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Oct 06 - Oct 12, 2025
Other plugins
- Native Audio Player (⭐2) - Play audio that keeps playing in the background, player is shown in system controls, audio output can be switched between speaker/earpiece.
Jul 21 - Jul 27, 2025
Other plugins
- Shamir (⭐6) - Shamir's Secret Sharing cryptographic algorithm.
- capacitor-app-attest (⭐2) - Apple Attest with Ionic Capacitor
- capacitor-live-activities (⭐12) - Capacitor plugin to use Live Activities on iOS 16.2+.
- capacitor-lottie-splash-screen (⭐15) - Capacitor plugin to use Lottie animations as splash screen.
May 26 - Jun 01, 2025
- Native Market (⭐7) - A native market plugin for linking to google play or app store.
- Native Biometric (⭐58) - This plugin gives access to the native biometric apis for android and iOS
- Camera Preview (⭐24) - Camera preview
- Updater (⭐636) - Live update for capacitor apps
- Uploader (⭐15) - Background Uploader for capacitor apps
- Purchases (⭐203) - In-app Subscriptions Made Easy with RevenueCat sdk
- Flash (⭐15) - Switch the Flashlight / Torch of your device.
- Screen Recorder (⭐13) - Record device's screen
- Crisp (⭐8) - Crisp native SDK for capacitor
- Native Geocoder (⭐31) - Capacitor plugin for native forward and reverse geocoding
- In App Browser (⭐101) - Capacitor plugin in app browser
- Mute (⭐7) - Detect if the mute switch is enabled/disabled on a device
- Native Audio (⭐49) - A native plugin for native audio engine
- Shake (⭐12) - Detect shake gesture in device
- Navigation Bar (⭐14) - Set navigation bar color for android lolipop and higher
- IVS Player (⭐3) - Ivs player for capacitor app
- Indicator (⭐1) - hide and show home button indicator in Capacitor app
- Native Purchases (⭐19) - In-app Subscriptions Made Easy
- Data Storage (⭐91) - Capacitor SQLite Storage
- Usage Stats Manager (⭐0) - Capacitor plugin for android usage stats manager
- Streamcall (⭐4) - Capacitor plugin for streamcall
- Social Login (⭐136) - Capacitor plugin for social login
- JW Player (⭐2) - Capacitor plugin for jw player
- Ricoh360 Camera (⭐0) - Capacitor plugin for ricoh360 camera
- Autofill save password (⭐4) - Capacitor plugin to save login into device password managager
Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2025
Other plugins
- Capacitor voice recorder (⭐109) - A plugin for simple voice recording.
Aug 12 - Aug 18, 2024
Community plugins
- MQTT v5 (⭐1) - A native plugin for using MQTT v5 with correlation data and Request/Response Pattern.
Other plugins
- Safe Area (⭐124) - Get SafeArea info on Android and IOS.
Tools / Incompatible
- Tailwind Capacitor (⭐17) - Collection of helper plugin for Tailwind, it add safe area class and others utlitilies.
Jul 29 - Aug 04, 2024
Other plugins
- Capacitor Calendar (⭐58) - A plugin for interacting with calendar and reminders.
Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2024
Tools / Incompatible
- Capacitor safe area simulator - Chrome extension to simulate safe area in the browser, it support Ionic, Knsta UI and Tailwind Capacitor.
Jan 01 - Jan 07, 2024
Other plugins
- capacitor-plugin-camera (⭐18) - 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.
Oct 23 - Oct 29, 2023
Other plugins
- Bing Translator (⭐2) - A simple and free API for using Bing Translator.
Sep 11 - Sep 17, 2023
Other plugins
- Purchases (⭐203) - Capacitor in-app purchases and subscriptions made easy with RevenueCat.
Sep 04 - Sep 10, 2023
- Biometric Auth (⭐205) - Easy access to native biometric auth APIs on iOS and Android.
- Logger (⭐18) - Better logging for the web and native Ionic/Capacitor apps.
