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In-depth guides covering every part of building on Bubble — from design and data to security and deployment.

User Manual

Introduction

New? Start Here

Getting started with the User Manual

Learn how the User Manual is structured and how to navigate it effectively.

Introduction to the Manual

This section covers how to create, manage and delete projects connected to your Bubble account

Creating & Managing Projects

Building for Web and Mobile

Building for web

Building for native iOS and Android

Understand the difference between web and native mobile apps, and choose the right approach for what you're building.

Building for Web & Mobile

A native mobile app is downloaded from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, and runs directly on the user’s device.

Native mobile

This article discusses the differences between native mobile and web development.

Native mobile vs. web development

This article discusses the differences in native and web elements.

Differences in native and web elements

While the Native Mobile App Editor is similar to building a regular Bubble app in many ways, there are some new terms and concepts.

Native mobile app terminology

Mobile app quick start guide

Payments in mobile apps

The core concepts you need before building a native iOS or Android app on Bubble.

Native mobile basics

In-app purchases overview

In-app purchases on Apple Devices

In-app purchases on Android Devices

Setting up subscriptions

Preparing your mobile app for production

Apple in-app purchases checklist

Android in-app purchases checklist

In-app purchases workflows and terminology

Set up and manage in-app purchases for Apple and Android, including subscriptions and production checklists.

In-app purchases

Answers to common questions about how workload usage works for native mobile apps — shared tiers, cumulative consumption, and tracking usage.

Mobile apps and workload: FAQ

How can I implement strikethrough formatting in Bubble's native mobile apps?

Can I use AI app generation to make a mobile app?

We cover multiple build failure errors which you might face and how to address them for your mobile app

Why am I getting an error with my mobile build and how can I resolve it?

Why is my app getting rejected from the app store?

How do I debug my mobile app? Is there a debugger for mobile?

Why are plugins that contain only native components and no web-specific actions being marked as supporting both Web and Native platforms in the plugin marketplace?

Why doesn't my build email contain detailed instructions?

How do I integrate my mobile application with OneSignal?

What causes frequent logouts in Bubble native apps, and can session timeouts be customized?

How do I set up Google authentication for my native mobile app?

At a high-level, how do I publish my Bubble app to iOS App Store and Google Play?

How can I handle payments in a Bubble native mobile app?

Frequently asked questions about building for mobile. 

Mobile FAQs

The article introduces the Bubble editor, explaining its structure, key features, and tools for app design and deployment.

How the Bubble editor works

The article describes the Bubble editor's tab-based layout for app development, including design and workflow.

The editor layout

This article explains the Bubble editor's Workflow tab, where you set up events and actions for app interactions.

The Workflow tab

The article describes the Bubble editor's Data tab for managing app data, including database, privacy rules, and file management.

The Data tab

This article explains the Bubble editor's Global Tab for managing visual themes and style variables for a consistent app design.

The Global tab

The Plugins tab

This article outlines the Bubble editor's Settings tab for managing app configurations like plans, domains, and collaboration.

The Settings tab

Custom domain and DNS

Overview

Native mobile settings

Web app settings

Global expressions

This section covers font variables, used to manage a collection of fonts that can be applied to elements and styles throughout your app

Font variables

Get familiar with the editor's layout, tabs, and tools — the environment where you'll build everything.

The Bubble Editor

The article explains the Bubble editor's Design tab, focusing on UI Builder, element tree, and responsive design for app pages.

Design tab

This section covers the element tree found in the Design tab of the Bubble editor.

The element tree

The property editor

How the Design tab works, including the element tree and property editor.

The Design tab

This page is dedicated to the the beta for the redesigned property editor (as of Dec 2025).

Property Editor Beta Overview

What's new in the property editor

Navigating the Redesigned Property Editor

Property Editor quick start guide

What's new in the redesigned property editor, currently in beta, and how to migrate from the current version.

Property Editor Beta

Key Editor features

The search tool

The Issue Checker

This article covers how to add notes to different parts of your Bubble app to document your work

Adding notes to your app

How does the Undo/Redo functionality work in Bubble, and what are its limitations?

Built-in tools that help you search, check for issues, and document your work.

Editor tools

Learn how to identify and plan essential features for your app's first version, ensuring a focused and user-centric development process.

Planning your app's features

Plan your app's database structure by focusing on data types, fields, and relationships.

Planning your database structure

Explore design resources and tools to create visually appealing and user-friendly apps, focusing on UI and UX principles.

Designing your UI/UX

A guided path through planning and building your first Bubble app — from idea to working product.

