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⚡ A curated list of awesome resources related to the Capacitor Platform.
Capacitor is an open-source native runtime for building Web Native apps. Create cross-platform iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

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Official plugins

Official plugins for Capacitor and maintained by ionic are listed here.

  • Action Sheet - Provides access to native Action Sheets.
  • App - Handles high-level App state and events.
  • App Launcher - Allows to check if an app can be opened and open it.
  • Browser - Provides the ability to open an in-app browser and subscribe to browser events.
  • Camera - Provides the ability to take a photo with the camera or choose an existing one from the photo album.
  • Clipboard - Enables copy and pasting to/from the system clipboard.
  • Device - Exposes internal information about the device, such as the model and operating system version, along with user information such as unique IDs.
  • Dialog - Provides methods for triggering native dialog windows for alerts, confirmations, and input prompts.
  • File system - Provides a NodeJS-like API for working with files on the device.
  • Geolocation - Provides simple methods for getting and tracking the current position of the device using GPS, along with altitude, heading, and speed information if available.
  • Haptics - Provides physical feedback to the user through touch or vibration.
  • Keyboard - Provides keyboard display and visibility control, along with event tracking when the keyboard shows and hides.
  • Local Notifications - Provides a way to schedule device notifications locally (i.e. without a server sending push notifications).
  • Motion - Tracks accelerometer and device orientation (compass heading, etc.).
  • Network - Provides network and connectivity information.
  • Preferences - Provides a simple key/value persistent store for lightweight data, ex Storage.
  • Push Notifications - Provides access to native push notifications.
  • Screen Reader - Provides access to TalkBack/VoiceOver/etc. and provides simple text-to-speech capabilities for visual accessibility.
  • Share - Provides methods for sharing content in any sharing-enabled apps the user may have installed.
  • Splash Screen - Provides methods for showing or hiding a Splash image.
  • Status Bar - Provides methods for configuring the style of the Status Bar, along with showing or hiding it.
  • Text Zoom - Provides the ability to change Web View text size for visual accessibility.
  • Toast - Provides a native notification pop up for displaying important information to a user.

Community plugins

Community plugins owned by Capacitor organisation and maintained by selected community member are listed here.

  • Admob - A native plugin for AdMob.
  • App-icon - Capacitor community plugin for changing an app's icon.
  • Apple sign in - Capacitor Sign in with Apple.
  • Background geolocation - Receive geolocation updates even while app is backgrounded.
  • Barcode scanner - A fast and efficient QR / barcode scanner for Capacitor.
  • Bluetooth-le - Bluetooth Low Energy.
  • Camera preview - Camera preview.
  • Googlemaps - Plugin using native Maps API for Android and iOS.
  • Contacts - Contacts Plugin for Capacitor.
  • Date picker - Native DateTime Picker Plugin for Capacitor Apps.
  • Electron - Support for the Electron platform.
  • Facebook Login - A native plugin for Facebook Login.
  • File opener - The plugin is able to open a file given the mimeType and the file uri.
  • Firebase
    • Analytics - A native plugin for Firebase analytics.
    • Crashlytics - Firebase Crashlytics.
    • Fcm - Enable Firebase Cloud Messaging features for Capacitor apps.
    • Remote config - A native plugin for Firebase remote config.
  • Flipper - A native plugin for flipper debugger.
  • Http - A native HTTP plugin for CORS-free requests and file transfers.
  • Intercom - Enable Intercom features for Capacitor apps.
  • Keep awake - Prevent your screen from getting some sleep.
  • Media - Enable some media features for Capacitor such as create albums, save videos, gifs and more.
  • Microsoft
  • MQTT v5 - A native plugin for using MQTT v5 with correlation data and Request/Response Pattern.
  • Native audio - A native plugin for native audio engine.
  • Native market - A native market plugin for linking to google play or app store.
  • Photoviewer - PhotoViewer table images with full-screen and sharing capabilities.
  • Privacy screen - Protects your app from displaying a screenshot in recents screen/App Switcher.
  • React hooks - React Hooks for Capacitor apps.
  • Realm - A native plugin for MongoDB Realm.
  • Screen brightness - Control screen brightness on iOS and android.
  • Speech recognition - A native plugin for speech recognition.
  • Sqlite - Native & electron SQLite databases.
  • Stripe - Stripe SDK bindings for Capacitor Applications.
  • Tauri - Support for the Tauri platform.
  • Text to speech - Synthesizing speech from text.
  • Twitter - Enable TwitterKit features for Capacitor.
  • Uxcam - UXCam and FullStory analytics. It uses UXCam for Android and iOS platforms and FullStory for Web/PWA.
  • Websocket - Plugin providing native Websocket implementations for each platform.

