Best Claude skills for mobile app design and development

Quick picks

• React Native and Expo: Expo's official skills to build and ship, Vercel's react-native-skills or Callstack's skills for performance, and Mobile Taste Skill for screens that don't look AI-made.
• SwiftUI and iOS: Paul Hudson's SwiftUI Pro for modern, accessible SwiftUI, Antoine van der Lee's SwiftUI Expert for state and performance, and Claude Code Apple Skills to go from idea to the App Store.
• Flutter: the Flutter team's own skills for architecture, layouts, routing and tests.
• Design for any framework: Apple Design Skill reviews a design against Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, in SwiftUI, Flutter, React Native and more; UI UX Pro Max picks styles, palettes and fonts.
• Before you submit: App Store Review checks a project against App Store and Google Play rules.
• A web app that should feel like an app: Emil Kowalski's mobile-native fixes the CSS and meta tags that give it away on phones.

Mobile app skills compared

Stars and licenses from the GitHub API on November 8, 2026, rounded. For repositories with many skills, stars are for the whole repository.

The most installed mobile skills

Installs through the skills CLI, from the skills.sh registry on November 8, 2026. Plugins installed with /plugin install mostly don't show up here, so treat these as a floor.

• ui-ux-pro-max (web and mobile): about 440,000
• vercel-react-native-skills: about 270,000
• mobile-native (Emil Kowalski): about 116,000
• expo-dev-client, the most installed of Expo's skills: about 74,000
• flutter-apply-architecture-best-practices, the most installed of the Flutter team's: about 45,000
• swiftui-pro (Paul Hudson): about 37,000
• swiftui-expert-skill (Antoine van der Lee): about 36,000

How to set up Claude Code for a mobile app

1. Pick by platform: one skill that builds, one that designs

   For Expo, the Expo skills plus Mobile Taste Skill; for SwiftUI, SwiftUI Pro or SwiftUI Expert plus Apple Design Skill; for Flutter, the Flutter team's skills plus Apple Design Skill or UI UX Pro Max. Two skills that both want to set the style will fight.

   # Expo's official skills (Claude Code plugin)
   /plugin install expo@claude-plugins-official
   
   # Vercel's React Native rules
   npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills --skill vercel-react-native-skills
   
   # SwiftUI Pro (Paul Hudson)
   npx skills add https://github.com/twostraws/swiftui-agent-skill --skill swiftui-pro
   
   # SwiftUI Expert (Antoine van der Lee)
   /plugin marketplace add AvdLee/SwiftUI-Agent-Skill
   /plugin install swiftui-expert@swiftui-expert-skill
   
   # The Flutter team's skills
   npx skills add flutter/agent-plugins
   
   # Apple design review for any framework
   npx skills add dickwu/apple-design-skill
   
   # Mobile Taste Skill for React Native and Expo
   /plugin marketplace add draftbit/mobile-taste-skill
   /plugin install mobile-taste-skill

2. Give it the brief and a reference app

   Say who the app is for, the three or four screens that matter and an app whose feel you like. Mobile Taste Skill makes the agent commit to an app read (kind, audience, feel) and plan the navigation before it writes any code.

3. Check it on a simulator, not in the code

   Run the app in the iOS Simulator, an Android emulator or Expo Go and look at real screens at more than one size. Callstack's agent-device skill lets the agent drive a device and check its own work.

4. Save the design system in the repository

   Mobile Taste Skill writes a MOBILE-DESIGN.md and Expo has an expo-design-system skill. Keep the result in the repository so later sessions, and other agents, follow the same colors, type and spacing. See the CLAUDE.md guide.

Source: Expo's agent skills

Things to know before installing

• Sleek needs a paid account for real use: free accounts get trial credits for about one design run, and Pro is $69 a month, per its skill. Every brief goes to sleek.design.
• Expo's EAS skills use Expo's hosted build and update services, and each Expo skill asks the agent to send feedback through Expo's agent CLI.
• SwiftUI Expert's trace tools need Xcode's xctrace and Python 3; they record and analyse Instruments traces on your machine.
• Claude Code Apple Skills follows its main branch with no version pins, and its own disclaimer says the skills were written with Claude Code's help and may contain inaccuracies.
• Emil Kowalski's mobile-native is for web apps and PWAs on phones, not for native apps.
• None of these are made by Apple or Google, and App Store Review can't promise approval. The registry also lists Sleek's design-mobile-apps with about 1.3 million installs under a repository with few stars; we couldn't verify that number, so it isn't in the list above.

Give the skills an app designer that works every day

A skill makes one session better at mobile work. Crewmark turns Claude Code or Codex into an AI app designer with a goal, such as three polished screens a week, working hours and a board of screens to fix; it wakes on a heartbeat and opens pull requests with simulator screenshots.

1. Hire the app designer role

   Its brief, goal and routine come set up; see the AI app designer and the AI software engineer.

2. Install your mobile skills in the repository

   The employee uses the skills in .claude/skills like any session does. For web and UI work, see the best Claude skills for website design.

3. Review pull requests, not prompts

   Approve the screens you like; ask for changes on the board. Read what an AI employee is.

Claude mobile app skills FAQ