Moving from Ionic Appflow to Capawesome Cloud has been a fantastic experience. We're very pleased with the product and genuinely impressed with what the team has built. The builds are significantly faster than Ionic Appflow, which is a nice improvement. We especially appreciate how the build process is separated from deployment—it has made debugging much easier and streamlined our entire workflow. The support has also been great. We hope to see even more users make the switch!
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App Center retired in 2025. Capawesome brings native builds, OTA live updates, and store publishing back in one modern platform.
More than 1,000 teams build with Capawesome
Key Advantages
Why teams left behind by App Center move to Capawesome.
Actively Developed
App Center retired in 2025. Capawesome ships new features every month, with a public roadmap and a support team that answers.
A Real CodePush Replacement
CodePush died with App Center. Capawesome Live Updates deliver RSA-signed bundles with rollouts, rollbacks, and deltas.
Zero-Configuration Builds
Configure builds from a single form — no YAML pipelines, no build agent to maintain. Attach a signing identity and ship.
M4 Pro Apple Silicon
iOS and Android both run on Apple Silicon M4 Pro. Typical builds finish in 2–5 minutes — 3–5× faster than legacy cloud CI.
Transparent Pricing
Fixed monthly plans bundling builds, live updates, and publishing. No pay-as-you-go minutes, no MAU guesswork, no surprise overages.
AI-Native from Day One
Full CLI, REST API, official AI Agent skills, and an MCP server (coming soon). Plug Claude Code or Cursor straight into your pipeline.
Comparison
See where Capawesome picks up what App Center left behind.
Feature
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Visual Studio App Center
Platform Status
Pricing
Live Updates / OTA
Native Builds
Developer Experience & AI
Distribution & Publishing
Platform Support
Enterprise SDKs
Support & Focus
All information has been researched to the best of our knowledge. While we strive for accuracy, this comparison might not be exhaustive or fully up-to-date. If you notice any inaccuracies, please contact us at support@capawesome.io so we can update it. 💜
Success Stories
Our customers love Capawesome Cloud - find out why
We mainly use over-the-air (OTA) updates to deliver critical bug fixes and updates when waiting on the App Store review process is not an option. After dealing with too much down-time and latency from Capgo, we made the decision to switch to Capawesome Cloud and we couldn't be happier. Capawesome is more stable and the package delivery speeds are significantly faster, which makes a big difference at scale. Capawesome's team is extremely responsive and professional - thanks for supplying such a great product guys.

Capawesome Cloud has been a game-changer for our team. We can now deploy updates to our Capacitor app without pushing to the app stores. This has saved us countless hours and allowed us to iterate faster. It's a must-have for any modern app development team.

We tested and verified several solutions on the market to help us deliver OTA updates for our Apps quickly, securely and, most importantly, that were capable of scaling as we grew and demanded. Capawesome Cloud was our choice! The integration is super simple, we have automatic rollback and code signing to ensure the security of updates. The costs are transparent and honest, we are very happy with the platform and looking forward to integrating our future Apps!

We switched from Capgo to Capawesome Cloud a few months ago and so far we haven't looked back. With Capawesome Cloud, we have significantly less downtime, updates are delivered faster, and support is literally the best we have ever experienced. The integration was straightforward, and the documentation is clear and concise. Big thanks to the Capawesome team for creating such an awesome platform!

Capawesome Cloud has become an essential part of our release workflow. We mainly use it for over-the-air updates, allowing us to fix bugs and release updates quickly without waiting for the app review process. The integration was incredibly easy — it took us less than a day and felt almost plug-and-play. The support is excellent as well; the team is always helpful, responsive, and quick to reply.

We had to use an Android and iOS SDK in our Capacitor app, for which no plugin existed. Capawesome was able to create a fully functional Capacitor plugin for us within a few days. The communication was excellent and the plugin works perfectly.

Capawesome Cloud has helped us reduce our live update costs by more than 90% while offering more features than our previous provider. The integration took us less than a day and the support is top-notch. We now deliver daily live updates to more than 200,000 devices without any issues.

Our Capacitor app had several unique requirements for running operations in the background. The Capawesome team was able to quickly understand our needs and crafted a customized Capacitor plugin that exceeded our expectations.

Microsoft retired most of App Center — including Build, Distribute, Test, Push, and CodePush — on March 31, 2025. Analytics and Diagnostics continue until March 31, 2027, after which Microsoft recommends migrating to Azure Monitor.
CodePush was retired together with App Center on March 31, 2025. Capawesome Live Updates are a direct, production-ready replacement — with code-signed bundles, gradual rollouts, and per-device automatic rollback that protects users when an update misbehaves on their device.
Most teams complete the migration in under a day — drop in the Live Update SDK, upload your signing identities, and reconnect your git provider. We also ship agent skills that let Claude Code or Cursor port your config automatically, plus a free migration call with a Capawesome engineer.
Yes — AI-native from day one. Every Capawesome capability is available through a CLI, a JSON-output REST API, and official AI Agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot. An MCP server is on the way. App Center was designed years before this workflow existed and was retired before it could catch up.
No. Capawesome is focused on Capacitor, Ionic, Cordova, and native iOS and Android apps. If you're on React Native, Xamarin, or Unity, App Center is not the framework fit we optimize for.
No. Capawesome focuses on build, OTA update delivery, and store publishing. Microsoft recommends Azure Monitor for teams still using App Center Analytics and Diagnostics until March 31, 2027.
Capawesome uses fixed monthly plans that bundle build minutes and Live Updates together — no build-minute overage fees, no per-MAU surprises, no pay-as-you-go billing. See our pricing page for current plans. App Center's free tier is no longer available since retirement.
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