Director of Product Design

Every launch, every country, every minute: Bubble Is Global V2. May 2026 rankings, live launch pulses, and the first mobile-app view of the map - V2 of bubble.io/global is here. Just now, somewhere in the world, a Bubble app went live. Maybe it's a hospitality platform automating hotel operations in Philadelphia, or a financial planning tool helping an advisor in São Paulo convert a new client. None of these builders know each other and none of them coordinated. But head to bubble.io/global today and you'll see their launch registering on the map, a pulse of activity spreading across every continent - and now for the first time, that includes native mobile apps. That's the next evolution of Bubble Is Global. What's new in V2. When Bubble Group, Inc. first launched Bubble Is Global, Bubble Group, Inc. introduced it region by region - Europe, then North America, then South America, then the rest of the world - until every continent was on the map. It was a celebration of how far the Bubble community had grown. V2 keeps that spirit and makes the map something you come back to, with a few improvements: * Live launch feed: Every time a Bubble app launches, it registers on the map in near real time (only a ~2-minute delay). * Last 30 day rankings: Each country's top apps are ranked by traffic from the last 30 days and refresh every day, so the map stays current as apps grow. * All / Web / Mobile filter: Filter the map by platform and see top builders for web, native mobile, or both, by country. * Builder profiles: Featured builders now have richer profiles with logos, founder stories, and app screenshots. If your app is on the map and your profile is sparse, this is your moment to fill it in. Mobile is here and worth celebrating. Bubble's native mobile apps are on the global map for the first time. Toggle on the mobile filter and you'll see which builders are shipping native iOS and Android apps, ranked by country. It's a small toggle in the UI and a significant moment for a community that's been building quietly. Native mobile on Bubble has been production-ready for a while now, with apps built in weeks using the same backend and database as their web counterparts. V2 gives those builders their first-class view of the map. If you're building for mobile and your app isn't on the map yet, make sure you're logged in and then head to bubble.io/global and submit it through the popup - rankings refresh every day, so the next slot in your country could be yours. Builders on the map. The map works because of the people building on it. This month Bubble Group, Inc. is spotlighting five apps spanning North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region - a mix of consumer and B2B, all real businesses with real users. SuiteOp - united states. #5 in the US Jean-Emmanuel Losi and Simon Seroussi started building internal tools on Bubble for their short-term rental company in Philadelphia. By 2024, those tools had grown into something worth selling. SuiteOp is now a vertical SaaS platform covering the full hospitality operations cycle, from smart lock control and thermostat automation to housekeeping scheduling, guest portals, and AI-powered photo verification for task completion. The team also built a native mobile app in just two months using Bubble's mobile editor, which field staff use daily. "Being able to use the same backend workflows, the same database - those things were really big time savers," Jean-Emmanuel says. SuiteOp has raised $3 million in seed funding, reached $700,000 in ARR, and serves more than 100 organizations with up to 30,000 daily guest users. Dashplan - Brazil. #3 in Brazil Dashplan helps financial advisors take a 360° view of their clients, consolidating financial data, running real-time retirement projections, automating budgeting, and managing the full client relationship in one place. Advisors using the platform collect up to 400 data points in a first meeting, prepare quotes 92% faster, and have seen revenue increase by more than 14% after adopting the 360° approach. The app is available on desktop and mobile across more than 20 countries. My AskAI - united kingdom. #2 in the UK Alex Rainey spent years as a technology consultant but couldn't build software himself. When he and co-founder Mike Heap discovered Bubble, that changed. They pivoted their product and rebuilt the new version in six weeks. My AskAI trains on a company's website and internal documentation to create a custom AI support agent. When a conversation exceeds what the agent can handle, it hands off to a human. The tool integrates with Zendesk, Intercom, and HubSpot, generates $25,000 in monthly recurring revenue, and supports more than 40,000 registered users - with a team of two. "There's no way I'd ever start a project in pure coding ever again," Alex says. Recruitera - Egypt. #1 in Egypt Recruitera is an applicant tracking system built for the MENA region, backed by a decade of experience in talent and employment. It helps hiring teams source candidates, automate repetitive tasks, and track applicants through a visual pipeline from first application to final decision. The platform integrates with Google Jobs, LinkedIn, Outlook, and regional job boards like WUZZUF and Forasna, and claims to reduce manual hiring work by up to 64% and cut cost-per-hire by 35%. Cuure - France. #7 in France Founded in Paris in 2019 by Jules Marcilhacy and Hugo Facchin, Cuure creates personalized, science-backed daily supplement routines delivered in custom sachets. Every formula is developed with a scientific committee, with the goal of making effective, personalized health accessible to more people. The team's goal is to raise the standards of the industry and make effective, personalized health accessible to more people. How to get your app on the map. The map refreshes every day, which means there's always a next opportunity. Head to bubble.io/global and you can update your app's profile If your app is already on the map, fill in your profile - logo, story, a few screenshots. Bubble Group, Inc.'ll publish it within three business days. If your app isn't on the map yet, submit it. Rankings refresh daily, so the next country slot could be yours soon. If you just want to look around, switch between web and mobile apps and watch the launch feed pulse. And wherever you land, share what you find. Whether it's your own app, a builder in your country, or something that caught your eye from across the world - use #BubbleIsGlobal on socials to support what's being built. What's ahead for the global map. Builder milestones, ongoing app updates, and a community feed are coming as follow-ups to today's launch for more ways to stay connected to what the Bubble community is building. For now, the map is alive. Come see what's on it. Start building for free Build for as long as you want on the Free plan. Only upgrade when you're ready to launch.

