Bubble Fan No More
I was once a vocal advocate for Bubble, having built several large-scale, complex applications and an entire business dedicated to the platform. However, the last few years have seen a sharp decline in the quality of leadership at the C-suite level. There is a palpable disconnect: the team has stopped listening to power users, prioritizing unrequested "fluff" features over the functional stability the community actually needs.The platform has devolved into a buggy, sluggish, and often painful experience. I have personally documented dozens of persistent bugs that have remained unresolved for years despite multiple reports. Eventually, the lack of accountability forced me to stop reporting them altogether.The tipping point came down to three factors:The Pricing Pivot: The new pricing model is both confusing and exorbitant. Users are now paying a premium to build on a platform that feels technically regressive.The "1999" Editor: While the tech world has moved into 2026, the Bubble editor feels stuck in the late 90s. Game-changing features remain shelved while the team rolls out "laughably bad" AI integrations.The Forum Purge: What was once a vibrant community hub is now a heavily moderated marketing front. I know of over a dozen power users—loyal champions of the product—who were banned and had their histories deleted simply for discussing the advantages of AI and alternative workflows.I have since migrated most of my clients away from Bubble.io toward Claude Code and custom cloud-hosted solutions. Not only is the development cycle significantly faster and the UI more modern, but the overhead is incomparable; a single $5/month Hetzner instance now handles dozens of apps that would have cost a fortune on Bubble.Bubble had the domain knowledge, the funding, and a loyal user base to become an industry titan. Instead, clueless leadership dropped the ball. The "power user" exodus is real, and for a company that once led the no-code revolution, it feels like it's now too late to turn the ship around.
Mitch
Awful
Awful! The billing practice of the company is literally abusive. Once you opt in as a free trial, you can not go out! No help from their support.
Salih Ziya Sama
Yeah no wonder why everyone is writing…
Yeah no wonder why everyone is writing a bad review. It’s because of its predatory way of securing subscriptions and intentionally hiding a way to manage subscriptions(and cancelling subscriptions) on UI/UX. And maybe that is why the customer service is also so defensive about it. I hope you are happy because you managed to get few months of payments out of me. I pay for numerous software subscriptions and am used to different ways of companies trying to prevent cancellations, but it is my first time that I felt personally scammed by a company. Maybe the company doesn’t feel confident that the product provides sufficient value to the customers, so having to resort to its fishy ways. Hey Insight partners, if you see this review, I am just saying - reconsider the next funding round.
Blimey K
STAY AWAY FROM BUBBLE.
If I could give less than one star I would. I would particularly like to call out Charish, a “Technical Product Support Specialist” who for some reason is also their billing department. She is one of the most heartless customer support people I’ve ever come across. I signed up for multiple accounts accidentally and was charged for two months correctly (it was my mistake, I admit), then 8 months incorrectly. I was supposed to be charged monthly. I was charged twice in December, a third time January, and then I immediately canceled my account and was charged AGAIN on the day I canceled? For what? I can’t use the month you just charged me for. She simply sent me a link to the refund policy and pretended to care about my situation. “ We truly understand where you’re coming from, we understand why you’d ask for a refund but there’s nothing we can do it’s POLICY.”It was honestly humiliating. I came here to Trustpilot hoping I could tell people my experience but based on this company’s rating I can see you’ve all had similar ones.
Ben Conner
Worst experience EVER! SCAMMERS!!!!
I wish I could give a negative 5 star for this company. I signed up for a free trial for 14 days, and I was told they will send me a email reminder before the trial was over. I used the service for 1 day and never logged back in. I totally forgot about the trial and they ended up charging me. I wrote to their support and asked them to review my account to see that I never even logged back in to use their services. But they declined to issue a refund. Judging from their unfair practice and how shitty their platform is, DO NOT USE THIS AI. There are better options out there other then dealing with these SCAMMERS!!!
Parvez V
Expensive for nothing, poor customer service
After trying due to free AWS credits, I deleted my app and gave up after one afternoon. One year later, there's a $50 charge against my credit card despite cancelling. Talking to their customer service is useless, you either get bounced to AI chatbots or they flatly state "no refund policy" - despite having nothing set up or in use!!
Harley Cummins
Tried to cancel a day or so after an…
Tried to cancel a day or so after an auto recharge which I hadnt known about, requested refund which was refused. All very bad faith and money grabbing, there are far better alternatives available.
John Relōku
Not possible to cancel account!!
I have tried to cancel my account, written to Bubble, but no help. My password dosent work. When trying to change password, weather settings my own or settings a strong password, dosent work. I have prints from my communication, to prove I have done what I can do. Next step will be contact with Swedish authorities, to close this unfair company. Not possible to contact, is not a smart way, and does not harmony with “treat customer fairly “ very disappointed.
Per
Unclear payment system
The billing policy isn't clear enough for me, so I immediately received a double charge for absolutely nothing. Just a bit of browsing and, as it turns out, I clicked the wrong button (twice). I wanted to start with Bubble, and I didn't want a refund, but rather a credit on my first real order. But that's not possible either. Not smart, because they might have been able to keep a customer for free. Now i'm gone.
