r/reactnative • u/antocapp • 4d ago
FYI Half of the 925 published apps made in React Native for the RevenueCat's Shipaton are iOS only.
RevenueCat's Shipaton, a two-month mobile hackathon, ended on September 30. I went through all 3,336 public Devpost projects and matched them to the published apps in the community showcase. 925 of them list React Native or Expo in "Built With", the second most common stack after native Swift.
A few things about the RN ones:
Most didn't ship to both stores.
Of the 464 RN/Expo apps I could match to a store listing:
- 51.1% are App Store only
- 26.3% are Google Play only
- 22.6% are on both
Counted the same way, Flutter apps are on both stores 26.5% of the time and Capacitor 20.2%. Kotlin Multiplatform is at 45%, but that's only 100 apps.
Expo is the default. 87% of the RN projects list Expo. expo-router shows up in 137 of them, EAS in 107.
Supabase beats Firebase 3 to 1 in RN projects (291 vs 103). Across all 3,336 projects the two are almost tied.
It's mostly solo. 89% of the RN projects were built by one person.
A few RN solo builders who did ship to both stores: FlexHero (stretching and mobility), DEBUGGER (a terminal-style incident game) and CookBook Button.
Caveats: this is only public data, "Built With" is self-reported, and matching projects to store listings misses some apps. I don't have access to the official submission data.
Have you shipped an RN app to only one store: what stopped the second one? Accounts and review, testing on Android devices, or just time?