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The best WatermelonDB alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to WatermelonDB, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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WatermelonDB

A database library for React and React Native apps that loads data lazily and updates the UI when data changes

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    redux-persist

    Open source · MIT · ★ 12.9k

    Saves a Redux store to storage and restores it when the app starts.

    Best for: Web developers who want Redux state to survive a page reload; React Native developers who need state saved with AsyncStorage

    Full review WatermelonDB vs redux-persist
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    Formily

    Open source · MIT · ★ 12.6k

    A form library for React and Vue that handles complex and JSON-schema-driven forms.

    Best for: Frontend developers building data-heavy forms with many linked fields; Teams that want forms generated from JSON Schema sent by a back end

    Full review WatermelonDB vs Formily
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    SWR

    Open source · MIT · ★ 32.5k

    A React hook library for fetching data, with caching and automatic refresh.

    Best for: React developers who fetch data from APIs in components; Projects that want built-in caching and request deduplication

    Full review
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    React Native Elements

    Open source · MIT · ★ 25.9k

    A library of ready-made UI components for building React Native apps on iOS, Android and web.

    Best for: React Native developers who want ready-made UI components; Teams sharing one codebase across mobile and React web apps

    Full review
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    React Native for Web

    Open source · MIT · ★ 22.2k

    Runs React Native UI components in the browser, using React DOM.

    Best for: Developers who already use React Native and want the same components on the web; Contributors who want to work on the react-native-web package itself

    Full review
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    NativeBase

    Open source · MIT · ★ 20.4k

    Accessible React Native and web UI component library; now in maintenance mode, succeeded by gluestack-ui.

    Best for: Teams maintaining an existing app already built on NativeBase; Developers who need to keep an existing NativeBase v3 codebase running

    Full review
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    Tamagui

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.3k

    A TypeScript library for building React and React Native UIs that share styling and code.

    Best for: Teams building the same app for web and native with React; Developers who want shared styling across React Native and react-native-web

    Full review
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    react-content-loader

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14k

    A React component that draws grey placeholder shapes while content loads.

    Best for: React developers who want loading placeholders for cards, lists, or profiles; Teams that want a small dependency for skeleton screens on the web

    Full review

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to WatermelonDB. We don't take payment for placement.