Capgo vs Capawesome Cloud

Capgo: Started in 2020. Serving 1B+ updates/month across 50M+ devices. Battle-tested at scale for 4+ years.

Capawesome: Live updates launched in 2024. Very new to this space. Still proving scale 90+.

We've been doing this much longer. 4+ years of production experience vs less than a year.

Capgo: $14/month to start, scales with usage (~$0.001/MAU). Live updates is our core business.

Capawesome: €9/month minimum. Their main business is paid plugins - live updates is more of a side offering.

We've been running this business for 4+ years - we know what pricing is sustainable and scalable. Capawesome started later and competes on price, which might look cheaper initially but raises questions about long-term sustainability. For us, live updates is THE product. For them, it's an add-on to their plugin business.

Capgo: 100% open source - plugin AND backend (MIT/MPL-2.0)

• Plugin: github.com/Cap-go/capacitor-updater
• Backend: github.com/Cap-go/capgo
• Self-host, fork, audit security yourself anytime
• Public security audits available

Capawesome: Plugin, CLI is open source, backend is 0% open source (fully closed)

• No way to self-audit backend code
• No public security audits
• No self-hosting option

For compliance, healthcare, finance, or any regulated industry where you need to audit your entire stack - we're the only option you know what is inside at any point of time.

Capgo: Bootstrapped family business. No investors, no debt. Profitable since year one.

• Legal entities in both US and Europe
• Dedicated infrastructure for China
• This is our livelihood - no VC pressure to "pivot" or suddenly 10x pricing
• Built for the long term

Capawesome: Solo founder, sustainable business model (also good!)

Both are sustainable businesses, just different structures. After seeing Appflow shut down, this stuff matters.

Capgo: We maintain 100+ Capacitor plugins - biggest provider after official Capacitor team. All free and open source.

Capawesome: They also make great plugins, quality-focused approach. Some are paid - that's their main business.

Different philosophies: we go broad with all-free plugins, they focus on paid premium plugins.

Both: Human support from small teams (no chatbots!)

Capgo: Usually within hours, often minutes. Even on weekends (we can't help ourselves 😅)

Capawesome: Responsive and helpful too

Honestly, you'll be fine with either. Both small teams that care.

Capgo: Dynamic channel assignment - assign devices to channels via API, from your backend, or let devices self-assign. Use cases: A/B testing, beta programs, gradual rollouts, per-location builds (different bundles per restaurant/store), PR preview testing - all without shipping new app versions.

Capawesome: No dynamic channel assignment - channels are static. You cannot reassign devices to different channels without shipping a new app version.

This is a game-changer for teams doing staged rollouts, beta testing, or user segmentation. With Capgo, you control which devices get which updates - dynamically, from the server side OR from the device itself.

Capgo: Device-level logs - see exactly what happened on each device. Update history, errors, rollbacks - all traceable per device with anonymous IDs.

Capawesome: Server-side logs only - you see what happened on the server, not on individual devices. Much harder to debug device-specific issues.

When something goes wrong, you need to know what happened on THAT specific device. Server logs tell you what you sent - device logs tell you what actually happened.