Capgo plugins

Plugins owned by Capgo organisation and maintained by @riderx and community members with Open Collective.

Core & Updates

  • Updater - Live update for capacitor apps.
  • Live Reload - Live reload Capacitor apps from a remote Vite dev server.

Device & Sensors

  • Accelerometer - Read device accelerometer measurements.
  • Barometer - Access device barometer readings.
  • Brightness - Control screen brightness on iOS and Android.
  • Compass - Native compass heading plugin.
  • Light Sensor - Access the device light sensor (Android only).
  • Mute - Detect if the mute switch is enabled/disabled on a device.
  • Pedometer - Access pedometer data including steps, distance, pace, cadence, and floors.
  • Shake - Detect shake gesture in device.
  • Volume Buttons - Listen to volume button presses.
  • SIM - Get information from device's sim cards.

Camera & Media

Storage & Files

  • Data Storage SQLite - SQLite Storage of key/value strings pair.
  • Fast SQL - High-performance native SQLite plugin with custom protocol for efficient sync operations.
  • File - File system operations, compatible with Cordova File plugin API.
  • File Picker - Pick files, images, videos, and directories.
  • File Compressor - Efficient image compression supporting PNG, JPEG, and WebP formats.
  • Downloader - Download file in background or foreground.
  • Uploader - Upload file natively.
  • Zip - Zipping and unzipping files on iOS, Android, and Web.

Location & Navigation

Authentication & Security

UI & Display

  • In App Browser - In app browser.
  • Navigation Bar - Set navigation bar color for Android Lollipop and higher.
  • Home Indicator - Hide and show home button indicator in Capacitor app.
  • Screen Orientation - Screen orientation with support for bypassing orientation lock.
  • Flash - Switch the Flashlight / Torch of your device.
  • Keep Awake - Prevent the device screen from dimming or sleeping.
  • Text Interaction - Toggle text interaction in Capacitor based iOS apps.
  • Transitions - Framework-agnostic page transitions for Capacitor apps - iOS-style navigation.
  • Printer - Print documents, HTML, PDFs, images and web views.
  • PDF Generator - Generate PDF files from HTML strings or URLs.

Purchases & Payments

  • Native Purchases - In-app Subscriptions Made Easy.
  • Pay - Trigger native payment for iOS (Apple Pay) and Android (Google Pay).

Communication & Messaging

  • Crisp - Crisp native SDK for capacitor.
  • NFC - Native NFC tag discovery, reading and writing for iOS and Android.
  • Bluetooth Low Energy - BLE plugin with support for scanning, connecting, reading, writing, and notifications.
  • WiFi - Manage WiFi connectivity for your Capacitor app.
  • iBeacon - iBeacon proximity detection and beacon region monitoring.
  • Speech Recognition - Comprehensive on-device speech recognition with live partial results.
  • Speech Synthesis - Synthesize speech from text with full control over language, voice, pitch, rate, and volume.

Video Calling & Real-time

  • Stream Call - Uses the getstream.io SDK to implement calling in Capacitor.
  • RealtimeKit - Cloudflare Calls integration for Capacitor apps with built-in UI for meetings.
  • Twilio Voice - Integrates the Twilio Voice SDK into Capacitor.

Analytics & Tracking

  • AdMob - Bridge AdMob SDKs for iOS and Android.
  • GTM - Google Tag Manager plugin for Capacitor.
  • App Insights - A wrapper around the Apptopia App Insights SDK.

Contacts & Health

  • Contacts - Work with device contacts using Capacitor APIs.
  • Health - Interact with data from Apple HealthKit and Health Connect.

App Store & Market

  • Native Market - A native market plugin for linking to Google Play or App Store.
  • In App Review - Prompt users to submit app store ratings and reviews without leaving your app.

