Engineering · 30 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
We ship both. The choice comes down to four questions, and none of them are about which framework is better.
This gets argued as a religious question. It is a budget question with a technical surface.
Does the app need deep platform integration?
Widgets, Live Activities, CarPlay, HealthKit, background audio, complex camera work. If two or more of these are core to the product, native stops being the expensive option and becomes the cheap one.
How many engineers will maintain it?
One or two people maintaining two native codebases is how products quietly stop shipping. Cross-platform is not just cheaper to build — it is dramatically cheaper to keep alive, which is where most of the money goes.
Is the design bespoke or platform-conventional?
Heavily custom UI is often easier in Flutter, where you control every pixel. An app that should feel exactly like a stock iOS app is easier native, because you get that for free.
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