# Text Blast - Ionic vs React Native Clients

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/text-blast-ionic-vs-react-native-clients/43648>\
**Category:** showcase\
**Created:** [February 13, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/text-blast-ionic-vs-react-native-clients/43648 "2016-02-13T18:22:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![nysesh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/nysesh/32/13947_2.png) [@nysesh](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/nysesh)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/text-blast-ionic-vs-react-native-clients/43648/1 "2016-02-13T18:22:48Z")

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As a case study, I took a real-world app called [Text Blast](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/text-blast-2016/id1023852862?mt=8) and implemented it side-by-side in both Ionic v1 ([source](https://github.com/SeshApp/text-blast-ionic)) and React Native ([source](https://github.com/SeshApp/text-blast-react-native)).

Text Blast allows you to bombard your friends with packs of themed GIF text messages. It strikes a nice functional balance between being simple enough to understand while still being a full-fledged app deployed in production (e.g., not another TODO list demo). And as an added bonus, you get to annoy your friends while testing it out… 😜

_My hope with this side-by-side comparison is that it will help Ionic developers evaluate React Native and vice-versa_, since to my knowledge there are no examples of non-trivial open source apps available in both technologies.

I’m a HUGE fan of both Ionic and React Native, and I’ll be posting an article shortly delving deeper into the results of my comparison, but I wanted to post here first to give Ionic devs a preview of the apps and solicit feedback.

Cheers!  
– Travis

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**Author:** ![nysesh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/nysesh/32/13947_2.png) [@nysesh](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/nysesh)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/text-blast-ionic-vs-react-native-clients/43648/2 "2016-02-15T21:34:32Z")

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Check out my follow-up article on Medium: [Ionic vs React Native — Text Blast Case Study](https://medium.com/@fisch/ionic-vs-react-native-9fa307a9f0e1)