Flutter or React Native for Your App?

For most business apps — a delivery app, a school app, an ordering app — either framework gives you Android and iOS from one codebase at roughly the same cost. The tiebreakers are practical, not technical.

Flutter draws its own UI

That means your app looks identical on a cheap Android phone and a new iPhone, which is a real advantage when you're supporting a wide device range. Animation and scrolling stay smooth on low-end hardware, which matters a lot for the devices most users here actually carry.

React Native shares your web team

If you already have React developers, they can be productive on mobile quickly, and you can share logic between web and app. That's a genuine cost saving — but only if that team actually exists. Hiring React Native developers separately is not obviously easier than hiring Flutter ones.

When you need native anyway

• Deep camera control or heavy image processing
• Bluetooth hardware, printers or card readers
• Background location tracking that must survive the OS
• Platform-specific SDKs with no maintained plugin

What we use

We build in Flutter, including the government and airline apps we've delivered. Consistent behaviour across a wide device range and predictable performance on low-end phones matter more to our clients than sharing code with a web frontend.