--- title: Apache Cordova Reviews meta_title: 'Apache Cordova Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 58 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Cordova works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 58 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Mobile Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development --- # Apache Cordova Reviews **Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation **Category:** [Mobile Development Frameworks](https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development-frameworks) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 58 ## About Apache Cordova Open-source HTML, CSS, and JS mobile app developing software ## Apache Cordova Reviews ### 1. Good But limited features **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Waqar A. | PPC Expert, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Apache Cordova?** Cross plateform compatibility is best thing cordova has. **What do you dislike about Apache Cordova?** Limited features allowed for some functionalities. **What problems is Apache Cordova solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cross Plateform is the benifit of cordova ### 2. Cordova was a good starting point* in cross-platform mobile development **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Medet T. | Frontend Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Apache Cordova?** At the beginning it was fun to try cordova, the ability to reuse same code across multiple platforms was something new, and quite interesting. And it had many plugins right there, free to use. Just install, read docs, you're done. I personally wrote about 2 small apps, on pure cordova. Quite interesting tool **What do you dislike about Apache Cordova?** Although it was quite good experience using cordova, it had several issues with plugins, they were not standardized, you have to check docs to use something simple, sometimes simple things just don't work, very hard to debug, indeed this is the most problem in cordova, windows-phone platform was supported really bad, all you can do is just some simple apps with few buttons. And it's really understandable, as cordova is just a wrapper around web-view, as i noted before, it was really exciting to get hands on such new platform, mobile development became much interesting, but the cordova itself was not ment to used in heavy apps. **Recommendations to others considering Apache Cordova:** First of all read docs, examples, reviews, as when you get hands on it, and got legacy code, you cannot just switch no anything other like react-native, i wish we had more info before coming to cordova, and hopefully cordova will review it's plans for future **What problems is Apache Cordova solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our company develops apps for government, we basically use cordova's camera api, file api, geolocation api, battery api and some small stuff, all our apps where successfully released in appstore/playmarket, but since we could't find anything better than cordova, we sticked with it for some couple of years. ### 3. Great for small applications **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denis L. | Front End Developer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Apache Cordova?** If you are a WEB developer, you do not have to learn any new language for developing mobile applications with Cordova. **What do you dislike about Apache Cordova?** Laggy behaviour even at middle-sized applications. **Recommendations to others considering Apache Cordova:** If you need to develop small crossplatform application fastly Apache Cordova is good choise. But for applications which are larger than middle size I would recomment to investigate React Native **What problems is Apache Cordova solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have developed image-guessing HTML5 game for both Android and iOS at once. ## Apache Cordova Discussions - [What is the difference between capacitor and Cordova?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-difference-between-capacitor-and-cordova) - [How good is Apache Cordova?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-good-is-apache-cordova) - [How does Cordova plugin work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-cordova-plugin-work) - [What is Apache Cordova used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-apache-cordova-used-for) - [can i use this for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36340-can-i-use-this-for) - 1 upvote - [View Apache Cordova pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-cordova/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+21%3A33%3A38+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=000afdd3-0b82-4a71-9de2-e94e84e118e1&secure%5Btoken%5D=1e4d59c8214cc43f87deea360550b77754a5946cd3e698dd5f6cb8cb8059d900&format=llm_user) ## Apache Cordova Features **Functionality** - Language Support - Ease of Use - Integrations **Performance** - Power - Responsiveness - Lightweight **Support** - Tutorials - Documentation - Community ## Top Apache Cordova Alternatives - [Bootstrap](https://www.g2.com/products/bootstrap/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (136 reviews) - [Ionic: An OutSystems Company](https://www.g2.com/products/ionic-an-outsystems-company/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (151 reviews) - [React Native](https://www.g2.com/products/react-native/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (134 reviews)