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§ Recipe

Build a mobile app.

Mobile development is still harder than web, but the gap has closed. With the right stack, a single developer can ship to both stores. This is what that looks like in 2026.

Indie

  1. Architecture partner

    01
    Claude

    Claude

    Anthropic's thoughtful AI assistant — built for safety, depth, and nuanced reasoning.

    Chatbots & Assistants
    Freemium
    4.8

    Navigation model, state management, offline behavior — the decisions that hurt most to change later. Talk through them with Claude before you write a screen.

  2. IDE

    02
    Cursor

    Cursor

    The AI-first code editor — indexes your entire codebase for context-aware development.

    Coding & Development
    Freemium
    4.9

    React Native's ecosystem churns. Cursor's context on the current lib versions and idioms saves hours of hunting deprecated examples.

  3. Screen generator

    03
    v0

    v0

    Vercel's AI UI generator — create polished React + Tailwind components from natural language.

    Coding & Development
    Freemium
    4.4

    V0 now supports React Native primitives. Generating screens from a text prompt cuts the boilerplate part of mobile dev in half.

  4. Prototype flow

    04
    Bolt.new

    Bolt.new

    Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack apps in your browser — no local setup needed.

    Coding & Development
    Freemium
    4.3

    Before you commit to a full React Native codebase, prototype the flow as a web app in Bolt. Users will tell you if the idea works before Expo setup is done.

  5. Backend + deploy

    05
    Replit

    Replit

    Browser-based IDE with AI — code, run, and deploy apps without any local setup.

    Coding & Development
    Freemium
    4.2

    For the auth, DB, and API backing your app — Replit's agent-built backends are faster than spinning up Firebase or Supabase from scratch if you're solo.