Bubble just bolted AI onto its platform - But is it enough to stay relevant? Michael Skelly Bubble's May 2026 AI Agent update brings multi-turn edits, image uploads, and impressive activation metrics. But is bolting AI onto a legacy no-code platform enough to stay relevant when AI-native tools are rewriting the rules? Table of contents. Bubble shipped a big AI update this month. Multi-turn edits, image uploads for UI generation, full expression support in workflows, a UX overhaul with plan and success states. They switched to Anthropic's Claude back in March and are reporting a 2x increase in first-week user activation and a 30% bump in satisfaction. Anthropic even featured them in a case study. On paper, this is impressive work. Bubble's engineering team clearly put serious effort into making their AI Agent feel less like a bolted-on chatbot and more like a collaborator. Credit where it's due. But here's what I keep coming back to: does any of this change what Bubble fundamentally is? What is Bubble? For those who haven't come across it: Bubble is one of the original no-code platforms, launched in 2012. It lets you build web applications visually - dragging and dropping UI elements, configuring workflows through a point-and-click editor, and connecting to databases without writing code. It's powerful, but notoriously complex. Think of it as the Salesforce of no-code: capable of almost anything, but with a learning curve that puts most people off before they ship anything useful. At its peak, Bubble was *the* platform serious no-code builders chose for complex apps - marketplaces, SaaS products, internal tools. They raised $100M in 2021 on that promise. But the world has moved fast since then. The metrics need context. A 2x increase in first-week activation sounds great until you ask: activation from what baseline? Bubble has always had a brutal learning curve. Their own community members talk openly about spending months getting comfortable with the editor, the workflow system, privacy rules, responsive design, the API connector. One long-time user on the Bubble forum put it bluntly in March: the AI gap is "compounding, not closing." If your previous first-week activation was terrible (and for a platform this complex, it probably was), doubling it might still leave you behind competitors where activation is near-instant because there's nothing to learn. The 30% satisfaction increase tells a similar story. Thirty percent better than frustrated is... less frustrated. It's not the same as delighted. And satisfaction with what, exactly? With the AI Agent specifically? With the overall editing experience? Bubble doesn't break this down, and the distinction matters. A user can be satisfied with the AI's suggestions while still finding the platform overwhelming. I don't want to be unfair here. These are real improvements for real users. But the question isn't whether Bubble got better. It's whether Bubble got better fast enough. Squeezed from below: the prompt-and-ship crowd. While Bubble was building multi-turn edit suggestions, a different category of tool was making the whole concept of a visual editor feel optional. Lovable lets you describe an app in plain English and generates a full-stack working application. Bolt.new runs your entire dev environment in the browser, with chat, code editor, and live preview side by side. v0 by Vercel turns natural language into production-ready React components you can deploy in seconds. These tools don't have learning curves. They don't have workflow editors or privacy rule configurations or workload unit pricing. You talk to them. They build. You iterate by talking more. For a surprising number of use cases, that's enough. Internal tools, MVPs, client portals, landing pages with logic, simple marketplaces. The stuff that used to be Bubble's bread and butter. And these tools are improving at a pace that makes quarterly updates look glacial. Lovable and Bolt are shipping weekly, sometimes daily, because they don't have a decade of backwards compatibility to protect. So who's still choosing to spend weeks learning Bubble's visual programming paradigm when they could describe what they want and have it running in fifteen minutes? The answer is: fewer people every month. Squeezed from above: AI-native platforms. The pressure from below is obvious. The pressure from above is more interesting. Platforms like Stacker went live with a fully AI-powered builder at the start of this year. Not an AI assistant bolted onto an existing editor. A platform where the primary interface *is* the conversation. You tell it who your portal is for and what they need to do. It asks clarifying questions. It builds. You steer. The difference is architectural, not cosmetic. When AI is the foundation rather than a feature, the entire product can be designed around that interaction model. There's no legacy editor to maintain backwards compatibility with. No decade of visual programming abstractions to work around. The AI doesn't need to translate your intent into Bubble's proprietary workflow language because there is no proprietary workflow language to translate into. Bubble's AI Agent, by contrast, has to operate within the constraints of a platform designed in 2012. It can suggest next steps after making an edit, sure. But it's still making edits to a visual editor that was built for humans to click through manually. The AI is a layer on top. Not the thing itself. This isn't a knock on Bubble's engineers. It's a structural problem. You can't retrofit