Bubble and Gappsy are both no-code builders, but they suit different projects. Bubble is a full-stack platform with a visual drag-and-drop editor, a built-in…
| Bubble | Gappsy | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | No-Code | No-Code |
| Rating | Not documented | Not documented |
| Pricing model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Starting price | Free (paid plans from $32/month) | Free (paid plans from $19/month billed yearly, $29 monthly) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Not documented | Yes |
| Platforms | Web | Web, iOS, Android, Mobile App |
| Team collaboration | Not documented | Not documented |
| AI features | Yes | Yes |
| Public API | Yes | Not documented |
How you build
Bubble: A drag-and-drop editor for the UI, plus visual workflows for backend logic, automations and API calls. AI tools help generate and edit app structure and workflows inside the builder.
Gappsy: You describe the business or idea in one or two sentences and Gappsy generates the pages, texts, photos, design and features. You then change it by typing instructions such as "add online booking" or by tapping on the app to edit texts, photos and prices.
Bubble gives more direct control but has a steeper learning curve. Gappsy gets a first version live faster but works within its own feature blocks.
Custom logic and data modelling
Bubble: A native relational database, a visual workflow engine, and custom code and API connectors for advanced use cases.
Gappsy: Apps are assembled from more than 50 built-in feature blocks on a hosted database. Gappsy lists less room for custom logic and data modelling than Bubble as a drawback.
Products that do not fit a standard pattern need flexible data structures and logic. Products that do fit one benefit from not having to build them.
Business features and payments
Bubble: Payments, email, analytics and other integrations come through a plugin marketplace with thousands of official and community plugins.
Gappsy: Ordering, shop, bookings for appointments, tables and classes, memberships, gift cards, events and tickets are built in. Payments go to the owner's own Stripe account. Gappsy charges a fee of 5% on Free, 1% on Pro and 0% on Business, on top of Stripe's fees.
Built-in commerce features reduce setup work, while a plugin ecosystem offers more choice but requires assembly. Gappsy's per-transaction fee affects the real cost on the lower plans.
Pricing structure
Bubble: Bubble is priced per project by platform. Starter costs $32 (web only), $42 (mobile only) or $59 (web + mobile) per month billed yearly. Growth runs from $119 and Team from $349, and Enterprise is custom. Plans add bandwidth from 1 GB to 1 TB, with optional workload tiers and overages from Growth up.
Gappsy: Gappsy has flat tiers. Free is $0, Pro is $19/month billed yearly or $29 monthly, and Business is $55/month billed yearly or $79 monthly. Plans are limited by monthly visitors (300, 3,000 or 150,000) and typed AI changes (10, 50 or 300 per app). Extra AI changes cost $5 per 100.
Bubble lists Workload Unit pricing as hard to predict for high-traffic apps. Gappsy's costs depend on visitor caps, AI change allowances and payment fees.
Mobile apps
Bubble: Paid plans include live mobile deployment. Starter includes 5 mobile builds a month and 3 live mobile versions, rising to 20 builds and 8 live versions on Team. Mobile and web + mobile plans cost more than web only.
Gappsy: Every app can be added to an iPhone or Android home screen from a link or QR code without app store review, and it gets push notifications on every plan. Pro and Business produce an Android package and an iOS Xcode project for publishing. This requires your own developer accounts ($99 a year to Apple, $25 once to Google) and a Mac for iOS, or a $600 done-for-you service.
The route to customers' phones affects both cost and setup effort.
Distribution and selling software
Bubble: The provided facts do not document built-in tools for reselling an app or listing it in a directory.
Gappsy: Gappsy offers ready-made software for 50+ categories with your name and logo, lets other people sign up and pay you monthly for access, and lets you list the product on Gappsy's directory of more than 7,000 software profiles.
Finding customers is often harder than building the product.
| Feature | Bubble | Gappsy |
|---|---|---|
| Visual editing | Available | Available |
| AI-assisted building | Available | Available |
| Visual backend workflows and custom logic | Available | Limited |
| Custom data modelling | Available | Limited |
| Custom code and external API connectors | Available | Not documented |
| Build or translate in other languages | Not documented | Available |
| Feature | Bubble | Gappsy |
|---|---|---|
| Accept payments | Available | Available |
| Bookings for appointments, tables and classes | Not documented | Available |
| Memberships with recurring billing | Not documented | Available |
| Gift cards, events and tickets | Not documented | Available |
| Apple and Google Wallet loyalty card | Not documented | Available |
| Plugin marketplace | Available | Not documented |
| Feature | Bubble | Gappsy |
|---|---|---|
| App Store and Google Play publishing | Available | Available |
| Installable home-screen app without app store review | Not documented | Available |
| Push notifications | Not documented | Available |
| Responsive layouts across screen sizes | Available | Not documented |
| Custom domain | Not documented | Available |
| Go live on the free plan | Not documented | Available |
| Feature | Bubble | Gappsy |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting and database included | Available | Available |
| Export or edit a generated codebase | Not documented | Unavailable |
| Ready-made software templates to rebrand | Not documented | Available |
| Charge other users monthly for access | Not documented | Available |
| Listing on a software directory | Not documented | Available |
| In-app AI assistant for visitors | Not documented | Available |
Starting price reflects the lowest paid tier, not the full cost for every team size or usage level.
Pros
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Pros
Cons
On listed prices, Gappsy's paid plans start lower. Gappsy Pro is $19/month billed yearly and Business is $55/month. Bubble's Starter is $32/month for web only and $59/month for web and mobile, billed yearly. Gappsy adds a 1% payment fee on Pro (0% on Business) on top of Stripe's fees, and Bubble lists Workload Unit pricing as hard to predict for high-traffic apps, so the total cost depends on how the app is used.
It depends on what the team is building. Gappsy Business costs $55/month billed yearly for 5 apps, 150,000 visitors a month and priority support, which suits a small business or agency running several standard apps. Bubble's Team plan starts at $349/month billed yearly and suits teams running custom production apps that need Bubble's database, workflows and code extensibility.
Neither requires traditional coding. Bubble has a steeper learning curve because users design the UI, database and workflows themselves. Gappsy generates the app from a short description and is edited by typing instructions or tapping on the app.
Yes. Bubble's paid plans include live mobile deployment with a monthly number of mobile builds, priced higher for mobile or web plus mobile. Every Gappsy app can be added to a phone's home screen from a link or QR code. Gappsy Pro and Business also produce App Store and Google Play packages, which require your own developer accounts and a Mac for iOS, or the $600 done-for-you service.
Gappsy has built-in ordering, bookings, memberships, gift cards and tickets, paid into your own Stripe account, with a Gappsy fee of 5% on Free, 1% on Pro and 0% on Business. Bubble supports payments through its plugin marketplace. The provided facts do not document a built-in booking feature in Bubble.
Both involve lock-in. Bubble apps are tied to its proprietary runtime, and migrating off is described as nontrivial. Gappsy does not generate a codebase to export or edit, because apps are built from its own feature blocks.