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You’re reading the Bubble Manual, which has everything you need to know to build apps using Bubble. This documentation covers everything from basic concepts to advanced features and includes step-by-step tutorials, troubleshooting tips, and insights into best practices.
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Bubble lets you turn your ideas into apps by combining the power of AI and visual development. Whether you're building your first app or you're an experienced developer, Bubble's AI-powered tools and intuitive visual editor make it possible to quickly generate, refine, and launch your vision—no coding required.
Bubble lets you turn your ideas into fully functional, scalable apps by combining the power of AI and visual development. Whether you're building your first app or you're an experienced developer, Bubble's AI-powered tools and intuitive visual editor make it possible to quickly generate, refine, and launch your vision —no coding required.
Bubble's advanced AI app generator empowers you to create a fully functional app using simple prompts. Describe your idea in your own words, and watch as Bubble AI generates a personalized app structure, ready for you to customize. Confirm your features and add any the AI missed, then generate the app. This initial app will be fully functional with a built-in database and workflows — providing a strong starting point, dramatically reducing the time and effort needed to bring your idea to life.
After your AI-generated app is ready, Bubble's visual editor lets you fine-tune and expand your app exactly the way you want. Design your user interface, add custom events and workflows, and seamlessly integrate third-party services using plugins and the built-in API Connector. With Bubble, visual development means you have the freedom to iterate quickly, safely, and confidently.
Bubble's flexibility lets you create any type of app — ranging from simple MVPs to sophisticated, enterprise-grade applications. With a shared database, workflows, and infrastructure, Bubble supports creating seamless experiences across web, iOS, and Android, all from a single, unified editor.
Bubble's docs are designed to help you quickly master the essentials and continue as a valuable reference throughout your development journey. Whether you prefer a structured walkthrough or simply browsing topics that interest you, the Bubble Manual covers foundational concepts, terminology, best practices, and step-by-step how-to guides.
If you're new to Bubble, start by checking out our Getting Started section. Learn the fundamentals, explore how AI and visual development come together, and discover just how quickly you can build powerful, professional apps.
The Bubble documentation is divided into two sections:
To help you get quickly up to speed with the terminology used in Bubble and in web app development in general, we have provided explanatory notes on select words and phrases. You will find these annotations marked with a dotted underline .
The user manual and core reference is just one part of Bubble's documentation. We also offer other ways to learn in the form of videos, interactive tutorials, demos, blog posts and forum posts. Look for the header Other ways to learn in articles to find links to other relevant resources you may find helpful.
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