How much does React Native app development cost?

React Native app development at Tapptitude starts from $20,000 for a focused MVP on iOS and Android, including design, backend, an admin panel and both store releases. The price grows with the scope, and you see the fixed price for your scope after you've tested the prototype. If you already have the designs and a backend or API, the app alone starts from $15,000.

Do you use AI to build apps? Does that make them cheaper?

Yes. Our developers work with AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex, AI drafts specs from our workshops and writes automated tests, and people review every change. Because we work at a fixed price, the time AI saves goes to you: a smaller senior team, a lower starting price (new apps from $20,000) and more of your product in each milestone. We don't sell hours, so there is nothing to discount.

Is AI-written code safe and maintainable?

Every change is reviewed by a senior developer before it is merged, covered by automated tests and built on the same architecture and conventions we use on every project. Your code and data are never used to train AI models. If you want a second opinion, our one-week code audit, from $1,000, reviews any codebase, ours included.

How long does it take to build a React Native app?

A focused MVP takes about 8 weeks of development, in three milestones, with a demo and a build you can install every two weeks. Product definition and design come before that, under their own contract.

Is React Native good enough for a production app?

Yes, for most products. React Native renders real native components, and since the New Architecture its performance is close to native code. We recommend native Swift or Kotlin when the app leans on the newest platform APIs or heavy real-time graphics, and we write down why during product definition.

Our app is on an old React Native version. Can you upgrade it?

Yes. The audit shows how far behind the app is and what breaks on the way. We upgrade step by step to the current React Native, the New Architecture and the latest Expo SDK, and keep shipping releases while we do it.

Yes, on new apps by default. Expo handles builds, native modules and over-the-air updates, so fixes can reach users without a store review. When an app needs custom native code, we add it as a native module and keep Expo. Read more about Expo .

Can our in-house developers work with your React Native team?

Yes. Most projects run at a fixed price, but our React Native developers can also join your team to ship a roadmap you already own, with our senior code reviews behind them. More about our React Native developers .

How do I choose a React Native development company?

Look for React Native apps in the stores you can try, a fixed price you see before development starts, a prototype you can test first and a plan for upgrades after launch. As a React Native development agency, we work this way: you test the prototype before we fix the price, our apps include Holiday Hero across 4,000+ listings, and every app can stay with us under an SLA.

Which time zone do you work in?

Our team works 9:00-18:00 EET/EEST from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, which covers most of the UK and Western European working day. You get a demo call every two weeks, a shared Jira board and a dedicated Slack channel.

React Native
development company

Our AI-native team builds iOS and Android apps from one React Native and Expo codebase, takes over live React Native apps from other teams and keeps them current. New apps start from $20,000, and a focused MVP takes about 8 weeks.

Discuss a new appI have a live React Native app

A Tapptitude developer testing an app on a tablet next to a laptop

One codebase for iOS and Android,
kept current after launch.

React Native development services cover everything it takes to ship one app to both stores from a single codebase: product definition, UX and UI design for iOS and Android, development in React Native with Expo, the backend, testing on real devices, release on the App Store and Google Play, and upgrades as React Native and Expo move on. Tapptitude is a React Native app development company in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It has built 150+ web and mobile products over 13+ years and shipped React Native apps for companies in the US, the UK and Europe.

Reviewed by

Laurențiu, Full Stack Engineer

Last updated: November 9, 2026

React Native development at a glance

Time to MVP: About 8 weeksA focused MVP in three milestones, with a demo and a build you can install every two weeks.
Pricing: New appfrom $20,000Design, backend, admin panel and both store releasesCode auditfrom $1,000One week, before we take over a live appMaintenance with SLAfrom $1,500/moFixes, React Native upgrades and store releases
Tech: React NativeExpoTypeScriptNestJSOne codebase for iOS and Android, with over-the-air updates through Expo.
Your team: Technical product managerSenior mobile developer (app and backend)Product designerA small senior team working with AI agents.
After launch: 99%+ crash‑freeKept under every maintenance plan, tracked in Sentry.
Store rating: 4.9★Average across 1.2M App Store and Google Play ratings for Glorify

When React Native is the right choice

You need iOS and Android from day one

One codebase ships both stores at once, so a new feature reaches every user in the same release.

