The best React Native agencies for startups, scored

On public evidence, the best React Native agency for most startups is GeekyAnts, with a perfect 10 of 10: it’s an official Expo Consultant, it built NativeBase, it shows MVP builds, and its Clutch minimum is $10,000 at $25 to $49 an hour. Software Mansion comes second with 8, then Pagepro and Margelo with 7 each.

We wrote this guide, so weigh that. We left ourselves out of the ranking. Where we fit is in a box at the end.

Who this is for: a founder with a seed or pre-seed budget who wants an outside team to build a first iOS and Android app in React Native. Who should look elsewhere: if you need to grow your own team, hire. If you need a performance rescue on a big app that’s already live, the library maintainers in this list (Software Mansion, Callstack, Margelo) are a better fit than any startup studio, whatever their score here.

We read the top results for “best React Native agency for startups” before writing this. Most are written by agencies that rank themselves first. Codiant’s US list, eSparkBiz’s ranking, and Rubyroid Labs’ list each put their own company at number one. None of the ones we read publish a scoring rule. This list starts from a list we didn’t write: Expo’s own consultants page, which says “Here are some of our trusted consultants that you can hire to help you with your next big Expo project.”

How we scored them

Each agency gets 0, 1, or 2 points on five criteria, for a total out of 10. We only counted what we could open on a public page on 2026-10-13. A low score means we found little public evidence. It does not mean the work is bad.

Ties are ordered by startup builds, then budget fit, then by name. Star counts come from the GitHub API on 2026-10-13. Clutch figures come from each profile on the same day. They change, so check the profile before you rely on one.

Why Expo status counts: Expo is now the default way to start a React Native app. The React Native docs say “most developers benefit from using a React Native Framework like Expo.” We wrote about the trade-offs in Expo or bare React Native. Being on Expo’s page is the one quality signal in this field that the agency can’t award itself.

Why budget fit counts twice as much as fame: a startup’s first app usually has to ship on one funding round. An agency with a $100,000 minimum may be excellent and still wrong for you.

The scores at a glance

1. GeekyAnts: best overall for a startup on a seed budget

• Expo (2): listed on Expo’s consultants page, which says they’re “the creators of gluestack-ui” and NativeBase.
• Open source (2): NativeBase has 20,365 stars and gluestack-ui has 5,324.
• Startup builds (2): for Liviit, the founder “employed GeekyAnts to shift a social media web-app to a mobile app in React Native”, with “a team of two React Native engineers”. Their case studies page also lists SilverStack, described as “a film photography concept” turned “into a scalable MVP using custom camera filters, React Native, and rapid cross-platform development”.
• Budget fit (2): Clutch lists a $10,000+ minimum and $25 to $49 an hour.
• Reviews (2): 4.9 from 120 reviews on Clutch. Based in Bengaluru, with offices in San Francisco and London.

Pick them if you want a large React Native bench at offshore rates. For more teams in that price range, see our list of affordable offshore React Native teams. With 250 to 999 staff, ask who exactly will work on your app, and meet them before you sign.

2. Software Mansion: best when the app is hard (animation, gestures, performance)

• Expo (2): Expo’s page calls them “the top contributing group to Expo”.
• Open source (2): they maintain Reanimated (11,023 stars) and Gesture Handler (6,793). There’s a good chance your app will use both.
• Startup builds (1): the Campy case study says “Campy started developing the camping app in-house”, and Software Mansion came in “using our React Native skills to enhance the app’s functionality and usability”. Most named work on their site improves an existing app rather than building a first version.
• Budget fit (1): Clutch lists a $10,000+ minimum, at $100 to $149 an hour.
• Reviews (2): 4.8 from 24 reviews on Clutch. Based in Kraków, Poland.

Pick them if your app lives or dies on smooth animation, gestures, or rich media. Their site says they help “founders and Fortune 500 teams get from idea to launch”.

3. Pagepro: best for an Expo-first build with a web team in the same shop

• Expo (2): listed on Expo’s page for “narrow-and-deep Next.js, Expo and Sanity expertise”.
• Open source (0): no React Native library we could find on their GitHub.
• Startup builds (2): their Expo development page links case studies for Payhip, a web-only store platform that got its first mobile app in React Native and Expo, and Evouchers, a merchant app built “in 4 sprints over 8 weeks” on React Native and Expo. Pagepro’s site returned 403 to our checker, so we read these from the case-study pages as shown in search results. Open them to confirm.
• Budget fit (1): Clutch lists a $25,000+ minimum, at $50 to $99 an hour.
• Reviews (2): 4.9 from 32 reviews on Clutch. Based in Białystok, Poland.

Pick them if you want the app and a Next.js marketing site or web app built by one team.

