React Native development: one codebase, two stores, no drama

Cross-platform makes sense when the app is a product surface, not a platform showcase. We build the version that survives store review, offline commuters and a phone from 2019.

Overview

The real cost of one codebase

One codebase for two stores makes sense when the app is a product surface rather than a platform showcase.

What cross-platform actually buys you, and what it costs

React Native renders native components from one JavaScript codebase, so a single team ships iOS and Android together and shares logic with a React web app. The saving is real, and it is in team size and release cadence rather than in raw code volume.

The cost is at the edges: deep OS integration, heavy graphics and some gestures need native modules, and someone has to own the store submission cycle that no framework removes.

When React Native is the right call

Standard product interfaces, a team that already knows React, and two platforms on one budget. Not the answer for AR, heavy media processing or anything where a frame drop is a business problem.

Signals React Native fits your app

  • the interface is product UI rather than a graphics showcase;
  • you need both stores and cannot fund two native teams;
  • there is a React web app to share logic and types with;
  • offline tolerance matters more than 120 fps animation;
  • the roadmap is features, not platform-specific experiments.
Signals an app suits React Native: product UI, two stores on one budget, shared logic with React web

Price

From $7,990

Timeline

3 weeks to first release

Payment

50/50 by milestone

Pricing

What a project on this stack costs

Same packages as everywhere on the site — the stack does not change the price, the scope does.

Scoping Sprint

$4,490

Architecture, breakdown, risks and a fixed quote — credited in full against any package within 30 days

1 week

Launch-Ready

$18,900

Up to 6 flows, granular roles, 3+ integrations, tests and CI/CD

6–8 weeks

Hourly team

$28–55/hour

Open-ended work by role: mid, senior, tech lead, DevOps, QA, design

From 40 h/month

Dedicated team from three months: −10%. Agency partners from 320 hours a month: −15%. Full price list.

Comparison

React Native or native development

The honest comparison, including the cases where we recommend native and lose the cheaper deal.

Criterion
Native (Swift + Kotlin)React Native
React NativeTwo native apps
Team size
Two teams, two release cycles
One team, one cycle
Product UI feel
Best possible
Indistinguishable for standard interfaces
Deep OS integration
Direct
Native module per feature
Graphics and AR
The right tool
Fights the framework
Cost of the same roadmap
Roughly double
One budget
When it wins
Platform-defining apps
Products where features beat platform tricks
Scope

What we build with it

Where this stack earns its place in a project, and what we would use instead if it did not.

Product apps

Consumer and B2B apps where the interface is standard product UI and the value is in the flows, not in custom gestures.

Companion apps

Mobile front ends for a web product you already have, sharing logic and types with the existing codebase.

Field and operations apps

Offline-tolerant flows for people in vans and warehouses, with sync conflict rules agreed before the first screen.

Store delivery

Submission and review cycles under your developer accounts, staged rollouts, crash reporting and over-the-air updates within store policy.

Fit

When it is the right call — and when it is not

The best stack is usually the one your team can maintain after we leave.

Right for

Standard product UI, shared logic with a React web app, a team that already knows React, and two platforms on one budget.

Not right for

Heavy real-time graphics or AR, deep OS integration, performance-critical media processing. We will say "go native" and lose the cheaper deal.

Rates

$28–55/hour by role

Fixed builds

From $7,990

Discounts

Dedicated −10% · partners −15%

How we work

The work that is not the screens

The part that is specific to this stack rather than true of every project.

Push notifications with permissions handled properly. In-app purchases and subscriptions with receipt validation server-side. Deep links that survive a cold start. Device matrix testing that includes the cheap Android your users actually own, not just the newest iPhone.

Mobile decays faster than web: OS versions change, store policies change, dependencies rot. That is why a Care plan from $790 a month exists — not as an upsell, but because an unmaintained app breaks on its own.

Why us

Why teams bring us in for this stack

Four things we can prove, not four adjectives.

Store delivery is part of the job

Submission, review back-and-forth and staged rollouts under your developer accounts — the part that surprises first-time founders.

Offline designed, not patched

Sync conflict rules agreed before the first screen, because retrofitting them into a shipped app is a rewrite.

Your accounts, your keys

Developer accounts, certificates and repository stay yours from day one.

Maintenance priced honestly

Mobile decays: OS versions, store policies, dependencies. Care from $790/month exists because an unmaintained app breaks on its own.

Industries

What we buildfor your industry

Mobile lands first in logistics (drivers and warehouses), property (agents in the field) and retail.

18 sectors

  • IT companies and digital agencies
  • Insurers and brokers
  • Lenders and microfinance
  • E-commerce
  • Wholesale and distribution
  • Manufacturing
  • Freight and forwarding
  • Clinics and medical centres
  • Dental
  • Car dealers and service centres
  • EdTech
  • Legal and consulting firms
  • Equipment rental
  • Real estate agencies
  • Property developers
  • Travel and events
  • Beauty and wellness
  • Construction and renovation
FAQ

Questions we get about this stack

Answered by the people who would do the work, not by a sales team.

React Native or Flutter?

Both work. React Native if you share code and hiring with a React web team; Flutter if the UI is highly custom and the team knows Dart. We do not have a religion here.

Will it feel native?

For product UI, yes. For gesture-heavy or graphics-heavy interfaces, expect compromises and budget native modules — we will tell you which screens those are during scoping.

Do you submit to the stores for us?

Yes, including the review back-and-forth, under your developer accounts.

What about updates after launch?

Care plans from $790 a month cover dependency updates, OS version changes and store policy shifts.

Can you take over an existing React Native app?

Yes, after a paid audit of dependencies, native modules and the build pipeline — that is where these projects usually hurt.

Do you work as a React Native development agency or as contractors?

Either. As a React Native development agency we take the whole delivery, including store submission; as contractors we join your team by the hour. React Native app development services are priced the same way in both cases — published rates, no recruitment fee.

2–4×
faster on the code-writing share
in 3 weeks
from idea to MVP
230+
projects delivered
17 years
of engineering experience
Work

Work we can show you

Need this stack with a senior review included?

Tell us what exists today — a green field, a legacy codebase, or a team that needs two more pairs of hands. We answer with a scope, a price and a date.

We do not take work on a stack we cannot review internally at senior level.