I’m Petr Majtán, a Silver Bubble Partner, and I’ve been developing in Bubble for over five years. I build web applications for major clients.
When Bubble Native was introduced as an alpha version about a year ago, I told my clients it would be a gamechanger in development and that within six months it would be mostly production-ready. However, since then not much has changed. We’re still waiting for deeplinks, custom native plugins, and in-app payments (which are essential to comply with App Store policies) and it’s now been over a year.
We still don’t have a visible feature timeline, and I honestly don’t know what to tell my clients anymore. I can’t even say, “if we start now, in two months we’ll be able to integrate in-app purchases, deeplinks, or custom-based plugins like Mixpanel etc.”
It feels like the Bubble Native development has slowed down, we only see small tweaks in the editor, while most focus seems to have shifted to AI development.
Could you please share more details about this? I really don’t want to lose trust with my clients, but right now I have no idea what’s coming or when.
Would it be possible for Bubble to publish what’s currently being developed in the native area and when we can expect it to be ready?
Thank you
With sincere interest in Bubble Petr Majtán
I have been building on Bubble since 2019. Bubble Mobile was announced in 2023, We were so excited. It took a WHOLE YEAR, towards the ending, teasing its release.
On October 2024, we were hoping its ready, BOOM, it was still Beta. I reached out to bubble and got invited into beta in November 2024. At that point, we were on wrapped SPA with “theBDK” and was hoping to move to Flutter, Everyone in my team wanted us to switch Native mobile, but I insisted and begged. Again we believed Bubble and have devoted time to rebuild our app on Bubble Native.
Today marks it one year, and I cant even look my team in the eye and tell them things are going great. Many vital things are not available. ANDROID IS STILL WACK (Better than when we got in) BUT STILL WACK. Performance is terrible. This is 1 year. We don’t even know what is coming when. every promised timeline has failed to actualize
I know the world is talking about AI and bubble wants to be on this game, But what use is it to mass “vibe-”produce apps that has bad performance? I personally really don’t care about AI inside Bubble. If performance is great, yes. But now…..no
I fully agree.
I couldn’t care less for AI. Don’t want it, don’t need it…maybe in 5 years.
I just need to be able to show partners and future clients a ln Android and a iOS App that works.
Hi @petr (and everyone else), we appreciate this feedback. As the product manager of the mobile team, I’d like to take some time to address these concerns. As Petr has pointed out, progress on mobile improvements has indeed slowed, and its frustrating for us as well. Over the past few months, we’ve encountered a number of unforeseen setbacks, including losing some key talent with domain expertise, that have severely impacted the timelines for planned features and improvements. We have not been slowing down progress or shifting resources away from mobile development on purpose - in fact, quite the opposite. We are working on doubling the current engineering capacity on the mobile team (and more generally across the rest of the engineering teams) to get the product to where it needs to be.
In the meantime, we have two top priorities on mobile:
In app purchases
Improving performance and reliability
In App Purchases update:
We demoed a functioning prototype of mobile in app purchases at Bubble Tour last month. We are now working on getting subscription support production ready. We have shifted some resources around to ensure we can keep the momentum on this mission critical feature. We will have a timeline update coming in the next few days. Regardless, I can promise you it will be worth it
Performance and reliability update:
Last week, we added a validation step during the setup flow to make the build process more reliable. Earlier this week, we made some changes to the update app screen behavior and how OTAs are applied, which should result in a much cleaner end-user experience. We are now turning our focus to a host of mobile rendering issues, especially on Android devices.
Previously planned features:
The setbacks mean that we have unfortunately had to de-prioritize other planned features like deep linking and the native mobile plugin editor. As we grow the team, we plan to take these projects on again - most likely at the top of the new year.Until then, there will be no updates on these features.
We (Bubble) are actively listening to your feedback and committed to making mobile the best product in the market. We are making the necessary investments behind the scenes to make this happen. While we’ve had some setbacks, we expect things will start ramping up again soon. Thanks again and excited to see what you continue building!
The way I see it, I think Bubble is missing the point.
Not every industry works well with AI.
I do have customers whose users are in the field, with dirt hands, fixing things, building bridges, assembling mechanical parts. They don’t have the luxury to engage in a conversation with AI to close a Work Order.
Bubble niche isn’t for the “AI-Office bro”.
I see it more with the legacy people: we who still needs apps to function, clicks and imports, and everythig.
Bubble can’t compete in code generation against Gemini 3, Cursor, or Lovable.
But what Bubble has anyone doesn’t have: Security, Compliance (SOC2), an hermetically closed system that can offer much more than a simple vibe coded application.
Bubble builders don’t need AI. The community is so focused on the tool, bending the reality and the possibilities. Let AI to “AI-people”. Turn your focus to your toolset. Improve the performance. Make a viable mobile app infrastructure. Pave the road for the mobile users from legacy and enterprise (this is what matters, not prompts).
I myself entered on the “hype” of AI - which I built platforms and connectivity for enterprise, but what you need to know is that people are not ready to talk with a spreadsheet or a CRM or an ERP system - YET.
thanks a lot for your openness. It would be great if you could stay transparent about the development timeline, and we’d definitely like to be closer to the actual development process and have more insight into what’s happening. What about creating a small group of Bubble agencies and freelancers where we could discuss progress together?
I currently have three clients who would like to immediately move their production web apps to native, but there are still a few features missing.
If we could have a timeline we can rely on (of course, a month more or less isn’t a big deal, but several months already is), I’d be happy to help with testing, and I’m sure I wouldn’t be the only one.
From my point of view, we’re missing some communication about what’s currently being done on the native mobile side. We rely on your updates about development progress to communicate accurately with our own customers.
I imagine that delivering a stable product and moving out of the beta phase is already part of the plan. But, if I’m not mistaken, it would be really helpful to know the current priorities for mobile, what’s coming next, and an estimated delivery timeline.
It would also be great to get some context on what might be slowing things down — for example, unexpected critical bugs that delay other functionalities, work on improving stability, or partial progress (like in-app payments working for Apple but still under development for Android).
I don’t know exactly what the roadmap or technical challenges are when building for both Apple and Android, but adding a dedicated section in the monthly update about native mobile could really help — including elements like:
Current priorities for the month
Status (on track or delayed, with reasons)
Changes in priorities (e.g., “Android 16k requirement requires more work than expected”)
That kind of transparency would help us adjust our own development and client communication accordingly.
@webziper.team I also don’t really see the point of limiting progress discussions to a small group of Bubble agencies or freelancers — I think everyone developing on the platform should have access to the current timeline and development status.
Thanks everyone - we definitely hear you that that timelines for important features like IAP and mobile plugins are crucial for planning on your end and are happy to commit to providing more transparency in terms of mobile priorities and timelines.
Like I mentioned above, our current priorities are In App Purchases and improving performance & reliability. We will have an update soon on the expected release date for IAP with more details.
I doubt that a company like Bubble wants to keep the mobile in beta for 3 years. According to your predictions it would be like this.
I believe that we will see all three mentions you made by the first quarter of 2026, wanting to exaggerate. They’re not stupid. They know what we need.
…I can’t help but think how far away these critical features might be.