Type of Apps You Can Build with Bubble.io: A Complete Guide

Let’s say you already have a business and want to scale it into the digital no-code space. Or you have a potential idea for app development but lack technical expertise. Where should you start from, and can you bring your vision to life without writing lines of code? Absolutely—with a powerful no-code platform like Bubble.io. However, developing with Bubble is one thing, and building a professional fully functional app that will work with its users is another. It’s about Keenethics’ direct expertise. In this article, we’ll show you the capabilities of Bubble app development service for apps you can build with Bubble and share our experience in developing these solutions. Maybe, you’ll find the perfect type of app for your next project.

E-Commerce / Marketplaces

Marketplace apps are a good way to connect buyers and sellers in a convenient way to provide them with a place to exchange products, services, and information. This type of app is beneficial in many industries, from retail and real estate to healthcare. A range of advanced robust features, like rating systems, search filters, and secure payment integrations, simplify the purchases for the users. From account creation and offering browsing to secure transactions, the marketplaces enhance the experience of both sellers and buyers. You can also leverage templates for marketplaces to speed up development and ensure a solid foundation.

How can Bubble.io help?

No matter the project’s complexity—whether a peer-to-peer marketplace or a business-to-consumer platform—you can develop any app on Bubble without traditional coding. You can also create fully responsive applications that not only function smoothly on mobile devices, but also offer desktop functionality, ensuring a seamless user experience across all platforms. Its drag-and-drop interface allows you to create a dynamic, engaging interface that users will love. With a no-code development platform such as Bubble.io, you can set up custom workflows to handle complex actions, such as transactions and messaging. Additionally, if your business needs change, the power of Bubble offers easy and rapid scalability. 

When making a marketplace with Bubble, think about how people will use it. Define core functionality and map out workflows needed for your app, from seller verification to secure communication between users. Consider enriching your app with third-party services like Stripe or PayPal for smooth payment transactions. 

Keenethics’ expertise

We developed a proprietary platform called Bookmaker for StoryTerrace, which streamlines the book-writing process by connecting storytellers, writers, and editors. The platform allows users to communicate, schedule interviews, provide feedback on drafts, and collaborate on book design and multimedia content. Our team focused on simplifying the user experience by addressing platform flaws, improving communication, and adding additional essential features. The result is a responsive, secure, and flexible system that enhances collaboration at every stage of the book-making journey, ultimately ensuring a custom, well-designed final product.

Ruuster is our next successful marketplace project designed to streamline the home-buying process. Ruuster offers users step-by-step checklists, budget planning tools, and property interaction features, making it easier for buyers to navigate the often complex process of purchasing a home. It connects users with top local agents, ensuring professional guidance throughout their journey. By focusing on delivering a visually appealing and user-friendly experience, Ruuster allows users to sort properties by criteria like price, size, and rating while agents manage multiple clients, improving efficiency and increasing their income.

Oplanto, or Optimus Planto, is a platform, designed to simplify 3D printing management. It offers users tools to create 3D models and a marketplace for selling unique designs. Keenethics played a pioneering role in this project due to the emerging nature of 3D printing. As a result, we developed innovative solutions on a complex, multifaceted platform. The project involved building a 3D modeling system, marketplace, and collaboration tools, allowing Keenethics to gain valuable experience in both the manufacturing and 3D printing sectors.

Job Boards

Job Boards are useful online platforms for connecting job seekers with employers. They offer employers the space to post job openings where candidates can search, apply, and track careers. Job boards are essential for both companies wishing to fill positions in quick timeframes and individuals seeking new career opportunities. Job boards open a new level of convenience by giving candidates broad access to job markets. 

How can Bubble.io help?

Bubble allows you to develop complex workflows for job posting, application submissions, and user management. Furthermore, you can modify each feature according to your business needs. Its easy-to-use functionality allows you to create interfaces that the user can easily navigate. Third-party services like email automation, payment processing for premium job listings, or background verification tools are useful third-party services you can add to your niche job board app. 

Keenethics’ expertise

Keenethics developed WorkBooking, a B2B platform designed to streamline the search for freelance talent and short-term jobs. This platform caters to businesses, NGOs, and private individuals seeking professionals for specific tasks. It offers an intuitive, fast, and comprehensive solution with search and calendar features available on any device. Keenethics focused on convenience and personalization for both customers and freelancers and ensured the platform provided high-quality and reliable services, backed by a well-structured design process, including wireframing, for an optimal user experience.

Booking Platforms

Booking and appointment systems are reliable tools for businesses that prioritize scheduling or reservations as their primary focus. They allow users to browse available time slots, book meetings, and manage their schedules from any device while receiving booking confirmation instantly. As a result, businesses can enhance their efficiency and lessen the threat of overbooking. Instead, they can provide their clients with a more convenient self-service option where clients can receive automated notifications and updates on needed reservations.

