Monthly Community Update -- June 2025

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Hi everyone,

This is the June monthly community update. You can read May’s update here.

Before I get into the rest of the updates, we are just over a week away from the native mobile public beta! Sign up for our June 10 launch event here. We’ll do a walkthrough of the new features and upcoming roadmap, show you some user success stories, and end with a live Q&A.

This is a super exciting moment for us. Launching in beta means we’re still adding features, but we want you to have the opportunity to start building. I feel strongly that this release is going to completely change the game for mobile development, and even as a work-in-progress, we want to get this out to the world.

We’ll go over the full roadmap at our launch event, but priority #1 is in-app purchases, which we know is a critical function. We’ll be looking for feedback from you and sharing updates as we keep shipping features.

Alongside the launch, we’re also rolling out a Getting Started with Mobile YouTube course with Bubble educator Matt Neary, a name you’ll probably recognize! Check out the trailer here.

Now, on to the updates.

Everything that shipped last month

Bubble AI is now powered by Claude 4, the latest model from Anthropic. You should see immediate improvements to outputs from the app and page generator. Here’s a before and after compared to Claude 3.7.

The AI app generator now automatically creates style variables, so when you add to your app after generation, attributes like fonts, spacing, and borders will apply to new elements. See a quick visual demo here. We’ve also made some improvements to web responsiveness for newly generated apps.

We’ve ramped up AI app generation in our onboarding flow, so 100% of new users will be prompted to start building with the app generator by the end of this week. Our data shows that new users who start with AI are much more likely to keep building. To me, that’s a clear indicator that our AI vision is the right direction for Bubble.

Right now, the team is focused on prepping the native mobile builder for our official June 10 public beta launch. But we also added several new features:

  • Apps now support native device language, so for example, if your user’s device is set to French and your app supports French, the app will display that language for any app text translations you’ve defined in the languages tab.

  • Apps support ‌rich text, which means you can use BBCode to style text (including bold, italics, hyperlinks, etc.).

  • The app switcher, which lets you switch between web and mobile apps tied to the same project. That’s live for everyone who has access to the mobile beta, and it will be available to everyone starting on launch day.

Finally, we made a few more UX changes to the workflow tab UX based on your feedback. That includes a new button to expand/collapse workflow folders, as well as a larger click area for those folders. Also, you can now use the delete key on your keyboard as a shortcut.

What we’re working on

  • AI: The team is full-steam ahead on bringing AI into the editor. We’re working on AI data type generation, which would allow you to generate data types, data fields, and privacy rules from a prompt, at any point in the app building process. We’re aiming for a late June release. After the initial release, editing and referencing existing data types with AI is the next phase of that project. We are also working on prompt-driven editing and AI mobile app generation. More to share soon!

  • Mobile: The team is wrapping up work on our mobile debugger, which offers similar capabilities to our web debugger, in a streamlined package. On the marketplace side, we’re adding more React Native libraries for mobile developers to use, and we’re anticipating more mobile plugins in the marketplace by our launch date. We’re also adding a filter to the editor plugin search function so you can find mobile plugins more easily as you start building.

  • Workflow tab: We’re aiming to complete a few UX changes in June including fixes for autoscroll jumpiness, display names for events and folders, and marking event names for database triggers as optional.

  • Property editor: We’re kicking off property editor updates! This project will solve several long awaited pain-points, including improving visibility for custom states and conditionals. We’re starting to test this month with a small group of users so we can get the updates into more builders’ hands for immediate feedback. But we’re aiming to have more users testing it over the summer.

  • Figma users should keep their eyes peeled for a special announcement coming soon.

How to get involved

  • Don’t forget to RSVP for our mobile beta launch event June 10. We’re also holding some in person meetups to celebrate in NYC and Madrid. The June 10 event in NYC is sold out, but keep an eye out for more in-person events soon.

  • Applications for Immerse, our funded pre-accelerator for underrepresented founders and sectors, are open! This cohort is focused on AI for good. Read more here.

  • There are online and in-person events happening around the world every month. Check them out on our Community page.

ICYMI

  • I was at Web Summit Vancouver last week talking about AI app development. You can check out an interview I did here.

  • You can watch the sessions from Bubble Tour Brazil on our YouTube channel.

  • Read our showcase story on Cube, a Gold agency that built their own learning platform on Bubble.

  • Check out our app tours of Football Edge, and WonderWords, two mobile apps built on Bubble’s mobile features!

  • We’ve updated the manual with native mobile FAQs and tips for troubleshooting common user setup errors.

New hires

We had 5 new hires join the team this month! Big welcome to:

  • Egypt, social media associate

  • Nate, Bubble developer

  • Patrick, staff software engineer (Platform)

  • Alec, senior software engineer (Platform)

  • Alex, senior software engineer (AI)

That’s everything for this month. See you on June 10!

— Josh and Emmanuel

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I’m looking forward to this most!

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Thank you, @Josh, for this update. I understand that the property element is the next component to be modernized. I find it unfortunate, as I believe the database is more critical and should be the top priority for modernization — it should match exactly what we saw in the AI presentation video.

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Thanks for the update!

What about this update from last month, has it been completed?

We wrapped up work on query cancellation as part of our migration off a legacy stored procedure language. We’re expecting to be 100% off by the end of May, but we’re close enough to the finish line that we’re able to get one of the main benefits, which is canceling runaway queries. A lot of our database outages over the last year were caused by this issue, so this is a major step forward in the reliability of our database platform. These updates are part of larger platform stability work that we’re expecting to wrap up this month.

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I hope it is a working import feature to make taking figma designs into bubble simple :hugs:

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:eyes: ‎‎‎‎

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Super excited about this :smiley:

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Thanks @Josh for the updates. While the above capability is being built, is it possible to expose the capability via Bubble API for developers to leverage this? I can see this helping us build dynamic & custom db types/fields updates via these APIs for SaaS based applications.

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Great update thanks. You mentioned in the email “Bubble AI is smarted and your API keys are more secure”. How are you making these keys more secure?

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Flusk added a check for leaking Stripe API keys.

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The property editor is the most arcane and esoteric part of the entire platform. But is this really high yield compared to something like the expression composer?

Also why is the API timeout still 2.5 minutes in 2025? It’s interesting that Bubble can use Claude 4 while its users can’t since Claude 4 is actually quite slow with thinking enabled and would time out with many prompts.

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Parabens por todo trabalho.

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any news on if there will be bubblecon 2025? and when?

it takes a while to get visums and booking travel is increasingly expensive with such short notice.
( I already booked a 100% refundable trip but many perhaps arent planning ahead as much)

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All of this is great and sound fantastic. That said I am still curious about the Last part of the UI editor displayed at BubbleCon2024. Specifically the Properties inspector. The Interface is primarily whiteish now but the old inspector is blackish.

Will this ever be?

Also, curious about a proper integration / official release (non beta) of the Table element with upgrades. This has been abandoned it seems.

And finally, would love to be able to control () in expressions.

Perhaps non if this is of any importance since your hope of AI taking over. But I personally being a long time user would love these simple things.

Anyway, good work team, Cheers!

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Looks like this one came a couple of days later. Great update that all apps that use Bubble’s native elements can take advantage of :+1: (docs)

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For context, it tackles this concern: Critical Bubble Vulnerability (Terms of Service Violation) They Don't Seem To Care Enough About - #20 by sam.morgan

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