Bubble vs FlutterFlow: key differences and pricing explained (2025)

by the end of this video you're going to understand the difference between flutter flow and bubble and hopefully know which no code tool you want to use in your next project so flutter flow and bubble are both no code tools that allow you to build web applications without writing any code one of the big differences between flutter flow and bubble is bubble integrates the database into the no code tool so when you're building in bubble you're going to build the front end uh you're going to build the logic and you're going to store your data

all in bubble so it takes care of all of that for you which makes it a little bit easier to get started with and a little easier to build in flutter flow on the other hand uh doesn't take care of the back end integrated into the tool directly you're going to use a separate back end such as super base or Firebase which allows you to store your database separately and then you're going to have to to connect it to your flutter flow application so this makes it a little bit more complicated to get started and

build in but it also has the benefit of having your database separated from your flutter Flow app uh which is actually kind of helpful if you ever want to you know move uh your uh app to a different service let's say you want to eventually move to code in the future uh for some reason you don't um want to use flutter flow anymore your database is on a separate platform uh which can be really helpful so that can be a uh pro of flutter flow but it also can be a con because it's a little

bit trickier to build in so something to be aware of um right off the bat is the way that your data is stored on each of these platforms the other thing off the bat to be aware of between the difference between flutter flow and bubble is that flutter flow currently allows you to uh publish your app directly into the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store and it's uh you can turn it into an app that someone can download on their mobile phone now bubble has announced that they are building this functionality into the

no code tool and they haven't said exactly when it's going to be released yet maybe by the time you're watching this video they have released that and you can now um upload your app into the App Store um from bubble but as of now as of January 2024 you can only do that with flutter flow directly from the platform now there are wrappers uh that you can use to essentially wrap your app um in bubble if you Google um you know App Store wrapper for bubble you'll be able to find some solutions which is going

to allow you to essentially wrap your app and and publish it into an app store um so there is a way to do it but it's not um going to probably perform as well currently as flutter flow will for that uh so something to to be aware of uh between the difference between flutter flow and bubble there on the other hand uh bubble is built natively uh to build web apps so it's really really good at building web apps a web app is an application that you just access from a web browser whether it is

a mobile web browser or uh phone web browser uh and uh flutter flow on the other hand is as you can even see from their kind of first um image here on their homepage it's more optimized for a uh for a phone app for a native app so uh you want to think about what kind of app Do you want to build um if you're totally okay just building a web app and that's going to solve um the problem that you're building for most of your users uh then bubble might be uh the tool that

you want to consider there uh so just kind of keep that in mind between uh whether you want to build a web app or whether it's really important for you to um to build a native app that someone can download on their phone uh now flutter flow can ALS also uh build web apps so um kind of just like I mentioned before how bubble there's ways to build um you know iPhone apps that you can download onto your phone uh flutter flow has this functionality too for web apps um so it doesn't mean that you

can't use flutter flow for that if you want to the next thing that I want to talk about is the community of each of these no code tools so they both have really strong communities and the reason that this is important is let's say You're Building in either of these tools and you run into an issue um one thing that you're going to want to do is uh search in their Community forums uh see if anyone's asked the question before that you're dealing with or you can ask the question yourself if it's new and and

get an answer from the community this is really helpful uh with any no code tool that you are using both of these tools have really strong communities so I would say it's really a tie there um in terms of uh which Community is going to be stronger uh bubble has been around a little bit longer so there might be more questions already answered in their forums uh for example um but uh flutter flow again does have a very strong Community as well okay pricing this is something that you are probably really curious about uh so

the pricing is different uh for both flutter flow and bubble and part of this also reflects the fact that bubble has integrated the database into um the the product whereas flut or flow separates out um kind of building the app uh from the um from the database so off the bat both flutter flow and bubble have free trials so you're able to uh learn how to use the tools and build with the tools to get started for free uh then uh they have monthly plans uh which is going to vary between uh as you can

see with bubble 29 119 you're probably going to need like a starter or growth plan to get started um and then similar here 30 to 70 here for standard to Pro uh the big difference is that uh with bubble you also are going to uh pay for something called workload units uh which is uh essentially uh think of it as u a workload unit is charged when someone uh does something on your app and the more like backend Logic for example that your app is running uh the more workload units you're going to use so

if you run out of these um included workload units in your plan you would have to pay a an additional charge to buy more workload units uh whereas with flutter flow you don't have any of that because you're going to be paying a separate bill for using Firebase or superbase or whatever your database is maybe xano that you're using um now uh this those um other tools such as Firebase are going to have cost but it's likely going to be a lot less than what bubble is charging here for their workload units so overall you'll

probably end up paying less less uh using flutter flow at least if your app really scales uh now I personally haven't had an issue with the workload units uh in bubble I know that's something a lot of people are concerned about I run multiple apps on bubble and I haven't had an issue with the pricing there uh there might be some types of apps such as like a social media app that has tons of usage uh but not a lot of maybe monetization in the beginning or for a while where the costs could get um

pretty high if you don't have monetization built into your app uh so it's just something to be aware of um and uh something that I can talk more about in another video uh but that's kind of the difference between pricing in terms of flutter flow and bubble so um hopefully that's that's a helpful kind of overview there something else that you're going to want to consider when you're choosing between flutter flow and bubble is the ability to export your code so this is something that flutter flow allows you to do that bubble does not allow

you to do so with flutter flow you can actually download all of the code that uh flutter flow has it written for you and you can take that code and then you can give it to a developer and then that developer can uh write code on top of that code uh whereas with bubble you are not able to export the code so you have to use their proprietary platform uh so this is something to keep in mind and it is an advantage for uh flut flow if that's something that is important to you so hopefully

that was a helpful overview of the pros and cons of each platform uh what their similarities are what their differences are if you have any additional questions about any of these platforms just leave a comment below and I'll do my best to answer them if you want to learn how to build in these platforms check out nocode MBA no code. MBA click the link in the description and uh you can go to our course or our flut flow course where we have courses to help you learn how to build uh with uh both of these

tools our flutter flow course is actually coming really soon uh so if you click and you don't see it quite yet um it's going to be uploaded soon to uh no code MBA um we also have building apps with AI which is a course that covers a lot of building with bubble and connecting to um AI API such as stable diffusion uh open Ai and a lot more so that might be of interest uh to you as well so again I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you in the next one