Bubble Reviews

Like using Figma to design an app but it's functional

Comments: If you have good ideas paired with the time and desire to learn how to build your own app in Bubble, it is a fantastic, very empowering tool. Developing apps is hard, but Bubble makes developing an app without prior app development experience a lot less painful than you might expect. It definitely helps to tap in to the community for support and tutorials.

Pros:

Plain language expression composing and drag and drop design.

Cons:

My own inexperience with app logic has been the only difficulty using Bubble.

Bubble gets you a website fast!

Comments: For an entrepreneur Bubble is a wonderful alternative to hiring an espensive developer who takes alot of work to make changes with.

Pros:

I liked that as a founder I could easily design with a college student what I wanted to to look like and I found a competent developer who made the mvp. After the mvp a local designer/developer has been redesigning and deploying a wonderful marketplace search engine.

Cons:

Sometimes Bubble goes down but I believe it's quickly fixed.

Great for quick MVPs and full Enterprise-solutions. The more I use it the more I'm convinced how valuable bubble.io is.

Comments: Bubble is ideal for building well functioning apps in very short time. Once you master the basics, it's really easy to set up fully functioning programs and workflows in days, and not months.
If you're looking to build Enterprise-ready apps, the bubble stack security features are a great asset.
With bubble I was able to test different programs and solutions quickly, without having to pay thousands for a full stack developed solution

Pros:

As a startup founder, I've been using Bubble.io for more than 2 years, from small prototypes all the way to enterprise solution that satisfied the strictest due diligence requirements. I've very rarely found technical limitations, and most of the time there's a workaround that allows you to achieve what you need. I've been able to set up APIs and connect with other systems in very short time The platform and support is growing like crazy.

Cons:

Initially, it has a learning curve, but if you have a coding background, it's easy to get used to the bubble logic. Some procedures are a guess work. Sometimes it's not clear how to do certain steps, and documentation does not cover all the cases

Why Bubble.io is highly over priced

Comments: The software is great except for the new responsive builder that's horrible and the extremely high hosting fees. Especially now that the rand/dollar has worsen. Imagine paying $16,000 dollars a month for your software. Does that make sense to you? That's what it's costing us and it's ruining our and many other business that are really good at developing software.

Pros:

It helps us build software for clients with way less developers on a project due to bubbles ease of use and speed to develop complex platforms.

Cons:

What bubble makes up in speed of development it reduces the scalability of it. Bubble is 10X more expensive than any other software we use. Bubble costs us more in hosting than our office rent making it almost impossible for us to sell it to a client and we have lost a lot of clients due to bubbles expensive rates.

A great no-code platform to build MVPs and more

Comments: I started Bubble to build my company's app. Now that it's up and running I'm a full time bubble freelancer. I really love my job, I work on a lot of different apps and it's a real pleasure to open my bubble editor every day. My clients are super satisfied.

Pros:

What was most important for me at the beginning is that you can really build anything you want. I tried no code platforms before but there was always something that I couldn't do and my clients were disappointed. Now with bubble anything they ask, I can build. With the new responsive engine it's super easy to build beautiful apps in no time that work on all devices.

Cons:

I think the learning curve is pretty steep. When you start you immediately see the potential of Bubble but to achieve what you really want, you need to work a lot and learn a lot.

Changed my life

Comments: Totally transformed my career. I am so grateful to the bubble team!

Pros:

Absolutely the best nocode tool on the market. Totally changed my life. Allowed me to build a valuable software company as a non-technical founder.

Cons:

There are weaknesses, but the pros FAR outweigh the cons.Xano.com and TheBDK.com really shine where Bubble is sometimes weak.

Put simply, this is the future

Comments: Super good, it has allowed me to build a startup from zero.

Pros:

Bubble is easy to learn and use, even if don't have any coding skills or knowledge. This customer support is super good and fast. Design and functionalities is notoriously customer/user-centered.

Cons:

I'd like to have it on a Spanish version.

Best Full Stack Website builder

Pros:

It's the only no code builder that includes a great database built in, this allows us to create all the website with only one tool. Coming from a development background it's really easy to use.

Cons:

You don't own the code and everything is hosted in Bubble servers so you depende on them.

Easy of learning if you already have some basics

Comments: Very good. Always eager to learn more and curious to know what will be the next releases from the team!

Pros:

The flexibility. You can basically build anything.

Cons:

The content of the learning center and from video tutorials are only for beginners when you start already dominate bubble but you still have lots of room for improvement is quite difficult to find content

José ramon

Comments: I like it, I stared to use it two weeks ago and I already started a live project

Pros:

Al the possible things that you can do in the platform

Cons:

It’s hard to understand all the data queries

Bubble is almost allmighty, just needs a more complex conditional logic for workflows :)

Comments: We are creating a web app for libraries, for managing and access recourses. Part of this involves transferring or communicating (with API) information from our current internal business application (based on Filemaker). We were trying even to replace part (if not all) of this internal app into Bubble, because of all the powerful things previously mentioned, but the lack of complex logic/expressions also mentioned, forces us to resign for now and keep developing both application environments (communicated via API) and duplicating data, which makes it much more difficult and inefficient than a single environment.

