Expo
How vibe coders and indie builders use Expo: 316 projects built with it and 13 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
316
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
1.7%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -22%
Add-ons built for it
13
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- React Native 270
- Supabase 123
- RevenueCat 65
- PostgreSQL 44
- Claude API 40
- TypeScript 38
- Gemini API 24
- SQLite 22
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Expo
- Ninety-Nine — Presents nine simple-looking physical challenges, such as drawing a perfect circle or stopping a timer, and scores each attempt out of 100.“I spent 10 years building apps and finally made my first game. It’s basically 9 stupidly simple challenges that are way harder than they look.”
- Aplomo — Lets users practice spoken answers against an AI that pushes back in real time and gives feedback on filler words, pace and clarity.“I built an app to get better at hard conversations and prepare for interviews by practicing out loud against an AI”
- Orbit Hero — Lets coaches assign home practice drills to students and tracks completion, streaks and XP for parents and coaches.“Class ends. Practice doesn't. My side project for sports academies in India”
- AfterLaunch — Generates short-form video drafts for a product from its URL and schedules approved ones for publishing.“I shipped a product in March, then posted about it four times in five months. So I built the thing that decides what to post”
- 3am Archive — Lets users write short nightly journal entries that unlock chapters of a serialized noir mystery story.“I made a bedtime journaling app where you're the detective in a 60-night noir mystery”
- InfraSim — Lets players build cloud system designs from load balancers, caches, databases and queues, then simulates traffic to reveal failures.“I made a mobile game where you design cloud systems and watch them break. Got my first paying user today.”
- Dana — Shares pet care schedules across a household, tracking feeding, walks, medications, vaccines and reminders with AI-assisted food checks and health triage.“I built Dana, a pet care app the whole household can share”
- Ittekimasu — Combines Japanese study with spaced repetition and a relocation checklist for moving to Japan.“I'm a Filipino dev hoping to move to Japan, so I built an app to learn Japanese and plan the move in one place”
- RouteMap — Draws all of a user's recorded Strava routes on a single world map with favourites, hidden routes and collections.“Dad side-project... I built an app that puts every Strava route you've ever recorded on one map (iOS + Android)”
- FaithRank — Runs a religion trivia quiz where players declare a faith and their scores count toward that faith's team in weekly tournaments.“I built an interfaith trivia app where you pick a religion and compete against other faiths, looking for honest feedback (good or brutal)”
- Gearlift — Builds structured workouts from the equipment a user has and guides them through each set on Android.“Gearlift - A free workout app with no backend, running at €0”
- samepageapp — Delivers a daily question that friends answer, with everyone's answers hidden until you submit your own.“Looking for a few friend groups to beta test my app”
- TV-Top Games — Casts board games to a TV while players join from their phones via QR code, keeping hands private and enforcing game rules.“7 years of nights and weekends building a way to play board games on your TV, with your phone as the controller. I'd love honest feedback.”
- MicroGrind — Builds a concept map from a student's documents, generates source-grounded lessons, flashcards and questions, and schedules short study sessions based on per-concept progress.“Building a study app that maps your notes before it quizzes you. The hard part is getting the AI to stick to the source.”
- ProgramU — Generates custom subliminal, hypnosis, meditation and EFT tapping audio sessions from user-written goals, with an AI voice teacher and a 90-day program.“I built an app for shifting your identity: custom subliminals, hypnosis, meditation and EFT tapping, written from your own words for anything you want to improve about yourself or your life (iPhone, Android, web)”
Latest add-ons built for Expo
- rnblocks — Provides a open source registry of copy-paste React Native and Expo UI components and screens.“Show RN: I am building an open source UI registry for React Native”
- Monad Design — Lets developers select or annotate a running iOS or Expo app's UI so coding agents can edit the source, rebuild, and compare real implementation variants.“I made a visual workflow where the running iOS app becomes the canvas”
- Monad Design — Lets coding agents edit source code of a running iOS app by annotating UI in Simulator and comparing source-backed design variants.“I wanted coding agents to edit the app I was actually looking at”
- Bundle Drop — Delivers over-the-air updates to React Native and Expo apps via an open source npm module and hosted service.“I launched a dev SaaS couple of days ago, trying to figure out if numbers mean anything at all”
- chessboard-native — Provides a controlled, declarative chessboard component with animations and gestures for React Native apps.“We're open-sourcing chessboard-native”
- Basalt — Lets developers visually drag, resize and recolor React Native elements in a live preview and writes those changes into source files.“Tool that lets you edit your RN and Expo apps”
- Basalt — Lets developers visually edit React Native and Expo app components inside VS Code and Cursor, similar to Figma.“I built Basalt, a tool that lets you edit your RN and Expo apps like Figma”
- Metro Remote — Connects AI agents to a real iPhone so they can build, run, debug, and test React Native apps remotely.“I built a secure AI-to-iPhone layer for React Native apps”
- Wherd — Provides an SDK for in-app user feedback threads, announcements, changelogs, and feature voting in web React and React Native apps.“Couldn't find any free in-app feedback/messaging tool for React Native, so I made one”
- PaywallReady — Provides a drop-in Expo and RevenueCat code kit for adding subscription paywalls, restore purchases, and premium feature gating to mobile apps.“I built a tiny kit for the boring part of mobile app monetization”
- NodeCleaner — Finds and removes Node.js, React Native, and Expo development caches and build artifacts on macOS through an interactive terminal interface.“I built NodeCleaner a simple CLI to clean Node.js, React Native, and Expo development junk on macOS”
- Otalan — Delivers over-the-air web-layer updates to Expo and Capacitor mobile apps with staged rollouts, rollback, and release history.“Launched Otalan v1: OTA updates + rollback for Expo and Capacitor, with open-source CLI & SDKs”
- Spent over a year on a mobile… — Builds, signs, uploads and ships iOS and Android apps to the app stores with a single command.“Spent over a year on a mobile shipping CLI, finally launched today and could use feedback”