4. Margelo: best for camera, 3D, or heavy native work

• Expo (2): Expo’s page calls them “a high-end React Native agency focused on powerful and beautiful high-performance mobile apps”.
• Open source (2): they maintain VisionCamera (9,646 stars), MMKV (8,515), and Nitro (1,963).
• Startup builds (1): their homepage offers “Idea to AppStore” and quotes a founder: “Steddy’s MVP launched with a level of performance and responsiveness that even I couldn’t imagine.” Most of the named work there is performance help for big apps such as Discord.
• Budget fit (1): Clutch lists a $5,000+ minimum, but $200 to $300 an hour.
• Reviews (1): 4.5 from 1 review on Clutch.

Pick them if the hard part of your app is the camera, 3D, or native speed. At their rate, a small minimum doesn’t mean a small bill.

5. STRV: best for a funded startup that wants a polished first app

• Expo (2): listed on Expo’s page, which says their apps have reached “#1 in the App Store, winning Apple Design Awards and Webby Awards”.
• Open source (0): their top GitHub repositories have about 100 stars and aren’t React Native libraries.
• Startup builds (2): for Kindred, “Kindred’s debut mobile app was developed by STRV” and “We used React Native for mobile”. STRV says that after “the launch of its STRV-built MVP, the company saw a 10x increase in monthly trip bookings” (their number). The Pump is a second React Native build.
• Budget fit (0): Clutch lists a $100,000+ minimum and $100 to $149 an hour.
• Reviews (2): 4.8 from 60 reviews on Clutch. Based in Prague, with an office in San Francisco.

Pick them if you’ve raised a real round and want a design-led team that has shipped startup MVPs before. Below $100,000, they’re out of reach.

6. Callstack: best for a React Native platform team, less so for a first MVP

• Expo (2): listed on Expo’s page, which says they work with companies “from small startups to big corporate clients”.
• Open source (2): they maintain React Native Paper (14,469 stars), React Native Testing Library (3,421), and Re.Pack (1,946).
• Startup builds (1): their case studies are mostly performance and migration work for Expensify, Dream11, AutoZone, and others. The homepage has a “From Startups to Fortune 500” heading.
• Budget fit (0): their Clutch profile shows no minimum and no hourly rate. Its most common project size is “$50,000 to $199,999 based on 2 reviews”.
• Reviews (1): 4.8 from 2 reviews on Clutch.

Pick them once your app is live and growing, and you need architecture, speed, or brownfield work.

7. Infinite Red: best senior team for a startup with a large budget

• Expo (2): listed on Expo’s page, which mentions “the popular Ignite boilerplate and Reactotron debugging app”.
• Open source (2): Ignite (19,937 stars), a starter kit many React Native apps begin from, and Reactotron (15,591).
• Startup builds (1): the GasBuddy rebuild was “Bringing React Native to one of the top apps on the store”, a well-known app rather than a startup. A client quote on their homepage says “They took our prototype and built it into a working production MVP”, but it doesn’t link a case study.
• Budget fit (0): Clutch lists a $100,000+ minimum and $200 to $300 an hour.
• Reviews (1): 4.8 from 2 reviews on Clutch.

Pick them if you want the people who wrote the starter kit, and the budget isn’t the constraint. Even if you can’t hire them, Ignite is free.

8. Chop Dawg: best for a non-technical founder who wants a price before the call

• Expo (0): not on Expo’s consultants page.
• Open source (0): we found no public code.
• Startup builds (1): for Wegloo, they were hired to build “a production-ready MVP for iOS, Android, and web”, with “React Native for the mobile apps”. Their site lists dozens of other client apps, but most pages we read don’t name the stack.
• Budget fit (2): their pricing page says “MVP You Can Ship: Starts at $7.5K/mo”, on a “fixed-monthly budget”. Clutch lists a $1,000+ minimum and $50 to $99 an hour. Checked 2026-10-13.
• Reviews (2): 4.8 from 112 reviews on Clutch. Based in Philadelphia.

Pick them if you have no technical co-founder and want strategy and design in the same package. Their site doesn’t commit to React Native, so ask which stack they’d use for you.

9. Morrow: best for fixing or relaunching a React Native app

• Expo (2): listed on Expo’s page, which says “If your app is broken or needs refactoring then we also offer remedial services.”
• Open source (0): none found.
• Startup builds (1): for Ownable, “The new strategy required a complete revamp of their legacy React Native app”, and “We leverage Expo for automated deployment”. Kura was also an overhaul. Both are rebuilds, not first versions.
• Budget fit (1): Clutch lists a $10,000+ minimum, at $100 to $149 an hour.
• Reviews (1): 5.0 from 18 reviews on Clutch. Based in Bristol, UK.

Pick them if your first app was built cheaply and now needs saving. Their site also sells a fixed Expo App Audit: “In less than a week, we equip you with a complete code review.”