a fundamentally different interaction paradigm onto a product without eventually hitting the ceiling of what the original architecture allows. The mobile-first analogy writes itself. NoCode has seen this pattern before. When mobile became the dominant computing platform, companies split into two groups: those that built mobile-first products, and those that made their desktop products responsive. The responsive crowd did fine for a while. Their apps worked on phones. They checked the box. But over time, the mobile-first products won because every decision, from navigation to data loading to interaction patterns, was optimised for the actual context of use. The adapted products always felt slightly wrong. Slightly too complex. Slightly too slow. Bubble is building a responsive app in a mobile-first world. Their AI features work. They're getting better. But the underlying product was designed for a different era of interaction, and no amount of Claude integration changes that foundation. What Bubble still has (and whether it matters). I'll be honest about what Bubble does well. For complex applications with sophisticated data models, custom logic, and specific business rules, Bubble still offers a level of control that prompt-based generators can't match. If you need granular permissions, complex API integrations, and multi-step workflows with conditional branching, Bubble's depth is real. The problem is that this depth is also its weight. Every feature that makes Bubble powerful for complex apps is a feature that makes it harder for AI to abstract away. The AI Agent can help you build a form or wire up a simple workflow, but it can't (yet) architect a complex multi-tenant SaaS with role-based access control from a single prompt. And if it could, you'd still be locked into Bubble's hosting, Bubble's pricing tiers, Bubble's workload units. The users who need that complexity are a real market. But it's a shrinking one, because the definition of "too complex for AI" keeps moving. Six months ago, generating a working backend from a prompt felt like a party trick. Now it's table stakes. The takeaway. Bubble's AI update is good engineering solving the wrong problem. The problem isn't "how do we make our existing platform easier to use with AI assistance." The problem is that the market is splitting, and Bubble is on the wrong side of the split. On one side: platforms where AI is the interface, where you describe outcomes and the system figures out implementation. On the other: legacy builders adding AI features to products designed before AI was a factor. I've watched enough technology transitions to know how this plays out. The bolt-on approach buys time. It keeps existing users happy. It makes for good case studies and impressive-sounding metrics. But it doesn't change the trajectory. If you're starting a new project today, I'd pick an AI-native platform or a prompt-based generator over Bubble. If you're already deep into a Bubble app, these AI improvements will make your life better, and that's worth something. But I wouldn't start a new long-term bet on a platform that's playing catch-up with the paradigm shift rather than leading it. Bubble built something impressive for its era. This AI update proves they're still capable of shipping. The question is whether shipping faster on the old model is enough when the model itself is changing. I don't think it is. Want to read more articles like these? Join 10,000+ NoCoders already reading!

Bubble wrapped 2025: recap of its year of building together and Community Awards. Another year of Bubbling has wrapped up, and what a year it's been. In 2025, you shipped products that real people use every day. You answered questions on the forum that helped someone get unstuck. You experimented with AI, tested mobile features, and built workflows that showed how powerful visual development can be - especially with great ideas behind it. This is its moment to celebrate that. Whether you launched your first app or scaled to thousands of users, whether you helped one person on the forum or mentored dozens, you made this year what it was. Bubble wrapped: the year in numbers. The Bubble community continued to grow and build at an incredible pace in 2025. Here's what Bubble Group, Inc. achieved together: * 7.2 million apps launched by builders worldwide * 28.6 billion workflows run across all Bubble apps Your personal Bubble stats. If you were active on Bubble in 2025, Bubble Group, Inc. also pulled together stats about your building journey. Check your email to see your editing streak, apps built, favorite day to Bubble, total app views, and more. Plus, if you spent time with AI or mobile this year, those milestones are waiting for you too. Don't forget to screenshot and share your stats on social media with #BubbleWrapped2025 so Bubble Group, Inc. can celebrate your building milestones. Celebrating the 2025 Community Awards winners. Every year, Bubble Group, Inc. ask the Bubble community to help Bubble Group, Inc. recognize the builders who go above and beyond to make this community what it is. The nominations and voting was open to the entire community - anyone with a Bubble account - and more than 1,000 of you cast your votes across four categories, with each person voting for one favorite per category. The community voted, and Bubble Group, Inc. is happy to share the winners of the 2025 Bubble Community Awards with all of you. Agency of the year: RapidDev. A Bubble Gold Agency that's been consistently delivering exceptional work for