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React Native vs Native: Which Should You Build?
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
The short version
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.
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Side by side
Where each one actually wins
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 |
When native is genuinely worth double
We build in React Native and we recommend native several times a year. Build native when:
- You need advanced camera or media processing — real-time filters, computer vision, professional video capture.
- You're doing AR, 3D or anything leaning on ARKit or ARCore.
- You depend on specialised Bluetooth or hardware peripherals, especially medical or industrial devices.
- You need serious background processing — continuous location tracking, large offline sync, heavy computation while the app is closed.
- The app is the entire company, you're well funded, and platform-perfect feel is a competitive differentiator. Consumer social and gaming usually sit here.
- You need a brand-new OS feature the day it ships, rather than when the cross-platform ecosystem catches up.
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
The comparison most people don't run
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 | $249/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 prices.
Practical steps
How to decide, in four questions
Run your idea through these before anyone quotes you. They settle the question faster than a discovery phase:
- 1
Does the app do heavy work on the device itself — AR, real-time video processing, continuous background tracking? If yes, native.
- 2
Does it depend on specialised hardware or Bluetooth peripherals? If yes, probably native.
- 3
Is it screens, forms, lists, payments and API calls — which describes most business apps? React Native, comfortably.
- 4
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.
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The smallest version of your idea that real users can actually use.
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- Up to 10 screens
- iOS + Android from one codebase
- User auth (email, Google, Apple)
- Backend API + database
- Basic admin panel
- Both store submissions included
- 6–10 week build
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A complete, revenue-ready app with payments, roles and a real dashboard.
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- 20+ screens, custom UI
- Payments & subscriptions (Stripe / IAP)
- Push notifications & deep links
- Full admin dashboard with analytics
- Multiple user roles & permissions
- Third-party API integrations
- Store submission + launch support
- 90 days post-launch support
Ongoing
App Care Retainer
Keep the app healthy and shipping features after launch.
$249per month
- Bug fixes within 48 hours
- OS & dependency updates
- New feature development hours
- Store compliance & resubmissions
- Crash monitoring & alerts
- Monthly product call
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FAQ
React Native vs Native — your questions answered
Is React Native actually production-ready?+
Yes — it's been used in production by major consumer apps for the better part of a decade, and the framework has matured substantially. The credible criticism isn't that it's unstable; it's that it hits a real ceiling on graphics-heavy and hardware-heavy work. For screens, forms, payments and API calls it's simply the right tool.
Will users be able to tell?+
For a typical business app, no. Users notice slow loading, janky scrolling and confusing navigation — all of which are consequences of how well the app is built rather than which framework it's built in. A well-built React Native app feels better than a badly-built native one. Where the difference becomes visible is complex animation and graphics-intensive interfaces.
What about Flutter?+
A genuinely good framework and a legitimate choice — for many projects the decision between Flutter and React Native barely matters. We build in React Native because the JavaScript and React ecosystem lets us share logic with the web work we already do for the same client, and because hiring React developers later is easier for you. If you have a team that already knows Flutter, use Flutter.
Can I start with React Native and move to native later?+
Yes, and it's a sound strategy. Validate the idea in React Native at a fraction of the cost, learn what users actually need, and rewrite natively later if you hit a genuine ceiling — funded by the revenue the first version produced. Most apps never hit that ceiling. Starting native to avoid a rewrite you'll probably never need is optimising for the wrong risk.
Does React Native work with device features like camera and push notifications?+
Yes — camera, photo library, GPS, push notifications, biometrics, payments and in-app purchases are all well supported and we build with them routinely. The distinction is between using a device feature and doing heavy processing with it. Taking a photo is fine; real-time computer vision on the video stream is where native pulls ahead.
How do you decide for my project?+
We ask what the app actually does, on the first call, before quoting. If it's screens, auth, payments and a backend, it's React Native and we'll say so immediately. If you describe AR, continuous background tracking or a Bluetooth medical device, we'll tell you it needs native — including when that means the project isn't a fit for our pricing, because that's cheaper for you than finding out later.
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