Why we should choose React Native over Flutter in 2025 [Complete Guide]

React Native and Flutter both are the most famous mobile app development framework among developers. And sometimes we get confused about which framework to develop our mobile app.

This both the technologies are used to develop a cross-platform application or in another word hybrid application.

What is a Hybrid application?

A simple definition of a hybrid application is an app that is a combination of a Native app and a Web app, Here your application can access all the hardware devices of your mobile and run similarly to a native app.

Some examples of Hybrid applications are Instagram, Twitter, Uber, Gmail, and many more.

And yes React Native and Flutter both are used to develop a hybrid application

But the question is here who is the best for your project

So let's understand this and  measure both the technologies on the basis of some parameters like Design, Adoption, Documentation, Community, hardware access, and Performance and I will give some score on each of the parameters like Design

1) Design 

For any mobile application design is very important to the looks and feel the end user will get while using the app, This makes him use the app more and more.

In Flutter you can kickstart your project with code snippets and app templates offered by Flutter UI

But Flutter comes with a limited number of UI widgets so if you want to create any new design then you have to code it from scratch. So if you have any application design which is litter bit complex then the developer may take more time to design.

Whereas in react native you will get a waste number of UI libraries for your screen designing some of the most famous UI libraries of react native are React Native Paper, React native elements, and many more.

In react native complex to complex designs are easy to develop. And it also allows the developer to design the app with a native look and feel

Flutter : 0 and React Native: 1

2) Adoption : 

Flutter uses Dart programming language which was released in May 2017 whereas React native uses Javascript which is the most popular programming language nowadays

So if you need a website and a mobile application and if your web application is developed in React js, Angular Js, or Vue js then it becomes easy for the same developer to learn to react native and develop a mobile app for you,  that means you can develop and web and mobile app with the same developer which will, after all, reduce your cost, 

Whereas you have to hire a separate developer who know Flutter and Dart to develop the app, Which means the adoption curse for a web developer is high to switch to react native as compared to Flutter.

Score Board 
Flutter : 0 and React Native: 1

3) Documentation : 

Documentation of Flutter is excellent, highly organized, and yes has all the answers to the possible questions,

Although development in Flutter is a little bit slow then also developer consider it due to its well-structured documentation.

Scoreboard : Flutter: 1 and React Native : 0

4) Community 

React Native was released in 2015 by Facebook and it is a very popular framework on Stackoverflow with more than 300k tagged questions 

Whereas Flutter was released in 2017 by Google so it has a smaller community and developers are adopting it slowly, Flutter has around 89k+ tagged questions on StackOverflow.

Scoreboard: Flutter : 0 and React native: 1

5) Hardware access 

When we are going for developing a mobile application is need some hardware access to device like storage, camera, speaker, gyro, gesture, and many other things, 

It is difficult for web applications to access the hardware devices

But

Here we are talking about a hybrid framework which is flutter and react native

Flutter has unified libraries to access your hardware devices whereas react native has a wide range of libraries from the community to access the hardware

From my point of view, both frameworks can easily access hardware and give you a better experience but yes in Flutter you will get a limited number of libraries, and react native offers a robust ecosystem of modules that enables you to access and utilize the hardware capabilities.

In this case, both are winners so

Scoreboard ▶️ Flutter: 1 React Native :1

6) Performance 

When we develop an app user first checks the performance if the app is running slow and hanging then he directly uninstalls the mobile app. 

So, in this case, you have to be very serious about choosing a technology according to your requirement. 

Flutter is very famous among developers due to its high-performing UI rendering and it uses its own rendering engine whereas react native relies on native UI Components and it suffers some performance issues due to bridge communication between Javascript and native code

Scoreboard : Flutter: 1 and React native : 0

So hope you understand this

So let's count the final result 

The total score of React Native is 4 👏

The total score of Flutter is 3 

So our winner is React native 

As you can see on the parameters like  Design, Adoption, Documentation, Community, hardware access, and Performance react native become the winner and these are very important parameters for anyone who is going to develop and mobile application on a large scale. 

Many people consider React native in this case also because it is very compatible with Node js which is being used now a day for developing scalable applications and Flutter is compatible with Firebase as a backend

Google Trend

If we check on Google Trends which is more popular between React Native and Flutter so obviously we can see that Flutter is more popular than react native 
Let me give you the reason 

See Flutter is new and it is a product of Google you know that Google is the king of the internet so it definitely flutter will become popular and people want to learn this and after all the documentation of Flutter is very structured and easy to understand for a new developer 

Blue is React and Red is Flutter

But let's come one step back

React Native is a mobile framework of React (Which is a very famous Js library) and is widely used in frontend development

First, let's see the statistic of React JS with other frameworks 

Here React is high in the trend

React is popular because of its performance and many companies like User, Meta, and Zendesk used it for their UI development 

Now why I am shown this 

Because you must know that if any React developer wants to learn app development also then he will not prefer Flutter he will prefer react native so if you want to develop any project in React JS or you can say MERN stack then you must prefer React Native with it.

Hope you understand what I want to tell.

Why react native is considered to develop and highly scalable mobile app

There are many reasons to consider react native for developing highly scalable applications. Firstly, it allows developers to write code once and deploy it across multiple platforms, such as iOS and Android. This code reusability significantly reduces development time, effort, and money, making it efficient for scaling applications.

The next thing is, React Native offers excellent performance by reutilizing native components. It helps in the native rendering capabilities of each platform, resulting in a complex UI becoming faster and smoother. This performance optimization helps to maintain scalability even as the app grows in complexity.

Additionally, React Native has a vast ecosystem of ready-to-use libraries and components, which accelerates development and further enhances scalability. These libraries provide access to device features and APIs, allowing developers to integrate various functionalities with any problem.

Like Flutter, React Native also allows for hot reloading, enabling developers to see real-time changes during the development process.

So the final conclusion is, React Native is backed by a strong community and continuous updates from Facebook (now Meta), ensuring ongoing support and improvements. This support system adds to its credibility and makes it a reliable choice for building scalable mobile applications.

About the Author : 

Hi, I am Akhil Kumar Srivastava Founder and CEO of Mayankal We deals in Mobile app development and business solutions like Taxi booking, Bike rental, and Car Rental App, Hope you will like this video for any query you can connect me at mayankalcompany@gmail.com