You release a few times a year
If release health data and a fast-moving product do not matter to your team, Capawesome covers the basics: channels, gradual rollouts, and rollback after a crash. [1]
Capawesome Cloud alternative
Capawesome alternative for Capacitor live updates
Both ship live updates and native builds for Capacitor. The difference is what happens after you ship: Capgo shows each release landing on real devices, explains why updates fail, checks native compatibility before upload, and pauses a bad rollout on its own. Built for teams and AI agents that ship every week.
Verdict Choose Capgo if you ship often and want real statistics from real devices, not network guesses. One plan includes live updates, native build minutes, Observe, and push notifications, and costs less than Capawesome plans that include builds, with the same or more users at every tier, billed monthly or yearly. Add audit logs on every plan and update checks served from 9 regions. Capawesome suits teams that release a few times a year and want fewer changes to their tooling.
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Side by side
Capgo vs Capawesome Cloud at a glance
| Area | Capgo | Capawesome Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | From $12/month billed yearly or $14 billed monthly. 14-day free trial, no credit card required. No free plan. | Live Updates plans from $9/month (1K MAU) to $249/month (250K MAU). Platform plans with native builds from $19/month to $499/month. 14-day free trial. [1] |
| OTA live updates | Ships JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and asset changes without waiting for store review, with delta downloads and end-to-end encryption. 1B+ updates per month. | Live updates with channels, gradual rollouts, RSA bundle signing, and automatic rollback. [3] |
| Native builds | Capgo Builder builds and signs iOS and Android binaries in the cloud, typically in 2–3 minutes, and can upload them to the stores. Build time is included in plans. | Cloud iOS and Android builds on Platform plans, from 200 to 5,000 build minutes per month, plus store publishing. [1] [2] |
| Framework support | Capacitor apps built with React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Ionic, or any web framework. Live updates also work for Cordova and Electron. Not for React Native. | Capacitor, Ionic, and Cordova. [2] |
| Open source and self-hosting | Updater plugin and Capgo plugins are free under MPL-2.0. Backend source is on GitHub under AGPL-3.0. Run your own update server, or use licensed self-hosting on Enterprise. | Live Update plugin and CLI are open source under MIT. The cloud service is hosted by Capawesome; bundles can be served from your own servers or CDN while metadata stays in Capawesome Cloud. [4] [3] |
| Rollback and channels | Dynamic channels, device and channel overrides, progressive rollouts, automatic rollback when a bundle fails to start, and one-click revert to a previous bundle. | Channels for dev, staging, production, and customer tracks. Rollouts at 10%, 25%, 50%, or 100%, and automatic rollback to the last healthy bundle. [3] |
| Support | Discord and email with the engineers who build Capgo. Priority plugin fixes on any plan, and Premium Support for production deadlines. | Community chat on every plan. Email support from Professional (Live Updates) or Starter (Platform), and priority support on Business. [1] |
| Company status | Independent and bootstrapped, founded in 2021. 9,400+ teams, 4.7K+ apps, and 90M+ devices. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 on the Enterprise plan. | Capawesome (Genz IT Solutions GmbH), based in Germany. Live updates launched in 2024. [5] [2] |
Sources
Competitor details are as of September 2026 and were checked against the vendor pages below. Plans and prices change, so confirm on the vendor site before you decide.
- Capawesome Cloud pricing
- Capawesome Cloud overview
- Capawesome Cloud: Live Updates
- Capawesome Live Update plugin on GitHub
- Capawesome: About
- Capawesome docs: Live Update logs
- Capawesome docs: Gradual rollouts
- Capawesome docs: Live Update bundles
- Capawesome docs: MCP server
- Capawesome Live Update plugin source: network calls
After you ship
See what every release does on real devices
Capawesome counts update-check requests. Capgo devices report what actually happened: downloads, installs, failures, rollbacks, app launches, and crashes. That is how you get native app health, failure causes, a timeline for every device, and rollouts that pause themselves. These are real Capgo screens.
Watch a release land, minute by minute
The moment a bundle goes live, Observe tracks installs, failed attempts, adoption, and success rate for that exact version and channel in 5-minute buckets.
- Know within minutes whether a rollout is healthy, not after support tickets
- Top failure reasons ranked for the release that is live right now
- Jump from the release to its bundle or channel statistics
See which update failures actually matter
Failed downloads, checksum mismatches, unzip errors, and rollbacks are grouped by cause, so you can tell a flaky network from a broken bundle.
- Every failure tagged as network or device, bundle, or rollback
- Daily trend per failure type for the selected period
- Top affected versions and devices, one click from their logs
Compare app health by version, not by guesswork
Launch time, WebView load time, crashes, ANRs, and JavaScript errors reported by the Capgo updater, broken down by version, platform, and channel.
- Launch P90 and WebView P90 for every reported version
- Spot the release that introduced a regression
- Signals come from the updater plugin you already ship
Roll out to a share of devices, pause when it fails
Serve a new bundle to a sticky percentage of devices while everyone else stays on a stable fallback. Auto-pause stops the rollout when the failure rate crosses your threshold.
