Comparison
A code library, or a Figma system? Start where your team designs.
Use gluestack UI if you build in React Native or Expo and want coded components. Use Appetite UI if the design system starts in Figma, for iOS and Android.Checked on against gluestack.ioAppetite UI is a Figma UI kit for iOS and Android apps, built like a design system. One token source drives Apple and Material components in light and dark mode, and exports to SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, Flutter and CSS.
Verdict
Which one fits your app?
Use gluestack UI if
You build in React Native or Expo and want coded components to copy into the project.
In its own words, copy-paste components for web (Next.js) and mobile (Expo and React Native), styled with Tailwind CSS through NativeWind.
Use Appetite UI if
The design system starts in Figma, with Apple and Material components on one token source.
Light and dark are variable modes, a rebrand is one edit, and the token values export to SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, Flutter and CSS.
Side by side
The same rows for both.
The gluestack UI column is its own words, read on gluestack.io.
| Criterion | Appetite UIThis file | gluestack UIgluestack.io |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A Figma UI kit for iOS and Android, built like a design system. | "React & React Native UI components library for Web & Mobile App", "copy-paste components for web (Next.js) and mobile (Expo / React Native)". |
| Built for | iOS and Android apps, drawn at phone widths. | Web and mobile from one codebase: "All gluestack-ui components are universal out of the box", with ios: and android: style modifiers. |
| The Figma file | Apple and Material components in one file, with 15 Apple system colors and 32 Material 3 roles, each pointing at a token you control. | A Figma Community file, "gluestack-ui v2.0 Design Kit", with semantic colors as variable collections and light and dark modes. Licensed under CC BY 4.0; it follows the v2 config while the library is at v5. |
| Light and dark | Light and Dark modes on one semantic token set, so a screen switches with the system. | A light and a dark set of semantic tokens that "automatically adapt when the mode changes"; the provider takes system, light or dark. |
| Tokens | One edit. Both platforms and both modes follow it. | "a semantic color token system inspired by shadcn/ui", defined in code (config.ts), not exported from a Figma file. |
| What developers get | Token values exported to SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, Flutter and CSS, in the file you buy. Your developers keep their own components. | Coded React and React Native components you copy into the project, styled with Tailwind CSS through NativeWind. |
| License | Paid once, with lifetime updates. The plans are on the pricing page. | The code is MIT, in its README's words "Licensed under the MIT License". gluestack-ui pro is a paid product of screens. |
Your next rebrand is one edit.
One-time payment, Lifetime updates, Unlimited client projects