The top open source framework for building amazing mobile apps.

Ionic is the beautiful, free and open source mobile SDK for developing native and progressive web apps with ease.

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v4.6.0 / 2019-06-27 / MIT Licensed / Release Notes

Build apps with web tech you know and love

Know how to build websites? Then you already know how to build mobile apps. Ionic Framework offers the best web and native app components for building highly interactive native and progressive web apps.

Free & Open Source

Ionic Framework is a 100% free and open source project, licensed under MIT. It will always remain free to use, powered by a massive world-wide community.
Fully Cross-Platform

Build progressive web and native mobile apps for every major app store, with one codebase. Ionic works and looks beautiful wherever it runs.
Premier Native Plugins

Use over 120 native device features like Bluetooth, HealthKit, Finger Print Auth, and more with Cordova/PhoneGap plugins and TypeScript extensions.
First-class Documentation

Built with real app examples, component demos, guides, and how-to’s to get you up and running with mobile apps faster than ever before.

write once. deploy anywhere.


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    Astronomy
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    Muggle Studies
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One code base.
Running everywhere.

Ionic is the only mobile app stack that enables web developers apps for all major app stores and the mobile web with a single code base. And with Ionic’s Platform Continuity, your app looks and feels at home on every device.

Performance obsessed

Speed is so important, you only notice when it isn't there. Ionic is built to perform and behave great on the latest mobile devices with best practices like efficient hardware accelerated transitions, and touch-optimized gestures. Trust us, you'll be impressed.
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Beautifully designed

Clean, simple, and functional. Ionic is designed to work and display beautifully on all current mobile devices and platforms. With ready-made components, typography, and a gorgeous (yet extensible) base theme that adapts to each platform, you'll be building in style.
Explore our Component docs
Native and web optimized

Ionic emulates native app UI guidelines and uses native SDKs, bringing the UI standards and device features of native apps together with the full power and flexibility of the open web. Ionic uses Cordova or Phonegap to deploy natively, or runs in the browser as a Progressive Web App.
Learn about Progressive Web Apps

A complete mobile toolkit, built for web developers.

Everything you need to start creating fully functional mobile apps in just minutes.

A Simple CLI to create, build, test, and deploy your Ionic apps onto any platform. It’s like magic, but not.
Ionic Native unlocks native APIs and features by wrapping Cordova plugins in TypeScript goodness.
Live Reload because to compile and redeploy your app at every step of development is for chumps.
Ionicons icon pack includes hundreds of the most common app icons. MIT licensed, and ready out of the box.
Deeplinking allows you to start your app from a web link to load a specific view right from the start.
AoT Compiling means your app loads lightning fast. Don’t blink on that loading screen, you’ll miss it.

Build alongside the best community around.

There are millions of Ionic developers in over 200 countries worldwide. Join us.

World Wide Slack is always filled with tons of ionic devs.
Community Forum is great for sharing and getting help.
StackOverflow is filled with help to common questions.
GitHub is the best place to file issues and contribute.

Loved by some of the best people and companies on earth

Ionic is a shining example of a high-quality framework that takes advantage of Angular's power and flexibility, enabling developers to build production-ready mobile apps and Progressive Web Apps, in a fraction of the time.

Ionic is the framework that I use for all of my projects, and I'm not sure I can give a bigger compliment than that. The innate sense of style and sophistication built into Ionic is awesome and makes building professional-level mobile applications a snap.

Ionic will dramatically change the way mobile apps are built. Their choice of AngularJS means building functionality is now a breeze and it feels near-native. Your developers and your users will thank you.

I was so inspired when I found Ionic. It fills a gap that’s missing when building for mobile and solves many complexities that otherwise require multiple libraries, keeping your code cleaner. Overall, it just makes mobile development fun and fast, so you can build more!

Misko Hevery Creator of Angular
Hampton Catlin Creator of Sass
James Tamplin Co-Founder & CEO, Firebase
Holly Schinsky Dev Advocate, Adobe

The top open source framework for building amazing mobile apps.

Ionic is the beautiful, free and open source mobile SDK for developing native and progressive web apps with ease.

Build apps with web tech you know and love

Know how to build websites? Then you already know how to build mobile apps. Ionic Framework offers the best web and native app components for building highly interactive native and progressive web apps.

Free & Open Source

Fully Cross-Platform

Premier Native Plugins

First-class Documentation

One code base. Running everywhere.

Ionic is the only mobile app stack that enables web developers apps for all major app stores and the mobile web with a single code base. And with Ionic’s Platform Continuity, your app looks and feels at home on every device.

Performance obsessed

Beautifully designed

Native and web optimized

A complete mobile toolkit, built for web developers.

Everything you need to start creating fully functional mobile apps in just minutes.

Build alongside the best community around.

There are millions of Ionic developers in over 200 countries worldwide. Join us.

Loved by some of the best people and companies on earth

Ionic is a shining example of a high-quality framework that takes advantage of Angular's power and flexibility, enabling developers to build production-ready mobile apps and Progressive Web Apps, in a fraction of the time.

Ionic is the framework that I use for all of my projects, and I'm not sure I can give a bigger compliment than that. The innate sense of style and sophistication built into Ionic is awesome and makes building professional-level mobile applications a snap.

Ionic will dramatically change the way mobile apps are built. Their choice of AngularJS means building functionality is now a breeze and it feels near-native. Your developers and your users will thank you.

I was so inspired when I found Ionic. It fills a gap that’s missing when building for mobile and solves many complexities that otherwise require multiple libraries, keeping your code cleaner. Overall, it just makes mobile development fun and fast, so you can build more!

One code base.
Running everywhere.