Bubble Reviews: 4.5/5 — Highly Rated

Extremely powerful, almost as much as code itself. You can build about anything with it. I love having a constant flow of updates that always bring something that matters or that I was missing, the dev and product management teams do an impressive job at always bringing on point and numerous new features and improvements. Sometimes it feels like I can stop coding and the app will code itself 😌

It is still fairly hard to use and there are sooooo many clicks involved, that I now have to use two mice alternating hands to not get repetitive strain injuries. I am not even joking.

Starting up a business, we are building a prototype app to make our first money and blueprint so that in the future we can build it with actual code. We are now also generating advanced quotes and invoices using a pdf génération plugin.

As a designer, this is the first time I feel so empowered, I couldn't find anything as powerful as bubble.io Currently, we're building a two-sided marketplace where we allow users to upload their own content and we approve it before it goes online. It took us 6 weeks of learning and 8 days of working to build the entire marketplace and bring it online, we have tried to build something similar in the past and it took 3 months to find a suitable developer and another 3 months of building, you can imagine the cost.

It requires a few weeks to learn, but with anything this powerful, this timeline is nothing. Consider learning coding to get the same results, you need at least 2 to 3 years, not 6 weeks. One thing I would improve is the designs, but I am picky since I am a designer :)

It's made it insanely easy for me to build a platform and work with users without needing anyone, I don't need a designer, a developer, a database expert, etc. I did it all by myself. And it is not just MVP, there are companies out there with USD 2.5 million yearly revenue and they're built on the bubble, one example is BetterLegal https://betterlegal.com/

I was a Visual Basic developer in the 1990s and early 2000s. Although you could create business objects, etc, VB's event drive nature allowed you to get things done without a CompSci degree. Well, Bubble has done that with the web. Watch a few YouTube videos from the ecosystem and you will be on your way.

They have changed the plans a few times since I have started. Nothing has gotten in the way of being productive though.

Allows for a non-traditional web developer to create solutions that work, scale, and are fit for purpose at a fraction of the cost.

Robust NoSql database with an "out of the box" REST API. It's easy to create, change and manage data models. I also like the new responsive engine for creating layouts.

The app performance can't keep up with a traditional solution built from scratch in JS, or similar, but it's getting better. I also wish it would be easier to embed and run external code. We use a lot of external APIs to create interactive maps or charts. The HTML element needs some work.

Creating fast prototypes and MVPs, we use Bubble quite a lot to test different ideas. I was also able to market smaller software solutions made in Bubble to clients.

Bubble is opening up true software development to everyone in the world. My company/product would be almost nearly impossible to be built/operational without Bubble. Bubble automates all of the complexity of web devleopment behind the scenes so that you can actually focus on building what matters, and not get caught up in the stuff that developers simply don't want to do. But perhaps the most transformational aspect of Bubble is that it opens up skillsets/abilities that you never thought you had. You can grow more as a person using Bubble on your own than in any other professional endeavor or career path.

No native mobile app support yet, but I'm sure that's coming soon. Once they have that and make the UI more slick/fast, it'll be truly unstoppable.

Some freezing in the editor UI but will be fixed in time.

Bubble.io is a no-code web app builder. They have a clean UI with a good process flow to make the work easier and smoother. A lot of backend processing is automated like SignIn, User Registration, EMail verification, Logout etc. It also has a lot of plugins which will make it further easier to build your apps.

The pricing is generalized a bit high, It takes time to master bubble even though it's a drag and drop platform, having a basic coding HTML/CSS understanding would help to learn it more easily.

With Bubble, we can build a complex app in a matter of time since it has a lot of work already automated with a lot of other plugins. This helps develop proof-of-concept or MVP apps very easily and quickly.

Bubble as a tool is a true partner to your creativity. What I mean is that when you have an idea in your mind of what you want to build, it's very possible to do so quickly. For example, as I write this, the G2 site has a progress bar that is filling in until I meet the character minimum for a review. If I wanted to integrate a feature like that into my form inputs on Bubble, easy, draw in the progress bar into the interface and set it up to calculate the % of current characters versus the minimum required. I also like how you can achieve multi-platform app experiences pretty seamlessly. Meaning, that you create one database and it serves desktop and mobile experiences simultaneously. If a user makes updates, saves a few things on the app's web version, it will immediately show up on their account in the mobile app because of how databases work in Bubble. This setup is standard for every platform out there, Airbnb, Spotify, Whatsapp. You add a song to your playlist on the mobile app and boom, it's in your web browser's playlist 2 seconds later. I think others overestimate the difficulty in creating mobile apps with Bubble. No it's not perfect, and no, it may not even be the technology stack you want 5 years from now. But that stack is going to cost you $100,000s whereas Bubble is far cheaper for those looking to get started quickly with launching their product idea into the market and not worrying about their tech because Bubble has handled it all on the backend!

Bit of a learning curve but that's hard to avoid in software development.

Easy to create software applications and reach an audience with your idea.

Allowed me to go from not being able to build anything to a complete email marketing SaaS in 3 Months.

There is no CMS system for creating SEO efficient blogs and a few minor things here and there.

Creating products is so much easier and cheaper and faster with bubble.

Highly customizable drag and drop editor and the new responsive engine is just awesome

I didn't have any issues using bubble, one thing bubble can improve is allowing us to share reusable elements/blocks between apps easily.

Building my own SaaS without code.

Nice tool to build a SaaS based CRM - MVP and test it on the market. Gonna to try it. No-code is the new code.

I don't have enough feedback yet to say anything.

Same, I don't have enough feedback yet to say anything.