Monthly Community Update -- July 2025

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Hi everyone,

This is the July community update. You can read last month’s update [here]( > Monthly Community Update -- June 2025).

Since my last update, we opened the native mobile beta to the public and we’ve already seen 49,000 apps built! Now, we’re full steam ahead on building out key mobile features as well as chat-based AI editing. More on that below.

If you haven’t heard, we recently announced the next two stops for Bubble Tour: Paris and London. We’ll be hosting BubbleCon in the US again in 2026, but so far this year we’ve been spending more time on the road. Bubble’s community is truly global, and these international stops have been a really exciting way to meet you where you are.

Let’s get into the updates.

What we shipped last month

The native mobile beta is officially available to everyone! Thank you to everyone who attended our livestream event and our celebration at Bubble HQ in NYC. Emmanuel and I have been looking forward to this since we announced it at BubbleCon in 2023, and it’s gratifying to see this beta out in the world.

Since launch, we’ve been busy building. Most notably, the mobile debugger is out now. This was built from the ground up specifically for mobile to help you inspect your app, trace your workflows, and refine layouts. Read more on the forum here. We’ve also been bug bashing and adding smaller usability improvements, including adding a filter on the plugin search page to make it easier to find plugins that are compatible with native mobile functionality. See below for what we’re working on next.

The team is hard at work on longer-term AI work (more on that below), but we’re continuing to make improvements to app generator outputs. Now when you create an app, Bubble AI creates a logo rather than leaving a blank placeholder. We’ve also made adjustments to how photos generated for your app are displayed alongside text to prevent instances of “overflow” that could make text hard to read.

On the security front, we’ve just gone through our SOC 2 renewal and passed with no exceptions, which validates our commitment to being a secure platform.

We’ve also added a new security check through Flusk which will flag if your API setup could expose sensitive information. Read more in the manual here.

Lastly, we shipped a few boosts to the editor. We added more context to the Go to page action to specify current page or dynamic page and we updated changelog to track changes to conditionals in a workflow which should help improve visibility as you build, especially for teams. Lastly, we added clearer confirmation wording when you purchase a plugin.

What we’re working on

Mobile: Now that the beta is in your hands, we’re focused on three key initiatives (outside of bug fixes and tweaks):

  • In-app purchases: When this is live, we’ll be the only visual development product on the market that integrates natively with Apple and Google instead of through a third-party service. Right now we’re working on a proof of concept for a simple subscription. Once that’s released, we’ll follow up with support for other purchase types.

  • Plugin editor: The marketplace is a huge part of the Bubble ecosystem, so we’re working on getting the plugin editor out of alpha so that you can build your own React Native plugins.

  • Deep links: This is a super high priority feature for us. Deep linking allows you to send users to a specific “view” in your app (often from a push notification) and is important for functionality like password resets and OAuth.

AI: The team is all-hands on deck for extending AI from MVP generation to the entire building experience. We’re aiming to release chat-based editing later this year.

  • Currently, our in-editor chatbot can help give you instructions and provide information on how to build, but we’re working toward a native-built bot that can make changes to your app on your behalf. An important element of that feature is making sure that you’re always aware of what the bot’s doing so that you stay in the driver’s seat the whole time.

  • Data type generation is in progress. The first iteration is designed specifically for new users (although it will be available to everyone) to help them build their app’s data schema. Describe a new feature you want to build, and Bubble AI will help create the data types and fields. It will also automatically generate privacy rules for any sensitive data types.

  • The team is also working on a proof of concept for mobile app generation. We’ll have more to share soon!

Property editor: We’re in the process of early user testing for our revamped property editor. Like I said last month, one of the main goals of this project is to improve pain-points around visibility. That means making the layout more logical, which in turn should make editing and deployment more efficient. We’ll be testing with subsets of power users to make sure this update is useful for apps of varying complexity and for builders across experience levels.

How to get involved

  • Join the Bubble Mobile App Challenge for a chance to win $5K! The contest is open now until August 18. Can’t wait to see what you build. Read the contest details here.

  • Don’t forget to save the date for Bubble Tour in London and Paris, happening this fall.

  • Check out our Community page to sign up for community-hosted events around the world, or host your own and submit the details to us so we can share.

  • Submit your apps to the app gallery! This is a great way to share what you’ve built with the community.

ICYMI

New hires

This month we added several new hires to the team, as well as our summer interns! Big welcome to:

  • Adeyinka, sales development representative

  • Jake, technical success specialist

  • Reilly and Peter, senior software engineers (AI)

  • Jude and Ryan, software engineer interns

That’s all for this month!

— Josh and Emmanuel

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Yah! absolutely vital in my opinion.

