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Companies using React Native today aren't making a compromise choice anymore.
Shopify, Discord, and Coinbase all run serious production traffic on it, and the framework's biggest technical criticisms got resolved with an architecture change that shipped as the default in late 2025.
But just because it is right for some people doesn’t mean it is right for everyone. You need to be especially careful choosing your frameworks and technologies in industries like fintech where you need to keep up with a rapidly developing market, while staying compliant.
Understanding which companies are using React Native and where they have implemented the tool can greatly assist you with the decision.
Let’s look at the top companies using React Native in 2026, including:
If you need assistance choosing the right frameworks, hiring models, or more for your own fintech company, we can assist.
React Native is an open-source framework for cross-platform mobile development, created by Facebook (now Meta) in 2015.
It lets developers build native iOS and Android apps using JavaScript and React, so they can reuse the same code wherever possible, rather than maintaining two entirely separate codebases in Swift and Kotlin.
Traditionally, you would need two teams, two codebases, and roughly double the ongoing maintenance. That would be incredibly expensive and often unattainable for startups. React Native greatly minimizes that expense.
For years, React Native ran on an asynchronous "bridge" connecting JavaScript to native code. It did the job, but resulted in a drop in performance when compared to purely native development.
That changed with the New Architecture, which is built around a new renderer (Fabric) and a direct JavaScript-to-native communication layer (JSI).
It became the default for new projects with React Native 0.76 in September 2025, removing most of the performance issues that previous companies struggled with.
Now that you understand where React Native sits in 2026, let’s look at the companies taking advantage of the many benefits that the framework offers.
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Shopify, a platform processing billions in merchant sales volume, rebuilt its mobile commerce app on React Native and has publicly discussed achieving around 86% unified code across iOS and Android.
Alongside this, the company has been able to reduce its mobile engineering headcount and increase feature velocity.
Discord's mobile apps run on React Native, handling real-time messaging at real scale.
The engineering team has written publicly about cutting app startup time roughly in half through targeted optimization work.
Coinbase moved from purely native apps to React Native, a meaningful decision for a company whose core product is moving people's money and crypto holdings.
They have reported significant funnel performance improvements following the migration, and we have seen no drop in their strong App Store rating despite the massive scale of their user base.
Naturally, Meta's own platform runs a large share of its mobile experience on React Native, with reported code sharing that’s often more than 50%, but varies a lot depending on the actual application and device.
Bloomberg rebuilt its market data terminal mobile app on React Native.
The massive, well-known company did this in an effort to prioritize development speed and team consolidation, a notable choice for an app where users depend on real-time financial data.
Tesla's owner app, covering vehicle monitoring, remote control, and charging management, runs on React Native, layered with native code specifically where it matters most, like 3D vehicle visualization.
Walmart has reported sharing roughly 95% of its codebase between Android and iOS through React Native.
This decision has been instrumental in allowing one team of JavaScript developers to maintain both platforms.
Microsoft's mobile Teams client runs on React Native. We can see this as a massive vote of confidence from a company with essentially unlimited resources to build fully native if it chose to.
Pinterest uses React Native specifically for the code-sharing efficiency it enables.
In doing this, the team can invest saved engineering time into product work rather than maintaining parallel codebases.
Uber Eats built its restaurant-facing dashboard on React Native. They can take advantage of real-time updates and push notifications for order management.
Wix has one of the largest React Native codebases in existence, covering the main Wix app, Wix Owner, Dine by Wix, Fit by Wix, and several other products in their suite.
They're also among some of the most active open-source contributors, maintaining React Native Navigation, React Native Calendars, and React Native UI Lib.
Salesforce provides an official Mobile SDK supporting React Native, letting businesses build apps that integrate directly with Salesforce's own ecosystem.
Baidu Mobile, used by hundreds of millions of people in China, runs on React Native. Baidu has built its own React Native tooling and wrappers around its mobile analytics SDK as a result.
As the ‘Google of China’, this is a massive vote of confidence, but what interested our developers more was their use of a hybrid approach, balancing shared code where possible and custom development as needed.
Chime powers its full iOS and Android banking apps on React Native.
Their team has not just benefited from development speed. Instead, they have also cited improvements in testing strategy, since the shared codebase makes it easier to maintain compliance-related test coverage consistently across platforms.
NerdWallet's app, which is built on React Native with TypeScript and GraphQL, manages a complex personal finance experience: credit score monitoring, card comparisons, budgeting, and financial recommendations.
The previous iOS-only app served a fraction of their addressable audience, while React Native extended Android coverage without requiring a parallel team.
Originally a native app built separately in Objective-C and Java, Words with Friends moved to React Native for code reusability once the performance gap between native and cross-platform narrowed enough not to matter for a game of its type.
The Vogue app, consistently ranked among top App Store lifestyle apps, runs its content and video experience on React Native.
Activision Blizzard built the Call of Duty Companion App on React Native, JavaScript, Redux, and React Navigation.
Everything works together to handle in-game stat tracking and achievements across devices.
Bluesky, the decentralized social platform, runs production React Native for its social feed experience.
The framework keeps attracting new, technically serious teams.
If you're building a mobile product and evaluating React Native against the alternatives, or you already know it's the right stack and need engineers who've shipped it in production, Trio places senior React Native developers with real fintech experience specifically.
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