Why is Appium has edge over other Mobile Test Automation Tool?

There are multiple reasons why people prepare Appium. Below are are some reasons

1. Appium is Open source tool so no need to invest money on buying the license
2. Appium is Cross platform tool : we can run our same script on different platform like Android & iOS. There are many tools available in the market are not supports multiple platforms
3. Most of the organisation currently they are using Selenium tool, so people who worked on Selenium then they can easily learn Appium because commands, syntax and framework are same.
4. if you check - most of the paid mobile automation tools are using Appium code and on top of it they built their own UI and made user friendly and licensed it
5. Appium has its won portal for documentation Mobile App Automation Made Awesome.
6. Appium has good support online, if any issues you face, you will get solutions easily and also lot of forums available to post your issues
7. Since it is open source tool, you can customise it based on your requirement