I’ve been working with Bubble for a long time and I genuinely appreciate what the platform allows us to create. That’s exactly why I wanted to share a concern that has come up since the release of the new system for building native mobile apps.
The concept is powerful, but as soon as you try to implement basic features —things as common as sharing content or handling essential native interactions— you quickly realize that almost everything requires paid plugins. And I’m not talking about advanced functionality, but the bare minimum any modern app needs to be functional and competitive.
The result is that an app that should have a reasonable cost ends up becoming significantly more expensive just from accumulating essential plugins. This puts many developers in a difficult position: we want to commit to Bubble, but every basic step turns into an extra cost that heavily shapes the project.
This is not a destructive critique, but an invitation to reflect. Does it make sense that such essential features depend on external paid extensions? Wouldn’t it be more logical for the native core to provide a solid base for the most common use cases, without forcing us to rely on third-party solutions?
So I’d like to ask this directly:
Is Bubble working on adding these basic native features into the core? And if so, is there any roadmap available that we can look at to understand when they might arrive? It would really help me decide whether to start building my native apps in Bubble now… or continue using other alternatives until those improvements are available.