Top 10 Apps built in React Native
Building an app requires planning the app, often choosing between speed and native performance. React Native offers both by allowing developers to write JavaScript while rendering native UI components.
React Native is a widely used platform, from financial platforms to social media. It has been used widely to ship features faster and maintain a single codebase for both iOS and Android.
Here are the top 10 major apps using React Native today:
Facebook (Meta) is the creator of React.js and then React Native. The giant relies heavily on this framework for building applications.
The large sections of the Facebook mobile application, including the Facebook Marketplace and major parts of Groups, are built with React Native on Facebook. This decision was done in order to keep user experiences consistent across platforms.
Instagram also integrated React Native into its massive existing native architecture, making it cross-platform.
The team at Instagram built the push notification setting and edit profile sections using React Native, making the feature available to both Android and iOS users much faster.
Shopify
For mobile app development, Shopify adopted React Native as its default framework for its mobile apps.
The major consumer and merchant tools on the Shopify app including the Shop app and Shopify mobile, rely heavily on React Native. They have been using React Native successfully to roll out new features and user interface updates.
Discord
At first, Discord used React Native for its iOS application from the very start. Later, Discord migrated even the Android app to React Native.
The entire application from real-time chat to voice settings has been developed using React Native. This has allowed the developers to push updates directly to all the user’s and communities on Discord simultaneously.
Tesla
Tesla was in need of an intuitive, cross-platform mobile app to accompany its electric vehicles and energy hardware. Thus, they used React Native in their app for these controls due to its reliability.
The companion app of Tesla uses React Native to seamlessly control their vehicles through their phones, from unlocking and climate control to location tracking and energy monitoring.
Walmart
Walmart processes a large volume of transactions and daily traffic and thus requires a reliable and faster application.
Walmart changed key portions of its apps to React Native, achieving maximum cross-platform compatibility along with reliability and speed.
Coinbase
As cryptocurrency markets move fast, Coinbase needed an architecture that allowed immediate feature updates without sacrificing security.
The main Coinbase mobile app transitioned to React Native to streamline developer workflows, unify design components, and ensure feature interoperability across operating systems.
Pinterest selected React Native to be able to launch new updates and features seamlessly, without duplicate platform development.
The core onboarding screens and topic recommendation feature of Pinterest were developed with React Native, reducing time-to-market for critical user growth features.
Uber Eats
Uber Eats faces multiple unique technical challenges connecting hardware with software in busy restaurants.
Uber Eats used React Native to build its Restaurant Dashboard, allowing staff to handle order management, print receipts, and receive audio notifications across custom tablet hardware.
Bloomberg
Bloomberg is software used to monitor real-time financial market data. Financial news demands real-time data streaming and continuous visual updates.
Bloomberg completely rebuilt its primary consumer app using React Native, providing real-time market feeds, interactive chart visualizers, and personalized content streams to subscribers.
Why Top Companies Choose React Native
- High Code Reusability: Most teams achieve 80% to 95% shared code between iOS and Android.
- Faster time to market: Features can be written once and deployed across both platforms simultaneously.
- Native Performance: Unlike hybrid web views, React Native renders standard native UI components, preserving a native look and feel.
