--- title: Bubble Reviews meta_title: 'Bubble Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 166 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Bubble works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 166 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Rapid Application Development (RAD) url: https://www.g2.com/categories/rapid-application-development-rad --- # Bubble Reviews **Vendor:** Bubble Group **Category:** [No-Code Development Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/no-code-development-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 166 ## About Bubble Build, design, and launch apps faster. Bubble empowers users to build web applications – ranging from simple prototypes to complex SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and CRMs on a powerful no-code, point-and-click web editor and cloud hosting platform. Over 3 million users are building businesses on Bubble - many of whom have not only gone on to participate in top accelerator programs such as Y Combinator and Techstars, but also raise millions of dollars in venture funding. Trusted by teams at HubSpot, Zendesk, VMware, and more. Backed by Insight Partners, SignalFire, Neo, and Betaworks Ventures. ## Bubble Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Bubble to be **extremely easy to use** , allowing rapid creation and simple editing of web applications. (4 reviews) - Users praise the **unbelievable speed** of Bubble for creating and deploying web applications efficiently. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy creation** of functional apps with Bubble, speeding up development without deep coding knowledge. (2 reviews) - Users value the **fast development** capabilities of Bubble, enabling quick creation of scalable web applications with ease of editing. (2 reviews) - Users find the **quick setup** of Bubble excellent for immediate deployment without complex requirements. (2 reviews) - Templates (2 reviews) - Affordable (1 reviews) - Community Engagement (1 reviews) - Community Strength (1 reviews) - Cost-Effective (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **Bubble's pricing expensive** , feeling the need for a better free option or longer trial. (3 reviews) - Users face a challenging **learning curve** with Bubble due to fidgety expressions and occasional instability issues. (2 reviews) - Users find **pricing issues** with Bubble, desiring a more generous free trial and better value for functionality. (2 reviews) - Users face a **steep learning curve** with Bubble due to its quirks and unstable functionality requiring constant troubleshooting. (2 reviews) - Users report **bug issues** in Bubble, finding it quirky and sometimes unstable, leading to frustrating troubleshooting experiences. (1 reviews) - Users face serious **chat issues** with Bubble, feeling unsupported due to weak community management and plugin challenges. (1 reviews) - Coding Challenges (1 reviews) - Complexity (1 reviews) - Users face significant **dependency issues** with Bubble, creating challenges in scaling and migrating away from the platform. (1 reviews) - Downtime Issues (1 reviews) ## Bubble Reviews ### 1. Great for prototypes, but impossible to scale for numerous reasons **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Bubble?** The promise by bubble.io as a whole to make it possible for anyone to write software, is very much true with this platform. It's definitely not intuitive for beginners (but they are working on this!), but the capability of the platform and encompassing everything you need to get started including database, middleware, APIs and front-end, along with a very large marketplace of both plugins & agencies able to build out functionality - it is everything you need to get started with a fully-functioning webapp. There is very little more they could add to the capability, to be honest - including the fact it has real-time data updates, which many competing platforms lack. You can also integrate with any other platform you wish via APIs, or via plugins - so it is truly a very flexible platform. To be completely honest, it is an enjoyable experience using bubble to build an app most the time, and it is rare I encounter a completely insurmountable issue. **What do you dislike about Bubble?** Vendor lock-in is a serious problem with bubble.io. You have no "generic" export capability that you could readily move into other platforms, meaning you are pretty much stuck once you scale to a certain point, as you will be effectively forced to stick with bubble.io, or rebuild from scratch elsewhere. Whilst you can export your app and data, they are in formats that are not readily importable into any other platform. This is especially the case with the app itself, which cannot be stood up standalone (e.g. self-hosting), nor can it be imported into any other platform, or even read by a human (it is purely code). The backend also is hosted solely in the US - which is not ideal for other regions, as performance can be very slow for a user in another country. Furthermore, leveraging internal functionality (e.g. the database) makes for some very slow performance in many use cases, which increasingly worsen as you scale the amount of data and users. Heavy optimisation is a necessity to get anywhere with the platform - more often than not, requiring you to learn the intricacies of how bubble.io works behind the scenes if you want to get performance and not have it cost you a mortgage on your home due to the WU pricing from sub-optimal code. Due to the opaque pricing structure based on "Workload Units (WU)", which are calculated using hidden metrics on bubble's back-end infrastructure, the more you use the platform - the more it will cost you to run. This means that scaling requires you to either minimise your usage of the platform, or leverage alternative solutions to minimise the usage. This SIGNIFICANTLY detracts from the platform, since to save costs you are effectively forced to look elsewhere for core components that bubble.io is offering - such as database - simply to avoid being gouged on pricing. This is especially a problem for startups, since if you were creating a consumer-facing app and happened to go viral on social media - you could rapidly run out of funding if you were relying on the "workload unit" pricing model, since the work your app is doing for all your new customers would effectively price your startup out of the market before it's even reached scale! Effectively, this means that bubble.io is targeted for two customer classes: the VERY early startup (who has few customers to create workload), the VC-backed venture (with enough funds to build a new app outside bubble) and the enterprise customer with deep pockets. There is no customer class for those self-funded categories trying to build something in their garage off spare change. Bubble.io has community forums that are literally the only source of help for a "bubbler" for marketplace plugins. But if you say something the community moderators (who aren't necessarily employees) don't agree to - expect to be PERMANENTLY banned, without so much as a warning. These permabans also cannot be contested, cannot be undone, and effectively result in you losing all access to any help for building your app. If you encounter an issue with bubble.io itself - you still retain access to bubble's support even if this happens to you (and bubble does have friendly and helpful support staff), but they will NOT help you whatsoever if the issue has anything to do with a plugin from the marketplace, or if you are simply trying to work out how to solve a basic issue with your app. You are literally on your own. For scaling a business on the platform - the fact that they would treat paying customers in this manner who contribute in the forums, then allow literally no avenues of recourse, is a major red flag for using their platform for scaling a business. The fact that a community forum is even allowed to be operated in this manner calls out serious concerns on their operating model, as other non-bubble forums are littered with similar experiences from others. **What problems is Bubble solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bubble makes it possible as a single individual, who is also the founder of my own startup business to build an app to go to market. I do not have the time, resources nor the skills to build a full-stack application using native code and infrastructure - and this is the problem that bubble.io solves. ### 2. Stay away! **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shane A. | CEO & Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Bubble?** It is amazing what you can build in Bubble. The issue is not what "can" Bubble do but how reliably it can do it. The longer you use the platform the more you experience weird data issues because the platform search capability stops working or you do an operation on a list of things without leaving the required 5 seconds between operations (yes, 5 seconds). **What do you dislike about Bubble?** Originally, I would have suggested that Bubble was good for an initial startup trying to validate its market fit. 5 years into it and I can no longer agree. This week Bubble unveiled new pricing that made its platform 8 times more expensive for many people. After years of building a non-performant system, they decided to change pricing models that charge from a fictitious measurement called a work unit. So now, the platform users are being charged for the resource time the poor system design requires. **What problems is Bubble solving and how is that benefiting you?** Customer facing applications. Benefit is that we are live with an idea quickly. **Official Response from Rosalie Chang:** > Hi Shane, Thank you for sharing this feedback, and we’re sorry that you feel this way about the upcoming changes. We’re committed to our mission of democratizing technology and believe that changes to our pricing will enable us to accelerate improvements to our platform, so that we can ultimately better serve users like you. Our new pricing structure is based on a measurement called “workload”. Workload is a measure of the work that Bubble does in order to power your application; performing tasks like processing a payment, communicating with an API, and searching through your database all count towards your monthly workload usage. More technically, workload measures the resources that your app consumes when performing computations like database operations, workflows, and web requests. For more information, please feel free to check out our in-depth explanation of workload here: https://bubble.io/blog/what-is-workload/ If you have any additional comments or questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our team at support@bubble.io ### 3. For developers, this is likely slower than prototypeing with code **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Bubble?** No code for UI elements, very simple editor with no noticeable bugs. Decent documentation and community. Plugin development was do-bale and free plan got me to a prototype. **What do you dislike about Bubble?** - Cost money to add team members to project - Is not compatible with npm packages or react components, making development of anything serious very challenging (doable since you can just use vanilla script) - Plugins on the marketplace are not open source, could easily have malicious code so they cannot be trusted with sensitive user information - Unclear how to migrate off Bubble Auth, so never started with it. Implementing non-Bubble auth was challenging to figure out **What problems is Bubble solving and how is that benefiting you?** If you have a very simple web app you want to prototype or if you have no development experience, this may speed up your time to prototype. If you can code, this will probably just slow you down ### 4. Lackluster **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Bubble?** Pretty easy to use and good documentation **What do you dislike about Bubble?** I could not get support to help me when I had questions. Applications ran very slow. **Recommendations to others considering Bubble:** Don't bother. Apps run slow and support is terrible. Lots of other solutions out there with better support and run faster. **What problems is Bubble solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster dev time ## Bubble Discussions - [Security on Bubble](https://www.g2.com/discussions/security-on-bubble) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How do you build the service that requires fast loading?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-build-the-service-that-requires-fast-loading) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is the best way to manage injected CSS/external CSS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-way-to-manage-injected-css-external-css) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Horrible page load speeds](https://www.g2.com/discussions/31040-horrible-page-load-speeds) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How is it](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-is-it) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [View Bubble pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/bubble/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-09+08%3A23%3A44+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d608e1f7-0627-4fb3-a0cc-502b2c47aa3a&secure%5Btoken%5D=730a4e904ee3673d5a05d6714639399f442eb0933bc211b6e79acd922234d8ed&format=llm_user) ## Bubble Integrations - 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E-Commerce - Hosting - Online Booking Tools - Website Analytics **Support** - CMS Variety - Multi-CMS Support - Compliance **Agentic AI - Drag and Drop App Builder** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Additional Functionality** - Role-Based Permissions - Real-Time Updates - Graphical User Interface - No-Code - Real-Time Reporting - Data Visualization - Customizable Fields - Charting - Integrated Development Environment - Customizable Forms - Generative AI - API - Reporting & Statistics - Agile Methodologies - Web Forms - Custom Development - Offline Access - Customizable Reports - Visual Modeling - Access Controls/Permissions - Authentication - Search/Filter - Alerts/Notifications - Activity Dashboard - AI Copilot - Secure Data Storage - Collaboration Tools - Approval Process Control - Web/Mobile App Development - Data Import/Export - Version Control - Real-Time Notifications **Publishing** - Application Deployment - Platform Compatibility - Lifecycle Management - 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