Ionic Framework VS NativeScript

Compare Ionic Framework vs NativeScript and see what are their differences.

Ionic Framework

A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. (by ionic-team)

NativeScript

⚡ Empowering JavaScript with native platform APIs. ✨ Best of all worlds (TypeScript, Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, Java). Use what you love ❤️ Angular, Capacitor, Ionic, React, Solid, Svelte, Vue with: iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI), Android (View, Jetpack Compose), Dart (Flutter) and you name it compatible. (by NativeScript)
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Ionic Framework NativeScript
129 30
50,386 23,635
0.3% 0.4%
9.9 8.7
1 day ago 1 day ago
TypeScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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Ionic Framework

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ionic Framework. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-18.

NativeScript

Posts with mentions or reviews of NativeScript. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ionic Framework and NativeScript you can also consider the following projects:

Quasar Framework - Quasar Framework - Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces in record time

capacitor - Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web ⚡️

Material UI - Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.

Apache Cordova - Apache Cordova Android

antd-mobile - Essential UI blocks for building mobile web apps.

Titanium - 🚀 Native iOS and Android Apps with JavaScript

Angular - Deliver web apps with confidence 🚀

react-native - A framework for building native applications using React

Flutter - Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond

Meteor JS - Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform

capacitor-native-biometric

Vue.js - This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core