Walter Luh and Carlos Icaza started Ansca Mobile, later renamed Corona Labs, after departing from Adobe in 2007.

In June 2009, Ansca released the first Corona SDK beta free for early adopters.

[8][9] In January 2011, Corona SDK was released for Windows XP and newer, giving developers the opportunity to build Android applications on PC.

[12] In August 2012, Corona Labs announced Enterprise Edition, which added native bindings for Objective-C.[13] In March 2015, during GDC 2015 announcement was made that Corona SDK is completely free and will support Windows and Mac OS X deployment targets.

[14][15] In November 2015, Corona Labs Inc. announced support for tvOS development for Apple TV.