Choosing a mobile technology stack is one of the biggest decisions in any app project.
Native apps (Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android) offer the best performance and full access to device features — but you maintain two codebases, which roughly doubles cost and timeline.
Cross-platform frameworks like Flutter and React Native let one team ship to both stores from a single codebase. Modern frameworks are close to native performance for the vast majority of business apps.
When to go native: games, heavy real-time graphics, deep hardware integrations, or when every millisecond of performance matters.
When to go cross-platform: business apps, e-commerce, booking systems, dashboards, MVPs — which covers most startup and SME use cases.
Our rule of thumb: unless you have a specific technical reason to go native, cross-platform gives you faster time-to-market and lower total cost of ownership. Talk to us and we will recommend the right stack for your specific app idea.