Capacitor
How vibe coders and indie builders use Capacitor: 90 projects built with it and 1 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
90
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.3%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
1
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- React 45
- Supabase 24
- Vite 18
- TypeScript 18
- RevenueCat 13
- Firebase 12
- Next.js 11
- Claude (chat or unspecified) 11
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Capacitor
- L & N — Trains users to tell apart and pronounce the L and N sounds with recording, speech-recognition scoring, listening tests, and a 3D mouth view.“L & N - I mix up L and N, so I built a pronunciation practice app”
- GeoQuest — Quizzes players on geography with a new daily question set.“D1 retention is 48%, but I only get 4–22 new users a week. What would you fix first?”
- I Have a Garden — Runs a single zucchini plant over 48 real days that grows in the background, where daily care like watering, feeding, weeding and pest treatment determines the final harvest.“I'm a UX designer who can't code. I built a gardening game with Claude, it takes 48 real days to grow one zucchini”
- NFL Playoffs Path — Runs NFL pick'em pools with weekly picks, playoff simulations, and private group leaderboards in a mobile or web app.“Built an NFL Pick'em & Playoff app to kill our group Excel sheets or ESPN & Yahoo solutions. Got Great early traction on RevenueCat 3453 users, 118 paid subscribers and 500 USD in revenue, but terrified of after kickoff week churn. How would you handle this?”
- Tesserae — Plans personal finances from manually entered numbers, covering retirement projections, budgeting, cash-flow forecasts and equity tracking without bank linking.“I built a finance planner you type your own numbers into, no bank linking (solo project)”
- InkWater — Simulates real-time ink and fluid dynamics on a phone screen that responds to touch and device shaking.“I turned a "paint dropped in water" video I couldn't stop watching into an app. 70 worlds later, here's InkWater”
- DriveDE — Teaches German driving test skills through animated 2.5D trainer scenes covering priority rules, shoulder checks, parking and roundabout signalling.“I built a free 3D trainer for the German driving test. 4 weeks live, 7,500 social views, zero signups. What would make you sign up?”
- Recall — Creates, edits and searches notes with cloud sync across Android and desktop.“Built my first "real" app as a beginner — Recall, a simple cross-platform note-taking app (Android/Desktop)”
- Stacked: Bet with Mates — Lets friends place bets with virtual coins on custom events and tracks winners on a leaderboard.“I made an app so my group chat could actually settle all the random bets we throw out to each other”
- Reviva — Runs a personal desktop environment whose wallpaper, settings, windows, and file system are stored on Google Drive, so any supported device becomes the user's computer after login and reverts to blank on logout.“I'm building a desktop environment app that lives on Google Drive instead of your hardware”
- ArrivaRoo — Guides people through settling into Australia with a step-by-step checklist and an AI helper for questions.“ArrivaRoo - App feedback”
- Built a gamified focus app… — Gamifies focus sessions to help users concentrate on tasks.“Built a gamified focus app using HTML/CSS/JS, Capacitor & Native Android (Java) — would love your feedback!”
- I built a fitness app so I… — Combines workout, nutrition, activity, sleep and wellness tracking in one mobile app with a composite score across the areas.“I built a fitness app so I could stop using four different ones”
- Ember — Matches long distance and international couples through a world map, with live chat translation, built-in voice and video calls, and government ID verification.“I audited my dating app's database and found that 95 percent of signups never finished onboarding. The bug hunt that followed fixed three things I did not know were broken.”
- HuddleCare — Provides a shared workspace where family members schedule care visits, log updates and medications, and track who is responsible for each task.“My grandparents' care plan was a group chat between my mom and uncles in different states. I built an app to fix it.”
Latest add-ons built for Capacitor
- Otalan — Delivers over-the-air web-layer updates to Expo and Capacitor mobile apps with staged rollouts, rollback, and release history.“Launched Otalan v1: OTA updates + rollback for Expo and Capacitor, with open-source CLI & SDKs”