--- title: 'Ionic: An OutSystems Company Reviews' meta_title: 'Ionic: An OutSystems Company Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: 'Filter 154 reviews by the users'' company size, role or industry to find out how Ionic: An OutSystems Company works for a business like yours.' aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 154 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-05' parent_category: name: Mobile Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development --- # Ionic: An OutSystems Company Reviews **Vendor:** Ionic **Category:** [Mobile Development Frameworks](https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development-frameworks) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 154 ## About Ionic: An OutSystems Company Ionic is the leading mobile app development platform for web developers, powering over 15% of the world’s apps and used by hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies for consumer and internal facing apps. Ionic's open source and premium software and services help you build, connect, and deliver enterprise-grade mobile apps in less time. ## Ionic: An OutSystems Company Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of use** of Ionic, allowing quick app development without complex coding requirements. (10 reviews) - Users find Ionic to provide a **well-structured toolkit** for efficiently developing hybrid mobile applications. (6 reviews) - Users value the **quick app creation** capabilities of Ionic, enhancing productivity with efficient hybrid development. (5 reviews) - Users appreciate the **fast app development** with Ionic, benefiting from its simplicity and multi-platform capabilities. (4 reviews) - Users value the **cross-platform compatibility** of Ionic, enabling app development for web, iOS, and Android effortlessly. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **helpful customer support** provided by Ionic, assisting effectively with any issues encountered. (3 reviews) - Users value the **excellent documentation** of Ionic, praising its clarity and helpfulness for developers. (3 reviews) - Easy Creation (3 reviews) - Fast Development (3 reviews) - Feature Rich (3 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **limitations in mobile components** frustrating, affecting functionality and ease of use across platforms. (3 reviews) - Users experience **performance issues** with Ionic, including bugs and slow speeds, especially with complex, device-specific solutions. (3 reviews) - Users often face **software bugs** that lead to unexpected issues and make long-term usage challenging. (3 reviews) - Users often face **technical issues** with Ionic, including bugs, performance slowdowns, and localhost connectivity problems. (3 reviews) - Users face **bug issues** with Ionic, leading to slower performance and challenges in long-term device-specific development. (2 reviews) - Coding Challenges (2 reviews) - Complexity (2 reviews) - Learning Curve (2 reviews) - Users report challenges with **missing features** in Ionic, particularly for web applications and version support difficulties. (2 reviews) - Setup Difficulty (2 reviews) ## Ionic: An OutSystems Company Reviews ### 1. Lots of potential to be a stelar hybrid platform, and is getting there **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ilya V. | Senior Software Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** New git workflow is very intuitive - pushing the code to Ionic Pro is not different than than pushing it to another Github repo. That really helps for people who are already familiar with git to get up to speed. Build and package services came really close to eliminating the need for packing binaries and deploying via a third party CI. I see a lot of CI cost savings when Ionic Pro platform matures. Ionic Deploy allows us to update the app for hundreds of users within a minute! This is lighting speed comparing to MDM pushed binary updates. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Not yet suitable for continuous delivery/automation: No API to trigger Package service, to be notified when binaries are ready, not the link to download them. You have to log into Ionic Pro to do all that, and it's a pretty manual process. More configurability: Can't pass flags to Build/Package for building Dev vs. Staging vs. Production binaries. Can't clear out a deploy channel or remove min/max/equivalent version once set (probably a bug). **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're actively using Ionic Deploy service for out live updates. We are using Ionic Package for binary builds, which is pretty fast and included with paid subscriptions (no need to have macOS CI build binaries, which costs money). We are looking into implementing error monitoring in the near future. ### 2. Excelent Workflow **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tony F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ionic Pro provides a very intuitive design flow from start to finish. DevApp and the View app make testing during development quick and easy. Cloud packaging is awesome and the git-based publishing flow makes distribution extremely easy. They have clearly put a lot of thought into the user experience with simple and useful components found throughout. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Nothing major. It would be nice if the build view would show whether or not a specific commit was packaged. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** The build channels are your friends as is the live update functionality. DevApp and Live app make it very easy to quickly distribute test and production builds. Check out the native plugins, very easy to use. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** We required a quick to market development platform with as little infrastructure impact as possible. Ionic Pro has provided this. The live update functionality allows us to quickly adapt to changes in our market as well as with the hardware device that our app supports. Even having never made an app before, we were able to go from white-board to published on both major app stores in less than four months. ### 3. Great Initial Offering But Hope They Keep Adding to It **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon P. | Director and Lead Technologist, Public Policy, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ionic Pro does some things really well. Its pretty straight forward to set up. The interface is clean and easily navigable. The price point is reasonable. The support I have received has been responsive and helpful and goes the extra mile - even on things that aren't directly related to their product (ie issues with Cordova plugins). I feel like the offering is polished and what it does - it does well. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** As a Windows developer coming from using a competing product (Telerik App Builder) for 5 plus years - my primary goal was to use Ionic Pro for cloud based builds (as iOS building isn't an option on my preferred OS and honestly I'd prefer not to have to manage and store all the SDKS related with builds if I can avoid them). I've had 2 main issues with Package so far: - Once a build is complete - there is no way to install it on a phone except downloading the iOS/Android package and install manually. On other cloud build solutions I've used (App Builder, Unity's cloud), I've been able to install apps by scanning a QR code on the phone and having it installed directly. For iOS this is done using an ITMS link and Android a direct download of the APK. This should be a fairly straightforward feature to implement within Ionic Pro and would add a ton of improvement to the usability (I can provide a spec on how to implement if the need :)). - I have yet to be able to get an Android build to fully work in cloud when I've had the full set of plugins enabled for my apps (for note - I am migrating existing apps). This is not an issue of Package per se - there has been a lot of Google updates, Cordova updates and Plugin updates that have created a perfect storm of issues - so this is more a gripe about the Cordova Ecosystem (something hopefully Capicator improves upon) - but the available logging coming from the console has made it a challenge to identify problems at times. I've had an issue with a custom plugin that simply wouldn't install when run through Package - though it worked locally on both my pc and mac. It seems related to the Linux environment they were running the Package process on - but there was nothing I could have done to better understand the problem with the logs I was receiving. Fortunately the support team is awesome and helped me find the eventual culprit - but I would have been lost without them. A third request (though this would take more technical lift) - is to be able to submit to iTunes via Ionic Package. This is technically possible (as I was previously able to do it with App Builder) and would make the build, deploy, release cycle very streamlined - though I admit I am uncertain what would be entailed by this effort. Also would be useful is an improved simulation environment for development. Ionic View and Ionic Dev app are good for initial prototyping the UX of an app - but once you get out of the initial development phase and need to introduce custom plugins - they quickly become insufficient. However, using Ionic Lab really leaves a lot to be desired too and without support for simulating basic plugins - creates a pretty wide gap. An intermediate solution - a simulator with some standard plugin support and potentially mock plugin support for custom plugins would really be useful for keeping development work on the desktop and proceeding rapidly (to note this is something that App Builder offered and really allowed a lot of productivity gains). **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** My primary goal is to use the Ionic Pro for cloud-based builds - though ideally the offering could be expanded to cover the entire Ionic development cycle (improve development setup experience, code writing, testing, deployments, monitoring, etc). Early indications are they are going this direction - I just hope they keep doing that. ### 4. Eases entire development lifecycle **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jerod F. | Director of Development, Owner, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Very quick development cycles. As you are developing updates across all of your browsers and devices are refreshed in seemingly realtime. Very rarely does something not work across iOS and Android as marketed or described. Additionally, the pro service provides compilation to both android and ios without the need to have xcode or android sdk's installed locally. This allows myself and our other developers to push code to the provided git repos and compile or deploy in a snap. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** I'm hesitant to say any dislikes because there is so much I like over other cross-platform mobile tools we've used. Axway Appcelertor I used for years and it got in the way more often than helped. React Native is a moving target that has been hard to keep our apps up to date with. Ionic is just easier to build launch and maintain in almost every facet. There are some times that the build cycles will fail but they are fairly easy to track down solutions for. You get those with any platform. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** I would highly recommend this to both independents and agencies. Many don't realize how much time is consumed managing base ui toolkits, continuous integration, versioning, deployment and testing. Ionic provides an answer to all of this out of the box without having to research and piece together your specific environment and toolbox. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous integration and live updates have been a chore and Ionic Pro provides these out of the box. ### 5. Makes mobile development easy! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The workflow of the mobile application from prototyping in Creator, pushing to the local machine for developing where the handy tools of Ionic View and DevApp show their strength then being able to push it up to my Ionic Dashboard for build,test,deploy. There are many good parts of Ionic but for me this was the best part. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Documentation. As some of the other reviews pointed out and have found out myself first hand is that some of the documentation isn't quite caught up to the development of Ionic it seems. I had to email their support (who are fantastic by the way) to figure out what I needed so it took a longer than I feel it should have. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** Just try it! You won't be disappointed. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our biggest issue before Ionic was the fact our old mobile development platform is no more so we needed to find something that still used the same skill set without needing to do lots of training on a new platform. Ionic fit the bill for that. It's just a small team here so being able to pick up where I left off and to work the whole life cycle easily is a huge benefit, plus the feature of being able to create a team in Ionic so that we can all have our hands in the project is great. ### 6. Easy tool to start building hybrid applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rut B. | Programmatore Php/Zend Framework/Mysql, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The very complete set of components included in the framework. You start by having really all you need to build a mobile GUI without writing even a line of native code. Ionic graphic components are easy to setup and pleasant to see. Ionic is really helpful for programmer already having hybrid framework skills, like Cordova and Angularjs, since it doesn't require a high learning curve for them **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The biggest problem is about performance. Of course, it depends on the kind of application you're developing. We had serious performance problems by rendering lists with about 2000 html picture elements. You have to be very skilled to design your html and javascript to overcome this kind of issues, and learn to load dinamycally partial parts of your interface. Another problem is the difficult migration from version 1 to version 2 and 3, so hard that we're still developing with version 1, which is very buggy, because of lacking of time to upgrade **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** Don't forget to write also tests while developing your applications. Always do that, even when you're in a hurry! **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thanks to Ionic, we have been able to build 2 complex mobile applications, both for Android and iOS, with very limited amount of human resources involved ### 7. The Spooky Ionic App Creator **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** This app helps me design my mobile application in creating a prototype. But it can also handle codes under your design if you will upgrade to pro. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** I can't afford to buy pro version of this app. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** Easy to use in creating mobile application that is only simple. In other words, this app is mostly used in simple applications and not for complicated applications. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to access or use the existing system of a business like in my School ### 8. Good for learning **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** It's really easy to create design, if you don't know html and js. Good for students and somebody who want to learn, who doesn't know too much with html, css and JS. The interface is simple which is very important. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** - Better documentation - Don't have environment configuration - Use AngularJS :) **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** It easy to create mockup or prototype for customer. ### 9. Great deployment and collaboration solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devon B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** I like how easy it is to quickly link an ionic app to the platform and deploy it via the ionic view app. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** I found the process for deploying an app to iTunes connect / the app store a bit convoluted. That's something that has never really been simplified on the Apple side, though. So I don't think it's necessarily an issue specific to the Ionic Pro platform, but I think the documentation around that could be improved. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were looking for a solution to quickly build and deploy a cross platform mobile solution to users at the company. The Ionic Pro platform gave us the ability to do this by streamlining the process for both Android and iOS, reducing the need for additional overhead in the deployment space. ### 10. Very beautiful and cool UI framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiyohito K. | PM / PL, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** It is written on the TOP page of the official site, but it is a point where you can create multi-platform applications with one source code base.Moreover, it is with web. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** For simple applications, unnecessary modules such as RxJS are also loaded, so the bundled files are too large. It is too bad that the application becomes heavy again. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** ・PWA is supported by default ・Create any platform applications with one source code based ・In case you want to develop applications, and want to see it on the web too **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are few developers of native languages (ex: swift and kotlin), but there are engineers who can do with web technology. Therefore ionic was just perfectly. Also, since it is one source code base, if you correct one source, it can be reflected on each platform, so it is efficient. ### 11. Easy, Fast and Productive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Everything, from monitoring to deploy. It' possible to deploy my app directly into users phones without needing to pass the bureaucracy of app stores every time. I can monitor errors and log anything I want in my App. It's possible to deploy to different channels, and even sign users to different channels. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Let's say the documentation lacks a little. I had to do some research to solve some problems. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** My company is distributing an app to another company that sold an app to another company. You can imagine the deploy problems with that. With Ionic Pro, we actually just deploy to ionic and bypass everything, so there's no need for validation from stores and middle-mans to every minor bugfix. ### 12. Best platform to build hybrid mobile application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harshal M. | Senior Associate, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** It's ready made functionalities make tasks so easy. Very easy to understand. I am from java background but it took only two days to get familiar with Ionic It uses latest techs Angular and typescripts which opens gates for wider audience. It has very good native API as well which make it to stand out while comparing with other frameworks **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** I guess I have not observed any bad thing about Ionics. It is best . **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being a novice mobile app developer I choose to go with Ionic . It made tasks so easy. I created successfully Android application. ### 13. Quick to market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ionic let us build a great app with advanced features in a fraction of the time it would take us to make a normal app. We will be sticking with this! **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Some plugins were a bit tricky to get working when using Cordova based plugins, but we got there. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick to release apps to improve process efficiency. Can use standard web devs to build cross device apps ### 14. A set of pro tools to get the most out of ionic framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dimitrios M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The ability to build iOS apps without a MAC **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The testing tools can be improved. The Ionic Viewer is very helpful, but some times its accuracy is not 100%. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** My company is using the Ionic framework to build hybrid applications for Android and iOS devices. The biggest advantage with Ionic Pro is that we can build an app for iOS and do the initial deployment + testing without owning a MAC computer or having to go through the approval process of Apple (Important note: eventually you will need to become an Apple developer and go through the App Review process, but at least you can postpone it until the app is ready). ### 15. Best available framework for Native and PWA development framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashaq M. | Technical Architect, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Easy to use. Easy to setup Provides most of the UI components out of box. I was new to mobile development and It made my learning experience very cheerful. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Basic Native plugins e.g Camera, Payment APIs etc. should have worked for PWA as well out of box. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** If you are looking for quick Board to Market solution, this is the place to start for mobile development **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Once code bass for all platforms ### 16. Review by Amgen digital team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** i like the sharing thing a lot and developer , which is given by ion view and ion developer.i like the auto deploy thing a lot, it has so many cordova features which i can leverage **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** sometime i face problem getting a older ionic app top ionic pro version and give it stops working n between , i am not sure how to fix it **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** take the pro version and whenever you face any difficulty mail the team **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** i have solved the problem of sharing the application with stakeholder and testers and get instant feedback ### 17. Review ionic pro **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon P. | Co-founder, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The interface is good, and it has decent functionality. I found the onboarding good as well. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** I came across a ton of bugs, and I found very conflicting documentation. It also made a support ticket and it took awhile to get feedback. By the time support send anything back we had already unsubscribed. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were planning on using it for live deployment. ### 18. Does not support Ionic V1 and AngularJS well **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** There is no legacy documentation for the old versions of Ionic to correctly migrate to pro from the old versions. With no access to legacy dashboard or documentation you have to figure it out on your own. There should be gulp scripts to help understand how to push builds to pro "scripts" { "build": "ls" } etc **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The documentation is not consistent and there are missing links everywhere. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** PHONE SUPPORT FOR PAID USERS **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Live deploy is a must for our business ### 19. Easy to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dominik . | IT System Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** User friendly interface and definitely easy building your mobile application. I like simple things and that´s definitely one of them. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Sometimes i found bug and have to reload page. Mostly last month. There was probably some non successful update, but i dont like anything else. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building application through cloud. ### 20. Easy to Use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** It's really easy to use.Any angular2+ dev can build apps with Ionic. Having knowledge of HTML, CSS and Typescript is enough to build your on app. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** It doesn`t play videos on IonicView app.This is can be improved. Clients do Q&A on Ionic Preview and it's frustrating having a small list of plugins compatible with ionic view. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build a mobile app for doctors. I've worked with Xamarin before and Ionic is far away easier. No worries about platforms neither native code. Cordova solves that issue. ### 21. Good framework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diego d. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Using the same code for ios and android **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The optimization could be better in Android, where the load screens are slow **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** It's a good option **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** We don't have to rewrite the code for each platform ### 22. Makes Mobile Dev A Dream **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Its integrated across platforms, uses tech that web developers already know, provides quick functioning components out of the box, and allows for rapid dev and deployment. The list goes on! **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Very fee complaints. Mostly issues are with the underlying techs (such as Apple's iOS dev process...) **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rapid mobile development is a dream with Ionic ### 23. Excellent toolbox for mobile development across platforms **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sigve H. | Chief Technology Officer, E-Learning, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The bundled graphical components The live updates The speed and versatility og angular **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Difficult to omit certain plugins when designing for multiple platforms. E.g. PWAs, which can't handle any native plugins. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cross-platform mobile development. Live updates. ### 24. A much needed service to take away the pain of app deployments **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The best part of Ionic Pro the ease of doing deployments and distribution. We used to waste a lot of time on this. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** We have lots of plug-ins in one of our projects. It is a bit difficult to build projects like this on the platform. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployments and distribution. Spend more time to test and fix bugs. ### 25. Nice Produkt but way to go for the billing etc **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian Martin S. | IT Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Does what it should and is very easy to set up for larger teams. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Hybrid App development is not possible. We have to manualy order a correct bill every month. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** Dont Use if you based in Europe. the Billing is a pain in the .... **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting ride of the lokal build infrastruktur **Official Response from Stephen Ochs, MBA:** > Hey Christian, Definitely understand your frustration about the billing, we are constantly working to fix that on our end and make it easier for our European customers, as they are of high value to us. In order to avoid going through this monthly, you could upgrade to one of our annual plans (provides a discount off the monthly tier) to avoid the frustration. As for Hybrid App Development not being possible, I am a little confused on what you mean there, as we have had many successful developers launch great apps on our platform. Would love to help you resolve any outstanding frustrations. ### 26. mobile applications developpement become too easy with ionic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** i tried many frameworks like phonegab , intelxdk , native script but ionic framework was the best one because it make things easy , an app developped wit ionic should do well when we talk about performance **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** i think what really missed with ionic is to have the same app performance even when you non ionic composants like signature pad **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** First the possibility to have 2 different performant apps (ios and android) with the same code in few time make buisiness more esay for me ### 27. Quite good experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Margareta S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Testing environment and the idea of direct deployment for small changes. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Some more monitoring and tracking tools should be available. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** - ### 28. Ionic: The Way to Go For PWAs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel O. | Freelancer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2017 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Rapid generation of progressive web applications, using any Angular-compliant database - Firebase, CouchDB, etc. I love it most with CouchDb, Clean, performant components and icons, compatible with Android and ios. I also, like the rich documentation, which is faithfully being updated as the Ionic developers continue upgrading it. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Sometimes, I get such errors as " xxx provider not found", or something to that effect, especially when I dabble into such functionalities as using certain native plugins. The aspect of native plugins needs to be cleaned up. Recently I ran into errors like "nav controller was destroyed'; but I had to use a hack to solve that problem. That needs to be attended to, too: it started with Ionic 3.0.0 **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am try to develop the following progressive web applications, in these areas of dire need in African countries: 1) Payroll management application: using Ionic. Angular and CouchDb 2) School management application: using Ionic. Angular and CouchDb 3) Electronic medical record, with doctor, pharmacist, laboratory and accounting functionality suitable for developing countries: using Ionic. Angular and CouchDb 4) Hotel booking and management application: using Ionic. Angular and CouchDb 5) Utility (Water, Electricity) Billing application suitable for developing countries: using Ionic. Angular and CouchDb 6) A secure blog for whistle-blowers - as a fight against corruption and fraud in developing countris: using Ionic. Angular and CouchDb ### 29. Ok at best **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Enforcement | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** I like that the graphics are large and easy to use **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** There are a lot of steps you have to take **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** I wouldn't recommend it unless you are required to use it **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** The extra steps mean customers have to wait a long time ### 30. Ionic 2 framework is the becoming the industry standard for hybrid app development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gianfranco P. | Frontend Web Development Mentor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ionic 1 or 2 are super easy to get started. With previous knowledge of JavaScript, web development, in general, you can make a simple mobile app in less than 24 hours. Ionic 2 is still being developed but at every release candidate you can see how it's maturing and solving issues as well as focusing on the important things that matter. Being able to view both Android and iOS simultaneously in the browser is a plus. The documentation and community are great. The core team is very responsive on Github as well to resolve any technical issues. They have many tools and videos available. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ionic 2 still has some bugs and other tools and libraries haven't been integrated completely, but that's just matter of time. It still requires you to learn Angular 2, which is quite different from Angular 1. Certain development tools like Extensions for the Visual Studio Code editor are still not there yet. Debugging can sometimes be challenging. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's the best framework for a small team of developers (even one) to make a full fledge mobile app. Instead of having 2 developers doing an Android and iOS app, a Web Developer can reuse his or her skills and develop a great mobile app ### 31. Great community, mature framework, but still room to improve. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler M. | Web Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ionic is an easy to use, and easy to learn framework that allows for quick prototyping with a decent CLI. Integration with Angular makes for a pleasurable environment to code in. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Android performance still leaves a bit to be desired, with initial app loads being some of the worst out of the hybrid/native framework ecosystem. Too drastic of a change from Ionic 1 - Ionic 2; it felt like learning a whole new framework, granted a lot of this can be attributed to changes in Angular 2. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** When weighing your options against other options such as Nativescript, consider how much existing boilplate your company or organization is working with. If you have a lot of existing code, or libraries that you will be using in your app, a lot of the other frameworks are slightly more opinionated, and require a bit more hacking to get working. Ionic is a breeze right out of the box, and I've yet to experience any conflicts. Despite that, we are currently using Nativescript as the performance issues were not enough to justify the extra bonus points. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well the obvious is building cross-platform applications for clients. I found it worked very well out of the box with existing libraries being used in our projects, and fit into our design flow quite naturally. ### 32. Very positive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martín Pablo C. | Ingeniero de software, Program Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** It is much more easy than creating a native application from scratch. You can use the same knowledge of web development. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** You can see some delays in some screens (native is more fluid). The applications weight more than native. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** You can use it to create good interfaces, however there are some scenarios where you might be better using native instead. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating application prototypes. ### 33. Great use of existing skills to create mobile apps **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam C. | Development Manager, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ease of set up, it's pretty simple even coming from a non node/js background with only a little exposure to them. The combination of sass and angular. The tools available are looking really promising and it's great to see they have lots of ideas and vision for the future of the platform. Although the tools are in BETA they are still very useful. There is a great community that are quite willing to help you out if you get stuck. The slack chat channel is really handy too. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The creator could be a little more powerful in regards to positioning/grids but it really does the prototype stage well and is a good basis to start your app. The documentation can be a bit unclear initially. In version 1 it's quite hard to style your app from the defaults beyond changing colours and fonts. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** Make sure to make sure of the slack channel and community support, you'll get answers really quickly! **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** We really needed to get in to building apps but couldn't afford to hire native app developers. We have existing front-end and back-end developers who's skills could really be leveraged with Ionic. We service SME so it was also a bit cost prohibitive doing the apps natively. ### 34. If you don't mind non-native animations **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Max Nathaniel H. | Director, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Firstly, I must say that it is extremely easy to set up and get started. Secondly, information can be easily found on their website. The API documentation is well organized and structured. Thirdly, I like that I can use JavaScript and CSS to build an app. If you are familiar with Angular, Ionic should be a breeze. Fourthly, another plus point is that there is an extension called ngCordova which combines most of the native features such as Geolocation and push notification into one. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** My main gripe is the lack of native animations is a little bit of a put off for me. For example, there is no support for transitions between Tabs. Very little control over this aspect. For me, the native animations is by far one of the most important features because it changes the user experience completely. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** Fast turnover time and development with JavaScript developers. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** To create effective phone applications for small businesses. ### 35. Great framework and environment to build a hybrid app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** André M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Easy to use and easy to get started. With ionic you get to spend your time actually developing your app and not fooling around figuring out a way to make the tools work. Ionic is straightforward and their CLI is also great: you just install it and it comes with everything you'll need. The ionic,io services they are providing (although still in alpha) are also very convenient. Everything just works. Better than ionic? Only ionic2, which is already in alpha stage. Make sure to have a look at it. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** There is really nothing to dislike. Ionic is growing fast with the framework and the ionic.io services, and at the same time building ionic2 with angular2, which is making it better and better. I guess the only thing I can complain is that they are missing some support to deploy apps to windows phone, although I heard they're working on it. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** You can't go wrong: it's easy to use, very straightforward and reliable. The community is also big and very active. Consider having a look at ionic 2 (in alpha) because it brings many advantages over the first version. Analytics and push notifications provided by ionic.io (still in alpha, though) are also great, be sure to check it out. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Started playing with ionic during hackathons and now using it to build every app I need. Most successful case is an app used by students from an university. ### 36. Best framework to develop Hybrid applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wasim B. | Cloud Analyst, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Rapid development, Support for AngularJS and rich user interface design. Also it has large community which makes it useful. And it's command line interface is also great with a single command (ionic serve --lab) you can view your app's UI for both android and ios. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** I have faced some issues while developing for multiple platforms(android, ios and windows10). Sometimes I had to write platform specific code. Also if someone is not much more familiar with the JavaScript callbacks and it's asynchronous behavior then it is nightmare to debug the JavaScript code. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** I'll recommend to all those who are going to work with this framework learn the basic rules of JavaScript, how callbacks works, learn about the functions returning promise and then master with the AngularJS and if you stuck anywhere then don't worry Ionic has a large community. Happy Coding **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building an offline app that can sync data after getting active network was a big challenge. From the benefits point of view, it is great to have a built in CSS so that you don't have to write your own CSS styles from scratch and on the other side AngulrJS makes development process quick and painless. ### 37. Amazing framework. Easy, fast and reliable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arthur F. | Creative Technologist, Design, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ionic is extremely easy to start with, there are many tools and documentation that you can get support from. For fast prototyping and developing small/medium apps, ionic is miles away in front of any other competitor. The ability to review your app in real tile while you code is super handy and saves a lot your time. Not to mention that you can always send the app to your phone in a few clicks. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Not everything is perfect. If you are building a big app or a service with a lot of data the app will lag. If you app requires a lot of processing, you will feel that it is not native. It also runs on top of cordova which many tools are made by the community and sometimes they are not so reliable. Ionic is also limited on everything that cordova is also limited, so background tasks can be a bit of a problem. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** If you have time, learn a bit of AngularJS before jumping into ionic. If you have issues remember that you can always search for Ionic and also AngularJS solutions, sometimes even cordova can be your solution. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used ionic on various projects, including hackathons, rapid prototyping and also a published small/medium sized app with a lot of data manipulation and notifications. Ionic was always the best solution for me. I won two prizes in hackathons with an ionic app so I can't complain. It does the job and it will only get better with Ionic 2 and AngularJS 2. ### 38. Create autofresh system for both android and ios moble app **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bobur M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** First of all, it is very good opportunity that using JavaScript and HTML skills to create mobile hybrid apps. IONIC is the best framework which I've ever used. There all components of mobile widget. Secondly, it is great when you write one code and you have two platform apps. Moreover, it saves your time unbelievably. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** In my experience, there was some little parts which need for improvement. It was hierarchy, if explain more details, there was some misunderstanding when you have very deep hierarchy. For instance, in my app was 3 or 4 deep hierarchy, and in iOS platform worked little incorrect. It would be better, if in documentation they give information about it in more depth. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** At present, I heard that IONIC works with Angular2, when I start working on my system, IONIC was on version about 1.6, and Angular as well. But I'd like develop with new versions of both framework, because using OOP in Angular would be interesting to develop, and use new features in IONIC as well **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** If about business, there was solved several problems. Especially, when you start develop some system, you should find at least 3 developer (Back-end, iOS and Andorid developers), but utilising IONIC it decreased to 2 or even one developer. It is very positive decision, because when 3 developer works, it is good if they works in one building and in one place, because there would be question between Back-end developer and mobile developer, especially about API. But it is not possible always, if developers works in different workplaces, there obviously would be misunderstandings. Therefore, it very beneficial for me, when I created Back-end and concurrently mobile apps as well. ### 39. 1st time experience with ionic **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suryanarayanamurthy H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** 1. ease of debugging the code, 2. inbuilt Angularjs bundle. 3. native app like controls. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** 1. cordova whitelist could have been made much more easier, the app was running on the browser but when deployed on the android app got a white screen, had no idea why, I had to do some work around for the existing working code to make the apk actually work. 2. i was using windows to do the development, i could not even build the app for ios, I understand i cannot emulate to ios and it's problem with ios not ionic and etc,. but i wished at least i could built the app for ios and test it on ios platform later..... maybe iam missing something to build for ios platform on windows machine, if it's a prob from my side, then forget this point. 