- Secure Storage (⭐147) - Secure, flexible storage for Capacitor apps using iOS Keychain and Android Keystore. Supports Keychain sync across devices on iOS.
Aug 07 - Aug 13, 2023
- Dark Mode (⭐28) - Universal, reliable dark mode support on the web, iOS and Android.
Jul 24 - Jul 30, 2023
Freelancers / Case study
- 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.
Jul 10 - Jul 16, 2023
Other plugins
- Websocket Client (⭐50) - Capacitor WebSocket Client Plugin.
May 08 - May 14, 2023
Learning / Community Tutorials
Freelancers / Case study
- Martin Donadieu - Creator of this list and of Capgo live update system + 10 plugins.
May 01 - May 07, 2023
Community plugins
- Websocket (⭐18) - Plugin providing native Websocket implementations for each platform.
Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2023
Cordova plugins / Compatible
Cordova plugins / Incompatible
cordova-plugin-add-swift-support(not needed, Capacitor has built in Swift support)
cordova-plugin-compat(not needed)
cordova-plugin-console(not needed, Capacitor has its own)
cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview(Capacitor doesn't allow to change the webview)
cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard(not needed, Capacitor has it's own)
cordova-plugin-ionic-webview(not needed, Capacitor uses WKWebView)
cordova-plugin-music-controls(causes build failures, skipped)
cordova-plugin-splashscreen(not needed, Capacitor has its own)
cordova-plugin-statusbar(not needed, Capacitor has its own)
cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine(not needed, Capacitor uses WKWebView)
cordova-plugin-googlemaps(causes build failures on iOS, skipped for iOS only)
Jan 09 - Jan 15, 2023
- Background Geolocation (⭐120) - The most sophisticated background location-tracking & geofencing module with battery-conscious motion-detection intelligence for iOS and Android.
- Background Fetch (⭐87) - Periodic callbacks in the background for both IOS and Android.
- Background Geolocation Firebase (⭐6) - Firebase adapter for Capacitor Background Geolocation.
Nov 21 - Nov 27, 2022
Other plugins
- Apple Pay (⭐17) - Get Apple Pay payments in your app.
Nov 14 - Nov 20, 2022
Other plugins
- Dynamsoft
- Barcode Reader (⭐10) - Scan barcodes and QR codes using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader.
- Camera Preview (⭐4) - Access camera using Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer.
- Document Normalizer (⭐1) - Scan documents using Dynamsoft Document Normalizer.
- Label Recognizer (⭐2) - Recognize text on labels like MRZ on passports using Dynamsoft Label Recognizer.
Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2022
Community plugins
- File opener (⭐77) - The plugin is able to open a file given the mimeType and the file uri.
- Background tasks (⭐51) - A native plugin for running background tasks.
- Badge (⭐73) - Access and update the badge number of the app icon.
- Firebase
- Analytics (⭐488) - Firebase plugins for Capacitor. Supports Android, iOS and the web.
- App (⭐488) - Capacitor plugin for Firebase App.
- Auth (⭐488) - Handle the authentication on Native layer and propagate the token to the web view layer.
- Performance (⭐488) - Capacitor plugin for Firebase Performance Monitoring.
- Crashlytics (⭐488) - Capacitor plugin for Firebase Crashlytics.
- Screen orientation (⭐29) - Lock/unlock the screen orientation.
- Native updates (⭐121) - Capacitor plugin that assists with app updates.
- File picker (⭐65) - Capacitor plugin that allows the user to select a file.
- Managed configuration (⭐5) - Capacitor plugin to access managed configuration settings.
- Photo editor (⭐9) - Capacitor plugin that allows the user to edit a photo.
Aug 29 - Sep 04, 2022
Official plugins
- Preferences (⭐625) - Provides a simple key/value persistent store for lightweight data, ex Storage.
Community plugins
- Electron (⭐377) - Support for the Electron platform.
Jul 18 - Jul 24, 2022
Other plugins
- Google
- Auth (⭐316) - Google auth plugin for Capacitor.
- Availability (⭐2) - Verifies that Google Play services is installed and enabled, and request enabling Google Play services on device.