Your First App

Explore strategies for implementing payment systems in your Bubble app using Stripe, focusing on revenue models and payment integration.

eCommerce & payments overview

Explore the planning and implementation of a shopping cart feature in your app, focusing on user convenience and data management.

Shopping cart

In this article, we'll look into what is often the final step before the user actually pays for one or more products – the checkout page.

Checkout page

Learn how to implement one-time payments in your app using Stripe, ensuring secure and efficient single transactions.

One-time payments

Subscriptions

Add payment functionality to your app using Stripe — from one-time purchases to subscriptions and marketplace flows.

eCommerce & Payments

With AI, Bubble is transforming the way you design, build, and refine applications.

Generate apps with AI

This section introduces how to connect your Bubble app to AI agents such as ChatGPT and Claude using the API Connector.

Connecting to AI models

Bubble AI Agent

Learn how AI credits work, what's included with your plan, how usage is calculated, and how to get more.

AI credits

How the AI Agent can edit an existing Bubble app — prompting, chat threads, UI/data/workflow generation, API calls, plugins, and capabilities/limitations.

Edit apps with AI

What Bubble's MCP server is, why you'd connect an AI tool like Claude or Codex to it, how it compares to Bubble AI, the tools it provides, permissions and data…

Bubble MCP

Use Bubble's built-in AI tools to generate apps, design pages, and connect your app to AI models.

Answers to common questions about Bubble's AI App Generation — plans, limits, generation time, design control, performance, and app type support.

AI App Generation: FAQ

While other AI tools leave you stranded with 80% of an app, Bubble takes you to the finish line

AI Visual Development: The Future of Bubble AI

Vibe coding might create impressive weekend demos, but AI visual development can take you all the way.

Beyond the Vibes: Why AI App Building Needs More Than Just Good Intentions

How to Ask Bubble's AI Agent the Right Questions (and Get Better Answers)

How do I access the AI Page Designer?

Where can I access my AI Build guides?

Frequently asked questions about Bubble's AI features. 

AI Features FAQ

At the heart of Bubble's capabilities is the ability to build precise, professional designs, from simple forms to full-featured websites and SaaS apps.

How design works in Bubble

This article explains how to use pre-made templates to quickly start projects, offering customizable applications across various categories.

Templates

This article explains how to use the Component Library to build and customize responsive page using pre-built UI components and workflows.

The component library

Build your app's interface using Bubble's design tools, elements, and layout system.

Design

This article explains how to import Figma designs into a Bubble app.

How to import your Figma designs into Bubble

Using auto layout in Figma imports

Converting custom elements from Figma

How do you convert buttons, inputs or dropdowns from Figma to Bubble?

What are some best practices when importing from Figma to Bubble?

Can I convert everything from Figma?

Can I delete my Figma conversions?

How long will my Figma conversions be stored?

Bring your Figma designs into Bubble and convert them into editable elements.

Importing from Figma

This section covers elements – the building blocks that make up your application's user interface

Elements

This section covers the logic of the hierarchy that is structured on your page as you add elements to it.

The element hierarchy

Web app

The page is the blank canvas on which you design your app's user interface.

Web app: The page

This article covers the container elements, used to group and control the behavior of other elements

Web app: Containers

This section covers Groups, that can be used to contain elements and data and control the responsive behavior of child elements.

Web app: Group element

This section covers the container type repeating group, used to display lists of things such as records from the database

Web app: Repeating groups

This article covers the table element, used to display lists such as records from the database in a table-like structure of rows and columns

Web app: Table elements

This article covers the container type Popup, which is a group that hovers above all other elements on the screen

Web app: Popups

This article covers Floating Group, which is used for attaching a group to one of the sides of the screen, regardless of scrolling position

Web app: Floating groups

This article covers the group type Group Focus.

Web app: Group focus

This section describes the visual elements that are available in the Bubble editor

Web app: Visual elements

Web app: Input forms

This article covers elements that accept text and numbers as user input

Web app: Text and number input elements

This section covers elements that accepts dates and time as user input

Web app: Date and time inputs

This article covers elements that lets your users upload files and images

Web app: File upload inputs

This article covers selection control elements, that lets you set up input elements with predefined options

Web app: Selection controls

This article covers reusable elements: elements that can be using in multiple places in your app

Web app: Reusable element

iOS and Android apps include elements that are native to their operating systems.

iOS and Android app (Mobile)

Mobile: Visual elements

Mobile: Input forms

Mobile: The view element

Everything you can place on a page: containers, visual elements, input forms, and mobile-specific components.

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