Comparison
Nativestarter vs Shipnative
Shipnative is the best-value option under $100 and it is genuinely good at what it does: a single Expo app wired to Supabase or Convex with RevenueCat already connected. Nativestarter is a different shape — a monorepo with its own backend, multi-tenancy, and the store-shipping playbooks. The gap shows up in week three, and again at your first rejection.
Where Shipnative wins
At $99 with Supabase and RevenueCat pre-wired, Shipnative is the cheapest credible way to get a paid app running. If you are shipping a single-player consumer app and you are happy on Supabase, it will get you there and you will not miss what Nativestarter adds.
Choose Shipnative
- You want the lowest price that still includes payments
- You are happy building on Supabase or Convex
- Single-player consumer app, no teams or organizations
- You have shipped to the App Store before and know the review process
Choose Nativestarter
- You want to own your backend, users and data outright
- You are building B2B — organizations, invites, roles, seat billing
- You are building primarily with an AI agent and want it to follow real conventions
- You have never shipped to the App Store and want the rejections mapped in advance
- You need iOS, Android and web from one codebase
- You are an agency delivering client work
Side by side
| Nativestarter | Shipnative | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $299–$1,499 one-time | $99 one-time |
| Architecture | Turborepo monorepo | Single Expo app |
| Backend | Yours — Hono, Drizzle, better-auth in-repo | Supabase or Convex |
| Own your user data | Yes, your database | Vendor-hosted |
| Runs with zero API keys | Yes | No — needs Supabase keys |
| Agent Skills | Six, written to the Agent Skills spec | Rules file |
| App Store playbooks | Four | Not included |
| Organizations / multi-tenancy | Built in, per-query scoping | Not included |
| Server-side entitlement checks | Yes, verified webhook | Client-side |
| Internationalisation | Built in | Not included |
| Web admin console | Next.js, shares the API | Limited |
| Agency licence | $1,499, white-label | Not offered |