- Fit (⭐23) - Retrieve data from Google Fit.
- MlKit Language (⭐3) - Identify the language of a string of text.
- MlKit Vision (⭐13) - Detect faces in an image, identify key facial features, and get the contours of detected faces.
- Playlist (⭐32) - Native support for audio playlists, background support, and lock screen controls.
Apr 25 - May 01, 2022
Learning / Community Tutorials
- Automatic build and release - Create your own CI/CD pipeline with GitHub actions for free, to deploy your app every time you push to main.
Demo apps / Case study
- capacitor-updater-plugin-demo (⭐5) - Simple Ionic Vue app to demonstrate the use of OTA updates.
Community / Case study
- Proposal (⭐78) - Official repo for plugin and platform requests.
Apr 18 - Apr 24, 2022
Other plugins
- Firebase
- AppCheck (⭐7) - Allows usage of native AppCheck tokens.
- Dynamic Links (⭐22) - Firebase Dynamic Links.
- Push (⭐28) - This Plugin it used for Firebase Push Messages. It support Data.
- Photo library (⭐4) - Get all the images from system album.
Tools / Incompatible
- Docgen (⭐13) - Docs Readme Markdown and JSON Generator for Capacitor Plugins.
- Plugin generator (⭐111) - Create a new Capacitor plugin.
- Assets (⭐564) - Local Capacitor icon/splash screen resource generation tool.
Learning / Offical guides
- How Capacitor Works - Capacitor takes a modern web app, and then packages it up to run on iOS, Android, and PWA.
- Creating Plugins - This guide will help you get started creating a shareable Capacitor plugin which will be published on npm.
- Creating Splash Screens and Icons - Use cordova-res to generate resource images for native projects.
- App Deployment and Realtime Updates - Update your Capacitor app remotely through the app stores.
- CI/CD for Capacitor Apps - Adding Mobile CI/CD to your Capacitor App development process.
- Data Storage in Capacitor - Storing small to large amounts of data in Capacitor.
- Security Best Practices for Capacitor - Security best practices for your Capacitor apps.
- Using Push Notifications with Firebase - Learn how to get Firebase Cloud Messaging working on iOS and Android.
- Saving Plugin Calls - How to save plugin calls in Capacitor.
- Mocking Capacitor Plugins - How to create mock objects for Capacitor plugins.
- Build Mobile Apps with Tailwind CSS, Next.js, Ionic Framework, and Capacitor - A very popular stack for building responsive web apps is Tailwind CSS and Next.js by Vercel.
Learning / Community Tutorials
- Appcenter migration - Migrating from Microsoft App Center to Capgo in just a few simple steps.
- Update app seamlessly - Set up Capacitor-updater into your app to seamless releases update to your users.
Learning / Case study
- 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 / Case study
- capacitor-testapp (⭐38) - The Capacitor TestApp is used to develop new features and verify bug fixes in Capacitor and the official plugins.
- capacitor-plugin-demo (⭐120) - Simple Ionic Angular app to demonstrate the use of certain Capacitor plugins.
- capacitor-firebase-plugin-demo (⭐18) - Simple Ionic Angular app to demonstrate the use of certain Capacitor Firebase plugins.
Apr 04 - Apr 10, 2022
Other plugins
- Document Scanner (⭐77) - Scan documents (notes, homework, business cards, receipts, or anything with a rectangular shape).
Mar 07 - Mar 13, 2022
Other plugins
- Print (⭐4) - Print the WebView.
Feb 28 - Mar 06, 2022
Official plugins
- Device (⭐625) - Exposes internal information about the device, such as the model and operating system version, along with user information such as unique IDs.
- File system (⭐625) - Provides a NodeJS-like API for working with files on the device.
Learning / Crash Courses
- Capacitor Crash Course - Learn to use Capacitor with Ionic by Simon Grimm.
Learning / Community Tutorials
- Capacitor Tutorial - Getting Started with Capacitor.