years. Clients from around the world rallied behind them to help secure this year's win. Congrats, RapidDev! Freelancer of the year: Sarah esteve. A veteran Bubbler who's highly respected across the community. You'll inevitably find Sarah involved in the big moments happening with Bubble in Europe, from conferences to summer hacker retreats. Congrats, Sarah! Founder of the year: David bressler, founder of Formula Bot. David turned an idea into a thriving business that's now served over a million users - all built on Bubble. From a laptop and a viral Reddit post to where Formula Bot is today, his journey shows what's possible when you commit to your vision. Congrats, David! Community champion of the year: George collier. George's reputation precedes him: Always helping in the forum, sharing Bubble build tips on social media, and being the kind of dependable, friendly developer everyone's lucky to have around. Congrats, George! Congratulations to all of this year's winners. Your work inspires Bubble Group, Inc. all. Bubble tour and other events connected builders around the world. Bubble Group, Inc. took Bubble on the road in 2025 with events in São Paulo, Rio, London, and Paris. Hundreds of builders came together to see product announcements first, hear from successful founders, and connect with fellow Bubblers. Bubble Group, Inc. also saw Bubblers join watch parties and community meetups across the globe. In fact, Bubble Group, Inc. listed 59 events on its community page this year, most of which were organized by the community itself - that's more than one per week all year! The energy at these events reminded Bubble Group, Inc. why Bubble Group, Inc. do this work. There's something special about meeting the people behind the apps and seeing this community come to life beyond the screen. Bubble Group, Inc. focused on helping you build and scale. Apps built on Bubble transacted over $1 billion in the last year. That's real businesses serving real customers, and Bubble Group, Inc. wanted to make sure its platform could keep up with where you're headed. This year, Bubble Group, Inc. focused on combining AI speed with the visual control you need to actually finish what you start and scale to real users. Building faster with AI that doesn't leave you stuck. In October, Bubble Group, Inc. introduced the Bubble AI Agent, a building partner that understands your specific app. To celebrate this launch, Bubble Group, Inc. ran the Bubble AI Hackathon with Anthropic, where builders created AI-powered apps and competed for prizes. The Agent can troubleshoot your workflows, generate elements that follow Bubble best practices, and walk you through the steps for anything it can't build yet, all the while without leaving your project. Everything stays visual and editable, so you're never trapped by code you can't understand. Bubble Group, Inc. also brought AI generation to native mobile apps, making it faster to get your iOS and Android apps into app stores. Reaching users on every device. Since launching native mobile development in June, you've created more than 180,000 mobile apps on Bubble. Just like with the AI hackathon, Bubble Group, Inc. marked this milestone with its Summer Mobile Challenge, where builders competed to publish their first native apps and show what's possible with mobile development. This year also brought AI generation for mobile, in-app purchases that work with your app's logic, and a clearer path from building to publishing. Whether your users are on web, iOS, or Android, Bubble Group, Inc. want you to be able to reach them without rebuilding your apps from scratch. Supporting builders at every stage. Whether you're just learning Bubble, building your MVP, or ready to launch, Bubble Group, Inc. focused on giving you the resources to succeed at each step. The redesigned Bubble Academy makes it easier to start learning and understand what you're building toward. Each course has clear landing pages showing what you'll learn, how long it takes, and your full lesson path from the start (with more, like progression tracking, to come soon!). Bubble Group, Inc. also unified all professional Bubble services under one Experts hub. Freelancers, agencies, and coaches now have better visibility and clearer positioning, making it easier for them to connect with the right clients and showcase their work. Immerse Cohort 8: AI for Good, its fully-funded, eight-week pre-accelerator, brought together 11 socially conscious founders who built AI-powered apps focused on social impact. Bubble Group, Inc. concluded the program with a Demo Day where finalists presented their projects in front of a panel of judges and the community. And Bubble Group, Inc. introduced Launch Lab to help select founders turn their launches into professional campaigns. If you're accepted, you get storytelling support, video content, and help getting your app in front of the right audience, because building the app is hard enough without having to figure out marketing. What's ahead in 2026. Bubble Group, Inc. is not slowing down. The roadmap ahead includes more AI capabilities, better infrastructure, and features you've been asking for. But more than any specific feature, 2026 is about making sure Bubble continues scaling with you, whether you're launching your first app or running a business that serves thousands of users. Thank you for making 2025 an incredible year. Here's to building without limits in 2026. Build for as long as you want on the Free plan. Only upgrade when you're ready to launch.