--- title: Why Use Flutter to Develop Mobile Apps? | daily.dev description: Flutter is a portable UI toolkit that builds natively compiled apps that can be deployed to the web, mobile, and even desktop computers. The platform uses a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-use-flutter-to-develop-mobile-apps---op40clwx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Use Flutter to Develop Mobile Apps? | daily.dev og:description: Flutter is a portable UI toolkit that builds natively compiled apps that can be deployed to the web, mobile, and even desktop computers. The platform uses a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-use-flutter-to-develop-mobile-apps---op40clwx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/_Op40CLwX.png og:image:alt: Why Use Flutter to Develop Mobile Apps? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why Use Flutter to Develop Mobile Apps? **[Tuts\+](https://daily.dev/sources/tuts_plus)** · 5 min read · 10 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Flutter is a portable UI toolkit that builds natively compiled apps that can be deployed to the web, mobile, and even desktop computers. The platform uses a single codebase in the Dart language for programming and incorporates Cupertino widgets to offer an organic interface to the end user. Flutter apps are designed to work naturally on any platform with Flutter’s UI framework. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@\_dan\_703538749862597153598497** · 0 upvotes > I'll definitely be using flutter more than react ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#flutter](https://daily.dev/tags/flutter), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-use-flutter-to-develop-mobile-apps---op40clwx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Why Use Flutter to Develop Mobile Apps?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-use-flutter-to-develop-mobile-apps---op40clwx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-use-flutter-to-develop-mobile-apps---op40clwx"},"datePublished":"2021-03-24T02:48:56.855Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T04:51:09.826Z","description":"Flutter is a portable UI toolkit that builds natively compiled apps that can be deployed to the web, mobile, and even desktop computers. 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