for us, including all of the security and reliability that we need. The right balance between having control and not having to control everything. We can build pretty much anything but leave the DevOps to the experts. Finding that balance of performance, security, reliability, scalability and flexibility is extremely hard especially at the right price point. For my application, flexibility and performance are the biggest pros of building on PlatformOS. Not needing to manage the infrastructure is also a huge benefit. The documentation is also very easy to use and understand. Cons The project took more time than expected and we had to give up on some scoped items in the end. Knowing all the pieces to the puzzle to achieve your solution. The control you get is amazing, however that comes with responsibility. I wouldn't say it is a con as the freedom allows us to create solutions we couldn't do on other platforms, you just need to do your homework and know how the pieces all fit together. There is a learning curve but it's 100% expected if you want this level of control and flexibility. They have worked hard to make the onboarding as easy as possible and have won various awards for how they've gone about this. Pricing is usage based and you have to be clear on your own pricing model, again this is expected from a PaaS platform but something to be aware of. Not necessarily a con, but there is a learning curve.
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Company Information Drifty Founded: 2014 United States ionic.io	Company Information platformOS Founded: 2013 United States www.platformos.com
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Categories App Design Supported App Makers Supported Application Development Supported Component Libraries Supported Development Frameworks Supported DevOps Supported Drag and Drop App Builders Supported Mobile App Development Supported Web App Development Supported	Categories DevOps Supported Low-Code Development Supported Marketplace Supported Platform as a Service (PaaS) 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 Show More Features 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 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	DevOps Features Approval Workflow Not Supported Dashboard Supported KPIs Not Supported Policy Management Not Supported Portfolio Management Not Supported Prioritization Not Supported Release Management Not Supported Timeline Management Supported Troubleshooting Reports Not Supported Show More Features Low-Code Development Features AI-Assisted Development Not Supported Business Process Automation Supported Collaborative Development Supported Data Aggregation and Publishing Supported Deployment Management Supported Drag & Drop Not Supported Integrations Management Supported Iteration Management Supported Performance Monitoring Supported Requirements Management Not Supported Templates Supported Visual Modeling Not Supported Web / Mobile App Development Supported Workflow Management Supported Marketplace Features Catalog Management Supported Category Management Supported Fee / Commission Management Supported Order Management Supported Payment Processing Supported Promotions Management Supported Returns Management Supported SEO Management Supported Shopping Cart Supported Vendor Portal Supported
Integrations AWS Marketplace Supported Active Directory Supported Alan AI Supported AnyChart Supported Chromosis CRM Supported Cloud Hotel ERP Supported Couchbase Supported Fiserv Supported Froala Supported Glassfy Supported Google Pay Supported Loader.io Not Supported Netcore Cloud Supported Pintura Supported SQLite Supported SoluLab Supported Stripe Not Supported TDX360 Supported TypeORM Supported UI2CODE Supported Show More Integrations View All 29 Integrations	Integrations AWS Marketplace Not Supported Active Directory Not Supported Alan AI Not Supported AnyChart Not Supported Chromosis CRM Not Supported Cloud Hotel ERP Not Supported Couchbase Not Supported Fiserv Not Supported Froala Not Supported Glassfy Not Supported Google Pay Not Supported Loader.io Supported Netcore Cloud Not Supported Pintura Not Supported SQLite Not Supported SoluLab Not Supported Stripe Supported TDX360 Not Supported TypeORM Not Supported UI2CODE Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 3 Integrations
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