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Downloads, Stars and Community Signals

npm 2,036 's download API and GitHub 29 's repository API measure both projects the same way, and neither needs a key:

Monthly npm downloads and GitHub activity for Cordova and Capacitor

for p in cordova cordova-android @capacitor/core @capacitor/android; do
  curl -s "https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-month/$p" |
    jq -r '[.package, .downloads] | @tsv'
done | column -t
for r in apache/cordova-android apache/cordova-ios ionic-team/capacitor; do
  curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/$r" |
    jq -r '[.full_name, .stargazers_count, .open_issues_count, .pushed_at[:10]] | @tsv'
done | column -t

Output

cordova             211022
cordova-android     212164
@capacitor/core     15904679
@capacitor/android  11985518
apache/cordova-android  3788   95   2026-09-18
apache/cordova-ios      2221   56   2026-09-23
ionic-team/capacitor    16724  133  2026-09-24

Run on 25 September 2026, the window is the 30 days to 21 September. @capacitor/core drew 75 times the downloads of the Cordova 129 CLI, and @capacitor/android 56 times those of cordova-android; Capacitor 243,123 's repository has 4.4 times the stars, and the columns after the stars are open issues plus pull requests and the last push. Downloads also count CI servers and reinstalls, and stars measure attention, not quality, but the direction is plain and matches what SDK vendors do (Mobiscroll and Instabug). Cordova is not abandoned either: all three repositories had commits in the last week, and 212,000 monthly downloads of cordova-android are an installed base the Apache team keeps current with each year's Android target.

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