Capacitor
Cross-platform open source runtime for building Web Native apps.
Contents
- Core & Updates
- Device & Sensors
- Camera & Media
- Storage & Files
- Location & Navigation
- Authentication & Security
- UI & Display
- Purchases & Payments
- Communication & Messaging
- Video Calling & Real-time
- Analytics & Tracking
- Contacts & Health
- App Store & Market
- Android Specific
- Platform Integrations
- Firebase
- Utilities
- Specialized Hardware
Official plugins
Provides a native notification pop up for displaying important information to a user.
Provides a NodeJS-like API for working with files on the device.
Provides simple methods for getting and tracking the current position of the device using GPS, along with altitude, heading, and speed information if available.
Provides physical feedback to the user through touch or vibration.
Provides keyboard display and visibility control, along with event tracking when the keyboard shows and hides.
Community plugins
A native plugin for AdMob.
Capacitor community plugin for changing an app's icon.
Capacitor Sign in with Apple.
Receive geolocation updates even while app is backgrounded.
A fast and efficient QR / barcode scanner for Capacitor.
Bluetooth Low Energy.
Native camera preview with custom controls.
Plugin using native Maps API for Android and iOS.
Plugin for accessing device contacts.
Native DateTime Picker Plugin for Capacitor Apps.
Support for the Electron platform.
A native plugin for Facebook Login.
The plugin is able to open a file given the mimeType and the file uri.
A native plugin for flipper debugger.
A native HTTP plugin for CORS-free requests and file transfers.
Enable Intercom features for Capacitor apps.
Prevent your screen from getting some sleep.
Enable some media features for Capacitor such as create albums, save videos, gifs and more.
A native plugin for using MQTT v5 with correlation data and Request/Response Pattern.
A native plugin for native audio engine.
A native market plugin for linking to google play or app store.
Table images with full-screen and sharing capabilities.
Protects your app from displaying a screenshot in recents screen/App Switcher.
Hooks for using Capacitor plugins in React apps.
A native plugin for MongoDB Realm.
Control screen brightness on iOS and android.
A native plugin for speech recognition.
Native & electron SQLite databases.
SDK bindings for payment processing in Capacitor Applications.
Support for the Tauri platform.
Synthesizing speech from text.
Enable TwitterKit features for Capacitor.
Analytics and session recording for Android, iOS, and Web/PWA platforms.
Plugin providing native WebSocket implementations for each platform.
Capgo plugins
Core & Updates
Device & Sensors
Read device accelerometer measurements.
Cross-platform age range detection for Android and iOS.
Access device barometer readings.
Control screen brightness on iOS and Android.
Native compass heading plugin.
Access the device light sensor (Android only).
Detect if the mute switch is enabled/disabled on a device.
Access pedometer data including steps, distance, pace, cadence, and floors.
Detect shake gesture in device.
Listen to volume button presses.
Get information from device's sim cards.
Camera & Media
Native camera preview with custom controls.
Scan documents on iOS and Android.
Record audio on iOS, Android, and Web.
A native plugin for native audio engine.
Get notified about audio interrupts & route changes on iOS.
Record device's screen.
Play video in native player.
Generate video thumbnails from local or remote video files.
Display photo gallery as web page or native screen.
Exposes the FFmpeg API to Capacitor.
Amazon IVS player for Capacitor apps.
Play videos from jwplayer.com.
Native Mux Player SDK to play video on iOS and Android.
Embed YouTube player controls in Capacitor apps.
Expose media session controls of the device.
Storage & Files
SQLite Storage of key/value strings pair.
High-performance native SQLite plugin with custom protocol for efficient sync operations.
System operations compatible with Cordova File plugin API.
Pick files, images, videos, and directories.
Efficient image compression supporting PNG, JPEG, and WebP formats.
Download file in background or foreground.
Upload file natively.
Zipping and unzipping files on iOS, Android, and Web.
Location & Navigation
Authentication & Security
Device attestation with Apple App Attest (iOS) and Play Integrity (Android).
Request ATT authorization for tracking on iOS.
Access native biometric APIs for Android and iOS.
Launch Persona inquiry flows on iOS and Android.
All social logins in one plugin.
Prompt to save login into device password manager.
Securely store account information for a user.
Jailbreak/Root Detection Plugin.
UI & Display
Native in-app browser for secure web content.
Manage iOS Live Activities from Capacitor.
Set navigation bar color for Android Lollipop and higher.
Hide and show home button indicator in Capacitor app.
Control device orientation with support for bypassing orientation lock.
Switch the Flashlight / Torch of your device.
Prevent the device screen from dimming or sleeping.
Toggle text interaction in Capacitor based iOS apps.
Framework-agnostic page transitions for Capacitor apps - iOS-style navigation.
Print documents, HTML, PDFs, images and web views.
Generate PDF files from HTML strings or URLs.
Purchases & Payments
Communication & Messaging
Native SDK for customer messaging and chat support.
Intercom SDK integration for Capacitor apps.
Native NFC tag discovery, reading and writing for iOS and Android.
BLE plugin with support for scanning, connecting, reading, writing, and notifications.
Manage WiFi connectivity for your Capacitor app.
Proximity detection and beacon region monitoring.
Comprehensive on-device speech recognition with live partial results.
Synthesize speech from text with full control over language, voice, pitch, rate, and volume.
Video Calling & Real-time
Analytics & Tracking
Contacts & Health
App Store & Market
Android Specific
Exposes the Android's UsageStatsManager SDK.
