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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
🗺️ 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
We love seeing what people build with Expo at hackathons.
Last month, we sponsored @HackTheNorth, the biggest hackathon in 🇨🇦!
The winning team built an app that turns the real world into a shared canvas: shake your phone like a spray can and paint AR graffiti
If you've got a project you're proud of, submit it to the Expo App Awards!
Submissions close tomorrow:
expo.dev/awards/2026
Shoutout to the cracked engineers from Waterloo @AThoduvakkal @DevHamzaKhan @andrewl746 & Daniel Lei!
Here's their hackathon submission: devpost.com/software/fresco-…
Expo retweeted
React Native can fly into a Van Gogh. 🌌
The Pastel Studio launch paints The Starry Night stroke by stroke, steps inside its layers, then hangs it on your wall.
Expo @expo
Skia + WebGPU @wcandillon
Reanimated @swmansion
Huge thanks @wcandillon for the latest Skia 🙏
Check out our guide for building native iPhone Duo apps with Expo
expo.dev/blog/supporting-iph…
We built a CLI for agents, so they can stop guessing whether your app needs a dev build.
Great blog today from @kudochien and @vonovak about exactly what we built and how to take advantage of it: expo.dev/blog/introducing-ex…
Starting to see more and more of this agentic workflow across our customer base 👇
The mobile factory is humming @expo - everyone is reaching for this type of setup:
1. agents pick up linear tickets
2. spawn simulators to fix them
3. submit PRs
4. 10-20 going at a time
5. Run your test suite
6. Deploy to Production via Update or Build
Try it here: apps.apple.com/ua/app/kharki…
Kharkiv Metro Helper threw its name in for the Expo App Awards. Your turn. Entries close Oct 31: expo.dev/awards/2026