Why use Bubble for booking and appointment systems? 

Its built-in components and interactive elements allow you to create custom scheduling solutions that integrate with diverse features from calendars and secure payment processors to notifications. 

Personal Finance and Budgeting Apps

With budgeting and personal finance apps, users can efficiently manage their income, expenses, and savings. What’s more, these tools help people set financial goals and monitor their progress through automated tools. Budgeting and personal finance apps provide a clear picture of one’s financial health, allowing individuals to make the right decisions about spending and saving.

How can Bubble.io help?

Bubble provides robust privacy settings, which are especially important in fintech management. Using Bubble for your budgeting app development, you can access and control different parts of the app, ensuring security and personalized access levels based on user profiles. Another benefit that Bubble provides is its currency converter plugin, which gives you the flexibility to display prices in numerous currencies. Besides the mentioned benefits, Bubble offers a wide plugin ecosystem, which you can select from for many integrations. 

Keenethics’ expertise

We developed CryptoMarketCap, an analytics platform catering to cryptocurrency enthusiasts and professionals. This powerful tool offers live tracking for over 18,000 cryptocurrencies and helps users manage their portfolios with advanced custom tracking. It also performs high-quality analyses of over 500 cryptocurrency exchanges, providing valuable insights to investors and traders. Keenethics’ developers helped our partner create a product with all-encompassing insight into the cryptocurrency market, offering users high-quality calculation tools. A common challenge of financial apps is sometimes an overly complicated interface with many misleading and confusing functions. Keenethics created a user-friendly interface, designed to eliminate confusion and allow even beginners to dive right in. Unlike other platforms, CryptoMarketCap offers a secure, manual portfolio tool without wallet integration, ensuring safe and effective analysis of crypto holdings. 

Paystub is our next result in web development. The Paystub generator offers business owners, employers, and the self-employed an intuitive tool to manage financial records and generate accurate pay stubs. User-friendliness, safety, privacy, and outstanding performance are the platforms’ features. It ensures the accuracy of all deductions since the pay stub generator uses the latest accounting payroll software. It calculates all taxes, registers all critical data, and creates a document an employer can send an employee or use for their purposes. The users can be confident about its security and legality. Paystub has several features that differentiate it from competitors, including accuracy, security, high code standards, and comprehensive testing. 

Keenethics developed Cordian, an AI-driven data analytics platform transforming corporate and banking markets by streamlining operations like customer service, legal spend management, and knowledge management. Cordian enhances productivity and security for professionals. Our team tackled key development challenges, including complex information details processing, process automation, cross-platform functionality, testing, and optimization. Through tailored solutions, we ensured that Cordian delivered top-tier performance, empowering specialists with precise analytics, improved workflow, and robust security, all while keeping the platform flexible and scalable for future growth.

E-Learning Platforms

E-learning has long ago transformed the way we acquire new experiences and knowledge. It offers a flexible, accessible, and personalized environment for everyone to study and interact remotely through shared resources at their own pace. 

How can Bubble.io help?

Bubble can help you create a remote learning platform by providing a low-code platform that supports key features like user authentication, course management, and interactive, dynamic content. You can add custom dashboards, lesson modules, progress tracking systems, and more features without much coding expertise. 

Keenethics’ expertise

Brainable is a brain-training platform developed by Keenethics, designed to advance cognitive skills through challenging games and fun. It allows learners to train their memory, concentration, logic, and speed with only 15 minutes of daily engagement. The platform tracks users’ progress, providing personalized feedback based on their performance. With over 20 carefully crafted games, Brainable helps users focus on the cognitive areas they want to improve, offering entertainment and meaningful mental stimulation.

We delivered a project for a Swedish company dedicated to personal and organizational development. SelfLeaders provides individuals with educational modules and tools for self-leadership along with numerous training events and workshops. Our team created a digital platform to help individuals grow as individuals, co-workers, and a united organization.

WorldLabs is another project Keenethics executed. It’s an online business incubator for connecting stakeholders – individuals, start-ups, experts, funding bodies, and large enterprises. All of them collaborate in one place to foster collaboration, promote ideas, and exchange resources. The platform facilitates the creation of virtual environments for launching challenges, organizing events, and collecting insights.

Project Management Apps

Project management tools help employees streamline many workflows, enhance teamwork, and boost productivity from start to finish. Task management, time tracking, customizable templates and dashboards, and diverse integrations are all features that allow users to use the app for their specific needs. Users can more efficiently plan, track, and delegate tasks and projects with project management apps. While off-the-shelf solutions may offer predefined features, developing a customized solution from scratch can better adapt to your needs. 

Bubble is a proper choice, offering its responsive design capabilities for quick product prototypes and changes on the fly. 

Keenethics’ expertise

Our experience in project management involves several projects. 

