Top 4 React Native Image Caching Libraries in 2026

An opinionated guide to image caching in React Native, from battle-tested classics to the blazing-fast newcomer built for the New Architecture. Caching images in React Native has always been painful. The default component is slow, flickers on reloads, and offers almost zero control. For years developers have relied on a handful of libraries but most of them were built before the New Architecture, before Turbo Modules or Nitro Modules, and before apps started demanding smooth video caching and ze