Android Specific

Platform Integrations

  • Supabase - Native Supabase SDK integration - Auth, Database, and JWT access.
  • WeChat - WeChat SDK - authentication, sharing, payments, and mini-programs.
  • Watch - Apple Watch communication with bidirectional messaging support.
  • Share Target - Receive shared content from other apps.

Firebase

  • Analytics - Firebase Analytics for Capacitor.
  • App - Firebase App for Capacitor.
  • App Check - Firebase App Check for Capacitor.
  • Authentication - Firebase Authentication for Capacitor.
  • Crashlytics - Firebase Crashlytics for Capacitor.
  • Firestore - Firebase Cloud Firestore for Capacitor.
  • Functions - Firebase Cloud Functions for Capacitor.
  • Messaging - Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) for Capacitor.
  • Performance - Firebase Performance Monitoring for Capacitor.
  • Remote Config - Firebase Remote Config for Capacitor.
  • Storage - Firebase Cloud Storage for Capacitor.

Utilities

  • Alarm - Manage native alarms.
  • Env - Set Env var in Capacitor config and read them at runtime.
  • WebView Guardian - Detect when the WebView was killed in the background and relaunch it on foreground.
  • LLM - Adds support for LLM locally run for Capacitor.

Specialized Hardware

Capawesome plugins

Plugins owned by Capawesome organisation and maintained by @robingenz.

  • Background tasks - A native plugin for running background tasks.
  • Badge - Access and update the badge number of the app icon.
  • Managed configuration - Capacitor plugin to access managed configuration settings.
  • Photo editor - Capacitor plugin that allows the user to edit a photo.

Transistor Software plugins

Plugins owned by Transistor Software plugins and maintained by @christocracy.

Aparajita plugins

Plugins written and maintained by @aparajita.

  • Biometric Auth - Easy access to native biometric auth APIs on iOS and Android.
  • Dark Mode - Universal, reliable dark mode support on the web, iOS and Android.
  • Logger - Better logging for the web and native Ionic/Capacitor apps.
  • Secure Storage - Secure, flexible storage for Capacitor apps using iOS Keychain and Android Keystore. Supports Keychain sync across devices on iOS.

Other plugins

Independents plugins are listed here.

  • Apple Pay - Get Apple Pay payments in your app.

  • App Tracking Transparency - Request user authorization to access app-related data for tracking the user or the device. iOS only.

  • Brother Print - A native Brother Print SDK implementation for iOS & Android.

