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Contents

Official plugins

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

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

Community plugins

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

Capgo plugins

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

Core & Updates

Device & Sensors

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

Camera & Media

Storage & Files

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

Location & Navigation

Authentication & Security

UI & Display

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

Purchases & Payments

Communication & Messaging

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

Video Calling & Real-time

Analytics & Tracking

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

Contacts & Health

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

App Store & Market

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

Android Specific

Platform Integrations

Firebase

Utilities

  • Alarm - Manage native alarms.
  • Env - Set Env var in Capacitor config and read them at runtime.
  • WebView Guardian - Detect when the WebView was killed in the background and relaunch it on foreground.
  • WebView Version Checker - Check Android WebView version and prompt users to update when needed.
  • LLM - Adds support for LLM locally run for Capacitor.

Specialized Hardware

Capawesome plugins

Plugins owned by Capawesome organisation and maintained by @robingenz.

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

Transistor Software plugins

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

Aparajita plugins

Plugins written and maintained by @aparajita.

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

Other plugins

Independents plugins are listed here.

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

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

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

  • Biometric - Use biometrics confirm device owner presence or authenticate users.

  • capacitor-plugin-camera - A camera plugin that is designed to make it easy to perform image processing tasks like barcode reading and OCR. We can use reflection to get the camera frames in another plugin so that it can enjoy native performance.

  • Dark mode - Monitor the changes made to system's dark mode.

  • Data Storage SQLite - Providing a key-value permanent store for simple data of type string only to SQLite on iOS, Android and Electron platforms and to IndexedDB for the Web platform.

  • Document Scanner - Scan documents (notes, homework, business cards, receipts, or anything with a rectangular shape).

  • Dynamsoft

    • Barcode Reader - Scan barcodes and QR codes using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader.
    • Camera Preview - Access camera using Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer.
    • Document Normalizer - Scan documents using Dynamsoft Document Normalizer.
    • Label Recognizer - Recognize text on labels like MRZ on passports using Dynamsoft Label Recognizer.

  • Purchases - Capacitor in-app purchases and subscriptions made easy with RevenueCat.

  • Email composer - Open a native E-Mail Composer within your Capacitor App.

  • Facebook Analytics - Analytics integration for tracking app usage and events.

  • Firebase

  • File selector - Select files form Android/iOS devices and the web.

  • Google

    • Auth - Google auth plugin for Capacitor.
    • Availability - Verifies that Google Play services is installed and enabled, and request enabling Google Play services on device.
    • Fit - Retrieve data from Google Fit.
    • MlKit Language - Identify the language of a string of text.
    • MlKit Vision - Detect faces in an image, identify key facial features, and get the contours of detected faces.

  • Healthkit - Retrieve data from HealthKit.

  • Intent - Supports multiple broadcast receiving of intents, and sending out BroadcastIntents in Android.

  • Jitsi - Make video calls through the free, open-sourced Jitsi video platform.

  • Lightsensor - Get the illuminance level on the device.

  • Native Audio Player - Play audio that keeps playing in the background, player is shown in system controls, audio output can be switched between speaker/earpiece.

  • Native settings - Open native settings screens.

  • NativeScript

  • Navigation bar - Manipulation and control of the navigation bar visibility.

  • Oauth2 - Generic OAuth 2 client plugin. It let you configure the OAuth parameters yourself instead of using SDKs.

  • Playlist - Native support for audio playlists, background support, and lock screen controls.

  • Print - Send WebView content to connected printers.

  • Rate app - Let users rate your app using native rate app dialog for both Android and iOS.

  • Read sms - Read the user's SMS with their permission.

  • Safe Area - Get SafeArea info on Android and IOS.

  • Screenshot - Take a screenshot of the current view.

  • Send intent - Expose a listener in your JavaScript application for when another application sends data to your Capacitor application via the Android share menu or share sheet.

  • Sentry - Add Sentry error tracking and performance monitoring for Capacitor apps.

  • Shamir - Shamir's Secret Sharing cryptographic algorithm.

  • Stripe terminal - Terminal plugin for in-person payment processing.

  • Sprig - All-in-one  product research platform.

  • Square Payments - Enable Square Payments for Capacitor.

  • Sumup - Mobile SDK for card payment processing.

  • UDP - Support both IPv6 and IPv4, multicast and broadcast.

  • Video player - Play a video full-screen on iOS, Android, Web and Electron platforms.

  • Zalo login - Authentication plugin for Vietnamese social network.

  • Photo library - Get all the images from system album.

  • WebSocket Client - Native client for real-time bidirectional communication.

  • Bing Translator - A simple and free API for using Bing Translator.

  • Capacitor Calendar - A plugin for interacting with calendar and reminders.

  • Capacitor voice recorder - A plugin for simple voice recording.

  • capacitor-app-attest - Apple Attest with Ionic Capacitor.

  • capacitor-live-activities - Capacitor plugin to use Live Activities on iOS 16.2+.

  • capacitor-lottie-splash-screen - Capacitor plugin to use Lottie animations as splash screen.

Cordova plugins

Compatible

This list will be upgraded soon

Incompatible

Tools

  • Docgen - Docs Readme Markdown and JSON Generator for Capacitor Plugins.
  • Plugin generator - Create a new Capacitor plugin.
  • Assets - Local Capacitor icon/splash screen resource generation tool.
  • Tailwind Capacitor - Collection of helper plugin for Tailwind, it add safe area class and others utlitilies.
  • Capacitor safe area simulator - Chrome extension to simulate safe area in the browser, it support Ionic, Knsta UI and Tailwind Capacitor.
  • lazycap - Terminal dashboard for Capacitor development with device management, builds, live reload, debugging, and AI assistant integration via MCP.
  • Capgo Skills - Check your Capacitor app compatibility and skills.
  • [Capgo Security Scanner](https://capgo.app/security-scanner/) - Scan your Capacitor app for security vulnerabilities.
  • Capgo Semver Tester - Test semantic versioning compatibility for your app.
  • AASA Tester - Test Apple App Site Association (AASA) configuration.

Learning

Places to learn about Capacitor

Offical guides

Crash Courses

Community Tutorials

Books

Case study

  • Burger King - How Burger King Brought Their Design System to Mobile.
  • Capacitor vs Cordova - This guide provides an overview of Capacitor and how it stacks up against Cordova.
  • [Native React Apps Without React Native](https://capacitorjs.com/blog/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

  • capacitor-testapp - The Capacitor TestApp is used to develop new features and verify bug fixes in Capacitor and the official plugins.
  • capacitor-plugin-demo - Simple Ionic Angular app to demonstrate the use of certain Capacitor plugins.
  • [capacitor-firebase-plugin-demo](https://github.com/robingenz/capacitor-firebase-plugin-demo) - Simple Ionic Angular app to demonstrate the use of certain Capacitor Firebase plugins.
  • capacitor-updater-plugin-demo - Simple Ionic Vue app to demonstrate the use of OTA updates.

Community

Places to discuss about Capacitor

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

Freelancers

  • Martin Donadieu - Creator of this list and of Capgo live update system + 10 plugins.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines - first.

Author

<a href="https://capgo.app/">Capgo — Live updates for capacitor</a>

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