- Adding Icons & Splash Screens to Capacitor - Generating the Icon and Splash Screen Asset.
- Capacitor Workflow in an Ionic Application - Cover the basic workflow when using Capacitor in an Ionic application.
- Creating a Local Plugin - Running Custom Native iOS Code with Capacitor.
- Publishing Capacitor Plugin on NPM - Build and publish a standalone Capacitor plugin using the Capacitor CLI.
- Do Capacitor applications are native ? - Demonstrate why referring to Capacitor applications as "not native" is inaccurate and confusing terminology.
Learning / Books
- Building cross platform app with Capacitor - A New Approach to Cross-Platform Development.
Learning / 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.
Community / Case study
- Discord - Official Discord community.
- Forum - Official Forum community.
- Reddit - Official Reddit community.
- Stack Overflow - Official Stack Overflow community.
Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2022
Official plugins
- Toast (⭐625) - Provides a native notification pop up for displaying important information to a user.
Community plugins
- Keep awake (⭐159) - Prevent your screen from getting some sleep.
- Microsoft
- Appcenter (⭐35) - AppCenter SDK.
- Analytics (⭐35) - AppCenter Analytics.
- Crashes (⭐35) - AppCenter Crashes.
Other plugins
- Healthkit (⭐84) - Retrieve data from HealthKit.
- UDP (⭐3) - Support both IPv6 and IPv4, multicast and broadcast.
Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2022
Official plugins
- App (⭐625) - Handles high-level App state and events.
- Screen Reader (⭐625) - Provides access to TalkBack/VoiceOver/etc. and provides simple text-to-speech capabilities for visual accessibility.
Community plugins
- Firebase
- Analytics (⭐170) - A native plugin for Firebase analytics.
- Crashlytics (⭐74) - Firebase Crashlytics.
- Fcm (⭐261) - Enable Firebase Cloud Messaging features for Capacitor apps.
- Remote config (⭐23) - A native plugin for Firebase remote config.
- Photoviewer (⭐64) - PhotoViewer table images with full-screen and sharing capabilities.
- Privacy screen (⭐95) - Protects your app from displaying a screenshot in recents screen/App Switcher.
- Screen brightness (⭐28) - Control screen brightness on iOS and android.
Other plugins
- Intent (⭐16) - Supports multiple broadcast receiving of intents, and sending out BroadcastIntents in Android.
- Oauth2 (⭐267) - Generic OAuth 2 client plugin. It let you configure the OAuth parameters yourself instead of using SDKs.
- Video player (⭐124) - Play a video full-screen on IOS, Android, Web and Electron platforms.
Jan 03 - Jan 09, 2022
Other plugins
- Data Storage SQlite (⭐91) - 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.
Dec 27 - Jan 02, 2021
Community plugins
- App-icon (⭐91) - Capacitor community plugin for changing an app's icon.
Other plugins
- Zalo login (⭐3) - Zalo login plugin for Capacitor.
Nov 15 - Nov 21, 2021
Official plugins
- Action Sheet (⭐625) - Provides access to native Action Sheets.
- App Launcher (⭐625) - Allows to check if an app can be opened and open it.
- Browser (⭐625) - Provides the ability to open an in-app browser and subscribe to browser events.
- Camera (⭐625) - Provides the ability to take a photo with the camera or choose an existing one from the photo album.
- Clipboard (⭐625) - Enables copy and pasting to/from the system clipboard.
- Dialog (⭐625) - Provides methods for triggering native dialog windows for alerts, confirmations, and input prompts.
- Geolocation (⭐625) - 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 (⭐625) - Provides physical feedback to the user through touch or vibration.
- Keyboard (⭐625) - Provides keyboard display and visibility control, along with event tracking when the keyboard shows and hides.
- Local Notifications (⭐625) - Provides a way to schedule device notifications locally (i.e. without a server sending push notifications).
- Motion (⭐625) - Tracks accelerometer and device orientation (compass heading, etc.).
- Network (⭐625) - Provides network and connectivity information.
- Push Notifications (⭐625) - Provides access to native push notifications.