  • Biometric - Use biometrics confirm device owner presence or authenticate users.
  • capacitor-plugin-camera - A camera plugin that is designed to make it easy to perform image processing tasks like barcode reading and OCR. We can use reflection to get the camera frames in another plugin so that it can enjoy native performance.
  • Dark mode - Monitor the changes made to system's dark mode.
  • Data Storage SQlite - Providing a key-value permanent store for simple data of type string only to SQLite on IOS, Android and Electron platforms and to IndexedDB for the Web platform.
  • Document Scanner - Scan documents (notes, homework, business cards, receipts, or anything with a rectangular shape).
  • Dynamsoft
    • Barcode Reader - Scan barcodes and QR codes using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader.
    • Camera Preview - Access camera using Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer.
    • Document Normalizer - Scan documents using Dynamsoft Document Normalizer.
    • Label Recognizer - Recognize text on labels like MRZ on passports using Dynamsoft Label Recognizer.
  • Purchases - Capacitor in-app purchases and subscriptions made easy with RevenueCat.
  • Email composer - Open a native E-Mail Composer within your Capacitor App.
  • Facebook Analytics - Facebook Analytics Plugin for Capacitor.
  • Firebase
    • AppCheck - Allows usage of native AppCheck tokens.
    • Dynamic Links - Firebase Dynamic Links.
    • Push - This Plugin it used for Firebase Push Messages. It support Data.
  • File selector - Select files form Android/iOS devices and the web.
  • Google
    • Auth - Google auth plugin for Capacitor.
    • Availability - Verifies that Google Play services is installed and enabled, and request enabling Google Play services on device.
    • Fit - Retrieve data from Google Fit.
    • MlKit Language - Identify the language of a string of text.
    • MlKit Vision - Detect faces in an image, identify key facial features, and get the contours of detected faces.
  • Healthkit - Retrieve data from HealthKit.
  • Intent - Supports multiple broadcast receiving of intents, and sending out BroadcastIntents in Android.
  • Jitsi - Make video calls through the free, open-sourced Jitsi video platform.
  • Lightsensor - Get the illuminance level on the device.
  • Native Audio Player - Play audio that keeps playing in the background, player is shown in system controls, audio output can be switched between speaker/earpiece.
  • Native settings - Open native settings screens.
  • NativeScript
  • Navigation bar - Navigation Bar manipulation, hide/show.
  • Oauth2 - Generic OAuth 2 client plugin. It let you configure the OAuth parameters yourself instead of using SDKs.
  • Playlist - Native support for audio playlists, background support, and lock screen controls.
  • Print - Print the WebView.
  • Rate app - Let users rate your app using native rate app dialog for both Android and iOS.
  • Read sms - Read the user's SMS with their permission.
  • Safe Area - Get SafeArea info on Android and IOS.
  • Screenshot - Take a screenshot of the current view.
  • Send intent - Expose a listener in your JavaScript application for when another application sends data to your Capacitor application via the Android share menu or share sheet.
  • Sentry - Add Sentry error tracking and performance monitoring for Capacitor apps.
  • Shamir - Shamir's Secret Sharing cryptographic algorithm.
  • Stripe terminal - Stripe Terminal Plugin for Capacitor.
  • Sprig - All-in-one  product research platform.
  • Square Payments - Enable Square Payments for Capacitor.
  • Sumup - SumUp Mobile SDK.
  • UDP - Support both IPv6 and IPv4, multicast and broadcast.
  • Video player - Play a video full-screen on IOS, Android, Web and Electron platforms.
  • Zalo login - Zalo login plugin for Capacitor.
  • Photo library - Get all the images from system album.
  • Websocket Client - Capacitor WebSocket Client Plugin.
  • Bing Translator - A simple and free API for using Bing Translator.
  • Capacitor Calendar - A plugin for interacting with calendar and reminders.
  • Capacitor voice recorder - A plugin for simple voice recording.
  • capacitor-app-attest - Apple Attest with Ionic Capacitor
  • capacitor-live-activities - Capacitor plugin to use Live Activities on iOS 16.2+.
  • capacitor-lottie-splash-screen - Capacitor plugin to use Lottie animations as splash screen.

Cordova plugins

Compatible

This list will be upgraded soon

Incompatible

Tools

  • Docgen - Docs Readme Markdown and JSON Generator for Capacitor Plugins.
  • Plugin generator - Create a new Capacitor plugin.
  • Assets - Local Capacitor icon/splash screen resource generation tool.
  • Tailwind Capacitor - Collection of helper plugin for Tailwind, it add safe area class and others utlitilies.
  • Capacitor safe area simulator - Chrome extension to simulate safe area in the browser, it support Ionic, Knsta UI and Tailwind Capacitor.

Learning

Places to learn about Capacitor

Offical guides

Crash Courses

Community Tutorials

Books

Case study

  • Burger King - How Burger King Brought Their Design System to Mobile.
  • Capacitor vs Cordova - This guide provides an overview of Capacitor and how it stacks up against Cordova.
  • Native React Apps Without React Native - React Native is not a web environment, so it's not possible for teams to take their web-based React to deploy native apps, with Capacitor they can.

Demo apps

Community

Places to discuss about Capacitor

  • Discord - Official Discord community.
  • Forum - Official Forum community.
  • Reddit - Official Reddit community.
  • Stack Overflow - Official Stack Overflow community.
  • Proposal - Official repo for plugin and platform requests.

Freelancers

  • Martin Donadieu - Creator of this list and of Capgo live update system + 10 plugins.
  • Christophe Surbier - Expert developer mobile since 2009 and Capacitor since 2017.
  • Timothee Porcq - Expert developer Mobile Ionic/Angular & Capacitor +7 years.
  • Nicolas Izac - Developper Fullstack | Vue-Angular-Ionic-Laravel +7 years.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines - first.

Author

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