With Ionic, creating a high-performance, cross-platform mobile app is as easy as creating a website. Seasoned web developers or anyone with an intimate knowledge of JavaScript can easily get up and running with Ionic. Its ability to create native apps on Android, iOS, and more with a JS framework and a single codebase makes it a breeze to pick up. It also boasts a substantial community, good documentation, and even a drag and drop builder that can handle a number of tasks.
Building a feature-rich Ionic app with an elegant user interface, however, can be challenging—even more so if it is to look native on multiple platforms. Fortunately, by using a ready-made Ionic template, you can save substantial amounts of time and effort.
The Best Ionic App Templates on CodeCanyon
CodeCanyon is one of the largest online marketplaces for Ionic templates. No matter what your app's requirements are, there's a good chance that CodeCanyon has one that will help give your project a boost!
Ionic templates work similarly to front-end themes and templates for platforms like WordPress. They consist of a collection of files and assets that help to bridge the gap between the framework itself and the finished product that you are building.
There are a ton of benefits to using an Ionic app template, namely:
- starting with a large portion of your project already completed
- documented, professional code
- reduced project cost
- an existing structure to build the remainder of your project on
Pairing these benefits with the already powerful framework provided by Ionic gives developers a huge leg up when it comes to app development. Small development teams and those with limited resources will find them especially helpful. Purchasing your premium theme on CodeCanyon can give you all of these benefits, and in some cases, you may even be able to purchase extended support.
The templates covered here are just a small sample of the hundreds of Ionic app templates we have available at CodeCanyon. With so many app templates in existence, you’re sure to find one that’s helpful, no matter how niche your project. So check them out!
16 Best Premium Ionic App Templates (From CodeCanyon For 2020)
1. Ionic 3 UI Theme
This template, developed by elite author CreativeForm, is ideal for Ionic developers who want to create beautiful apps but spend less time designing them. It offers just one theme that includes over 70 commonly used screens and more than 45 finished layouts ready to use. It also has a well-organized Sass file containing dozens of variables you can change to further customize your app's looks.
2. IonFullApp
IonFullApp, developed by elite author IonicThemes, is a multipurpose app template which comes in three different versions: basic, pro, and elite. These three versions offer from 30 to 38 screens and different combinations of components to suit a variety of needs. Some of the best features offered are Google Maps integration, social login, geolocation, a video player, and an image slider.
3. Ionic 3 App for WooCommerce
Ionic 3 App for WooCommerce, developed by hakeemnala, is a template you should definitely consider using if you are creating an eCommerce app. It allows you to quickly create a beautiful app that can connect to your WooCommerce website.
This integration allows you to pull in settings, products, and more. This cohesiveness across platforms provides a seamless experience and makes it a breeze for your customers to shop your brand anywhere, without feeling out of place.
This app template supports all major payment methods and has auto-updating shipping information and a global search, making it as versatile as it is stunning.
4. Ionic 3 Restaurant App
If you’re looking for an intuitive restaurant app that's easy to set up, then check out this Ionic 3 Restaurant App template, developed by Lrandom. The app is well structured and offers useful features that will enhance any restaurant’s presence.
Food categories, fully fleshed-out product listings, adjustable pricing, current promotions, a powerful search, and an easily navigable cart will help your app to stand out. In addition, the source code for the app comes with an admin panel CMS that will help you build your app faster.
5. Ionic Material Design
Do you or your team follow the Google Material Design concepts? This app template will feel right at home then! Developed to meet Material Design guidelines and best practices, this app will fit right in with any other Material Design projects that you have up and running.
Beyond its looks, this app has its own full set of features. Storage functions, social connectors, push notifications, and in-app advertising handling make it the perfect combination of a good-looking design with functional code. Make sure to check out this template developed by IonicMaterialDesign!
6. Ionic Framework App
If you are looking for a modern template with dozens of beautiful pages and a wide variety of useful features, this template, created by gtsopour, is for you. Built with Ionic 3, it is very modular and extremely easy to extend. In fact, it has over 20 modules and over 35 components!
The apps you create with this template will be able to communicate with your WordPress blog using its REST API. They'll also be able to display charts, YouTube videos, Google maps, and RSS feeds. Another impressive fact about the template is that it offers a barcode scanner module, which you can use to scan several types of barcodes.
7. Restaurant Ionic 3
Restaurant Ionic 3, developed by appseed, is a template that's bound to entice any restaurant owner—or restaurant goer. Apps created with it are feature-packed, and they have intuitive user interfaces that let customers view menus, place customized orders, read about special offers, and choose delivery methods. They'll also allow you to communicate with your customers using push notifications.
Setting this template up is a breeze. So is customizing it, because you can dramatically change the looks of your app by simply selecting one of the several beautiful Material Design-inspired color themes it offers.
8. Ionium 2
Ionium 2 is an update of the popular multipurpose app template Ionium, created by ionicpremium. Built with Ionic 3, this multipurpose app template is a great choice for almost any type of app. E-commerce, hotel booking, news readers, and social media apps will all find useful features to speed along development. The template allows you to quickly create CRUD-oriented apps, which support both local and remote storage.
