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Mobile & Desktop

Frameworks, languages and tooling for shipping iOS, Android and desktop apps, from fully native stacks to React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform and web-tech desktop shells.

Categories: 11
Tools: 105
Stars: 1.8M

209M combined weekly package downloads tracked in this domain.

Hot in Mobile & Desktop

Legend List

LegendApp/legend-list

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High-performance virtualized list for React Native in pure JS, handling dynamic item sizes well.

3.4k1.8M/wk1w ago+211%

op-sqlite

OP-Engineering/op-sqlite

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Fast JSI SQLite binding for React Native with SQLCipher, libSQL and vector-search extensions.

1.1k641k/wk6d ago+370%

Expo SQLite

docs.expo.dev

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Expo's SQLite module with async and sync APIs, React hooks and web support; pairs well with Drizzle ORM.

Slint

slint-ui/slint

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Declarative UI toolkit for Rust, C++, JavaScript and Python targeting desktop and embedded devices.

24.6k115k/wk1d ago+138%

Categories

11 categories. Open one to filter, sort and compare its tools.

Cross-platform Mobile Frameworks

12 tools

Build iOS and Android (and often web/desktop) apps from a single codebase.

React Native, Flutter, Expo

Native Platforms & Languages

10 tools

First-party languages, UI frameworks and IDEs for Apple and Android development.

Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit

React Native Ecosystem

15 tools

Navigation, animation, styling, lists and native-module libraries most React Native apps depend on.

Expo Router, React Navigation, React Native Reanimated

Flutter Ecosystem

9 tools

State management, routing, networking and codegen packages that most Flutter apps rely on.

Riverpod, Bloc, Provider

On-device Data & Sync

8 tools

Local databases, key-value stores and sync engines for offline-first mobile apps.

Room, SwiftData, Expo SQLite

Mobile Testing & Quality

9 tools

End-to-end, UI and component testing plus crash reporting for mobile apps.

Maestro, Appium, Detox

Build, Release & OTA Updates

9 tools

CI/CD, signing, store submission and over-the-air update tooling for mobile apps.

fastlane, EAS, Expo Updates

Desktop Apps with Web Tech

8 tools

Ship desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux using HTML, CSS and JavaScript UIs.

Electron, Tauri, Wails

Native & Cross-platform Desktop UI

12 tools

Native and compiled UI toolkits for desktop (and often mobile/embedded) apps without a browser engine.

Qt, Flutter, Avalonia

PWA & Hybrid Web Apps

9 tools

Service workers, PWA packaging and native shells for shipping web apps as installable apps.

Capacitor, Workbox, vite-plugin-pwa

Mobile Backend, Push & Monetization

9 tools

Backend-as-a-service, push notifications and in-app purchase infrastructure for apps.

Firebase, Supabase, Appwrite

Learn & go deeper

Android Developer Roadmap

Step-by-step learning path for Android

roadmap.sh

iOS Developer Roadmap

Step-by-step learning path for iOS

roadmap.sh

React Native Roadmap

Learning path for React Native developers

roadmap.sh

Flutter Roadmap

Learning path for Flutter developers

roadmap.sh

React Native Directory

Searchable catalog of React Native libraries with quality signals

reactnative.directory

Awesome Flutter

Curated list of Flutter packages, tools and articles

github.com