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What is Ionic?
Ionic is a cross-platform toolkit for building mobile and desktop apps with web technologies. This gallery lists 377 open-source projects built with Ionic, most of them in Mobile, DevTools and UI Kits, ranked by GitHub stars so the most-adopted repositories come first.
How projects are selected
Projects are public GitHub repositories found with the GitHub search query “topic:ionic” and at least 20 stars. Each repository is checked against Ionic’s languages and ecosystem before it is categorized, and stars, forks and last-commit dates come straight from the GitHub API, refreshed daily (current snapshot: October 6, 2026). Nothing here is paid placement.
Ionic projects: FAQ
- How many open-source Ionic projects are listed?
- 377 open-source projects built with Ionic are listed, sourced from public GitHub repositories as of October 6, 2026.
- What is the most-starred Ionic project on GitHub?
- rxdb by pubkey leads with 23,403 GitHub stars (23.4k), followed by ionicons with 18,129.
- What kinds of projects are built with Ionic?
- The largest category is Mobile, with 153 projects (41% of the gallery), followed by DevTools with 106. Projects span 14 categories in total.
- Which license do most Ionic projects use?
- MIT is the most common license, used by 189 of 377 projects (50%); Apache-2.0 is next with 24. 124 projects declare no recognized license.
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