Capacitor 243,123 is an open-source native runtime, published under the MIT license by the Ionic 20,753 team, that runs a web app inside a native Android or iOS shell. Its repository, ionic-team/capacitor (https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor 16,741 ), had about 16,700 GitHub 29 stars in September 2026, and npm 2,036 counted about 3.3 million downloads of @capacitor/core in the week of 15-21 September 2026, against about 66,000 for the cordova CLI. Most new hybrid apps now start here.