react-native-blur
Backdrop blur and frosted glass for React Native and Expo on iOS and Android. Blurs headers, tab bars, cards, popups and video.
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Details
- External ID
- 1403150525
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- react-native-blur
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2946382092660073
- Tags
- android, backdrop-blur, backdrop-filter, blur, blur-view, blurview, expo, expo-blur, fabric, frosted-glass, glassmorphism, ios, liquid-glass, new-architecture, react-native, react-native-blur, react-native-cli, react-native-component, uivisualeffectview, video-blur
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- backdrop blur and frosted glass component for react native
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The JavaScript React Native wrapper layer is simple, but achieving high-performance native backdrop blurs across diverse iOS and Android devices requires low-level platform graphics mastery.
What it would actually take: Requires bridging React Native Fabric/TurboModules to native view hierarchies. On iOS, it relies on UIVisualEffectView hacks, while on Android, it requires RenderEffect (Android 12+) or complex RenderScript/Vulkan real-time surface capturing fallbacks for older devices to render blurred views at 60fps without severe frame drops.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 182 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #127 of 183 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
- expo-android-glass-view · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- expo-adaptive-glass · github · 2026-09-21 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- expo-motion-blur · github · 2026-09-23 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- FrostFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- GlassForge · github · 2026-09-24 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- expo-infinite-media · github · 2026-09-19 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- solidnative · github · 2026-10-03 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Premium React Native screens for building apps faster · hn · 2026-08-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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