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Capriza vs Xamarin Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Capriza
Ranking in Mobile Development Platforms
19th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Xamarin Platform
Ranking in Mobile Development Platforms
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Mobile Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Capriza is 1.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Xamarin Platform is 6.9%, up from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mobile Development Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Xamarin Platform6.9%
Capriza1.8%
Other91.3%
Mobile Development Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

RJ
Vice President at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Helps us quickly develop mobile solutions for our clients, while ensuring compliance
Rapid mobile app development for micro use cases It helps us quickly develop mobile solutions for our clients. Capriza plays an important role in the digital transformation of our clients. It accelerates existing processes, ensures compliance, and meets enterprise security standards. Security…
Anubrata Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Landmark Group
Unified codebase has reduced mobile development effort but now faces SDK and support limits
You can still develop public-facing apps with Xamarin Platform, but there are restrictions on Xamarin Platform App Store and Google Play that prevent you from publishing your apps because they require you to use their latest SDKs and their latest libraries. Xamarin Platform, having been discontinued a couple of years ago, is no longer compatible with the latest libraries and SDKs offered by Google and Apple. So you have to use obsolete libraries and obsolete packages, which means that when you try to publish them, your Google Play or Apple App Store will prevent you from doing that because you have not used the latest libraries. Right now, Xamarin Platform has been discontinued. Xamarin Platform had its flaws, and there were known issues. Xamarin Platform has a big community of developers, so even though there are known issues and flaws, there are known workarounds. In terms of stability, I would rank it at 7.5, but I believe 7 would be a more accurate rating, so 7 out of 10.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It helps us quickly develop mobile solutions for our clients, plays an important role in the digital transformation of our clients, accelerates existing processes, ensures compliance, and meets enterprise security standards."
"Key features include security, decreased development time, responsiveness, cross-platform."
"The native features and Xamarin Essentials package are highly valuable to us."
"I like Renderers in Xamarin. They allow us to use native-platform controls easily."
"The best part while using the Xamarin Platform is a cross-platform application; we could execute iOS and Android while writing a single line of code."
"A single line of code works with android and iOS."
"Because of the C# programming language, we can train our .NET developers to learn Xamarin and develop mobile apps easily."
"On the market, compared to everyone else, they're the top solution."
"You can just write one XM channel core and it'll be used for both iOS and Android."
"Xamarin.Forms are very useful. Essentially, it's a framework that allows me to create the UI mostly in XAML. This XAML code is then translated into the native UI elements for each respective platform."
 

Cons

"There is a need for API-based development which offers completely customized functionality."
"There is a need for API-based development which offers completely customized functionality."
"The solution does not include Hot Reload which is painful because it causes us to wait quite some time for huge builds."
"The performance needs improvement, especially the dev tools, and also the ultimate output of the mobile applications."
"The solution always has room for improvement with price, integration, stability, and documentation."
"Xamarin Platform, having been discontinued a couple of years ago, is no longer compatible with the latest libraries and SDKs offered by Google and Apple, so you have to use obsolete libraries and obsolete packages, which means that when you try to publish them, your Google Play or Apple App Store will prevent you from doing that because you have not used the latest libraries."
"I would like to see hot reload, similar to what Flutter has out-of-the-box."
"They need to take a step towards independence from the UI platform. It takes a lot of time to adapt the native controls."
"The android application compilation time needs to be reduced."
"The recent move to .NET MAUI is a big change that's affecting a lot of the good features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Xamarin is available under several licensing arrangements. Each developer needs one license at least. All features, especially the Profiler, unlock only with the highest tier."
"The price of the Xamarin Platform is not expensive. However, the price of the solution depends on the application that is made. For example, if you have small applications, it's different from large or enterprise applications."
"Xamarin Platform is open-source, so it is free to use."
"This is a free product, so there is zero investment on licenses and IDE."
"For personal use, the Community Edition is free."
"Xamarin Platform is a free open-source solution."
"Xamarin Platform is open-source, but there are fees for deployment, the API Store and Play Store, and using third-party libraries."
"You can build in Xamarin without paying any money."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Educational Organization
12%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

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Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise15
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Xamarin Platform?
It is free to use Xamarin Platform as we utilize the community edition. Xamarin Platform was acquired by Microsoft and then made free, which happened way back in 2015, I believe, or 2014. After it ...
What needs improvement with Xamarin Platform?
You can still develop public-facing apps with Xamarin Platform, but there are restrictions on Xamarin Platform App Store and Google Play that prevent you from publishing your apps because they requ...
What is your primary use case for Xamarin Platform?
I have been doing mobile development using Xamarin Platform for which I have already shared my feedback earlier, and I am focused on utilizing Xamarin Platform for my projects.
 

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