Pros:

1) Design flexibility: the freedom of working with a blank space, which requires probably more time investment and craft building in both design and workflows, but allows a lot of flexibility and almost limitless possibilities. 2) Data relationship: the logic of the database, where instead of relations between tables, it works with fields as objects to access records in other tables. In the beginning, was hard to get used but once I got it, it is just a superpowerful logic. 3) Privacy/access settings: the privacy rules, workflows and hiding properties which combined allows making parts of the app and database public or private for specific users, and therefore for public webs, internal apps, customers apps.

Cons:

It’s major achilles heel for me is the expression system, both for allowing more complex logic and better expression editor (right now is a mess editing an existing dynamic expression). Implement a good condicional logic (case, if) along with internal expression variables (let) would allow making almost anything. This is really a huge thing, it is difficult to describe how this impacts or may impact an app, the complex logic and expressions (complex conditional expressions, better editing, variables) is the 50% of a complex real application. Improving this, would make Bubble a fantasy, a total killer solution.

Good job but continue improving your software to let us use it on a very long term

Comments: It has been 4 years now that I am working on Bubble. It was a real opportunity to create proof of concept. But now that I am becoming an entrepreunor with more scalability problems. I have to admit that Bubble does not match these challenges coming so we plan to stop using it.

Pros:

Very easy to create apps , do custom stuffs. Very easy to go into Development through it , a very good community on your forum and good reactivity from the CS team.

Cons:

Performance like I said, very poor for ecommerce and even for an app to use every day as a team. And the second on is hat we can read the DB fastly when it comes to advanced filters. We have to think about workarounds, which oblige us to store the data twice which is a lot of work. and even with that this is not that easy to do.

Happy freelance bubble developer

Comments: well it was a tough journey but I managed to learn it and now I enjoy it very much

Pros:

that I can code complex stuff (relatively) by putting logic block on paper and than on bubble and it works

Cons:

fact it is bounded in its flexibility but It would not be so easy to use

Best way to build apps

Comments: We have built stable consumer facing apps with Bubble. We have integrated our apps with numerous other platforms and have exposed APIs for other services to connect with our Bubble app. Building on Bubble is fast and the product is not difficult to understand.

Pros:

Speed of development, ease of use, not limit to what you can build.

Cons:

Steep learning curve at the start, understanding privacy rules

Going from Founder to Running an App-based Business

Comments: As a software developer turning founder and business manager, Bubble is an unexpected gem in a world of ways to build software for my needs. There has been almost nothing I could not do with Bubble, including some advanced processing algorithms that my competition has not attempted. I feel like I can make a full-scale web marketplace platform for a scale of 100,000s users all within Bubble. And, by using Bubble, I also save hundreds of thousands of dollars building solid infrastructure. And I believe the Bubble leadership is committed to growing the platform in the ways that matter; stability, security, developer features, to give tools to nocode developers to deliver fast, clean, and delightful, end-user experiences.

Pros:

Bubble gives me ALL the most important pieces of the puzzle to create a viable software system. I like the way Bubble creates pages, preview, and deploy them to a live public-facing web product fast. I like the built-in User system. I like the row-level security system. I like the way it manages a dev environment and production environment seamlessly and intelligently. I like the navigation between pages. I love the way objects in the database are defined, created, and linked to the application. I like the way pages can be laid out responsively using techniques similar to the best prototyping systems like Figma. It's almost as fast to create live working production pages as it is to design them in a prototyping tool. I like the way data elements are referenced on the page. I like the way information can be presented, edited by a user, and then stored. It gives you the power of the display and the power of the saving process. I like the rich and useful plugins. I like how almost every external service you will need is already available, and how EASY it is to connect to external APIs. I LOVE how the entire system -- EVERYWHERE -- automatically shows changes to data everywhere all at once. The technical description of this feature is that every element that shows data has a subscription to that database element automatically. Most of all, I like how searching and displaying information and pictures are handled. using fast and easy-to-understand techniques.

Cons:

The dynamic data source entry boxes, where you can use "no code" thinking, access both simple ("grab the data from a data field or another component on the page" ) and complex ("merge the results of a database search with a list just entered by the user and stored in the page"). But, the entry box is small and too tightly "prompted". Just making it larger would be an improvement. I don't like how all options sets and plugin data are loaded with every page even when that page doesn't make use of it - I believe it affects page-loading performance.

For "no code" development, Bubble is hard to beat

Comments: In the past year I have built a complete new startup from the ground up exclusively in Bubble and have also built another client solution to replace their FileMaker Pro system and now have two more clients looking to do the same. Bubble allows for very speedy prototyping and development, and clients love this. It is especially useful being able to show live changes whilst in calls with little or no delay. Although this can work against me as some clients then believe everything is as easy and quick to do!

Pros:

The community is very active, friendly and helpful. Training material is in good supply with some excellent tutors.

Cons:

Performance and limitations on features within different pricing tiers can out-price it for some projects. Plugins are unreliable and easily broken, unless "Built by Bubble", ruling out many very promising and useful third-party offerings.

