Bubble to Adalo Challenge

keith · 2020-08-14T00:22:50.974Z

I’d kind of be interested in checking out Adalo, but I can’t get past their email/password signup page. (Seriously? It’s 2020 here.)

Bubble app developers: Take note. This is how all of your prospective users feel. (If you’re not enabling at least one OAuth signup method, you’re losing audience.)

wake868 · 2020-08-14T03:53:32.916Z

I’ve used Adalo a little, but always seem to come back to bubble.

But now with the ability to create custom components with React I’ll probably dive back in.

keith · 2020-08-14T04:10:09.514Z

I’d be interested to hear about the plugin API experience. (I’ve read the skimpy docs.) But again, what actual skilled developer would sign up for this thing without login with GitHub?

NigelG · 2020-08-19T10:42:32.286Z

Sadly, Adalo is a bit crap.

Fell at the first hurdle with trying to do a map - you can’t show markers near a particular location.

What on earth is the point of that ?

Same with Glide. So basic and so expensive. $50 a month and you can’t really do much.

nocodeventure · 2020-08-19T11:00:49.672Z

It’s actually the same for Bubble. You can create custom plugins to add this functionality.

NigelG · 2020-08-19T13:11:33.894Z

Not sure you can filter on distance from a user location ?

shu.teopengco · 2020-08-19T13:45:38.487Z

Have you tried Appgyver?

TipLister · 2020-08-19T13:53:13.383Z

I tried Adalo 2 months ago.

A little slow and anything that you can do after one week of Bubble is hard to do.
Sometimes there are some hacks but very difficult to copy most apps from bubble.

The price tag seems too high for that at the moment (even with react stuff now).

However; Beautiful editor interface.

NigelG · 2020-08-19T16:48:58.333Z

TipLister:

However; Beautiful editor interface.

Isn’t it just.

NigelG · 2020-09-25T14:15:31.514Z

I will put up a video of trying to build a VERY simple directory app in both Glide and Adalo.

Suffice to say neither really worked all that well, which is a shame for the whole nocode community, we need high quality platforms.

Glide - pretty much unusable in the EU, as you can’t do Cookie Consent and they are not interested in GDPR. Even without storing Personal Data it was very flaky. So quick to build and the templated way of building rather than drag and drop is amazingly focused. Editor can slow down a bit at times.

Adalo - As above, map functions are very poor and don’t seem to work at anything like real world numbers. Interface has a familiar feeling to Bubble, and I really like to slightly higher level of elements (tiles, lists, lists with detail etc).

May try Thunkable next.

(Although I actually do need to build this for real, so Bubble is going to be the one).

nocodeventure · 2020-09-25T14:25:18.586Z

I agree here, Adalo seemed a great platform but yesterday had some issues with displaying nearby markers on a map

NigelG · 2020-09-25T14:26:58.223Z

Yeah, doesn’t work. Which is really annoying.

cmorris · 2020-10-29T16:15:03.843Z

I like Adalo for native apps, it’s really quick to develop and has some cool features. BUT, and this is a huge BUT. They are not GDPR compliant so realistically, if anyone creates an app that is intended to be used by anyone within the EU, you are taking a huge risk!

Shame really as they are cutting off an entire continent by not being GDPR compliant.

NigelG · 2020-10-30T14:21:25.736Z

I have given up on Adalo for now. Their map function is seriously buggy, and little support.

Worth looking at softr.io as well. Newer in the market so they don’t have a huge amount of functionality, but they have only just released the “Web Application” side so am hoping for good things. The Airtable integration is sweet.

andrewgassen · 2020-10-30T14:29:55.905Z

I had the impression that Softr was template-based and had pre-baked options to choose from for “web apps.” Did that change?

NigelG · 2020-10-30T14:39:21.354Z

No, it is still the same “blocks” but you can have multiple blocks per page.

New blocks include the listings which is like a customisable repeating group linked to airtable.

gyurisc · 2021-04-20T05:02:40.238Z

I was wondering what is the generic opinions about Adalo now compared to Bubble? Many many months passed now so surely they fixed bugs and made the experience better right?

Disclaimer: I am new to Bubble and have 0 experience with Adalo.

nocodeventure · 2021-04-20T07:30:12.914Z

Designing works better in Adalo. Bubble is much more flexible and gives you full control, the downside of it is that you can easily build a crappy application that looks horrible, performs bad and full of bugs.

You’ll probably spend about 2 months on Bubble before you can build a proper application. It helps if you are familiar with Photoshop, HTML and CSS as that was a huge benefit for me coming from a designers background to Bubble.

Understanding how grid containers work in HTML, CSS will help you understand how to position your elements.

Good luck

Christophe_HK · 2021-04-20T07:32:03.046Z

Adalo is a great tool, but depending on your app goal, there’s a lack of performance globally and there are some unpredictable behaviors (mainly when you navigate through pages with data linked to - when you navigate from page A to page B then back to page A, you list the data initially attached to page A, bump… ).

andrewgassen · 2021-04-20T12:11:40.754Z