Ionium 2 uses Sass and Material Design components, animations, and gestures, so you can be sure that the apps you create with it will look very modern and polished.
9. Ionic 3 Toolkit
The Ionic 3 Toolkit app template developed by appseed certainly lives up to its promise of being a toolkit. This template offers a wide range of features paired with a modular structure. With these two selling points in tandem, you can easily and quickly build a variety of different apps, all from the same template.
It also allows you to collect data from your WordPress, Drupal, YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram and other social media accounts and add them to the content of your app as needed. Furthermore, the template makes it easy to customize the template’s default styles by changing the predefined colors or the default value of the Sass.
10. Firetask
Apps with social features tend to be more successful on both Google Play and Apple's App Store. If you’re looking for an Ionic 3 app template to build a social media app for yourself or a client, look no further than Firetask by developer Stewan_io.
Firetask is a social media app template that has everything you need to get started. It offers screens that allow users to sign up, sign in, create posts, write comments, browse through trending topics, and much more.
11. WooCommerce Mobile App
WooCommerce Mobile App template, by hakeemnala, is a best-selling template and is one of the best rated in its category.
The app allows clients to connect to their WooCommerce store and sync categories and products in real time. Once customers register and log in, they can shop, pay for items, view order status and order history, and manage their accounts. Useful features include a featured products page, categories, a powerful search and filter, list and grid views, as well as ratings and reviews.
Being able to tie into an existing CMS reduces the overall work that needs to be completed, both by developers and by the eventual end user.
12. Hotel Room Reservation
For those looking to build a portal for an existing hotel or to create something similar to Airbnb, FunnyIonic’s Hotel Room Reservation can get you started. The template helps developers to create an app that will allow end users to search, view and book hotels in their targeted location. The app is integrated with Google Maps and PayPal for user convenience.
13. Conference Ionic 3
Another app template by the prolific developer appseed, Conference Ionic 3 app template offers something unique in the app template arena. The app is aimed at conference organizers who want to create an app for attendees that provides all the information related to a conference in one handy app.
It allows attendees to view conference information such as location, exhibition halls, speakers, schedules, sponsors, committees, and much more. Users can access speaker profiles and create their own personal schedules, which is helpful for anyone who’s trying to make sense of a multi-track conference.
14. Ionic eCommerce
While we’ve covered a few specific eCommerce templates so far, Ionic eCommerce by vectorcoder is a different beast. Its focus on widely useable features has made it an extremely popular starting point for those looking to sell online. While it operates well as a template, its real power is in its toolkit approach, providing everything you might need for many types of eCommerce apps.
Ionic eCommerce offers a variety of ready-made eCommerce pages to create your mobile app and provides a comprehensive CMS to manage your store. Some key features include interactive themes, social share, product filters, sorting and search, inventory management, and much more. The developer provides full support and will customise and install the app for you for a fee.
15. Nearme
Nearme is a location-based app template by developer quanlabs. The Ionic 3 template helps developers build an app that will identify supermarkets, restaurants, places of interest, gas stations, etc. that are near the user. The template comes with an admin panel that allows developers to send push notifications to users and manage categories, places, deals, slider images, users, reviews, and more.
16. ionWordpress
A best-selling Ionic app template on the CodeCanyon marketplace, ionWordpress has caught on with developers looking to bring their WordPress sites to mobile devices. Living up to its name, ionWordpress helps you to grab info from your WordPress site, placing it in an Ionic wrapper that lets your site live as a native app.
A unique feature of ionWordpress is its support for WordPress authentication, taking it a step beyond other WordPress apps, and offering full integration with your site. It also takes advantage of Sass to make creating a consistent and stunning theme a piece of cake.
3 Free Ionic App Templates for 2020
Looking to test out some themes first before purchasing a premium one? Here are some of the best free Ionic templates that are available from around the web.
Instaclone
This Ionic theme provides all of the styling and elements needed to get your app looking like the popular social media service. It doesn't come with a back-end, but if you're looking for a theme with style, check Instaclone out.
Ionic Slack
Similar to the previous theme, this app is front-end only. Its styles and theming will put you right in range of an app near the ubiquitous Slack chat app. From there, you can adjust the branding to match your own! It's available from the Ionic Slack GitHub account.
iClubs
This theme comes with styles and theming, and a handful of great looking screens. If you want to take it out for a test run, it is also available on the official iClubs GitHub page.
Find an Ionic App Template on CodeCanyon
We've covered more than 20 templates for your Ionic apps, which will you try first? If you have used an app template for your Ionic project, we'd love to hear about it. Tell us about your experience, and the template you used below, and we might include it in a future post!
CodeCanyon is one of the largest online marketplaces for Ionic templates. No matter what your app's requirements are, there's a good chance that CodeCanyon has one that will help give your project a boost!
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