Monthly Community Update -- April 2025

[josh]

Hi everyone,

This is the April community update. You can read last month’s update here.

If you read these updates consistently, you know I’ve been spending a lot of time talking about the future of AI app generation, both from an industry standpoint and how we’re thinking about it at Bubble.

Last week, we released a video that describes our vision for AI, which takes that a step further. I’ve long had the opinion that AI isn’t going to replace no-code; instead, the two are going to supercharge each other. You can watch the video and read more of my thoughts on the forum here.

If you have any questions about where Bubble is headed, please join Emmanuel and me on April 3 for our AMA on Bubble’s plans and vision for AI-powered visual development. Register here (if you can’t make it, you can register anyway, and we’ll send you the recording). You can also submit questions ahead of time here. Super excited to talk with you all!

Before the rest of the update, a note on platform reliability: Some users have experienced issues with app uptime recently due to long queries impacting our main databases. We’re nearly finished migrating off an outdated procedure language that will allow us to automatically cancel those queries and preserve performance. We’re targeting end of April to be finished with that work. In the meantime, we’re handling each long query as it comes up, and we’re confident that recent changes we made will improve stability further in the interim. I shared a longer update on the forum yesterday, which you can read here.

Let’s get into the updates.

Everything that launched last month

The new workflow tab will become the default experience for all users later this month. We had previously announced that this change would go into effect April 7. Based on community feedback, we’ve decided to push that launch back to add more features around conditional statements. Keep an eye out for more updates coming shortly. Over the past few weeks, we’ve shipped several feature changes to improve navigation, including zoom controls on the canvas, better searches for actions, grid view to show you all workflows, and a UI change that makes it clearer when a workflow is enabled. We’re also improving routing, so your tabs won’t reset when you switch between the backend workflow, design, and workflow tabs.

Between January and March of this year, we’ve tripled the monthly number of users we’re onboarding to the mobile beta. We also announced that we’re opening mobile up to everyone by June (read that roadmap post here if you missed it)!

We also kicked off the mobile plugin alpha. As of yesterday, every alpha tester has officially built their first plugin. Congrats to the first agencies to publish their plugins in the marketplace:

Zeroqode, Minimum Studio, Codi Technologies, No-Code Venture, Cranford Tech, and Idea Link. Congrats as well to all of our alpha testers, and thank you for helping us shape the mobile plugin editor and ecosystem.

Exciting news: Bubble’s AI app generator now generates dynamic images. This is a big upgrade to output quality, and the team continues to work behind the scenes on monitoring and improving output quality even further.

To help users who generate an app understand what to do once it’s created, we’ve trained our help bot to provide step-by-step instructions and assistance as you build. Try it out by clicking the chat icon in the bottom right corner of your editor of any app you’ve generated with Bubble AI.

The app interface manager, which simplifies adding, organizing, and managing web and mobile views, is now available to everyone. Thank you to our Bubble Ambassadors and beta testers who helped us test this new experience. Read more on the forum here. We also hear your feedback since the release and the team is working on some updates. More to come!

The brand-new settings tab is out, which will make it easier to navigate, especially as more users get access to mobile.

Starting today, we are extending the Bubble Developer Certification to be valid for two years instead of one. If you’re already a certified dev, you should have received an email with more info.

We launched the Bubble app gallery! This is a living hub of real-life Bubble apps, and there are some really impressive use cases. Make sure to give it a look. If you have an app you’d like to have featured, you can submit it at the top of the page.

Last but not least, our support bot (which you can access from the bottom right corner of any page on our website) now has multi-language support. Ask questions and receive support in French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, or Portuguese. This is a big step forward in how we show up for our global community, and I’m proud of the work we’ve done here.

What we’re working on

• Mobile: We’re entering the final stages of internal testing for the mobile debugger, and then we’ll be rolling it out to all beta users. The team is also aiming to complete work this month on the app switcher, which lets you easily switch between a mobile app and web app in your account.We’re also working hard on a number of ongoing improvements, including improving the deploy process for Android, mobile device testing for Android and iOS, and incorporating feedback from bug reports and the plugin alpha ahead of our June launch.

