# Skip

19 Hacker News commenters recommended Skip and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Lets developers who know Swift and SwiftUI build iOS and Android apps with native toolkits, and it is now free and open source. Main caveat: 32GB RAM recommended.

## Why people recommend it

- Native toolkits on both platforms (3 comments): "builds iOS and Android apps, which is really neat, because it means your Android app's logic etc is all natively compiled" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715432)) "the unique benefit of Skip is that you are using the real native toolkits on both platforms" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709954)) "maps it to native Android components, fully accessible and meeting platform expectations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101066))
- Now free and open source (3 comments): "I for one, welcome another great open source! Thanks for going open source and Good luck to skip in future!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710132)) "developer tools really need to be freely obtainable in order to gain mass adoption" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709321)) "This is amazing! Thank you for open sourcing the project." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709130))
- Swift and SwiftUI for mobile apps (3 comments): "if you like Swift and SwiftUI, and are happy working with the Apple developer tools, then you should give Skip a try. It really is magic." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710519)) "This is great news and hopefully makes SwiftUI more feasible as a long term cross-platform UI option." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46714694)) "this might be a convenient way to use a pleasant language to write mobile apps" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710488))
- Built-in platform accessibility support (2 comments): "maps it to native Android components, fully accessible and meeting platform expectations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101066)) "So you automatically get the platforms' built-in accessibility support." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709993))

## What people warn about

- Needs 32GB RAM for development (2 comments): "At least 32GB of memory is recommended for development with Skip." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709135)) "Seems like it requires 32gb of ram!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710447))
- No LICENSE file in repository (2 comments): "This is cool, but there is no LICENSE file putting this in DONT USE territory." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708246)) "there is no LICENSE file putting this in DONT USE territory" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708302))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Flutter](https://hackerapproved.com/p/flutter.md): 171 recommend
- [React Native](https://hackerapproved.com/p/react-native.md): 98 recommend
- [Kotlin Multiplatform](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kotlin-multiplatform.md): 27 recommend
- [Expo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/expo.md): 21 recommend
- [.NET MAUI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/net-maui.md): 21 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Skip", https://hackerapproved.com/p/skip/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).