- Start small, then promote to every device in one click
- Auto-pause on failure rate, with a minimum sample size
- Revert to the stable bundle without a store review
Know when an update needs a new native build
When a channel serves a bundle whose native packages differ from what installed apps were built with, Observe flags it, names the blocking packages, and links the dependency diff.
- Catch a native mismatch before it reaches devices
- Accept the change or roll the channel back from the same screen
- A full history of every compatibility decision
Debug one device without asking the user
Look up any device by its ID or your own user ID to see the bundle it runs, its channel, and every install or failure it reported.
- Search by device ID or your own custom ID
- Full install and failure history per device
- Override a device channel for a quick test
What Capgo adds on top
| Area | Capgo | Capawesome Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Where the numbers come from | Events sent by the device: downloads, installs, failures, rollbacks, app launches, and crashes. | Network requests only. Their plugin calls two endpoints, the channel list and the latest bundle, and reports no device events. [10] [6] |
| What one plan includes | Live updates, native builds, Observe, and push notifications. One plan, sized by monthly active users. | Separate Live Updates, Platform, and SDK plans. [1] |
| Live release health | Installs, failed attempts, adoption, and success rate for the release that is live, in 5-minute buckets. | Active devices and adoption, inferred from update-check requests. [3] |
| Native app health | Launch time, WebView load time, crashes, ANRs, and JavaScript errors by version, platform, and channel. | Not available. The plugin sends no launch, crash, or error events. [10] |
| Why updates fail | Failures grouped by cause (network or device, bundle, rollback) with the affected versions and devices. | Request and response logs of update checks, with status codes. [6] |
| Per-device timeline | Every updater and app event for one device, with the error message attached. Search by device ID or your own user ID. | Update-check requests made by each device. [6] |
| Rollout safety | Any percentage, sticky per device. Auto-pause when the failure rate crosses your threshold, with a minimum sample size. | Rollout percentage changed by hand from the CLI or console. Devices roll back after a crash. [7] [3] |
| Native change detection | Native package changes detected automatically between bundles. The CLI warns on incompatible uploads, or blocks them with --fail-on-incompatible, and each channel flags the mismatch. | Native version ranges you set on each upload or channel. [8] |
| Audit logs | Included on every plan. | Business plan and above, from $249/month. [1] |
| Live updates + native builds | $14, $39, $99, or $249 a month billed monthly ($12, $33, $83, or $208 billed yearly) for 2K, 10K, 100K, or 1M users. Build minutes are always included. | $19, $49, $149, or $499 a month billed monthly (about $16, $41, $124, or $416 billed yearly) for 1K, 10K, 50K, or 250K users on Platform plans. [1] |
| Push notifications | Hosted push for iOS and Android in the same plan, plus silent update checks that speed up rollouts. | Not part of Capawesome Cloud. [2] |
| AI agents | Hosted MCP server, agent skills, setup guides for 12 coding agents, and plain-text pricing and docs for agents. | MCP server and agent skills. [9] |
| Update delivery | Update checks answered from 9 regions on 6 continents, about 50ms typical worldwide. | Global CDN for bundle downloads. [1] |
Capgo ships in the open, several times a week. Follow every change on GitHub →
Honest take
Where Capawesome Cloud is the better choice
No tool fits every team. These are the cases where we would point you to the other option.
Live updates from a git ref
Point their CLI at a branch or tag and the Cloud Runner clones, builds, and ships the live update. With Capgo you build in your own CI and upload the bundle. [3]
More store destinations
Their store publishing covers TestFlight, Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, and Firebase App Distribution. [2]
Migration path
Thinking of switching?
If you're on Capawesome and considering Capgo, migration is straightforward. The Capacitor update plugin architecture is similar.
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Swap the plugin package
Uninstall
@capawesome/capacitor-live-update, install@capgo/capacitor-updater, then runnpx cap sync. -
Update config (minor differences)
Set
CapacitorUpdateroptions incapacitor.config.tsand callnotifyAppReady()on launch. Channels live in the Capgo dashboard or API. -
Update your upload process
Replace the Capawesome deploy step in CI with
npx @capgo/cli@latest bundle upload.
Customer proof
What Capgo customers say
Named reviews from teams that ship Capacitor apps with Capgo.
The Capgo Capacitor Updater plugin completely transformed how we ship updates. What used to take days now takes just minutes.
Being able to push production OTA updates instantly without waiting for full App Store review cycles has been a massive operational advantage.
Getting set up took less than a day. Channel-based rollouts let me test on my own device before anything hits production users.
More reviews from Capgo customers
FAQ
Common questions
- Why is Capawesome Ionic's migration partner and not Capgo?
- In September 2026 Ionic named Capawesome its preferred migration partner for Appflow and its enterprise plugins. Capgo has never been an Ionic partner. For years we built open alternatives to Ionic's paid products and fixed gaps in the Capacitor ecosystem ourselves, often going further than Ionic's own team, which never made us a fit for their program. Capawesome has always worked the way Ionic prefers. Partner status is a business relationship, not a technical ranking: Capgo and Capawesome have both moved Appflow customers, so compare the products on their merits.
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