- Share (⭐625) - Provides methods for sharing content in any sharing-enabled apps the user may have installed.
- Splash Screen (⭐625) - Provides methods for showing or hiding a Splash image.
- Status Bar (⭐625) - Provides methods for configuring the style of the Status Bar, along with showing or hiding it.
- Text Zoom (⭐625) - Provides the ability to change Web View text size for visual accessibility.
Community plugins
- Admob (⭐260) - A native plugin for AdMob.
- Apple sign in (⭐162) - Capacitor Sign in with Apple.
- Background geolocation (⭐229) - Receive geolocation updates even while app is backgrounded.
- Barcode scanner (⭐445) - A fast and efficient QR / barcode scanner for Capacitor.
- Bluetooth-le (⭐332) - Bluetooth Low Energy.
- Camera preview (⭐212) - Camera preview.
- Googlemaps (⭐157) - Plugin using native Maps API for Android and iOS.
- Contacts (⭐142) - Contacts Plugin for Capacitor.
- Date picker (⭐93) - Native DateTime Picker Plugin for Capacitor Apps.
- Facebook Login (⭐112) - A native plugin for Facebook Login.
- Flipper (⭐12) - A native plugin for flipper debugger.
- Http (⭐213) - A native HTTP plugin for CORS-free requests and file transfers.
- Intercom (⭐69) - Enable Intercom features for Capacitor apps.
- Media (⭐125) - Enable some media features for Capacitor such as create albums, save videos, gifs and more.
- Native audio (⭐141) - A native plugin for native audio engine.
- Native market (⭐30) - A native market plugin for linking to google play or app store.
- React hooks (⭐261) - React Hooks for Capacitor apps.
- Realm (⭐26) - A native plugin for MongoDB Realm.
- Speech recognition (⭐112) - A native plugin for speech recognition.
- Sqlite (⭐594) - Native & electron SQLite databases.
- Stripe (⭐225) - Stripe SDK bindings for Capacitor Applications.
- Tauri (⭐126) - Support for the Tauri platform.
- Text to speech (⭐115) - Synthesizing speech from text.
- Twitter (⭐11) - Enable TwitterKit features for Capacitor.
- Uxcam (⭐5) - UXCam and FullStory analytics. It uses UXCam for Android and iOS platforms and FullStory for Web/PWA.
Other plugins
- App Tracking Transparency (⭐36) - Request user authorization to access app-related data for tracking the user or the device. iOS only.
- Brother Print (⭐22) - A native Brother Print SDK implementation for iOS & Android.
- Biometric (⭐195) - Use biometrics confirm device owner presence or authenticate users.
- Dark mode (⭐1) - Monitor the changes made to system's dark mode.
- Email composer (⭐25) - Open a native E-Mail Composer within your Capacitor App.
- Facebook Analytics (⭐4) - Facebook Analytics Plugin for Capacitor.
- File selector (⭐14) - Select files form Android/iOS devices and the web.
- Jitsi (⭐91) - Make video calls through the free, open-sourced Jitsi video platform.
- Lightsensor (⭐3) - Get the illuminance level on the device.
- Native settings (⭐121) - Open native settings screens.
- NativeScript
- NativeScript Capacitor (⭐43) - Empower Capacitor with native APIs.
- Augmented Reality (⭐117) - Add AR experiences.
- Navigation bar (⭐81) - Navigation Bar manipulation, hide/show.
- Rate app (⭐203) - Let users rate your app using native rate app dialog for both Android and iOS.
- Read sms (⭐3) - Read the user's SMS with their permission.
- Screenshot (⭐18) - Take a screenshot of the current view.
- Send intent (⭐12) - 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 (⭐133) - Add Sentry error tracking and performance monitoring for Capacitor apps.
- Stripe terminal (⭐30) - Stripe Terminal Plugin for Capacitor.
- Sprig (⭐0) - All-in-one product research platform.
- Square Payments (⭐2) - Enable Square Payments for Capacitor.
- Sumup (⭐4) - SumUp Mobile SDK.