Hi Nick @nick.carroll, 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

As a random user I would like to share with bubble as well that I need in-app payment methods, and I do not care about AI in the slightest. In the October 2nd update by @josh he remarked that “We’re still prioritizing in-app purchases. This is mission critical”. I agree and would appreciate some news.

I agree and honestly regretting choosing Bubble over Lovable. Monetization looks a lot easier on Lovable than Bubble

Same here… [image] Other Nocode environment Need help Puzzled and “mixed feelings” As I enter my 5th year of bubble development, I am starting to wonder if it is the right tool. Let me explain. We all received numerous communications to the effect that bubble is “going mobile”. So, I jumped in, with both feet. However, I soon realized that the learning curve was quite steep. I am not a quitter, so I learned, fixed things, redid design and nocoding approaches as it is normal in App design and development. My App does not work. There are many, …

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 think Bubble need to divert all their engineers on this. @josh @emmanuel @brian.levee @nick.carroll @fede.bubble @(bubble) Thanks🙏

just dropping by to acknowledge that me and team saw this post. More to come

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 :slight_smile: 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.

Hey @nick.carroll , 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. Petr

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guygreen63 November 19, 2025, 6:06pm 4

Same here…

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