Exposes Google Play Age Signals to your app.
Trigger Android inline install feature.
Lock device into kiosk mode with launcher functionality.
Launch Android intents and open system settings screens on Android and iOS.
Platform Integrations
Native Supabase SDK integration - Auth, Database, and JWT access.
SDK for authentication, sharing, payments, and mini-programs.
Apple Watch communication with bidirectional messaging support.
Receive shared content from other apps.
Utilities
Manage native alarms.
Set Env var in Capacitor config and read them at runtime.
Detect when the WebView was killed in the background and relaunch it on foreground.
Check Android WebView version and prompt users to update when needed.
Adds support for LLM locally run for Capacitor.
Specialized Hardware
Capawesome plugins
A native plugin for running background tasks.
Access and update the badge number of the app icon.
Capacitor plugin to access managed configuration settings.
Capacitor plugin that allows the user to edit a photo.
Transistor Software plugins
The most sophisticated background location-tracking & geofencing module with battery-conscious motion-detection intelligence for iOS and Android.
Periodic callbacks in the background for both iOS and Android.
Firebase adapter for Capacitor Background Geolocation.
Aparajita plugins
Easy access to native biometric auth APIs on iOS and Android.
Universal, reliable dark mode support on the web, iOS and Android.
Better logging for the web and native Ionic/Capacitor apps.
Secure, flexible storage for Capacitor apps using iOS Keychain and Android Keystore. Supports Keychain sync across devices on iOS.
Other plugins
Get Apple Pay payments in your app.
Request user authorization to access app-related data for tracking the user or the device. iOS only.
A native Brother Print SDK implementation for iOS & Android.
Use biometrics confirm device owner presence or authenticate users.
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.
Monitor the changes made to system's dark mode.
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.
Scan documents (notes, homework, business cards, receipts, or anything with a rectangular shape).
Capacitor in-app purchases and subscriptions made easy with RevenueCat.
Open a native E-Mail Composer within your Capacitor App.
Analytics integration for tracking app usage and events.
Select files form Android/iOS devices and the web.
Retrieve data from HealthKit.
Supports multiple broadcast receiving of intents, and sending out BroadcastIntents in Android.
Make video calls through the free, open-sourced Jitsi video platform.
Get the illuminance level on the device.
Play audio that keeps playing in the background, player is shown in system controls, audio output can be switched between speaker/earpiece.
Open native settings screens.
Manipulation and control of the navigation bar visibility.
Generic OAuth 2 client plugin. It let you configure the OAuth parameters yourself instead of using SDKs.
Native support for audio playlists, background support, and lock screen controls.
Send WebView content to connected printers.
Let users rate your app using native rate app dialog for both Android and iOS.
Read the user's SMS with their permission.
Get SafeArea info on Android and IOS.
Take a screenshot of the current view.
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.
Add Sentry error tracking and performance monitoring for Capacitor apps.
Shamir's Secret Sharing cryptographic algorithm.
Terminal plugin for in-person payment processing.
All-in-one product research platform.
Enable Square Payments for Capacitor.
Mobile SDK for card payment processing.
Support both IPv6 and IPv4, multicast and broadcast.
Play a video full-screen on iOS, Android, Web and Electron platforms.
Authentication plugin for Vietnamese social network.
Get all the images from system album.
Native client for real-time bidirectional communication.
A simple and free API for using Bing Translator.
A plugin for interacting with calendar and reminders.
A plugin for simple voice recording.
Apple Attest with Ionic Capacitor.
Capacitor plugin to use Live Activities on iOS 16.2+.
Capacitor plugin to use Lottie animations as splash screen.
Dynamsoft
Scan barcodes and QR codes using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader.
Access camera using Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer.
Scan documents using Dynamsoft Document Normalizer.
Recognize text on labels like MRZ on passports using Dynamsoft Label Recognizer.
Firebase
Google auth plugin for Capacitor.
Verifies that Google Play services is installed and enabled, and request enabling Google Play services on device.
Retrieve data from Google Fit.
Identify the language of a string of text.
Detect faces in an image, identify key facial features, and get the contours of detected faces.
Cordova plugins
Incompatible
(not needed, Capacitor has built in Swift support)
(see details)
(see details)
(see details)
(not needed)
(not needed, Capacitor has its own)
(Capacitor doesn't allow to change the webview)
(see details)
(see details)
(not needed, Capacitor has it's own)
(not needed, Capacitor uses WKWebView)
(causes build failures, skipped)
(see details)
(not needed, Capacitor has its own)
(not needed, Capacitor has its own)
(not needed, Capacitor uses WKWebView)
(causes build failures on iOS, skipped for iOS only)
Tools
Docs Readme Markdown and JSON Generator for Capacitor Plugins.
Create a new Capacitor plugin.
Local Capacitor icon/splash screen resource generation tool.
Collection of helper plugin for Tailwind, it add safe area class and others utlitilies.
Terminal dashboard for Capacitor development with device management, builds, live reload, debugging, and AI assistant integration via MCP.
Demo apps
The Capacitor TestApp is used to develop new features and verify bug fixes in Capacitor and the official plugins.
Simple Ionic Angular app to demonstrate the use of certain Capacitor plugins.
Simple Ionic Angular app to demonstrate the use of certain Capacitor Firebase plugins.
Simple Ionic Vue app to demonstrate the use of OTA updates.