pick 01 · written by us
Digital Heroes
New York head office without engineers; build teams in Delhi and Lucknow, plus mobile engineers in Sydney · since 2017 · React Native by default
Our first place is for one kind of buyer: a business paying for its first app on both stores, which wants a single firm to carry it from scope to release and wants the contract on its side. Our CTO, Divyansh Singh, made React Native the team's default whenever an app must run on iOS and Android, so our advice leans that way unless your app needs something it handles badly.
The work we can name is the AirTrainr athlete and trainer apps, built in React Native with Expo and Supabase. That is also the weak spot. It is our one named cross-platform build on this page, we have no Flutter or Kotlin Multiplatform app to show you, and six firms below maintain libraries that other teams install, which we cannot match.
We lead on terms. A paid two-week discovery comes first, then a fixed price. You hold the repositories and cloud accounts from sprint one, a week without a recorded demo of working code goes unbilled, and the code we write for you becomes yours when the final invoice is paid.
Our New York office at 1140 Broadway holds leadership and account directors, not engineers, and replies on the same business day; its hours are 9 AM to 6 PM Eastern. Our Clutch profile shows 5.0 from 66 verified reviews (checked 13 October 2026). How we run an app build, platform by platform, is on our mobile app development page.
Fits: a company launching its first iOS and Android app with a backend, on a fixed scope, that wants answers in Eastern business hours and the code kept in accounts under its own name.
Does not fit: a large React Native app already in trouble, where Callstack or Software Mansion bring framework depth we do not; a team set on Flutter or Kotlin Multiplatform; and contracts that require engineers inside the United States, which Infinite Red offers and we do not.
pick 02
Callstack
Wroclaw, Poland, the only address on its site · founded 2016 · React Native, React and native engineering
Callstack opened in Wroclaw in 2016, a few months after React Native went public. Its about page counts more than 300 commits to the framework and says it was a founding member of the React Foundation. React Navigation and React Native Paper are among the open-source libraries it maintains, and it says it passed 200 people in 2024.
Its case studies run at enterprise size: moving AutoZone's iOS and Android apps to React Native, putting one React Native codebase on five TV platforms for a Samsung TV launch, and training HelloFresh engineers. The service page promises engineers in your codebase within the first week, help with stalled New Architecture upgrades, and that you own everything it builds.
Fits: companies with a React Native app at scale and a hard problem: a stalled upgrade, slow screens, React Native added to an existing native app, or a move onto TVs and other screens.
Does not fit: a first app on a small fixed budget, which its enterprise case list does not show; Flutter projects; and buyers who want an office in their own country, since the site names only Wroclaw and offers flexible time zone coverage instead.
pick 03
Software Mansion
Krakow, Poland, listed on NewConnect · 14 years in custom software · 400+ people
Software Mansion presents itself as one of the firms at the centre of React Native's development, and names itself a co-creator of the React Foundation. Its tools include Reanimated and React Native ExecuTorch, which runs PyTorch models on the phone itself. Mobile is one practice among several: the same firm works in Elixir, live video, web apps and AI.
Its Partiful case shows the native depth. To bring the Android app level with iOS, the team built transparent video natively on Android, because the player behind the usual React Native video libraries drops the alpha channel, and rendered it with OpenGL. It then added Live Activities to the iOS app in Swift and SwiftUI.
Fits: React Native apps that need native work the framework does not cover, such as custom video, heavy animation, gestures or models running on the device.
Does not fit: Flutter or .NET projects, and buyers who want a local office, as the contact page gives one address, in Krakow. With 400+ people across several practices, ask who on your account works on mobile full time.
pick 04
Very Good Ventures
No office address; a fully remote team of 120+ · started 2018 · Flutter first
Very Good Ventures' founders shipped the first commercial Flutter app, for Hamilton: The Musical, in 2018, and the firm says Google trusted it with the Flutter Gallery and the Google I/O conference app. It lists six Google Developer Experts on staff, maintains packages such as very_good_cli and very_good_analysis, and writes unit, widget and integration tests for every feature.
Its recent cases lean to migration: Scooter's Coffee's separate native iOS and Android apps moved into Flutter with a multi-agent AI pipeline, plus Flutter apps for Universal Destinations, the air carrier JSX and Blade. It describes its clients as mid-market and enterprise brands and counts more than 250 projects.
Fits: mid-market and enterprise brands choosing Flutter, especially those folding two native apps into one codebase or adding web and desktop from the same code.
Does not fit: teams committed to React Native, since its pitch, tools and case list are Flutter; early startups below the mid-market clients it names; and anyone who wants to meet the team in an office, because it has none.
pick 05
Infinite Red
Fully remote across the United States · over a decade in software · React Native, Expo, Swift and Kotlin
The pick for a team that is entirely in the US. Infinite Red says its engineers average 15 years of experience, that it hires mostly at senior level, and that three of its people sit on the React Native core team. It has more than 75 React Native projects behind it, maintains Ignite and Reactotron, and has run the Chain React conference in Portland, Oregon, since 2017.
