--- description: Meet Capawesome โ€” an independent, bootstrapped team building the mobile app platform for Capacitor, Ionic, and Cordova teams. Our story, mission, and values. title: About - Capawesome image: https://ogkit.dev/img/ob3tqEF0.jpeg?url=https://capawesome.io&v=3 --- New **Capawesome Platform** is here **Introducing Capawesome Platform** โ€” native builds, live updates, and Insider SDKs in one unified platform. [ Read more โ†’](https://capawesome.io/blog/announcing-capawesome-platform/) About us # Hi, we're Capawesome. ๐Ÿ’œ A small, independent team building the mobile app platform we always wanted โ€” for developers who feel the same way. [ Join our Discord ](https://discord.gg/VCXxSVjefW)[ See open roles ](/careers/) Bootstrapped. Remote-first. Loved by 1,000+ mobile teams. ## By the numbers A few facts about us Small on purpose. Serious about impact. 2022 FoundedIndependent and bootstrapped Remote 100% distributed teamAcross Europe and beyond 1,000+ Teams building with usFrom indie apps to Fortune 500 5M+ Plugin downloads / monthFrom the open-source community ## Our story From a side project to a platform Capawesome started the way a lot of good open-source does: scratching our own itch, in public. It's 2021\. Capacitor is still young, the plugin ecosystem is thin, and we keep running into the same gaps while building mobile apps for clients. So we start writing the plugins we wish existed and publishing them as open source. A few turn into favorites. They end up in the official Capacitor Community organization on GitHub โ€” where we're still members and still shipping today. A year later, Robin Genz founds Capawesome to give those plugins a proper home and make them easier for other developers to find, use, and trust. What started as a handful of repos has grown into the Capawesome Platform โ€” but the posture hasn't changed: bootstrapped, engineering-led, and built alongside the community it came from. 2021 ### First open-source plugins We publish our first Capacitor plugins as open source and join the official Capacitor Community organization on GitHub. Many of those plugins are still maintained there today. 2022 ### Capawesome is founded Robin Genz founds Capawesome to give our growing plugin collection a proper home โ€” and to make it easier for the community to find, use, and contribute to them. 2022 ### Ionic Developer Expert program We join the Ionic Developer Expert program, giving us a direct line to the Ionic and Capacitor teams and the wider developer community. 2023 ### Capawesome Insiders is announced As teams ask for production-hardened SDKs and a real support commitment, we launch [Capawesome Insiders](/insiders/) โ€” our first paid product, focused on enterprise-ready Capacitor SDKs. 2024 ### Capawesome Cloud is announced We announce [Capawesome Cloud](/cloud/): the mobile CI/CD platform we wanted for ourselves โ€” affordable enough for indie developers, serious enough for large teams, and built for Capacitor, Ionic, and Cordova from day one. 2026 ### One Capawesome Platform We unify Cloud, Plugins, and CLI under a single name: the Capawesome Platform. One login, one roadmap, one ecosystem โ€” so teams can adopt only what they need and grow into the rest. Trusted by 1,000+ mobile teams around the world ## Our mission Give every mobile team the platform and SDKs we wished we had when we started. Building for mobile is hard enough. The tooling shouldn't be. * For every team size. From indie developers to enterprise teams, at fair, transparent prices that don't punish you for growing. * Across every stack. Capacitor, Ionic, Cordova, and native iOS and Android โ€” one platform, no stack lock-in. * Without walls. Open-source plugins, a fully documented CLI, and a published REST API. Your code and your data stay yours. ![Capacitor](assets/icons/capacitor.svg) ![Ionic](assets/images/integrations/ionic.svg) ![Android](assets/images/integrations/android.svg) ![iOS](assets/images/integrations/apple.svg) > The people you talk to in Discord are the same people who merge the pull requests. ![Capawesome](assets/logo.svg) The Capawesome team Founders and maintainers ## Our philosophy Mobile tooling, built the way we wish ours was built. We're software engineers by heart, and we still love the web. That shows up in the way we build. * We come from the web. Our roots are in open-source Capacitor and Ionic โ€” hybrid, web-first frameworks we genuinely love. Mobile deserves the same care, speed, and openness the web gets. * We still write the code. The people you talk to in Discord are the same people who merge the pull requests. We haven't outsourced engineering โ€” and we don't plan to. * We use what we ship. Every Capawesome feature runs our own team's work first. If it's not good enough for us, it's not good enough to ship to you. ## Our values Three things we won't compromise on A short list, so we actually live by it. We're bootstrapped, with no investors and no plan to sell. Every roadmap decision answers to our customers and the community โ€” not to a board or an exit. We use our own platform every day. No vibe-coded shortcuts, no untested AI patches shipped to production. Security, stability, and real tests come before new features. Every message in Discord, every GitHub issue, and every email lands with someone who can actually fix it. We ship, listen, and improve again the next day. ## Recognition Recognized where it matters Backed by the Capacitor and Ionic communities we've been part of from day one. ![Ionic Developer Expert badge](assets/images/badges/ide-light.png) ### Official Ionic Developer Experts Our core team is part of the [Ionic Developer Expert program](https://ionic.io/developer-experts) โ€” staying in close contact with the Ionic and Capacitor teams and bringing that expertise to every line of code we ship. ![Capacitor Community](assets/images/logos/capacitor-community.png) ### Capacitor Community members We've been members of the official [Capacitor Community organization on GitHub](https://github.com/capacitor-community) since our first plugins in 2021 โ€” and we're still maintaining plugins there today. ![OpenForge](assets/images/logos/openforge.png) ### Recommended by OpenForge OpenForge, an Ionic Platinum Partner, officially recommends the Capawesome Platform as the platform of choice for Capacitor and Ionic apps. ## Community Built with the community, in public Most of Capawesome happens in the open โ€” in Discord, on GitHub, and on YouTube. ### GitHub Report issues, request features, start discussions, and contribute to our open-source projects. [ Visit on GitHub ](https://github.com/capawesome-team/) ### Discord Join 500+ active developers trading tips, asking questions, and sharing their work. [ Join our Discord ](https://discord.gg/VCXxSVjefW) ### YouTube Watch tutorials, demos, and product walkthroughs from the Capawesome team. [ Watch on YouTube ](https://www.youtube.com/@capawesomeio) ## Come build with us Whether you want to write a plugin, fix a bug, or just hang out and talk mobile โ€” there's a seat at the table. [ Join our Discord ](https://discord.gg/VCXxSVjefW)[ See open roles ](/careers/) Rather open-source it with us? Say hi on [ Discord ](https://discord.gg/VCXxSVjefW) or browse our projects on [ GitHub ](https://github.com/capawesome-team/). ![Capawesome](/assets/logo.svg) Capawesome Ship mobile apps the modern way. 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