TCtcoff91·Jan 4, 2026
Calling Expo a paid tool with metered usage is just flat out misinformation. You can promote your preferred tech without lying about alternatives.
Expo is a free open source framework that costs absolutely no money to use. You do not need to pay expo any money ever.
Expo Application Services is a set of cloud services that you do not have to use to use Expo. You can set up your own on-prem build infrastructure with fastlane and never use EAS Build. You can self-host your own EAS Updates server. You don't have to use EAS Hosting for web apps. Expo is far less coupled to EAS than Next.js is to Vercel.
Flutter for the web is terrible compared to React Native Web. It's a great way to get your company sued for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. It literally renders to a canvas almost like the Macromedia Flash apps of old. There's a
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lso React Strict Dom now which absolutely blows flutter's web support out of the water while still supporting react native: https://facebook.github.io/react-strict-dom/
I just looked up an example flutter web app and it's completely invisible to the screen reader when I enable VoiceOver: https://flokk.app/#/ . The screen reader literally announces 'web content is empty'. You can't even select text to copy it!
Also, as far as integrations with game engines:
https://github.com/calico-games/react-native-godot
If you want complex 2D graphics like you can do with flutter, react native can also use the Skia rendering engine just like flutter with react-native-skia.