Dropdown is one of the most classic UI elements in web design.
Its history can be traced back to the last century and has been popular today.
Even in today’s mobile-first web development, dropdown is still an indispensable UI element.
In today’s post, you will find the 10 best Dropdown components to help you create user-friendly and mobile-compatible dropdown lists or dropdown menus on modern React and React Native applications. Have fun.
Originally Published July 14 2020, updated June 05 2025
Table Of Contents:
Best React Dropdown Components:
1. downshift
A collection of primitive components that you can compose together to create a simple, flexible, WAI-ARIA compliant React autocomplete/dropdown/select/combobox component which you can reuse in your application.
2. select-search
A lightweight, accessible, headless select component with support for groups, live search, multi select, async loading, and much more.
3. Simple Dropdown Component For React
Simple Dropdown component for React that helps you style the default HTML select element with support for grouped options.
4. Dropdown Tree Select Component For React
A lightweight and fast control to render a select component that can display hierarchical tree data. In addition, the control shows the selection in pills and allows user to search the options for quick filtering and selection.
5. react-dropdown-select
Customisable dropdown select for react:
- configurable via
props - total custom components overrides for all internals via render prop callbacks (with access to internal props, state and methods)
- stylable via css (or custom components)
- portal support for rendering dropdown outside local DOM tree. e.g. in
document.body - auto position
- small bundle size
Best React Native Dropdown Components:
1. React Native Picker Select Component
A Picker component for React Native which emulates the native <select> interfaces for iOS and Android.
2. react-native-element-dropdown
A React Native dropdown component easy to customize for both iOS and Android. Customizable font size, colors and animation duration.
3. React Native Dropdown Picker
A single/multiple, categorizable, customizable, localizable, and searchable item picker (drop-down) component for react native, which supports both Android & iOS.
4. Customizable Select Dropdown For React Native
A feature-rich and highly customizable select dropdown component for React Native.
5. react-native-select-pro
React Native dropdown (select) component:
- Customizable
- Multiple
- Sections
- Searchable
- Accessible
- TypeScript support
More Resources:
There’re lots of web & mobile dropdown libraries out there and you can find more React & React Native resources about dropdown on our Dropdown category.