Named work includes more than a year with Microsoft on Bluejeans, a video messaging app, a bulk freight app for BulkLoads, and a Mercari case study. Besides new builds, it sells audits of existing React Native code and planned version upgrades.
Fits: US companies whose contracts, data rules or comfort call for a team inside the United States, building or rescuing a React Native and Expo app.
Does not fit: Flutter or Kotlin Multiplatform work, and programs that need several squads at once, as its team page lists fewer than 30 people. There is no office to visit; the whole team works remotely.
pick 06
LeanCode
Warsaw, Poland, its only address · Flutter as core technology since 2018 · 80+ experts
LeanCode is the bank-scale Flutter pick. For Credit Agricole Bank Polska it put 30 Flutter developers on the CA24 Mobile banking app for 12 months. It says it appears among the recommended Flutter consultants on flutter.dev, employs two Google Developer Experts for Dart and Flutter, and has finished more than 60 Flutter projects.
Its own open-source project, Patrol, is a Flutter UI testing framework that can operate the phone itself, opening the notification shade or switching Wi-Fi and location, so tests cover what a real user does. The firm also moves apps to Flutter from Xamarin, .NET MAUI and React Native.
Fits: banks, fintechs and large companies that want a big Flutter team with automated UI testing, and owners of a Xamarin app heading to Flutter.
Does not fit: React Native shops, since its Flutter page calls Flutter the default for new apps and sells React Native to Flutter migrations, and US buyers who want a US address; the site gives only Warsaw.
pick 07
Touchlab
1216 Broadway, New York · Kotlin Multiplatform in production since 2018 · Kotlin Foundation member
Touchlab takes the other road. Instead of one shared interface, Kotlin Multiplatform shares the business logic in Kotlin and keeps a fully native interface on each platform. Touchlab is the team behind SKIE and xcode-kotlin, tools for working with shared Kotlin from Swift and Xcode, and has put KMP code into production since 2018.
Its offers can start small: a quick assessment of a KMP codebase, a best-practice code review, or a roadmap with a proof of concept, beside full development. Its adoption guide is written for teams of more than two native developers who keep native screens and add shared code, which says plainly who it serves best.
Fits: companies with separate iOS and Android teams that want to stop writing the same logic twice without changing either interface, and teams whose KMP setup has started to slow them down.
Does not fit: a first app from a small team that wants one interface written once, which is React Native or Flutter work. Its open role is for a pool of remote contractors, so ask who will staff your project.
pick 08
Simpalm
Offices in Rockville, Maryland, Tysons, Virginia, Chicago and New York · founded 2010 · React Native, Flutter, .NET MAUI and Ionic
Simpalm suits a US buyer who wants an office nearby, several frameworks and prices in writing. Its about page lists four regional offices: Rockville, Maryland, Tysons, Virginia, Chicago and New York. It builds in React Native, Flutter, .NET MAUI and Ionic, offers fixed cost, time and materials or dedicated teams, and offers to sign your NDA.
It publishes ranges most firms keep private: about $20,000 to $45,000 for a simple cross-platform MVP and $70,000 to $100,000 for advanced apps, with an MVP taking 8 to 12 weeks. Its named apps include the Mercy Prayerbook, rebuilt for iOS and Android for the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, and an online safety app for CASSA.
Fits: US nonprofits, startups and mid-sized firms that want a nearby office, a fixed-cost option and a price range in writing up front; also .NET teams choosing MAUI.
Does not fit: apps whose core is native platform work such as custom video or widgets. Simpalm's own FAQ warns that cross-platform may not suit performance-heavy apps needing high-end native features, and the cases it shows are content and community apps.
pick 09
Rishabh Software
Headquartered in Vadodara, India, with offices in Ahmedabad, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Round Rock, Texas and Harrow, UK · founded 2000 · 800+ professionals
The longest framework list here: Flutter, React Native, .NET MAUI, Kotlin Multiplatform, Ionic, NativeScript and Cordova. Its distinctive work is getting apps off Xamarin. Cases on its page include a healthcare app for an Australian public sector body, moved off Xamarin onto .NET 8, and a Xamarin to MAUI migration for a US data logger manufacturer.
It also shows apps that talk to devices: an NFC-enabled smart insulin pen app built in Flutter around a native SDK, and a Flutter smartwatch companion for an Irish IoT company. Beside the offices above, it lists an Australian phone line, and its about page counts more than 800 professionals across eight locations.
Fits: Microsoft-stack companies with a Xamarin app to move, and device makers whose app talks to NFC, Bluetooth or wearables, who want one vendor across several frameworks.
Does not fit: buyers who want a mobile-only studio, since mobile sits beside data analytics, BI, GenAI and Microsoft workplace services. Five of its seven addresses are in India, so ask where your engineers will sit and agree meeting hours before you sign.
Nine entries, not ten. We read two more firms' pages today and left both off: one still lists Xamarin among its tools for new apps, and the other's cross-platform page names no shipped app we could tie to a framework.