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24 alternatives to Anthropic React Native Client
I recently published a new package on npm that brings the Anthropic APIs to React Native without polyfills. The library supports chat streaming and normal chat completions. The goal of the library is to follow the Node SDK wherever possible while taking advantage of React Native SSE for streaming where the Anthropic Node SDK does not work. Lmk what you think or if this will be useful to you!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Anthropic React Native Client launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Claude can now connect to your world
2025 · claude.com · its alternatives →
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Stream Chat▲327Build, code and ship in app messaging in a few hours
2019 · getstream.io · its alternatives →
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Stream 2.0▲304API for building, scaling and personalizing feeds
2016 · getstream.io · its alternatives →
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NativeBase v3▲351Mobile first, accessible components for React Native & Web
2021 · nativebase.io · its alternatives →
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React Native▲362Build native mobile experiences with Javascript
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shoutem v5▲324Create React Native, cross-platform mobile apps easily
2017 · shoutem.com · its alternatives →
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Hermit▲147Leave ChatGPT while keeping everything it learned about you
Mar 2026 · hermit.tirith.life · its alternatives →
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NativeBase▲200Experience the awesomeness of React Native without the pain
2016 · nativebase.io · its alternatives →
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Whale▲94Build chat-based applications for a seamless user experience
2024 · vercel-whale-platform.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Ably Chat▲73Hey HN, Staff Engineer at Ably here. Over the past few months I've been speaking to engineers building AI assistants, copilots, and agentic workflows (over 40 companies at this point), with particular focus on cloud-hosted agents. I expected the hard problems to be in model selection, prompt engineering, and orchestration. Instead, the same infrastructure challenges kept coming up: realtime sync between agents and end clients is surprisingly painful to get right. - Managing and scaling WebSocket or SSE connections between agents and clients - Buffering messages server-side and implementing…
Apr 2026 · ably.com · its alternatives →
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NativeRest▲136100% native, localfirst rest api client for mac, windows and linux. Supports multiple environmets, custom http methods, proxy server, offline mode and customizable themes. It's file first, you can import your collections and get started using NativeRest.
2023 · nativesoft.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I wanted to share a UI toolkit project I’ve been working on recently, born out of how difficult I found it to build a great UX on top of LLMs, and keep application state in sync. I’ve built: - A React/JS front-end library for conversational interfaces, which makes it super easy to bootstrap AI assistants and ChatGPT style UX: https://github.com/nlkitai/nlux - A set of adapters that simplify integration with AI backends such as LangServe and HuggingFace The library is highly configurable, easy to theme, supports markdown streaming (that was tough to get…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · rnplay.org · its alternatives →
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React UI Kit V7▲115All the chat components you need. None of the complexity
Jun 2026 · cometchat.com · its alternatives →
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Incentivize and scale distributed communities
2019 · nativeproject.one · its alternatives →
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A library to manage dynamic updates to React Native apps. Available as an NPM Package for iOS and Android. - redbooth/react-native-auto-updater
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Papercups chat widget for React Native/Expo. Contribute to papercups-io/chat-widget-native development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 20RO
A few weekends ago I was bored looking for a small project. I decided to make a small chat app that supports SSL and can be deployed easily. Front-end: ReactJS, Redux, Websockets Back End: Node.JS, Redis, Websockets Here is the source: http://www.github.com/lgse/react-chat Here is a demo: http://chat.lgse.net username: pick whatever you like! server: chat.lgse.net:1337 encryption: SSL/TLS There are still a lot of todos, but very functional for a small weekend project. Comments welcomed!
2016 · its alternatives →
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I got frustrated with Claude's official platform limitations - conversations disappearing, no customization options, and clunky file handling. So I built my own interface over a weekend! GitHub: https://github.com/chihebnabil/claude-ui What it does: - Saves all conversations locally (SQLite + Drizzle ORM) - Lets you customize Claude's personality per chat - Handles file attachments properly + caching input tokens - Dark/light mode - No conversation limits - Markdown & code syntax highlighting Tech stack is pretty simple: - Nuxt 3 for the frontend - Anthropic's SDK…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 22UC
Anthropic recently released a new model called Claude. As I was unable to access this model, I noticed a lot of discussions on Twitter regarding comparisons and use cases of Claude and ChatGPT. To keep track of these conversations, I created a repository that compiles information on the following topics: * Comparisons between Claude and ChatGPT * Use cases * Limitations of Claude Check it out and please create a bug/PR if more threads can be added: https://github.com/taranjeet/awesome-claude
2023 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We're Zach and Dan, and today we're excited to introduce NativeWindUI, a UI library that helps you build beautiful apps for all native platforms through the power of Tailwind CSS and React Native. With this familiar set of tools, you can now easily deliver a great experience that feels native to each platform. As developers, we've always been frustrated by the trade-offs between development speed and native user experience. We've seen countless apps that feel "off" because they prioritized cross-platform consistency over platform-specific design patterns. It has become painfully…
2024 · nativewindui.com · its alternatives →
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Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol implementation for Oat++ - oatpp/oatpp-mcp
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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