3. I wished there was a way to build the apk, using ionic and somehow we could encrypt the files within (other than the minify and uglify),. I wished there was someway to hide the frontend code from the user who can access my apk file. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** periodically build your app to any platform you wish to deploy, emulate and test it, every time you do a major change to the code. like adding route or changes (add/delete) templates etc,. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** i am developing a prototype for a startup and doing a proof of concept for our chosen technology stack, I like how developing prototypes is easier. ### 40. Creation of an applcation who read JSON content from a TYPO3 Website **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Romain M. | Développeur front-end, Computer Games, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** If you're already known Angular, it's really easy to use, and you have a prototype you can send to the client in a very short time **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The plugin managent, herited from Cordova, who isn't not very easy to use. But this is corrected with ngCordova whoi encapsule it in AngularJS services **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** I'ts the better hybrid app framework. I tried JQuery Mobile, Appcelarator, Sencha Touch... Ionic is just better. If you want to dev a mobile app and if this doesn't need a huge acces to the material or a very huge quantity of ressources (In this case, create a native app), i think it's the good choice **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** We want to create a performant hybrid app, in a very short time, who works on Android and iOS, that isn't the case with the other tech we tried who are slower to dev or less performant ### 41. Ionic best hybrid framework ever **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Freddy R. | Full Stack Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** It has support for a lot of platforms like android, ios, windows mobile and you just have to write once. The community is growing up for good. It work perfectly with Angular js, a MVC frontend framework very popular with a lot of documentation. Working with externals RESTful API just with service and don't have to deal with native calls for every platform **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** It don't have support yet for some cordova plugins or some native functionality **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** It is really easy to start and it have a lot of cordova plugins. You can start your own application in just 10 minutes **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solved a lot of benefits working with multi platform social logins and health applications. ### 42. Ionic is the Best HTML5 Mobile App Framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed H. | Software Engineer, Telecommunications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** I’ve enjoyed working with the Ionic Framework for hybrid-platform development. it’s been a pleasure to develop using their framework. If you’re someone who’s looking into development using a hybrid-platform framework, be sure to check Ionic Framework out, as there are many tools in the arsenal waiting to help jump start your development. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** There have been some silly quirks here and there, but it’s been a pleasure to develop using ionic **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** The initial barrier to get started with AngularJS is very low, without needing to know the entire framework in order to build an easy app. However, beginners faced with more advanced tasks in a complex application will face an increasingly steep learning curve. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** i have done many project using ionic with a prod range of scales projects it's really good an fun experience i had doing work with ionic ### 43. Excelent Framework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** José A. M. | Front-End Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** It is really easy to learn for beginners programmers, SASS support, CLI tool, support android, ios, windows mobile. Good community forum of programmers for consultations and to solve errors. Work with AngularJs. OpenSource. Excellent documentation. Provide multiple directives for your Angular app. Ionic creator. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Incompatibility with some cordova plugins, for example Wifi wizard or Wifi manager. HTML5 technology limitations, some devices technology are not compatible. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** HTML5 Browser Limitation. Phonegap/cordova plugins bugs. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** On-demand applications, social login applications. Simple Chat with Firebase Framework. The most outstanding benefit is the multi platform tool, because I just need to code one time and then I can test my application on multiple devices. ### 44. UI for hybrids apps with Ionic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose L. | Full Stack JavaScript Developer, Program Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ionic is an incredible tool for developing user interfaces for hybrid. Very efficient, fast and able to follow the patterns of user interface IOS and Android native operating Systems Applications. The learning curve is very short. The command line to build the app or serve in the local is very easy. Ionic uses default saas saas is a great preprocessor css. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ionic at the end is a standard UI, however customizable but it has limitations. Limitations may be in the user interface customization. If a very specific design is required where there is not like Ionic **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** I recommend Ionic for the development of hybrid applications with Cordova and angularjs. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** I develod hybrid applications with Ionic and together with Cordova and angularjs ### 45. Make iOS/Android apps together **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ionic provides one with most of the components one would expect for a mobile app. As a mobile app html framework, ionic has components that would allow one to completely clone the features of Spotify. Its responsive design also makes it so that our apps can adapt to many different screen sizes on Android and iOS. Installing Ionic and start developing takes very little time and is just a few lines of commands. They also have an online service which allows one to have push notifications on their application, something that would take some time to implement from scratch. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Ionic should start supporting Windows Phone which although constitutes of a small market share would be a good addition to Android and iOS. The grid system of ionic could also be improved as it is not in an ideal position as of right now. However, I heard they are planning to make ionic2, which may solve all of my doubts towards this software. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** It's components and features are continually improving. You should definitely check this open source project out. