Apps built with React Native
React Native's pitch to small teams is leverage: developers who already write React can ship a mobile app without learning two native platforms, and a meaningful amount of logic can be shared with an existing web product. For a startup whose entire engineering team is two or three people, that is often the deciding factor. It renders genuine native components, so the result feels correct on each platform, and over-the-air updates let teams push fixes without waiting on store review, genuinely useful when a payment integration breaks. The things to watch are performance on low-end Android devices, where heavy lists and animations need care, and the occasional need to drop into native code for a platform feature. Expo has removed much of the setup pain. Browse the apps built with it below.
Apps built with React Native

Friym
Sell to your audience, inside the feed.
Social & CommunityElasticsearchExpress
Travora
Travel with no bad surprises.
Travel & TourismNext.jsReact Native
Tchopé
Cameroonian cuisine in your pocket
Lifestyle & CultureReact NativeCameroon
AfriTongues
Access to African languages
Lifestyle & CultureFirebaseMongoDB
Geloka
Your next home, within reach
MobilityCloudflareJava
Grimm App
Votre banque, entre vos mains
FintechRustExpo
Ridka
Your cycling journal
Lifestyle & CultureReact Native
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Frequently asked questions
- Can I share code between web and mobile?
- Business logic, state management and API layers commonly are shared. User interface code usually is not, though patterns and skills transfer directly.
- How does it perform on low-end phones?
- Acceptably for most applications, but heavy lists, images and animation need deliberate optimisation on older Android hardware.