The best Ionic alternatives
4 tools that do a similar job to Ionic, 4 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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IonicA UI toolkit for building iOS, Android, and web apps from one JavaScript and web codebase.
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React Native
Open source · MIT · ★ 127k
A framework for building native Android and iOS apps using React and JavaScript.
Best for: Web developers who already know React and want to build mobile apps; Teams that need one codebase for both Android and iOS
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Framework7
Open source · MIT · ★ 18.8k
An MIT-licensed HTML framework for building mobile-style iOS and Android app interfaces.
Best for: Developers who already know HTML, CSS and JavaScript and want to build mobile-style apps; Teams building iOS- or Android-looking interfaces without learning native UI toolkits
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Ionicons
Open source · MIT · ★ 18.2k
A free, MIT-licensed set of 1,300 icons for web and mobile apps, built for Ionic.
Best for: Developers building apps with Ionic Framework, where icons are already packaged; Web developers who want a free icon set without installing a package
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GetX
Open source · MIT · ★ 11.2k
A Flutter package for state management, navigation, and dependency injection, all through one Get API.
Best for: Flutter developers who want state management, routing and dependency injection from a single package; Beginners building their first Flutter app who want fewer packages to learn
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Ionic. We don't take payment for placement.