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Alex Kugell
Key Takeaways
- React Native’s “New Architecture” (the Fabric renderer and the JSI native-communication layer) became the default in React Native 0.76 in October 2024, and React Native 0.82 (October 2025) is the first release that runs on it exclusively, addressing much of the performance criticism that followed the framework since its early years.
- Shopify, Discord, Microsoft, and Meta all run real production apps on React Native today, and Coinbase and Bloomberg have published their own migration stories.
- Fintech companies such as Coinbase, Chime, and NerdWallet build customer-facing finance apps on React Native, which says something about how far the framework’s reliability has come.
- The framework remains most attractive for teams that want one codebase across iOS and Android.
What Is React Native?
React Native is an open-source framework for cross-platform mobile development, created by Facebook (now Meta) in 2015. Meta announced in October 2025 that it would donate React and React Native to the React Foundation, hosted by the Linux Foundation.
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.
What Changed: React Native’s New Architecture
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 October 2024, and React Native 0.82, released in October 2025, removed the option to run the old architecture altogether.
This addressed much of the performance overhead that earlier adopters struggled with, though large apps still drop into native code for their hottest paths, as Discord does below.
19 Companies Using React Native
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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1. Shopify
Shopify, a platform processing billions in merchant sales volume, says in React Native’s own showcase that all of its mobile apps are built with React Native, and it has publicly discussed achieving around 86% unified code across iOS and Android.
Alongside this, Shopify open-sources much of its React Native tooling, such as the FlashList component that Discord now uses in its own app.
2. Discord
Discord’s mobile apps run on React Native, handling real-time messaging at real scale.
The engineering team has written publicly about cutting its median app startup time in half during 2023, after moving its Android app to React Native in 2022 had hurt startup times on lower-end devices.
It also rebuilt its Android emoji picker natively where React Native could not keep up, a useful reminder that shared code and native code often coexist in the same app.
3. Coinbase
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, which Coinbase described in 2020.
4. Instagram
Meta’s own React Native showcase lists Instagram for its Meta Quest app, alongside Facebook, Facebook Ads Manager, Meta Horizon, and Messenger Desktop.
Meta does not publish how much of the Instagram iOS and Android apps run on React Native today, but we can assume that it is a significant amount.
5. Bloomberg
Bloomberg built its new consumer mobile app on React Native, in a 2018 company story.
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.
6. Tesla
Tesla’s owner app, covering vehicle monitoring, remote control, and charging management, is widely reported to run on React Native, layered with native code specifically where it matters most, like 3D vehicle visualization.
Just keep in mind that Tesla has not published its mobile stack itself.
7. Walmart
Walmart reported sharing roughly 95% of its codebase between Android and iOS through React Native, in a 2018 engineering post.
That approach lets one team of JavaScript developers maintain both platforms.
8. Microsoft Teams
Microsoft’s mobile Teams client runs on React Native, alongside Office, Outlook, and Xbox Game Pass. 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.
9. Pinterest
Pinterest uses React Native as an additional tool alongside its native iOS and Android code, 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.
10. Uber Eats
Uber Eats built its restaurant-facing dashboard on React Native. They can take advantage of real-time updates and push notifications for order management.
11. Wix
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.
12. Salesforce
Salesforce provides an official Mobile SDK supporting React Native, letting businesses build apps that integrate directly with Salesforce’s own ecosystem.
13. Baidu
Baidu Mobile, used by hundreds of millions of people in China, has (at least at some point) run on React Native, and Baidu built its own React Native tooling and wrappers around its mobile analytics SDK as a result.
As the ‘Google of China,’ this was a notable vote of confidence, but what interested our developers more was Baidu’s hybrid approach, balancing shared code where possible and custom development as needed.
14. Chime
Chime builds its iOS and Android apps with React Native alongside native iOS and Android code, according to its own mobile engineering job listing, which describes working across React Native, native code, and a GraphQL API for a member base of millions.
Chime is a useful example of the mixed approach that many neobank teams weigh: shared React Native code for most of the app, and native code where the platform requires it.
15. NerdWallet
NerdWallet’s app, which is built on React Native with TypeScript and GraphQL, manages a complex personal finance experience that involves 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.
16. Words with Friends
Words with Friends has a mobile client team that works in React Native and Unity, according to a Zynga job listing.
17. Vogue
The Vogue app has been cited as a React Native build for its content and video experience, though Condé Nast has not published its mobile stack.
18. Call of Duty Companion App
Activision Blizzard built the Call of Duty Companion App on React Native, JavaScript, Redux, and React Navigation, as its engineers described in 2019 and 2020.
Everything works together to handle in-game stat tracking and achievements across devices.
19. Bluesky
Bluesky, the decentralized social platform, runs production React Native for its social feed experience.
The framework keeps attracting new, technically serious teams.
Why Companies Choose React Native
Speed: Shipping one codebase instead of two compresses timelines meaningfully, and Shopify’s roughly 86% shared code is one published example. Exact savings depend heavily on how platform-specific a given app actually needs to be.
Real native performance: React Native renders genuine native UI components, not a website inside an app shell, which is precisely what the New Architecture reinforced further.
Bridging when it’s actually needed: Developers can drop into platform-specific native code for anything that genuinely requires it, like a specific hardware integration, without losing the shared-codebase benefit everywhere else.
A large, active ecosystem: React Native remains one of the most widely used mobile frameworks by developer count. In Stack Overflow’s 2024 developer survey, the last year the question was asked, 8.4% of developers had used React Native against 9.4% for Flutter, so the two were close. JavaScript is also the most widely known language among engineers, making a React Native team meaningfully easier to staff and grow.
Release cadence and secure storage: React Native ships new minor versions roughly every month or two; Flutter moves on a quarterly cadence. Both also pushed through mandatory rendering overhauls on a similar timeline (New Architecture in 0.82, Impeller default in 3.47). Neither ships first-party secure storage, so vet react-native-keychain or flutter_secure_storage before compliance sign-off.
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, through staff augmentation with senior Latin American developers.
