One codebase against two, what you actually give up in performance, and the specific features that genuinely require native.
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The short answer
React Native for the large majority of business apps: one codebase, both platforms, roughly half the cost and half the timeline, and performance that's indistinguishable for anything built around screens, forms, lists and API calls. Native earns its premium when you're doing heavy work on the device itself — advanced camera processing, AR, Bluetooth hardware, serious background computation — or when the app is your entire product and every millisecond of polish is a competitive advantage.
Side by side
A comparison where one column wins every row isn't a comparison. These are the trade-offs as we'd describe them on a call.
| NativeSwift + Kotlin, two codebases | React NativeOne codebase — from $1,049 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Roughly double — two codebases, two teams | One build — from $1,049 with us |
| Timeline | Two platforms, largely sequentially | 6–10 weeks for an MVP on both |
| Performance, typical business app | Excellent | Indistinguishable in practice |
| Performance, heavy graphics or processing | Clearly better | Hits a real ceiling |
| Access to new OS features | Day one | Usually a lag, or a native module you write yourself |
| UI feel | Perfectly platform-native | Very close; occasional platform quirks to smooth |
| Maintenance | Every change made twice, forever | One codebase, one fix |
| Hiring for it later | Two specialist skill sets | React developers, a much larger pool |
| Code sharing with web | None | Substantial, if your web app is React |
| Hardware and sensors | Full, direct access | Most things; deep access needs a native module |
We build in React Native and we recommend native several times a year. Build native when:
If you're in one of these, build native and budget accordingly. Being told this on the first call is cheaper than discovering it in month three.
Over three years
Month one is the wrong window. Here's what the two options cost once they've been running a while.
| Native | React Native | |
|---|---|---|
| MVP, both platforms | $80,000 – $160,000 | $1,049 |
| Full product features | $60,000 – $120,000 | $1,999 |
| Maintenance, 36 months | $36,000 – $72,000 | $169/mo |
| Three-year total | $176,000 – $352,000 | Around $9,000 |
An MVP plus three years of iteration on both platforms. Native figures use typical US agency rates; ours are our published fixed prices.
Practical steps
Run your idea through these before anyone quotes you. They settle the question faster than a discovery phase:
Does the app do heavy work on the device itself — AR, real-time video processing, continuous background tracking? If yes, native.
Does it depend on specialised hardware or Bluetooth peripherals? If yes, probably native.
Is it screens, forms, lists, payments and API calls — which describes most business apps? React Native, comfortably.
Is the app the whole company with funding behind it, or a tool supporting a business that already works? The first can justify native; the second almost never does.
If you go our way
Fixed prices, agreed in writing before anything starts.
The smallest version of your idea that real users can actually use.
A complete, revenue-ready app with payments, roles and a real dashboard.
Keep the app healthy and shipping features after launch.
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Why us
Not just the deliverable — the way the project runs.
Same senior engineers, without the $150/hour Manhattan overhead. Fixed quotes in USD, agreed before we start.
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FAQ
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