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Thanks for the update Josh! I would really like a faster way to generate option sets, since there’s no way to do this currently except manually creating each option one by one. Also, ordering them.

And, I’m sure you’re working on this, but also a way to generate/edit complex conditional expressions based on natural language. Perhaps this would actually obviate the need to rehaul the expression writer (so you end up killing two birds with one stone). Some of us still remember the “Beta Expression Composer.”

I would much rather prefer a “preview” or “playground” where I can manually copy and paste the outputs rather than having to worry about what areas of my app the changes touched.

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Lovable just released agents to build apps. Sounds cool, any thoughts?

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I’d really encourage both an inline editor like you described the edits the app directly but also that is can provide expressions in the chat that we can copy and then paste in app.

My coding AI workflows often include me copying and pasting which I think would be helpful for some of us that would like that workflow in Bubble.

An example where this would help is in a text expression field there are many times where I will have multiple separate expressions in that text field split by a space, and in that context maybe I dont want the AI to rewrite that whole text expression and then add the new thing i am asking, maybe i just want to copy the expression from the AI chat and then insert it specifically where I want it.

This also would be helpful for visual changes too, like I might want it to be placed in a very specific place and id rather it not guess which group i want an element to be in, and id rather not even tell it which name as I’d have the find the specific group name which then might not be unique etc..but if i can just copy it from the AI chat and then paste it in the group I want then I’d be happy.

Food for thought.

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Could you expand on what this means? I looked at the go to page action for current page and dynamic page and I do not see any changes. I read the announcement and thought that perhaps it was referring to a needed addition for go to page action with current page and dynamic page to allow us to ‘send data’ to them. What exactly is the ‘more context’ and how does it impact our usage of go to page action?

Is this related to the logs of the editor to see what was the conditional evaluation if a condition fails?

Yes, please, that will be great.

This would be great to add a feature that maybe provides some explanations to the user, so that it is something they could learn about the thought processes behind structuring data. My fear is that users who simply rely on the AI output will not understand why the structure is what it is, and so wouldn’t learn a very valuable part of how to build an efficient app.

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How to we get involved in that?

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You need to finish launching the components for the native editor, there are no several basic components, such as a dropdown or a searchbox, multiline input among others, being dependent on plugins is always complicated.

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An unstated ethos of Bubble is for them to not work on anything that can be accomplished by 3rd party means. If a plugin can do something, they simply won’t touch it. I would love to see them ditch this “bootstrapped” mindset and start prioritizing 1st party integrations and polish (similar to Apple).

Once upon a time Apple had a similar mentality, but over time they continuously integrated all the essential 3rd party apps into the core iOS experience. That’s the “next level” they have yet to jump to, which they will need to if they’re ever to become truly massive and survive the incoming wave of slopbuilders.

Instead of trying to find PMF (which they already have), they just need to scale and polish their existing product.

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Good updates @josh - keep up the good work everyone!

One question, will AI App creation for Mobile (like what is available for Web just now) come soon, or will that just be rolled out at the same time as the AI Iteration?

@emmanuel @fede.bubble

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Hey,

It’s great to see Bubble investing in AI and mobile. Seriously, exciting stuff. But is the web still part of the plan? There’s no mention of the web or backend in this entire update.

Bubble often says:

The next Airbnb, Instagram, or X will be built on Bubble.

That’s a bold claim. But we still can’t run fast, complex searches, scale privacy rules properly, or rely on a stable platform. So… is the next X just not going to need those things?

Could someone from Bubble please clarify whether web and backend development are still on the roadmap? Or should we stop waiting and assume that part of the platform has quietly been left behind?

P.S. It’s not the next Instagram if performance tanks at double digits or privacy rules crumble at scale. World-class apps aren’t built on bubble gum and press releases. :upside_down_face:

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Team is working on both (web and mobile generations) but like Josh said, the web generation part timeline is before end of year

Those are always in development since they are core parts of our product. The team is working on modernizing the tech stack behind the editor, revamping the property editor, etc
And the platform team works on stability and security improvements constantly since well, they are the platform team. So no, they aren’t being left behind by any means

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Great to hear! Kudos to the team for all the work on the editor, stability, and security.

Could you also share the status of some improvements that have been mentioned a while back and that many users have been waiting on? Assuming they’re still in development:

  • Web loading speed
  • Scalable search (faster advanced searches)
  • Native PDF solution
  • Updates to outdated official plugins and integrations (like FontAwesome, Rich Text Editor, File Uploader, etc.)

Are there any plans to modernize privacy rules as well? Specifically, addressing limitations like the well-known:

This Thing’s X’s Y can’t grant search access right now

Thanks again! :grinning_face:

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