Keenethics has web development experience in developing marketplaces, and the Real Estate Management Project is one of these cases. This product, designed for real estate agents in Ohio, optimizes management while adhering to state-specific regulations, such as escrow fees and commission rules. The project was developed in close collaboration with local real estate experts, ensuring compliance with Ohio legislation. Using a hybrid project management approach, our team delivered a fully functional minimum viable product (MVP) within 3.5 months, despite time and cost constraints. The result is a tailored solution that meets the unique needs of Ohio’s real estate market.

ToolSense is designed to manage multiple types of work equipment. By integrating IoT devices and QR code systems, ToolSense eliminates the need for incompatible apps, consolidating data collection and asset management into a single, streamlined platform. Security upgrades and design modernization were our main tasks on the project. As a result, we added client validation to reduce unauthorized access, aligned with ToolSense’s new standards, and improved the user experience. 

Social Networks

Social networks make interactions with communities and content sharing more accessible than ever. If you’re looking to develop a social networking app, Bubble is a practical option. Its real-time chat functionality allows you to create chat rooms for private or public meetings. Sharing files and images in diverse formats is also simplified with Bubble. You aren’t restricted by predefined templates, and you can adapt your needs to the scalable architecture of Bubble. Considering that developing a social platform from scratch traditionally requires a high complexity and cost, you can create a functional app by skipping extensive coding requirements.

Artificial Intelligence Solutions

We have a deep understanding of machine learning algorithms, data science, and system integration. By offering our clients AI solutions, we take the development process on ourselves, from making the algorithms learn from data to solving real-world customer problems. We can turn complex AI challenges into opportunities for growth, customized to your business needs.

Now, let us show you the project we have done for our clients. 

Keenethics’ expertise

Cordian is an AI data analytics platform that revolutionizes the corporate and banking markets. The client wanted a solution that could provide reliable, accurate answers across use cases like customer services, legal spend management, and knowledge management. Through our development expertise, we successfully brought this vision to life, using natural language processing and deep learning to ensure the platform delivered instant, intelligent responses while maintaining the highest standards of security.

Our next project is uMore, an AI-powered mental health app designed to help individuals control their well-being during the pandemic and beyond. The client’s goal was to create a tool that not only addresses the stress and anxiety brought on by COVID-19 but also empowers users to take control of their mental health long-term. We developed a platform that promotes healthier lifestyles by encouraging users to track their emotions, manage stress, and build positive habits. Our team built the functionality ‘safe circle’ with a strong emphasis on privacy and user control, aligning with the client’s vision of fostering a supportive and secure environment for mental well-being.

Final Thoughts

A well-designed app appearance plays a crucial role in user engagement, making your app not only functional but visually appealing and intuitive to navigate. This guide presented diverse types of apps you can build with Bubble. If you’re interested in one of them, our team can bring your vision to life. Why choose us? A creative approach, custom solutions, no-code expertise, and end-to-end support are our core assets. Our experience includes successful projects across various sectors. 

We’ve highlighted many case studies of our expertise in Bubble app development, showcasing the depth of our experience. Now, it’s time to decide what you want to see in your product. Whether it’s a new feature or a complete platform, we’re always ready to offer tailored consulting. If you need guidance, don’t hesitate to reach out to us. We’re here to help you bring your vision to life and ensure your Bubble project is a success.

FAQ

Why Choose Bubble.io for App Development?

Bubble offers a flexible solution, especially for clients looking to bring their digital products to life with little coding knowledge. Bubble allows the creation of complex apps visually through built-in features, workflows, integrations, and more. It greatly reduces the time and cost involved in app development, allowing you to prototype and launch your apps quickly. Indeed, building apps with Bubble is advantageous. Its drag-and-drop interface and pre-built components allow you to build dynamic and visually appealing interfaces. Plus, you can make quick changes based on user feedback, which is critical for advancing and scaling your app.

Is Bubble.io a good platform for building advanced apps?

Yes, you can build complex apps, and scale them for a wide user base. Its no-code approach gives you flexibility in handling more sophisticated functionality. Using this tool, you get custom workflows and conditional logic, a powerful database management system, and a backend, allowing you to scale your app. To expand your platform capabilities, you can use a wide range of third-party services, custom elements, and code snippets.

How long does it take to develop an app using Bubble.io?

Developing an app can be a relatively quick process. The development timeline is significantly reduced, especially with tools like Bubble.io, which streamline workflows and eliminate the need for much coding. Depending on the app’s complexity, a functional product can be ready 3 times faster compared to traditional coding.  However, it’s difficult to define the exact time without knowing the strict requirements for the project you want to develop. The more requirements you have, the more time you need to complete them. Typically, the initial version of an app can be developed within two months. However, the exact timeline may vary depending on the app’s features and complexity. To get a more accurate estimate tailored to your project, it’s best to consult Keenethics’ team. We’ll ensure a precise and efficient development plan to meet your needs.