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Now, making iOS and Android apps take significant less time and manpower. Usually this requires two developers to work on the two platforms, however, with Ionic only 1 is required. ### 46. Great tools to build crossplatform mobile apps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edwin K. | Cross Platform Mobile developer (Sr. System Developer), Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** MVC by using AngularJS, Components and Cordova plugins that take that extra step to be complete. Great community with lots of tutorials and helpful minds available. Fast development workflow with options for CLI and GUI client takes on it. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** No formal Windows Phone 8 support. Windows 10 is being supported since a short time and that will dismiss this attention point eventually. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** If you want to use webtechnology for your business logic and UX / GUI implementation and create a mobile app crossing platform borders then Ionic definitely is a good choice. With the lately added windows 10 support this now formally supports the top 3 platforms (iOS, Android and Windows Store) and gets your mobile client going fast. Has payed services that can extend your experience (push notifications and live updates etc). There are alternatives available for those but if you want to stick to one party serving all they are fair priced good implementations. The great community (both Ionic and Cordova) make this a sure thing to use for your (enterprise or smaller) business. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating mobile clients for multiple platforms using a fast development toolset. Reusing lots of code and the business logic even in the weblayer of hybrid apps is a huge plus for rapidly creating interactive app setups. ### 47. Ionic was my first attempt to make apps, It is pretty fun with basic knowledge of AngularJS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil S. | Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** One of the best thing I like about Ionic is you can getup and running within much less time than native way. Integration with AngularJS is another thing that also one of the most important factor. Web emulator for apps is great it shows both iOS and Android preview in same place side to side. Most of the cordova plugins are available and ready to use in Ionic. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Animations are less realistic than native apps on android and that's because it uses the webview. But I am sure the Ionic will figure out how to deal with it. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** If you are not planning animations or special effects in your app then its the best solution to make apps. Even if you want to go native way you can prototype the app in Ionic. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently I am using Ionic to make game guide apps with much more functionality that Ionic+AngularJS can provide. It takes much less time to develop the app that saved time used on brainstorming the other ideas. ### 48. A robust and easy-to-use framework for mobile hybrid apps **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Minh N. | Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** * Common components are well made and easy to use, especially quick for mockup or prototype * A cool collection of icons with ionicon, with very friendly and familiar icons * An easy to use set of wrapper for cordova plugins with ngCordova * Comprehensive documentations and tutorials, this is a huge +1 * Simple wrappers and tool sets, with great addon in market **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** * Smooth on iOS, but not so naturally perfect on some old Android mobiles. * Pretty high-level and abstracted, hence not easy to fully customize as needed * The layout and grid system is ok, but not so flexible. IMHO, it's lack of vertical layout (.row) and responsive sizing (.col). I may need another layout/grid system for complex designs * Personally, I myself prefer attribute to element definition, such as `
` over ``, but it's not a problem **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** Highly recommended for hybrid mobile apps with cordova, AngularJS and common design user interface, especially for a quick prototype and mockup. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** A hybrid app with cordova and AngularJS, plus ionic. Thanks to ionic, the prototype phase was super quick and easy, saved us a lot of time and efforts. But then we had troubles with the performance on Android and scrolling issue, and had to drop some ionic components to switch to hand-made ones. The app was actually a remake version of an old one, and was published at https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/australian-wine-vintages/id547441697 . ### 49. Awesome project **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexandre B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** - The active development behind the framework is impressive. - The whole system of css classes depending of the targeted platform is very useful to easily create OS dependent layouts. - The huge number of css/js components available without installing any plugins of library. - That fact that is based on AngularJS library - The really good and up to date documentation - The whole tools available to develop faster **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** Maybe the lack of Cordova plugins supported inside the Ionic Viewer application. **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** I develop mobile applications for my clients. It allow me to also easily develop prototypes for hackathon or for clients. ### 50. Using Ionic **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** The ability to create IOS and Android apps from one codebase of JavaScript and AngularJS makes app development more accessible and scalable. Active community and development team. **What do you dislike about Ionic: An OutSystems Company?** I follow the bug reports on Github and most issues seem to be quirks that would not scare me away from using Ionic. I could not get Android emulator to run - but that's okay for me because I have one I attached via USB. **Recommendations to others considering Ionic: An OutSystems Company:** I took a course on Udemy "Ionic by Example: Create Mobile Apps in HTML5" which helped a lot I am now starting another course "Ionic: From Web to Mobile" **What problems is Ionic: An OutSystems Company solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am creating a new open source app to find unique beers near your location. The benefits are the same as stated before, a single codebase, Sass, Angular and Javascript. ## Ionic: An OutSystems Company Discussions - [What is ionic mobile development software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ionic-mobile-development-software) - 1 comment - [What is ionic used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ionic-used-for) - 3 comments - [View Ionic: An OutSystems Company pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ionic-an-outsystems-company/reviews?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-05+18%3A12%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ddc27318-73ac-4d60-9596-608cbf5f6cb2&secure%5Btoken%5D=75ffa82949bc2ed20269894581ccbf3a93dab22425317fab4cecd1e77b433196&format=llm_user) ## Ionic: An OutSystems Company Features **** - Continuous Integration - Drag & Drop - Backup and Recovery - Multiple Programming Languages Supported - Continuous Deployment - Code Development - For No-Code Development - Version Control - Configurable Workflow - 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