React Native
How vibe coders and indie builders use React Native: 380 projects built with it and 20 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
380
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
1.7%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -40%
Add-ons built for it
20
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
- Expo 270
- Supabase 121
- RevenueCat 73
- PostgreSQL 52
- TypeScript 45
- Claude API 44
- Gemini API 27
- Next.js 26
What's built with it
Latest projects built with React Native
- 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”
- Culinary Assets — Provides a npm package of transparent culinary illustrations of ingredients, vegetables, cookware and kitchen tools as PNG, WebP and sprite sheets.“Culinary Assets - my first npm package (yes, I shipped a potato)”
- 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)”
- Spirkz — Delivers educational short-video reels and mini courses made of short lessons in a vertical scrolling feed.“I built a TikTok-style app for learning — now on iOS and Android, with 700+ organic users”
- 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”
- 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.”
- Obook — Converts PDFs and ebooks into narrated audiobooks with cleaned-up sections and word-by-word highlighting.“Solo dev here: I spent 8 months building a PDF-to-audiobook app, and I even run my own GPU server for the voices”
- 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 React Native
- 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”
- React Native Agents — Provides a set of 24 specialist AI coding prompts for React Native tasks that are routed to relevant problems and PR file changes.“I built 24 specialist AI agents for React Native because generic coding agents kept missing mobile-specific problems”
- react-native-cosmos-gl — Renders large interactive graph and network visualizations on mobile devices using a React Native port of cosmo.gl.“I open sourced a library created to solve my project specific problem”
- Mite — Collects in-app feedback from mobile app users and manages release notes, feature requests, and announcements for developers.“Built an in-app feedback SaaS for mobile apps”
- Basalt — Edits React Native UI in VS Code with a live preview and offers shader effect presets for UI components.“I Built a VS Code extension with UI shader presets”
- 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”
- Pulsar Studio — Lets developers design custom haptic feedback patterns and export them as code for apps.“We’re building a tool for designing custom haptics, feedback welcome”
- 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”
- PAM — Keeps a Laravel application warm in memory with a Rust-powered runtime to avoid booting the framework on every HTTP request, and runs React apps natively on desktop and mobile without a JS bridge.“I’ve been building PAM: a persistent PHP runtime powered by Rust, plus a ultra-fast native engine for desktop/mobile. Looking for technical feedback & reviews.”
- NativeScope — Lets developers inspect and edit MMKV, AsyncStorage and SQLite data in real time inside React Native apps during development.“I built a tool for a problem every React Native developer has”
- 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”
- Droidective — Bundles Android and React Native debugging tools, including logcat, screen mirroring, device file access, performance charts and a Reactotron server, into one macOS command palette.“I built Droidective, a free macOS command palette that replaces the pile of tools you juggle while debugging Android and React Native apps”
- 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”