Every React Native team eventually asks the same question: Reanimated, Moti, or Skia? The framing is wrong. These three don't compete, they compose. Here's the mental model that will save you a bad refactor. Reanimated is the runtime. The other two depend on it. Moti is a declarative wrapper over Reanimated. Less code, less control. Skia is a rendering engine, not an animation library. It accepts Reanimated shared values directly. Install Reanimated and Moti on day one. ...