The growth of React Native technology is quite interesting. It started in 2013 as a Hackathon project at Facebook Inc. Today, eight years later, React Native is one of the most popular app development frameworks.
React Native is used by lots of startups and fortune 500 companies for their mobile app development projects. For the past two years, close to half of the app developers worldwide have been using React Native for building apps.
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What is React Native?
React Native is an open-source framework built by the social media giant Facebook to build mobile apps for Android, iOS, macOS, Web, and Windows. It is a robust framework that helps mobile app developers to create truly native apps without compromising user experiences.
After the brief introduction of React Native, let’s take a look at some of the famous and freshly developed smartphone apps built with React Native.
Smartphone Apps Developed on React Native Framework
1. NerdWallet
NerdWallet helps users to better manage their personal finance by exploring insights.
Features:
➤ Users can monitor their cash flows
➤ Able to view complete personal finance
➤ Get notifications regarding any changes in credit score
➤ Get personalized tips to enhance credit score
➤ Check the highest-earning credit card per category
Ratings: 4.6
2. Artsy
Artsy is an art marketplace app that includes 1 million+ artwork by 100,000+ artists. Users can collect art from galleries across the globe, make bids and sell artworks from collections.
Features:
➤ Gather artworks from leading art galleries and auction houses
➤ Make bid in the live auction
➤ Follow Favorite artists
➤ Sell artworks from your collection
Download: iOS
3. Saffron
Saffron is a fantastic app for people who love to prepare recipes and those who have taken cooking as a business. It is pretty much easy to manage all your recipes with this digital cookbook.
Features:
➤ Quickly edit recipes and add extra steps to your preparation via recipe editor.
➤ Find your recipe collection by title, ingredient, and author.
➤ Easily plan your recipes by scheduling what to cook and when to cook.
Ratings: 4.6
4. Foreca
An excellent, convenient, quick, and accurate weather forecasting app offers local and long-range weather forecasts, radar maps, notifications, and critical weather updates worldwide.
Features:
➤ Precipitation notifications
➤ Get to know the weather current day and tomorrow
➤ Able to see forecast up to 10-days
➤ Meteogram provides the weather trend quickly.
➤ Check out the weather in user’s favorite places
Ratings: 4.7
5. Oculus
With Oculus app, users can manage their Oculus VR device, look for 1,000+ apps in the Oculus Store, and explore live VR events.
Features:
➤ Browse and purchase VR games from the Oculus Store
➤ Install VR apps on Oculus Rift remotely
➤ Book virtual seat for live events and concerts
➤ Manage Oculus devices and accounts
6. Airbnb
Airbnb mobile app is a platform where people (hosts) can list their homes for renting purposes, and guests can use this app for accommodations.
Features:
➤ Guests can search for accommodations
➤ Get alerts and booking notifications
➤ Guests can give Ratings and reviews to share their experiences
➤ Hosts can list their spaces directly & get hosting tips
➤ Find community
Ratings: 4.6
7. SoundCloud
SoundCloud is the app for artists, music fans, and curators to accelerate music culture forward. It is the world’s biggest music and audio streaming platform with millions of tracks and has a vast community of artists across the globe.
Features:
➤ Search for millions of rising and well-established artists, DJs, and podcasters
➤ Enjoy listening to music
➤ Get recommended music tracks as per the user’s listening habits
➤ Discover SoundCloud Charts for the best music in each category
➤ Directly get in touch with artists and fellow listeners
➤ Make playlists for any occasion
Ratings: 4.5
8. Myntra
Myntra is an e-commerce app for buying Indian apparel for women, men & kids, and home décor items. The company was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India. In May 2014, Flipkart acquired Myntra.
Features:
➤ Browse and order your desire items online
➤ Easily track your shopping order
➤ Pay online for your purchased items online
➤ Add your items to your wishlist for future buying
➤ Give reviews and ratings
Ratings: 4.3
9. Skype
Skype is a video calling mobile app. It helps users to connect via video chat, voice calls, and instant messaging.
Features:
➤ Make a one-to-one video call or can even make a video conference call
➤ Users can chat with friends by instant messaging or can even create a group chat for a reunion
➤ Share photos and videos with friends
➤ Make voice calls to anyone across the globe
➤ Make the chat expressive with unique emoticons and Giphy
Ratings: 4.3
10. UberEATS
UberEats is a well-known food ordering and delivery app. Uber launched this online platform in 2014, and it is available on iOS and Android mobile platforms.
Features:
➤ Users can read menus
➤ Order food online from participating restaurants
➤ Multiple payment modes available
➤ Give reviews and ratings
Ratings: 4.3
11. Bloomberg
Bloomberg is a fantastic app in the global business and finance space. Business professionals, financial professionals, and avid business readers get updates on business and financial markets by gaining access to global business and finance news and market data from this online platform.
Features:
➤ Monitor, manage and analyze personal holdings (stocks, mutual funds, etc.)
➤ Watch Bloomberg TV Live without any Cable or Satellite subscription.
➤ Listen to interviews and in-depth analysis from eminent personalities in the Global Finance and Business world.
➤ Read featured news and trending stories across the globe.
12. Facebook Ads Manager
Facebook has given this powerful tool to marketers for creating and tracking Facebook ads as part of social media marketing.
Features:
➤ Track the performance of ads.
➤ Create and edit ads by updating creatives, audience, and budget.
➤ Turn campaigns on and off
➤ Get notification about all created ads
➤ Do a comparison of campaigns and ad sets using a side-by-side view
➤ Move between multiple ad accounts
13. Coinbase Pro
A fantastic app where traders can trade cryptocurrency securely. The platform is built on blockchain technology.
Features:
➤ Users can check the portfolio of crypto-assets and their value in fiat currencies.
➤ Deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies
➤ Check past and active orders, fees & limits, trade history for specific pair
➤ Create an order to buy and sell cryptocurrencies from each trading pair
Ratings: 4.2
Closing Words
While you read this article, many well-known brands have chosen React Native for mobile app development and choosing to be successful in this mobile-centric world.
If you too want to flourish your business exponentially, bank on React Native. With this feature-packed framework, you can save time & cost and multi-fold your business reach as React Native-based apps serve both Android & iOS users.
