Notable Community Plugins

Notable Community Plugins Worth Knowing

These packages fill the gaps a bookshop-sized app meets most often. Versions are the npm 2,036 latest on 24 September 2026; all but AdMob 1 declare @capacitor/core >=8.0.0 as a peer:

Community and Capawesome 178,914 plugins worth knowing, with their npm versions on 24 September 2026
Package Version Use it for
@capacitor-community/sqlite 8.1.1 A real database for offline catalogs
@capacitor-community/bluetooth-le 8.3.0 Scanners, printers and other BLE devices
@capacitor-community/admob 8.1.0 Banner, interstitial and rewarded ads
@capacitor-community/stripe 8.2.1 Card payments through Stripe 238 's SDKs
@capacitor-mlkit/barcode-scanning 8.2.1 Scanning ISBN barcodes on books
@capawesome/capacitor-app-update 8.0.5 Prompting for store updates
@capawesome/capacitor-live-update 8.4.3 Over-the-air web updates (Live Updates and CI/CD)

Two cautions apply. Stripe's package also lists React 7,897 , @stripe/stripe-js and stripe-pwa-elements as peers, so read a plugin's full peer list before you install it. And AdMob's package declared no peer dependencies at all, so npm cannot warn you when it falls behind Capacitor 243,123 : check its releases by hand at each upgrade. More are listed at capacitorjs.com/docs/plugins/community (https://capacitorjs.com/docs/plugins/community 243,123 ).