The budget is fixed

One team and one codebase cost less than two native apps, and the price stays the same on both platforms.

The app also has a web side

React Native shares TypeScript, and often logic, with a Next.js web app and a Node.js backend. Paradise Weddings runs its guest app and its wedding websites on one backend this way.

You want fixes out the same day

With Expo, most fixes reach users through an over-the-air update, without waiting for store review.

React Native or Flutter?

Criterion	React Native	Flutter
Language	TypeScript, shared with React and Next.js on the web	Dart, used mostly for Flutter apps
UI	Native components on each platform	Its own rendering engine, the same pixels everywhere
Best for	Apps with a web side or a React team in-house	Pixel-identical design across platforms
Our projects	Paradise Weddings, Holiday Hero, Arenova	Reverse Health

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Flutter app development

One Flutter codebase for iOS and Android, with the same design on every screen.

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Native or cross-platform?

When one codebase for both stores is the right call, and when native Swift or Kotlin is.

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React Native development services

Our React Native development services are the cross-platform side of our mobile app development services. Every new app comes with its backend and admin panel, usually on Node.js, often next to a Next.js web app. We test every build on real devices, with Maestro tests of the main flows, and AI features build on our generative AI development work.

New React Native apps Taking over a live React Native app React Native and Expo upgrades A web app on the same backend AI features in your app

New React Native apps

From the first workshop to both stores: product definition, design for iOS and Android, React Native and Expo development, backend and release.

Cost

From $20,000

Timeline

MVP in about 8 weeks

Taking over a live React Native app

Your developer or agency moved on and the app still needs releases. A one-week code audit, from $1,000, shows what state the code is in. Then we take over releases and maintenance.

Cost

Audit from $1,000

Timeline

Audit in 1 week

React Native and Expo upgrades

Apps stuck on an old React Native version stop building when Apple and Google raise their requirements. We move them to the current React Native, the New Architecture and the latest Expo SDK, without stopping releases. We also maintain Ometria's open-source React Native SDK and moved it to the New Architecture.

A web app on the same backend

A Next.js web app or admin panel next to the mobile app, sharing the backend and the data model.

AI features in your app

An assistant, recommendations or insights generated from the user's own data, agreed with a clear goal before we build. Arenova writes match insights for each fan this way.

Start A Project

How we work

AI drafts specs, code and tests, so we move fast. People decide what to build, review every change and answer for every release.

1. Product definition

Two or three 2-hour workshops, online or with us in Cluj. We map the business, the users and the competition, and decide what version one needs. Output: user flows and a detailed spec.

2. Design and prototype

Every screen designed with your brand in Figma and linked into an interactive prototype you test with real users. Output: the scope, fixed price and timeline, in writing. You decide whether to go ahead with the build.

3. Custom React Native app development in three milestones

The first milestone is the core flow the idea depends on, so it works early. A demo call and a build you can install on iPhone and Android every two weeks. Developers work with AI coding agents that also write automated tests. Every change goes through code review.

4. Launch

The third milestone ends with the app live on the App Store and Google Play, with analytics and crash reporting built in and the launch KPIs we recommended set up from day one.

5. Maintain and grow

A monthly plan with an SLA: updates for new iOS and Android versions, critical issues answered within 4 business hours and fixed within 1 business day, above 99% crash-free sessions.

1. Product definition

Two or three 2-hour workshops, online or with us in Cluj. We map the business, the users and the competition, and decide what version one needs. Output: user flows and a detailed spec.

AI-native delivery more product, sooner

We rebuilt how we deliver around AI coding agents. The result isn't a cheaper version of the same work: it's a smaller senior team that ships more of your product, sooner, for a fixed price.