• API streaming: We’re aiming to have this feature ready before the end of the month. It has been highly requested, so I’m excited for it to go live. One plus to building API streaming natively is that it’s much more secure: You don’t have to expose your API keys to a third-party service. The other plus is that you can bring cutting-edge UX to AI chatbots and other text-streaming use cases like real-time dashboards.

• AI generation: The team is continuing to make improvements to generation outputs on the front- and backend of your apps. That means bringing more styling consistency across your app’s pages and generating apps with more modern branding and coloring. Like I mentioned above, make sure to check out our AI vision video. I’m really excited about the road ahead.

• Changelog: In early April, we’re updating the retention window for all plans that have access to changelog.

  • Growth: 14 days (previously, we were only supporting 7 days)

  • Team: 20 days

  • Enterprise (Standard): 30 days

  • Enterprise (Dedicated): 1 year

  • Agency accounts: 20 days

  For most plans, this should give you a lot more flexibility to see and revert changes.

• Sunsetting “interactive lessons”: Next week, we’ll be sunsetting interactive lessons (guided, in-editor walk-throughs that were designed to help new users learn the product). These require a decent amount of engineering work to maintain every time new features are added, and they don’t get as much engagement as other educational content, so this will free up some valuable resources. We still have a ton of guided walk-throughs, like connecting to OpenAI, setting up a masonry grid, and understanding mobile views, that are great for users of all experience levels. If you have requests for more, let us know in the comments.

How to get involved

There are a ton of ways to get involved this month!

• Don’t forget to attend the AI roadmap AMA on April 3. RSVP here.

• Bubble is coming to Brazil! Emmanuel is speaking at Web Summit Rio, and we’re hosting a hybrid event in São Paul on April 28 and a happy hour in Rio on April 30.

• Check out the community page for even more events from the community.

ICYMI

• Emmanuel shared Bubble’s POV on vibe coding for the blog. If you’re interested, give it a read.

• Check out the latest showcases on:

  • Odyseek, an AI-powered career platform that recently launched on ProductHunt

  • National Zakat Foundation, a nonprofit providing millions of dollars in aid in the UK

  • Artizen, a crowdfunding platform that’s awarded over $2.3 million to artist projects

  • Floor Authority, a flooring company making $24 million annually that built a custom ERP on Bubble

Team updates

We had several new people join the team this month and an exciting internal move.

• Congrats to Sam, who worked as an internal Bubble Developer, on moving to the engineering team to work on AI! I think it will be incredibly valuable to have someone who is such an experienced power user building the future of Bubble.

• Big welcome to:

  • Stacy, our new VP on the People team
  • Kate, a product marketing manager
  • Aditya, an engineering manager
  • Kelly, a technical success specialist

Thanks for reading!

— Josh and Emmanuel

[J805]

@josh

Sunsetting “interactive lessons”: Next week, we’ll be sunsetting interactive lessons (guided, in-editor walk-throughs that were designed to help new users learn the product). These require a decent amount of engineering work to maintain every time new features are added, and they don’t get as much engagement as other educational content, so this will free up some valuable resources. We still have a ton of guided walk-throughs, like connecting to OpenAI, setting up a masonry grid, and understanding mobile views, that are great for users of all experience levels. If you have requests for more, let us know in the comments.

This was literally what got me onto Bubble and helped me get started. I think it is worth the effort to keep it honestly. I always recommend people to use it when they are struggling to start something. End of an era.

[nocodeventure]

Keep up the great work!

[goldy]

@josh - Thank you for the updates, I recently started building with Bubble after struggling with last mile with tools like loveable.
Hit a block with Bubble which am confident almost every developer would while building apps that would interact with any LLM.
It might be worth looking at this

Can’t parse nested JSON from OpenAI — how is this still a thing in 2025?

There’s no bug or issue here. This is a string… that contain a JSON, but this is not a JSON itself. Bubble is not in fault here. Any script would need a “double” parsing of the JSON response. So any solutions, including in Bubble, will need two steps. One to receive the API response and one to parse convert the string and read the JSON.

