Maestro for React Native

Maestro works in React Native apps on Android, iOS and the web. Category: CI/CD & Release. Pricing: open source, free trial and premium tiers.

Maestro is an open-source end-to-end testing framework for mobile and web apps. You describe user journeys as readable YAML flows (launchApp, tapOn, inputText, assertVisible) and the Maestro CLI runs them on iOS simulators, Android emulators, and real Android devices.

Maestro works the same way for React Native, Flutter, and native apps, and Expo recommends it as its preferred E2E testing tool. It waits for the UI to settle on its own, so you rarely write sleeps or retries, and the free Maestro Studio desktop app lets you build flows by clicking through your app instead of typing selectors.

When to use Maestro in a React Native app

1. Cover critical flows in an afternoon. A Login, Signup, or Checkout flow is a dozen lines of YAML, so a React Native team can protect its money paths without learning Detox internals or adding native test targets.
2. Reduce flaky tests. Built-in waiting and retry on every command means flows tolerate animations, network latency, and slow emulators, which is where most mobile E2E suites lose trust.
3. Run the same flows locally, in CI, and in the cloud. maestro test runs on your machine, EAS Workflows and GitHub Actions run it on every pull request, and Maestro Cloud or DeviceCloud run your suite on many devices in parallel.