Edwin vd W
Never use this platform or its services
Canceling a subscription is extremely difficult. Even after attempting to cancel, Bubble continued trying to charge my card for months.The experience is frustrating and unacceptable. Bubble is expensive, and once you activate a trial plan, you are unable to quickly remove your payment method or delete your card details from their system. Cancelation is not straightforward and requires repeated manual email requests.Despite these efforts, I continued to receive weekly charge attempts without my explicit authorization or consent. This creates serious concerns about billing practices and customer protection.Overall, this has been a horrible experience, and I would strongly advise others to avoid this platform
mohammad keshtkar
Under delivers significantly.
Doesn't do the job as advertised. Falls very short. They charge for trialing some basic features. Subscription cancellation seems deliberately obstruse.
Green People
It's waaay too expensive for such a…
It's waaay too expensive.I didn't understand, that the price was $49 for ONE project only and was so frustrated when I couldn't find how to cancel my subscription. Ended up paying. I found how to cancel eventually, but $49 for one project, without AI features? Come on.I found it very unintuitive to use as well.
Lisbet
Horrible customer service, worse policies
There are plenty of no-code platforms that don't rely on predatory billing practices to generate revenue. Consider alternatives like:WebflowAdaloFlutterflowSoftrGlideThese platforms respect their customers and operate with transparency and ethical billing practices.To Bubble.io Management:Your platform might have technical capabilities, but your business practices are indefensible. Taking automatic payments and refusing any refunds—even within 24 hours, even when customers barely used the service—isn't a "strict policy," it's exploitation. You're alienating customers, damaging your reputation, and operating in a way that feels deliberately deceptive.
Ben Care
Just shady billing practices
Just shady billing practices. They have a lot of emails then as soon as your free trial expires all of a sudden they go quiet. Reputable companies start with automatic invoices each month that you can shut off. Bubble starts off without notifications so you can easily forget that you're paying for it without checking your credit card bill.
Adam Plachta
I have had a terrible experience with…
I have had a terrible experience with this service. I paid a developer to make my app which was a great experience! But when I went to sign up I didn't realize I was paying for one app and I made a new app to have it transferred over and payed the 134! Not knowing it was per app so when it was transferred I had to pay again and delete the first app after less than 20 minutes and am know being told I can't have a refund! Terrible experience for a first time user, with no resulton provided! Would probably take my next app to a different platform, or try and get this one off asap! A simple credit would be nice
customer
I feel compelled to share my experience…
I feel compelled to share my experience with Bubble, and unfortunately, it’s been very disappointing. While the platform promises a low-code solution for building web apps quickly, my reality has been full of frustration.I’ve repeatedly lost work due to disappearing elements and groups, and on two occasions, I lost entire projects without any clear explanation. The editor is slow, often freezes my browser, and requires constant refreshing just to function. On top of that, Bubble frequently experiences downtime, and their support tends to blame the user rather than acknowledge platform flaws.Overall, Bubble feels unstable, immature, and poorly optimized. I regret choosing it for my project, and although switching now is complicated, it may be the only viable solution to avoid further frustration.
Lucas Araújo
🚨 Warning for Anyone Considering Bubble…
🚨 Warning for Anyone Considering Bubble 🚨I want to share my complete dissatisfaction with Bubble.After months using the platform, I’ve faced absurd situations that made me completely rethink this choice.Constant instability: countless times, groups and elements in my app have simply disappeared out of nowhere, making me lose hours of work.Entire projects lost: it has happened not just once, but twice that I lost my entire project, with no clear explanation.Terrible performance: the editor is extremely slow, crashes the browser, and is clearly poorly optimized. Many times I’m forced to refresh the page just to keep working.Lack of transparency: the platform often goes down, and whenever serious errors occur, the official response is always to blame the user. When I lost everything, the excuse was that “I must have selected the entire page and hit delete.” In other words, besides the technical problems, there is a clear lack of honesty and maturity in how issues are handled.Today, I deeply regret choosing Bubble to build my project. Unfortunately, migrating isn’t simple at this stage, but I’m seriously considering it because living frustrated and insecure with the platform is simply not sustainable.So here’s my warning: if you’re just starting out in the low-code world, think very carefully before choosing Bubble. On paper, it may look like an amazing solution, but in practice it can cost you dearly in time, effort, frustration, and possibly even the future of your business.
Licitfy
Scammed
Hi. I have $2,062.00 of credits, but I was charged by Growth plan within my app.
Danylo Burykin
I want trying to make a Discord bot but…
I want trying to make a Discord bot but nothing worksEverything is glitchedThey say no card required yet you need a card to create a botI don't recommend it at all
Giosuè Giuseppe
Be careful about the free trial (multiple charges)
The app itself seems very cool but just as a warning for others regarding the billing - when I signed up for the free trial to play around with the tool, it wasn't at all clear to me that if I created a new project within my account, I would get billed as a fully new subscription for each separate project. This led to receiving three separate subscription charges, two of which continued despite thinking I had cancelled my account (since I had reached out to their team to cancel after playing around with it a bit during the trial). I would definitely encourage this business to provide more clarity around that particular part of the platform and/or adjust the refund policy to accommodate for this ambiguity.
Jessica P
