Reviewers mostly praise Flutter as a practical cross-platform framework that is easy to learn, quick to ship with, and strong for mobile and desktop work. Users repeatedly highlight the single codebase, consistent UI across platforms, solid community support, and useful integrations like Firebase. Founders of FlutterFlow and smaller apps such as BrainLoom and Moti, The Challenge App also credit it with fast iteration, high performance, and consistent UX. The main recurring caveat: reviewers say the web experience still lags behind mobile and desktop.

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cross-platform development (24)

single codebase (13)

fast development (10)

expressive UI (9)

high performance (7)

multi-platform support (7)

mobile app support (6)

community support (3)

desktop app support (3)

hot reload (3)

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web app limitations (4)

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fast development (10)cross-platform development (24)single codebase (13)

Flutter is easy to learn and very fast to ship an app. It has a highly committed community, and the dev team is continuously improving the framework. There’s also a large set of third-party libraries built and maintained by the community, and it keeps growing every day. Having a single codebase makes it fast while also highly maintainable. Since it’s cross-platform, the experience is very consistent and there are fewer surprises.

What needs improvement

web app limitations (4)

The web side can be improved, and the development team is currently working on it.

vs Alternatives

React Native

The main reason I prefer Flutter is that the experience stays consistent across platforms. Since React Native compiles to native code, unexpected issues can sometimes occur.

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I use Flutter for building and app for more than 3 years, starting from 0 knowledge. It's been a journey, but working with Flutter is a great experience from a developer perspective.