One codebase. Two app stores. No visible compromise
React Native lets us build iPhone and Android apps from a single codebase, shipping to both stores on one budget and one timeline. We use it where it fits, add native code where performance or device access demands it, and tell you honestly when a fully native build is the better call.
Shared code where it helps, native where it matters
The promise of React Native is real for most business apps. The trick is knowing which parts of your app aren't most business apps.
Book a strategy session ($350)A good fit if you
- Need iOS and Android and don't want two separate builds and teams
- Have an app that's mostly screens, data, forms, and workflows
- Want a faster path to both stores with a single codebase to maintain
- Already have web developers who know React and JavaScript
- Plan to iterate frequently and want one release process
React Native is a framework from Meta for building mobile apps in JavaScript and React that run natively on both iOS and Android. Most of the code is shared, the UI renders with real native components rather than a web view, and where a feature needs deep platform access we write native Swift or Kotlin modules and call them from the shared layer. The result is one codebase, one team, and two apps that feel native.
It's the right choice for a large share of business applications: booking, ordering, accounts, dashboards, field forms, customer portals, and membership apps where the work is screens and data flowing to a backend. It's the wrong choice for apps built around heavy graphics, real-time video, or intricate platform-specific hardware, and we'll say so before you spend a dollar.
We handle the complete lifecycle: planning, UI/UX for both platforms' conventions, architecture, React Native development with Expo or bare workflow as the project warrants, native modules where needed, AI integration, testing on real iOS and Android devices, submission to both stores, and ongoing support as both platforms evolve.
What we build with React Native
iOS and Android applications from one codebase, with native modules where the experience depends on them.
Tools and stack we work in
- React Native
- Expo
- TypeScript
- React Navigation
- Redux Toolkit
- TanStack Query
- Reanimated
- Firebase
- Supabase
- Stripe
- Swift
- Kotlin
- EAS Build
Expo where it accelerates without limiting, bare React Native where the project needs full control, and native Swift and Kotlin modules where performance or device access demands it. Modern TypeScript throughout.
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Customer apps on both platforms
Booking, ordering, accounts, payments, loyalty, and support shipped to the App Store and Google Play from one build.
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Field and workforce apps
Job management, photo capture, forms, signatures, and offline sync for teams that carry a mix of iPhones and Android phones.
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Customer portals and dashboards
Account management, documents, status tracking, and messaging for clients, patients, and policyholders.
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Membership and subscription apps
Content, scheduling, and recurring billing through both stores' in-app purchase systems from shared code.
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Native modules where it counts
Swift and Kotlin for camera pipelines, Bluetooth, background processing, payments hardware, and anything the shared layer shouldn't handle.
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AI-powered features
Search, recommendations, document capture, chat assistance, and personalization built once and shipped to both platforms.
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Backend, APIs, and dual-store launch
Secure cloud backends, integrations with your systems, listing optimization for both stores, and install campaigns.
Where React Native is the right call
Business apps where the value is in the workflow and the data, and reaching both platforms fast matters more than squeezing out the last frame of animation.
Home services and trades
Customer booking apps and technician apps for crews with mixed phones, built once and shipped to both stores with offline job data and photo capture.
Insurance agencies
Policy access, ID cards, document upload, claims photos, payments, and agent messaging for a customer base split across iPhone and Android.
Medical and aesthetic practices
Appointment booking, intake, secure messaging, and treatment tracking on both platforms within privacy requirements.
Real estate
Listing search, alerts, showing scheduling, and transaction tracking for buyers and sellers on whatever phone they carry.
Fitness, hospitality, and membership
Class and reservation booking, passes, check-in, loyalty, and content with recurring billing through both stores.
Startups and new products
A first version on both platforms fast enough to learn from real users before committing to a larger native investment.
Why we recommend it, and when we don't
We work with businesses whose customers are split across iPhone and Android, especially in South Florida and Latin America. For most of them, building two native apps doubles the cost and the timeline for an app whose job is booking, tracking, paying, and messaging. React Native gets both apps live for roughly the cost of one and keeps them in sync as features ship. That's a revenue decision: more customers reached sooner.
We don't recommend it for everything. If the app's core experience is graphics-heavy, hardware-intensive, or dependent on the newest platform features on day one, native is the better path and we'll say so. The point is to choose the stack that gets your customers the app they'll use, and then to launch it on both stores with the campaigns that get it downloaded.
How we work
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Discovery and scope
What the app has to do for the business, who uses it, and what it replaces. We write the scope before we quote it, so the quote holds.
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Design and architecture
UI/UX in your brand, an architecture chosen for your roadmap, and a data model that won't need rebuilding in year two.
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Build and test
Sprint-based development, AI integration where it earns its place, and testing on real devices before submission.
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Launch and grow
Store submission, analytics, crash monitoring, and the part most dev shops skip: the marketing plan that gets it downloaded.
The same standards as everything else we do
You own the code and the IP
Repositories, store accounts, certificates, and design files are registered to you from day one.
Scoped before it's quoted
We write down what the app does before we tell you what it costs, so the number doesn't drift.
Senior people, always
The architect in the first call is the one reviewing every pull request.
Built to be marketed
We're the agency that also runs your app install campaigns, ASO, and launch. Most dev shops hand over the build and leave. It's how we work.
Complete lifecycle
Planning, UI/UX, architecture, development, AI integration, testing, deployment, and ongoing support under one roof.
Three languages
English, Spanish, and Portuguese in the UI, the store listing, and the support flow, for the markets where we operate.
Related services
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The right shared-code stack for your roadmap
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iPhone App Development
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UI/UX Web Design & Development
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AI Customer Engagement
Chatbots and conversational AI that book, not just chat
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Questions we get asked
Yes, when built well. The UI uses real native components, not a web view, and we follow each platform's conventions so iPhone users get an iPhone experience and Android users get an Android one. Where the shared layer isn't enough, we write native modules.
Typically a substantial share of both build and ongoing maintenance cost, because most of the code is written once. The exact saving depends on how much native module work the app needs. We'll estimate both paths in the strategy session.
For business apps built around screens, forms, and data, performance is indistinguishable from native. For graphics-heavy or hardware-intensive apps, native wins, and we recommend it in those cases.
Expo is a toolkit that speeds up React Native development, testing, and releases. We use it where it accelerates without constraining the project, and bare React Native where full control is needed.
Often yes. React Native uses React and TypeScript, so a team that knows web React can contribute to the mobile app with reasonable ramp-up. That's one of its real advantages.
A focused first version on both platforms typically takes three to five months through approval on both stores, similar to one native app, which is the point.
Both stores. One budget. No excuses.
Tell us what the app does and who carries what phone. Thirty minutes gives you a straight answer on whether React Native fits and what both launches would take.
Book a strategy session ($350)
