Ionic 20,753 Secure Storage combined encrypted key-value storage with SQLCipher 566,000 databases. Ionic stopped selling it on 11 February 2025, and it reaches end of life on 31 December 2027; until then its code is, in Capawesome 178,914 's words, "effectively frozen". Do not start a project on it, and plan the move for an existing one:
| Need | Commercial replacement | Open-source option used here |
|---|---|---|
| Tokens and small secrets | Capawesome Secure Preferences | @aparajita/capacitor-secure-storage |
| Encrypted database | Capawesome SQLite 4,756 | @capacitor-community/sqlite |
| Biometric-gated secrets | Capawesome Vault | @aparajita/capacitor-biometric-auth |
There is no automatic conversion. Capawesome's recommended migration runs old and new plugins side by side: on first launch after the update, read each key from Secure Storage, write it to the new store and delete the old copy; for databases, create the schema in the new plugin and copy the rows. Choosing between the columns is the usual trade: the Capawesome plugins cost $99 a month and follow one vendor's release schedule; the community plugins offer public source and issue trackers, and no guarantee.