7 best Expo alternatives & competitors
The top Expo alternatives for push notification, compared on price, free tier, ratings and what each is best for, with Expo pinned so you can measure each option against it.
Updated July 2026
About Expo
Expo
PushExpo Push Notifications allow you to send notifications from Expo straight to your users' inboxes on both iOS and Android devices. This means that no matter how many times they close or minimize your expo, they will still receive your message in their notification feed.
Expo and React Native apps wanting free, unified iOS and Android push delivery via one API
- Starting price
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Rating
- N/A
- HIPAA
- No
Company profile
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, USA
- Funding
- $69.4M raised
- Team size
- ~170
- Ownership
- Independent
- Reviews
- Not rated
Compliance
Official SDKs
JavaScript/Node.js
Python
REST/HTTP API
Strengths
Why teams look elsewhere
Side by side
Expo vs the alternatives
Sorted by rating · figures as of July 2026
Expo
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Starting price
Free
Free tier
Yes
Rating
N/A
Starting price
$19/mo
Free tier
Yes
Rating
4.7
Starting price
Free
Free tier
Yes
Rating
N/A
Starting price
Free
Free tier
Yes
Rating
N/A
At a glance
What each Expo alternative is best for
- MagicBell
5.0 / 5
- teams wanting a polished, drop-in in-app notification inbox UI across React and other frameworks
- OneSignal Push
4.7 / 5
- teams wanting unlimited free mobile push sends with one of the market's most generous free tiers
- Pushwoosh
4.4 / 5
- game and cross-platform teams wanting broad SDK coverage, including Unity, with a generous free push tier
- AWS SNS
4.2 / 5
- AWS-native teams sending high-volume mobile push at very low per-notification cost without built-in campaign tooling
- Airship
4.0 / 5
- enterprise mobile apps needing deep cross-channel push orchestration with dedicated budgets for five-figure contracts
- Apple Push Notification
Not rated
- free, unlimited, highest-priority push delivery to Apple devices only, as a raw transport layer
- Firebase FCM
Not rated
- Android and cross-platform apps wanting completely free, unlimited push delivery as a bare messaging transport
FAQ
Common questions
The strongest Expo alternatives depend on what you need. MagicBell rates highest among the options here; the comparison table covers price, free tier, and rating, and the "what each alternative is best for" section matches each option to a use case.
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Company facts, pricing and compliance were verified against each provider's public pricing and security or trust pages, plus G2 and Trustpilot, as of July 2026, and compiled by the Courier team. Details change often, so confirm with the provider before you buy.
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