10. App&Flow: best small senior studio for a startup that bills monthly

• Expo (2): their homepage says Expo has been “Recommending us since 2016”.
• Open source (1): they maintain react-native-safe-area-context (2,766 stars).
• Startup builds (1): the homepage names startup clients, such as Fin (“Backed by Sequoia”) and Point (“$46.5m Series B”), but links no case studies and doesn’t name the stack per app.
• Budget fit (0): Clutch lists a $25,000+ minimum, at $100 to $149 an hour.
• Reviews (1): 4.9 from 14 reviews on Clutch. Based in Canada.

Their product team is “Two engineers, billed monthly”, which they say is “Best for: Companies going mobile for the first time, startups launching a new product”.

11. Theodo: best when you also want your own team trained

• Expo (2): Expo’s page says they have “over 100+ mobile engineers, specialising in React Native since 2015”.
• Open source (1): Expo’s page credits them with Flashlight, a mobile performance tool. bamlab/flashlight has 1,608 stars.
• Startup builds (1): their Cleo case study is titled “Building a React Native Chatbot App To Unlock New Growth Opportunities for a FinTech Startup”. It describes an MVP built while training Cleo’s own team. That’s one named startup build.
• Budget fit (0): Clutch lists a $25,000+ minimum and no hourly rate.
• Reviews (1): 4.7 from 13 reviews on Clutch.

Pick them if you want an agency to build the app and leave your own engineers able to run it.

12. Echobind: best for a US team that builds and then joins yours

• Expo (2): listed on Expo’s page.
• Open source (0): their top GitHub repository, Bison, is a web starter. We found no React Native library.
• Startup builds (1): their React Native page names Pear Therapeutics, Axios, and Univision’s PrendeTV. The Pear case study describes helping “the Pear Therapeutics team research, develop and publish their app”. None is clearly a startup first version.
• Budget fit (0): Clutch lists a $25,000+ minimum and no hourly rate.
• Reviews (1): 4.9 from 12 reviews on Clutch. Based in Boston.

The page says “We can design and build from scratch, audit your existing app, or augment your team.”

Checked and left off

• Calda is on Expo’s consultants page, but its homepage names FlutterFlow, not React Native or Expo, so we couldn’t score its React Native work.
• G2i is on Expo’s page, but it’s a talent platform that supplies engineers, not a studio that builds apps.
• Nearform is on Expo’s page, but its public work is mostly enterprise.
• Agencies that rank themselves first in the search results (Codiant, eSparkBiz, Rubyroid Labs, and others) weren’t scored. We may add them if they send named React Native startup builds.

If you run a React Native studio and we missed your public work, send us the links and we’ll score you by the same rules.

How to choose a React Native agency as a startup

1. Check the Expo page first. It takes a minute, and the agency can’t put itself there.
2. Ask for an app you can install. A store link from the last 12 months tells you more than a portfolio page.
3. Ask who owns the accounts. The Apple Developer account, Google Play account, and Expo account should be in your company’s name from day one.
4. Ask how a fix reaches users. With Expo, small JavaScript fixes can go out through EAS Update without a store review. Native changes still need one.
5. Match the minimum to your round. Clutch minimums on this list run from $1,000 to $100,000+. If your budget is under the minimum, the call is wasted on both sides.
6. Read reviews for scope changes. Every rated agency here sits between 4.5 and 5.0. The text of the reviews tells you more than the stars. Our guide to vetting an offshore team covers what to look for.

Who should pick whom

FAQ

How much does a React Native agency cost for a startup MVP?

Among the agencies here, published floors run from Chop Dawg’s “Starts at $7.5K/mo” for an MVP to Clutch minimums of $100,000+ at STRV and Infinite Red. Hourly rates on Clutch run from $25 to $49 (GeekyAnts) to $200 to $300 (Margelo, Infinite Red). All checked 2026-10-13. Budget for store fees too: our App Store and Google Play fee calculator has the 2026 rates. Cloud builds are a monthly cost too. Our EAS Build pricing comparison puts EAS next to Codemagic, Bitrise, and GitHub Actions.

What is an Expo Consultant?

A firm listed on Expo’s own consultants page. Expo calls them “trusted consultants”. The page doesn’t publish how firms are chosen, but the agency can’t add itself, which makes it a useful first filter.

Should a startup hire a React Native agency or a freelancer?

A freelancer can be cheaper for a small MVP, but you take on the project management and the risk if they leave. An agency costs more per hour and covers design, QA, and store release. Whichever you pick, keep the store and code accounts in your own name.

Is React Native still a good choice for a startup app in 2026?

For most startups, yes, especially if anyone on the team writes JavaScript or TypeScript. If your backend team writes C#, read React Native or .NET MAUI first.

If you want a quote for a first mobile app in React Native or Expo, tell us what you’re building and we’ll send a written scope first.