[randomanon]

@josh

Changelog: In early April, we’re updating the retention window for all plans that have access to changelog.

• Growth: 14 days (previously, we were only supporting 7 days)
• Team: 20 days
• Enterprise (Standard): 30 days
• Enterprise (Dedicated): 1 year
• Agency accounts: 20 days

For most plans, this should give you a lot more flexibility to see and revert changes.

Starter: 3-7 days?

This is kind of a crucial feature. Not sure that it makes sense to gate it behind Growth.

[boston85719]

@josh

We’re also improving routing, so your tabs won’t reset when you switch between the backend workflow, design, and workflow tabs.

Is the plan on that such that we will be able to use our browser back button and the change in URL will still bring us back to where we were and keep the previously existing settings, or will it be a specific implementation to target the click of tab from within the editor?

@josh

AI app generator now generates dynamic images

Is this creating images or is it finding free images from online sources?

@josh

The app interface manager, which simplifies adding, organizing, and managing web and mobile views, is now available to everyone. Thank you to our Bubble Ambassadors and beta testers who helped us test this new experience. Read more on the forum here. We also hear your feedback since the release and the team is working on some updates. More to come!

Thank you for that…my personally experience with it yesterday was such that I feel I already saw much improvement by it not reloading and scrolling back to top

@josh

Starting today, we are extending the Bubble Developer Certification to be valid for two years instead of one. If you’re already a certified dev, you should have received an email with more info.

How will this impact assessments of skills for new features such as Mobile Native? Will the certification begin to assess a developers competency in Mobile Native or AI?

@josh

If you have an app you’d like to have featured, you can submit it at the top of the page.

Are there any guidelines or policies addressing which types of apps are not featurable?

@josh

• Sunsetting “interactive lessons”: Next week, we’ll be sunsetting interactive lessons (guided, in-editor walk-throughs that were designed to help new users learn the product). These require a decent amount of engineering work to maintain every time new features are added, and they don’t get as much engagement as other educational content, so this will free up some valuable resources. We still have a ton of guided walk-throughs, like connecting to OpenAI, setting up a masonry grid, and understanding mobile views, that are great for users of all experience levels. If you have requests for more, let us know in the comments.

One of the in editor ‘learning’ experiences I appreciate the most is the hover and clickable tooltip linking directly to the relevant manual section…any plans to move those interactive lessons to live within the manual or are the interactive lessons only applicable to a user being in the editor?

[joqr231210]

After a week working with the workflow editor I think maybe its too early to force the UI update but with the grid view i think we can all go on.

I just can imagine all the engineering workload due to this update on the go, Thanks Bubble Team.

[joaquintorroba]

Streaming

[florianherzog]

@josh

The new workflow tab will become the default experience for all users later this month. We had previously announced that this change would go into effect April 7. Based on community feedback, we’ve decided to push that launch back to add more features around conditional statements. Keep an eye out for more updates coming shortly. Over the past few weeks, we’ve shipped several feature changes to improve navigation, including zoom controls on the canvas, better searches for actions, grid view to show you all workflows, and a UI change that makes it clearer when a workflow is enabled. We’re also improving routing, so your tabs won’t reset when you switch between the backend workflow, design, and workflow tabs.

Very happy to hear that you’re listening to the concerns of the users and tweaking the release further to push functionality of the new workflow UI. Big up!

[heythere]

@josh

The new workflow tab will become the default experience for all users later this month. We had previously announced that this change would go into effect April 7. Based on community feedback, we’ve decided to push that launch back to add more features around conditional statements.

Thank you for this, Josh. I’m really excited for what the new workflows editor will be. Glad to see more improvements will be made before it’s pushed out as default. Appreciate you hearing us.

[ed19]

This is great news! Thank you @josh

[hi_bubble]

Great update!

[data6]

I’m very excited about Streaming responses! Will it “just work” with the OpenAI API, or is there some preparation we can do ahead of time to ensure it’s ready to implement from day one?