React Native TV App Cost of Ownership

One Codebase.
50% Less Overhead.

Build your Apple TV, Android TV and Smart TV apps on React Native with 1 shared codebase & 1 team, instead of 3.

Illustration of one React Native codebase powering Apple TV, Android TV and Samsung Tizen apps
1-YR
Proven ROI
for our clients
Proven return
on investment
for our clients
50%
Reduced
development effort
Reduced
development
effort
1
React Native codebase:
Apple, Android & Web
Codebase:
Apple, Android & Web
Codebase:
Apple, Android
& Web

TCO from year one

Consolidating your development efforts into one open-source codebase cuts costs and future-proofs your TV app plans. We've worked with React Native TV apps for over a decade, and it's proven stable and reliable at scale. That's why we recommend it.

Plus, with Norigin Media your React Native build isn't starting from zero. Our TV App SDK brings readymade player, ads and analytics integrations, a proven UI toolkit, and CTV spatial navigation out of the box, cutting the custom engineering hours a from-scratch build would need.

Illustrative example

Here’s what that looks like in practice

Apple TV, Android TV and Samsung Tizen. Building natively, you will dedicate a team per platform at minimum. On React Native you only need one team on one codebase across all three.

Click a year to compare costs and savings:

NativeThree codebases,
three teams
$851K
React NativeOne codebase,
one team
$391K
$460KSaved in total after 1 year

Staffing assumed: native takes 6 developers, 1.5 testers and 0.5 of a project manager; React Native takes 2.5 developers, 1 tester and 0.3 of a project manager. All figures in USD, converted from EUR at 1.15, and based on standard market rates for each role, with fractional roles shared across platforms. Figures are the annual cost of running the apps and exclude any one-off transition work. Your actual numbers depend on your team's real rates and platform mix. Get in touch and we'll run the numbers with you.

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