Bubble

Pros:

Currently the only NoCode solution that isn't limited to templates and templating.

Cons:

Imagined for non developers but requiring developer understanding to really make the best use of. It is currently in between these two target markets and needs to support devs/agencies more.

Bubble is my favorite and most efficient tool

Comments: Perfect

Pros:

Support is amazing and always helpful. We see that all the investments that the company receives, they put into improving the tool itself, the feature quality and public interest. Also, we really like how they help people learn how to use it properly and improve the flaws the community sometimes points out. I have been using it for more than 5 years now, and I haven't found a better alternative, and probably won't be have to in the upcoming years.

Cons:

It could be a bit faster in loading time.

Difference Maker

Pros:

I needed an application that I could build myself to save costs.With bubble I can do all the coding, design and deployments by myself. Additionally I neededo rhe software to be workflow intensive and UI complex.With Bubble I was able to accomplish all thise things and am now running a very profitable business.

Cons:

Some things required creative workarounds. Also the pricing at the highest tier is more expensive than I would like.

A game changer for non-technical founders

Comments: Bubble is one of those products that came along and changed my life. Before bubble, I was dependent on developers or low-functionality app builders. Once I discovered and learned to use Bubble, I was capable of building, from the ground up, a complete B2B SaaS web app that is now generating revenue for my company. It's easy to get started, the community and docs are fantastic, the ability to integrate with other systems is strong, and it is overall a great app dev experience.

Pros:

Bubble is easy to use, incredibly powerful, and unlocks capabilities for non-technical individuals that would take an experienced coder much longer to implement. The basic building blocks are rock solid and work together seamlessly on the platform (e.g. user management, databases, workflows, drag & drop design, API connections, privacy rules, etc). It's a fantastic experience and very powerful.

Cons:

Most of these are being actively worked on, but some disadvantages are:- Managing styling and responsive design can be challenging- Debugging when using external tools/integrations can be difficult without access to system logs- When apps become more complex, managing large numbers of workflows/pages/data types can become somewhat cumbersome (note that this is when you have 30+ pages, hundreds of workflows, and 50+ data types)

Most powerful No Code platform out there

Pros:

The simplicity with which you can build apps. There is a learning curve but once you learn, there is no stopping back.

Cons:

Very slow if you have to manipulate 1000s of records at once.

Best no-code app

Comments: Very good overall experience

Pros:

- Very customizable- Very reliable- Almost no limit for usual apps thanks to API Connector and JS

Cons:

- Playing with JSON and custom states in Bubble is sometimes painful. It is often easier to transform into Bubble objects, but then we loose lot of JS advantages

Nice product doing what it's supposed to

Comments: Good ! As I said, the flexibility, ease to develop and release, and easy to grasp logic makes it a very powerful tool to launch new ideas !

Pros:

Bubble is a nice product to develop, test, launch very quickly and iteratively ideas. It globally does every basic needed thing, and for what's lacking there are many plug-ins to help and a great community.I like the simple division between Design/Workflows/Data and how the logic is easily usable once understood

Cons:

I feel like the cons are more of a misuse of Bubble than flaws of Bubble. My issues today are how to integrate my Bubble products with classic internal product with their lengthy cycles of development.Performance issues can happen if data tables are not well-thought and not suited for the Repeating Groups it's used in or with too much complexity in a page, but that shows limit of scaling that is inherent to a no-code tool1 con that is kind of painful : my data tables were set with lengthy field names and now every time I modify an existing database entry, half of the filed names are cut.. Small formatting fix or line break could really help :)

Reliable application

Comments: On the whole, Bubble is a super platform. We are currently creating the second prototype and testing it on the market. The fast customizability of workflows and designs makes it well adapted to the pace of today's world. The learning curve is quite flat at the beginning, but it takes some time to really master bubble. In any case, it was worth it to choose bubble.

Pros:

The best thing about Bubble is that you can make changes quickly and that you learn it extremely fast.

Cons:

- The lack of dynamic widths in the elements, it follows that when you change the text, you have to adjust all the affected elements. - The speed for complex applications is unfortunately much too slow - Some rudimentary elements are missing and can only be supplemented with plugins -> But these are usually also not always well implemented

Game changer

Comments: I'm very satisfied despite the points above. The customer support is stellar and there's a very useful community. If you need to do something that is not within the regular feature, you'l certainly find a plugin for few dollars.

Pros:

I'm not a developer but I managed to build a full functioning application (also wrapped for mobile) for paying customers. I could learn by doing also thanks to great forum and an active community.There is simply nothing as good as Bubble out there. Even if you find something easier to start with, you'll find out you won't be able to scale. With Bubble the sky is the limit.

Cons:

In the last two years they had few downs that lasted way too much. In the last six month didn't happen anymore. I recently had problems with corrupted cache and, in general, you cannot be 100% sure that a page will immediately retrieve updated data.On the admin side I find they should improve the management of scheduled workflows. the interface is very basic and you can't download them.They should provider an easier way to wrap for mobile.