React Native, Flutter or native? The question is not "which is better" but "where is the right boundary for this product".
The right question
Asking "which framework is better" is the wrong question. The right one: in this product, how many screens are standard versus platform-specific? For most SaaS and content apps a single codebase (React Native or Flutter) materially improves both speed and budget.
Where native still wins
For products that need heavy camera/AR, low-latency audio, heavy 3D or deep platform integration, native is still clearly ahead. The smart move is to write 90% of the app in shared code and leave the critical 10% to native modules.
The store and update reality
The real cost is not in the code; it is in release management, store reviews and OTA updates. The biggest payoff of a single codebase is shipping to both platforms at once from one CI/CD pipeline.
