Appium was originally developed by Dan Cuellar in 2011 under the name "iOSAuto", written in the C# programming language.
[1][4] In January 2013, Sauce Labs agreed to fund Appium's development and motivated its code to be rewritten using Node.js.
[1][2] Appium won the 2014 Bossie award of InfoWorld for the best open source desktop and mobile software.
[5] Appium was also selected as an Open Source Rookie of the Year by Black Duck Software.
[6][7] In October 2016, Appium joined the JS Foundation.