We Didn't Need Another React Native UI Kit
We needed something else.
If you've built more than one React Native app, you've probably experienced this.
You start with a completely new idea. A fintech app. A social app. An AI product. A marketplace. The idea is different every time.
The first week? Not so much.
You build the same login screen. The same onboarding flow. The same profile page. The same settings page. The same dashboard.
Again. And again. And again.
The strange thing is...
None of those screens are why people download your app.
Nobody installs your product because your Settings screen looks amazing. Nobody tells their friends about your Profile page. Those screens are expected. They're table stakes.
Yet they consume a surprising amount of development time.
We kept asking ourselves one question.
Why are we rebuilding solved problems?
React Native has fantastic component libraries. Need a button? Done. Need an input? Easy. Need a modal? No problem.
But components aren't applications. Someone still has to build the entire experience around them.
Authentication. Navigation. Onboarding. Settings. Commerce. Chat.
That's the part every team ends up rebuilding.
That's why we built gluestack-ui Pro.
Not another component library. A collection of production-ready React Native screens.
Real code. Not mockups. Not screenshots. Not locked templates.
Just reusable screens that you can copy, customize, and make your own.
AI changes the conversation...
We get asked a question a lot.
"Why wouldn't I just use Claude?"
It's a fair question. Claude can generate a screen. So can ChatGPT. AI is becoming incredibly good at writing UI.
But generating a screen is only the beginning.
Production apps need consistency. Shared design tokens. Predictable spacing. Accessible components. Reliable theming. Performance best practices.
The hard part isn't creating one screen. It's maintaining fifty.
We built this for teams that ship.
Agencies. Freelancers. Startup teams. People who don't build one app. They build lots of them.
After your fifth React Native project, you stop wanting another login tutorial. You want a solid foundation.
That's exactly what we tried to build.
The goal isn't to replace development.
You still write your APIs. You still build your backend. You still create your business logic. You still own your product.
We simply wanted to remove the repetitive UI work that happens before the interesting work begins.
One last question.
If you could remove one repetitive task from React Native development forever... what would it be?
Authentication? Settings? Onboarding? Or something else?
I'd genuinely love to hear your answer.