phmarques

Hi HN

I’ve been working on a new app called Intake, an AI nutrition companion that goes beyond calorie counting. You can log meals (photo or text), track body composition via photos, record mood, and see your progress over time.

I’ve been a diehard Swift fan, so I’ll admit I had pretty low expectations going in. My memory of React Native was from years ago when it felt sluggish and “uncanny valley” compared to native apps. But I’ve been genuinely surprised at how far it’s come (Expo is great too):

- Performance: UI feels smooth, gestures and animations feel indistinguishable from Swift (with one or two exceptions).

- Native APIs: HealthKit, camera, photo processing, all integrated without much pain.

- Iteration speed: feature velocity is noticeably faster than with pure Swift.

There were still some rough edges (i.e navigation complexity), but overall RN in 2025 finally feels like it delivers on the “write once, run native” promise.

For those who tried RN years ago and bounced off: have you given it another shot recently?

Would also love to hear broader thoughts on the current state of cross-platform frameworks.

Awesome job, guys. Keep it up.

We're working on it! I'm so sorry we couldn't launch an Android version together with the iOS one.

Yeah, we are considering that, but for now we just wanted to keep the concept really simple to test it out. We actually plan to do some other cool stuff such as shared lists, Pinterest integration, adding photos to the items and so on.

Thanks!

kobot,

Thanks for the feedback!

- Yes, you can edit or delete a list. Just tap on the dots at the bottom of each list. You'll be able to edit the list name, budget and currency (if needed) as well as delete it. We'll consider making it more obvious. Thanks for the heads up.

- Good point. As I said above, we might as well change that icon to make it more clear.

- That's definitely something we are looking into. Hope to have that added soon enough.

- We are experimenting with it still. We will make adjustments :)

And just another quick related note: you can edit the items you add by tapping on them.

Hope you can give it another try soon enough and thanks again!