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Flutter vs React Native vs Ionic
A side-by-side look at how actively Flutter, React Native and Ionic are developed on GitHub — popularity, contributor base, commit activity and how quickly issues and pull requests move.
What the numbers say
- Flutter is the most-starred of the 3, with 179k stars — about 3.4× Ionic's 53k.
- Over the 52 weeks to the snapshot, Flutter recorded the most commits (5.6k), against 469 for Ionic.
- Flutter has closed or merged the most pull requests in its lifetime: 75k.
- Relative to its popularity, React Native carries the lightest open-issue load: 5.5 open issues per 1,000 stars, versus 70.8 for Flutter.
Head-to-head
Snapshot taken 30 September 2026.
| Metric | Flutter Active | React Native Active | Ionic Active |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 179k | 127k | 53k |
| Forks | 33k | 25k | 13k |
| Contributors | 2.4k | 4.3k | 544 |
| Commits, last 52 weeks | 5.6k | 3.2k | 469 |
| Open issues | 13k | 695 | 546 |
| Open pull requests | 597 | 448 | 32 |
| Closed / merged PRs | 75k | 28k | 8.9k |
| Watchers | 3.5k | 3.5k | 1.6k |
| Last push | 30 Sep 2026 | 30 Sep 2026 | 30 Sep 2026 |
| Latest release | 3.19.0-0.1.pre (Jan 2024) | v0.87.1 (Aug 2026) | v9.0.5 (Sep 2026) |
| Main language | Dart | C++ | TypeScript |
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause | MIT | MIT |
| Created | Mar 2015 | Jan 2015 | Aug 2013 |
The wide bar is that repository’s share of the largest value in its own row — half the length means half the number. The thin gauge beneath it is the same row rescaled from its smallest value to its largest, which makes a close gap such as 61k against 59k visible; on that gauge the row’s lowest value always sits at zero however big it is, so read it as a spread and never as a quantity. Bars compare repositories with each other and never one metric against another. Colour identifies the repository, matching the dot beside its name. On the two issue rows a longer bar means more open work, which is usually the opposite of better. The highlighted cell is the highest value in a row. “Active / Slowing / Dormant” is a simple heuristic from how recently code was pushed and open issues per star — a starting point, not a verdict. Stars measure popularity, not quality.
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