# Why Ionic?

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/why-ionic/12958>\
**Category:** uncategorized\
**Created:** [November 20, 2014, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/why-ionic/12958 "2014-11-20T10:07:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![KKHAN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@KKHAN](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/KKHAN)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/why-ionic/12958/1 "2014-11-20T10:07:23Z")

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Hi,

I come from a software development/web development background. I really want to get into mobile development. I have been looking at a few framework (not tried any yet) such as phonegap and ionic (to create hybrid apps). Can someone tell me what benefits IONIC has over phonegap?

thanks.

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**Author:** ![Auro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Auro](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Auro)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/why-ionic/12958/2 "2014-11-20T13:33:21Z")

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Ionic has no benefits over phonegap coze you need both 😃

First of all Cordova/Phonegap are the basis for hybrid apps with Ionic.  
In short words it does give you the UiWebView where your app is loading something like a browser. (soon we can replace it with WKWebView (faster!))

Ionic is a Framework like Bootstrap or Kendo UI etc…  
the difference between others and Ionic is, they did concentrate on making a high-performance mobile framework built with AngularJs.

if you want a more detailed overview search for mobile frameworks at Google or Bing 😃  
something like this: [http://moduscreate.com/5-best-mobile-web-app-frameworks-ionic-angulalrjs/](http://moduscreate.com/5-best-mobile-web-app-frameworks-ionic-angulalrjs/)

i hope i could help you.

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**Author:** ![KKHAN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@KKHAN](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/KKHAN)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/why-ionic/12958/3 "2014-11-20T20:03:22Z")

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That makes more sense. Thanks.