Reviewers praise Expo’s speed, polish, and steady progress, highlighting smoother builds, strong tooling, and fewer platform headaches. Extra kudos come from founders: makers of

Cal.com

credit Expo for moving fast without wrestling with configs; makers of

Rork

note the friendly path to shipping; makers of

Playbook

point to hosted infra, OTA updates, and a paved automation path. Newcomers value simple setup and debugging. Some caution about npm compatibility, but most say it removes friction and avoids lock‑in.

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cross-platform development (9)

fast development (9)

react native integration (7)

EAS build system (3)

easy setup (3)

excellent documentation (2)

hot reloading (2)

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•3 reviews

The Expo library has uplifted the DX of building the React-Native application. It's not a toy project anymore. The expo community is doing a fantastic job by continuously improving the OG Expo SDK and all the tooling that it provides. I've been using it since 2020 and it's come a long long way. Also, a long to go as well.

What's great

react native integration (7)cross-platform development (9)

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to build Unwrapped: beta

•4 reviews

Takes the pain (or at least some of it) out of building React Native apps.

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1yr ago

used

Expo

to build PadelMix

•2 reviews

Expo is our favourite way to build mobile apps. It allows us to build high quality products and move fast!

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1yr ago

used

Expo

to build flickd

•3 reviews

Amazing to manage our builds and testing as we progressed

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EAS build system (3)

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1yr ago

used

Expo

to build Tickr

•4 reviews

It's an amazing framework to build mobile applications, fast.

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1yr ago

used

Expo

to build Cheers (YC S24)

•15 reviews

We've been using expo for the last couple of weeks as we have been improving and developing our mobile app offering, and it has been incredible to work with. I love being able to just run the app on the Expo app on my iPhone and test on Android instead of having to push to TestFlight + many other steps before being able to test on a real device. Huge fan.

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cross-platform development (9)expo go app (1)

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1yr ago

•2 reviews

Expo makes it super easy to develop and deploy native apps

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1yr ago

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Expo

to build North

•6 reviews

Supercharges react-native development. And, with custom builds, you get all of this power with almost zero downside compared to developing bare react-native. Plus, EAS makes building and submitting to the App Store super simple.

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react native integration (7)EAS build system (3)

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1yr ago

used

Expo

to build WiseWorld

•6 reviews

Makes react native way more efficient. Thank you

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react native integration (7)

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1yr ago

•1 review

Expo is wonderful; it's the complete opposite of vendor lock-in. You can add the package to your bare workflow, you can build locally, you can set up your own update server... Expo is a blessing!

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