JourneyApps is headquartered in Denver, Colorado (with team members spread across the U.S. and EMEA) and has been in business for more than a decade. The original product created by JourneyApps is the JourneyApps Platform, a rapid app development platform focused on industrial companies. The PowerSync engine was first created as a component of the JourneyApps Platform, enabling apps to sync data between a cloud database and local SQLite database for uninterrupted online/offline operation of applications. In 2022, JourneyApps decided to spin off the PowerSync engine into the standalone PowerSync product (consisting of a cloud service and set of SDKs) allowing the creation of offline-first apps that sync data from backend databases to local SQLite on-device databases. The standalone PowerSync product is designed to be database-agnostic on the server-side, with current support for PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MySQL (alpha). It’s also designed to be framework-agnostic on the client-side, with current support for Web, React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, Swift, Node.js and .NET.
PowerSync therefore has a long history and track record: The original version of the PowerSync engine in the JourneyApps Platform has been used for years in production by a number of Fortune 500 customers in industries such as energy, manufacturing, and mining. These customers typically have a need to sync a high volume of relational data to users in harsh field conditions, such as remote locations where users are frequently offline. Usage in these kinds of demanding environments has led us to battle-harden the PowerSync engine over many years, and these customers continue to rely on the PowerSync engine for critical daily business operations. The standalone version of PowerSync builds on that strong foundation. JourneyApps has been granted a U.S. patent for parts of the PowerSync technology.
