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Announcing the 2026 𝝠 Expo App Awards 🙌
The talent, the care, and the craft we see in the Expo community is staggering. There are powerful, beautiful, important apps getting built with Expo tools and services every day.
The 𝝠 Expo App Awards is a celebration of the apps and the people who build them.
Last year we had over 1,200 submissions and winners from big enterprises, solo devs (we hired one of them @DaehyeonMun!), and tiny startups that have grown and been acquired.
The award categories are:
🏆 Expo App of the Year
🏆 Most Creative
🏆 Community's Choice
🏆 Largest Scale
🏆 Most Innovative
Submission criteria is simple: if your app uses Expo you should submit it.
We encourage you to explain what is special about your app in the submission form. For example, if you have unique haptics, or clever Live Activities, or a super nuanced onboarding experience please share that in your submission.
Submissions begin today and go through the end of the month. Then we'll begin evaluating and announcing nominees/winners.
expo.dev/awards/2026
Pull up a chair:
App Store: apps.apple.com/app/mekuru/id…
Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
It's made by a one-person studio in Tokyo. More from the Expo App Awards: expo.dev/awards/2026
Cloud Sims are a massive piece of the agentic mobile development loop.
Expo has become an agentic mobile infrastructure company and the Cloud Sims combined with our cloud builds, OTA updates, submissions and observability unlock truly agentic development.
I'm trying out @expo cloud agents. The live session is slick and fast. Been on the hunt for the best cloud sim experience. Let me know what you are using.
🔌 If you're using Devin on an 𝝠 Expo app, there's an official plugin for it now.
The plugin has skills for building, deploying, upgrading, and debugging, so the agent isn't guessing its way through.
It's in the @devindevelopers marketplace. Open "Customize", then Browse marketplace, and look for Expo.
docs.devin.ai/product-guides…
Expo Modules 2.0 on Android needed much cheaper JNI calls, so we built our own JNI library. It’s called Kolibri, and calls into C++ objects are up to 51x faster than with 𝚏𝚋𝚓𝚗𝚒 👏
Full blog post right here from Łukasz Kosmaty:
expo.dev/blog/expo-modules-2…
Expo retweeted
Highly recommend running /insights occasionally when using Claude Code: it analyses your past conversations and suggests skills and prompts you could use to optimise your workflow
🙌 Expo App Award submission highlight: @joeandthejuice.
They've been working hard on the mobile app this year. And don't sleep on their tuna tartar sandwiches 👨🍳💋
apps.apple.com/us/app/joe-th…
Expo SDK 58: iOS 27, iPhone Duo, App Intents & @expo/agent-cli teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/2jPBpebzE…
If anyone is running into challenges on the Duo let us know. We're taking live questions here on the stream.
Expo SDK 58: iOS 27, iPhone Duo, App Intents & @expo/agent-cli teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/2jPBpebzE…
A father wanted to help his son learn how to read. So he built an app.
Now that app is used by families and schools all over the world.
We love this story because it's how a lot of fantastic apps begin: with a real personal need.
expo.dev/blog/samio-learning…
🗺️ btw the Expo Maps library is stable: docs.expo.dev/versions/lates…
If you own a Mac, you can go quite far without paying Apple $99.
On Windows or Linux, it's a little more complicated.
In this beginner-friendly guide, @rami__maalouf shows you what the free account covers, and what you get once you join the Apple Developer Program
Chapters:
00:13 Level 1: Any computer
01:02 Level 2: A Mac
01:55 No Mac? Build in the cloud
02:34 What the $99 gets you
03:31 When to pay
04:01 Android & Play Store
🔗 down below
prefer reading? expo.dev/blog/apple-develope…
prefer YT? youtu.be/ELPS37cMrCQ
The @excalidraw board from the video: excalidraw.com/#json=8IVCg92…
We just wrapped Build North in Toronto! Our ten-day hackathon with @Georgian_io!
Our winning team built GreenLens, an app that puts an agentic plant doctor in your pocket
Built with the Expo SDK and Expo modules for LiDAR and RealityKit, with @Clerk for sign-in and @SurrealDB for the data
If you're building a really cool app, we'd love to see it!
Exactly 12 hours left to submit to the Expo App Awards: expo.dev/awards
Wanna make it to our next event? Make sure you subscribe to our Luma calendar to stay posted! Lots more to come🔥
lu.ma/expo.dev
Check out what GreenLens built here: devpost.com/software/greenle…
🐈⬛ Fresh blog for all the mobile dev + cat people out there.
@blazejkustra_ built this cozy 3D cat puzzle game in Expo with WebGPU, and it ships without a single image or audio file (even the meows are generated in code).
expo.dev/blog/purrkour-webgp…
🎃 Final Call: Submit your app to the 𝝠 Expo App Awards by 11:59pm PST tonight.
expo.dev/awards/2026