// Changelog

What's new

New templates, components and free tools, plus the improvements and fixes behind them. Newest first.

  1. 22 new app UI designs

    • New

      The app design gallery now has 33 designs, including food ordering, real estate, travel, sports, social and health apps. Each one has a copyable artifact, an AI skill and full Expo source. View

    • Improved

      Filter the app design gallery by category. View

  2. App UI designs with Expo code

    • New

      A free gallery of 11 mobile app UI designs. Each one includes a copyable design artifact, an AI skill that generates the UI, and the full Expo source. View

  3. Refund policy update

    • Changed

      Purchases of digital products are now final and non-refundable. Billing errors, such as duplicate charges, are still corrected in full. View

  4. Free Expo templates and checkout

    • New

      Expo Auth Starter: a free, MIT-licensed auth template with Firebase, Supabase, Appwrite and offline SQLite behind one adapter. View

    • New

      Expo Chat Starter: a free, MIT-licensed chat template with realtime messages, optimistic sends and four swappable backends. View

    • New

      Checkout with Dodo Payments. Your license appears in your dashboard as soon as payment succeeds. View

    • Improved

      Removed placeholder templates, so the catalog only lists products you can actually download. View

  5. Bottom navigation and 20 new guides

    • New

      Animated Bottom Navigation: 11 tab bar styles behind one variant prop, all animated on the native driver. View

    • New

      20 new guides, including Expo SDK 58, widgets and Live Activities, in-app purchases with RevenueCat, and on-device AI. View

  6. Gradient Background

    • New

      Gradient Background: 14 curated presets with a flash-free cross-fade, haptics on every tile. View

  7. Terms, privacy and refunds

    • New

      Published our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. View

    • New

      Published our Refund & Cancellation policy. View

  8. Scribble Calendar

    • New

      Scribble Calendar: a month scroller that crosses out completed days with a generated marker stroke. View

    • Fixed

      Images in blog posts not displaying correctly.

  9. Three free components

    • New

      Arc Wheel Picker: a curved wheel picker with snap detents and native picker haptics. View

    • New

      Native Bottom Sheet: snap points, velocity flicks and a blur backdrop, running on the UI thread. View

    • New

      Expo Confetti: seven particle shapes and four launch modes. View

  10. New design, blog and comparisons

    • Improved

      Redesigned the whole site.

    • New

      Blog launched with 14 hands-on Expo guides. View

    • New

      Comparison pages for React Native UI kits and templates. View

    • New

      ConfigForge: generate a valid bundle ID, package name and app.json for your Expo app. View

  11. ShotForge

    • New

      ShotForge: App Store and Google Play screenshot generator with device frames and designer templates. View

  12. Free tools for app developers

    • New

      Privacy Pack: generate a Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for your mobile app. View

    • New

      IconForge: design and export every iOS and Android app icon size. View

    • New

      Mobile App Theme Builder: build a theme with live device previews and export design tokens. View

  13. Better component pages

    • Improved

      Component pages now show live previews, usage docs, examples and a code preview. View

  14. DeveloperMill is live

    • New

      First release: a catalog of Expo React Native templates and components, with personal and commercial licenses.