A smaller senior team

An MVP used to take six people: a product manager, an iOS and an Android developer, a full-stack developer for the backend and admin panel, a designer and a QA engineer. Today a technical product manager and a senior developer who covers both mobile and backend deliver the same scope with our product designer. Fewer people means fewer hand-offs, and it's why new apps now start from $20,000.

Specs from your workshops

AI turns the notes from our definition workshops into specs and user stories. The team checks every one before it goes into the scope you sign.

Code written with AI agents, reviewed by people

Our developers build with Claude Code and Codex. Every change is reviewed by a senior developer before it is merged.

Tests written as we build

Automated tests are written with AI alongside each feature, and the team tests every build itself, so quality is part of each milestone, not a phase at the end.

Where we don't use AI

Product decisions, UX and UI design and the final code review stay with people. Your code and data are never used to train AI models.

Taking over
or upgrading a React Native app

1. Access and NDA

You give us access to the repository, App Store Connect, Google Play Console and the Expo account. We sign an NDA.

2. One-week audit

A code audit from $1,000: code quality, the React Native and Expo versions, dependencies, crash reports and the release setup, with an upgrade plan and the risks ranked by severity.

3. Handover

We move signing, certificates and the release pipeline to our team and ship the first fix release. This usually takes one to two weeks.

4. Monthly maintenance

Maintenance with SLA from $1,500/month, with upgrades planned before they block a release. The audit fee is credited against the first month.

1. Access and NDA

You give us access to the repository, App Store Connect, Google Play Console and the Expo account. We sign an NDA.

React Native apps we've designed and built

React Native

Weddings & Events

A React Native app for wedding guests and a Next.js wedding website builder on one NestJS backend.

3: products on one backend
40+: app versions shipped on iOS and Android
2,500+: destination weddings planned by Paradise

Read the case study

Paradise Weddings

Wedding websites and guest updates for destination weddings.

3: products on one backend
40+: app versions shipped on iOS and Android
2,500+: destination weddings planned by Paradise

React Native

Hospitality

Netherlands

A guest app and digital concierge for short-stay hosts and hotels, built in React Native.

4,000+: listings in 23 countries
87%: app installation rate
60%: of guests booking additional services

Read the case study

Holiday Hero

Stay info, extra services and a digital concierge for guests.

4,000+: listings in 23 countries
87%: app installation rate
60%: of guests booking additional services

React Native

Lifestyle

Belgium

A football fan app with AI-generated insights, built in React Native with Expo.

5.0★: App Store rating after launch
1,000+: leagues covered

Read the case study

Arenova

A diary of every football match you've watched, with AI insights.

5.0★: App Store rating after launch
1,000+: leagues covered

React Native

Mobility

Romania

A passenger app and a driver app for a Romanian taxi company, built in React Native with Expo, with real-time dispatch and card payments.

200+: customers signed up in the first months
60: drivers asked to join
< 4: months from kickoff to both apps in the stores

Case study coming soon

Alpin Taxi

Order, track and pay for a taxi, with a separate app for drivers.

200+: customers signed up in the first months
60: drivers asked to join
< 4: months from kickoff to both apps in the stores

Planning
a React Native app?

Tell us what you're building, or start with a one-week audit of the React Native app you already have.

Discuss a new appBook a code audit

Our React Native tech stack

We build on React Native with Expo and TypeScript, ship builds and over-the-air updates with EAS, and pair the app with a NestJS backend and, when the product needs one, a Next.js web app.

React Native

One codebase for the iOS and Android app

Expo

Builds, native modules and over-the-air updates through EAS

TypeScript

One typed language across the app, the web and the backend

TanStack Query

Server data with caching that works offline

Reanimated

Smooth animations on the UI thread

Maestro

Automated tests of the main flows on iOS and Android

Sentry

Crash and performance monitoring in production

Node.js / NestJS

The API and the business logic behind the app

Next.js

Web apps and admin panels on the same backend

React Native

One codebase for the iOS and Android app

Expo

Builds, native modules and over-the-air updates through EAS

TypeScript

One typed language across the app, the web and the backend

You're In Great Company

5.0

Clifford Lidell

CEO, Gamestand

"Tapptitude delivered a working, stable MVP that we were able to bring to market within a week of handoff. Customers began purchasing our products within the first 24 hours of launch, and we ultimately converted 40% of our targeted audience within the first 30 days."

5.0

Andreas Pappas

CTO, Surfline

"Our team employed Tapptitude to build our company's first B2B product. With a short timeline and relatively squishy requirements (due to the nature of the young industry we were in) the Tapptitude team got to work quickly and delivered the product efficiently."

5.0

Pawel Majak

Venture Partner, Nordstar

"I have worked on both bigger and smaller projects with the Tapptitude team and have only positive things to say. What I like is that they always think about their work holistically and rarely anything is surprising. They always go the extra mile and care about their Clients."

5.0

Gregory Walfish

Co-Founder & CEO, Xposure Music

"If you're looking for a product partner instead of a traditional dev shop, Tapptitude is your team. They give feedback, recommendations and know how to build the proper tech stack. They do a robust product planning before starting development which helps align everyone."

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Clients that trusted us

150+Products built

$250M+Raised by our clients

10+Industries

13+Years in business

React Native development FAQs

React Native app development at Tapptitude starts from $20,000 for a focused MVP on iOS and Android, including design, backend, an admin panel and both store releases. The price grows with the scope, and you see the fixed price for your scope after you've tested the prototype. If you already have the designs and a backend or API, the app alone starts from $15,000.
Yes. Our developers work with AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex, AI drafts specs from our workshops and writes automated tests, and people review every change. Because we work at a fixed price, the time AI saves goes to you: a smaller senior team, a lower starting price (new apps from $20,000) and more of your product in each milestone. We don't sell hours, so there is nothing to discount.
Every change is reviewed by a senior developer before it is merged, covered by automated tests and built on the same architecture and conventions we use on every project. Your code and data are never used to train AI models. If you want a second opinion, our one-week code audit, from $1,000, reviews any codebase, ours included.
A focused MVP takes about 8 weeks of development, in three milestones, with a demo and a build you can install every two weeks. Product definition and design come before that, under their own contract.
Yes, for most products. React Native renders real native components, and since the New Architecture its performance is close to native code. We recommend native Swift or Kotlin when the app leans on the newest platform APIs or heavy real-time graphics, and we write down why during product definition.
Yes. We start with a one-week code audit from $1,000 that also checks the React Native and Expo versions. Then we move signing, certificates and the release pipeline to our team and ship the first fix release, usually within one to two weeks. After that the app runs under a maintenance plan with an SLA, and the audit fee is credited against the first month.
Yes. The audit shows how far behind the app is and what breaks on the way. We upgrade step by step to the current React Native, the New Architecture and the latest Expo SDK, and keep shipping releases while we do it.
Yes, on new apps by default. Expo handles builds, native modules and over-the-air updates, so fixes can reach users without a store review. When an app needs custom native code, we add it as a native module and keep Expo. Read more about Expo.
Yes. Most projects run at a fixed price, but our React Native developers can also join your team to ship a roadmap you already own, with our senior code reviews behind them. More about our React Native developers.
Look for React Native apps in the stores you can try, a fixed price you see before development starts, a prototype you can test first and a plan for upgrades after launch. As a React Native development agency, we work this way: you test the prototype before we fix the price, our apps include Holiday Hero across 4,000+ listings, and every app can stay with us under an SLA.
Our team works 9:00-18:00 EET/EEST from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, which covers most of the UK and Western European working day. You get a demo call every two weeks, a shared Jira board and a dedicated Slack channel.