Bubble vs WaveMaker

Bubble is a platform for building web and mobile apps, with support for Android, iOS, and the web. Projects can use a built-in database, authentication, API integrations, and shared workflows and backend across web and mobile apps. Users can build before paying to launch. The Free plan includes one app editor, 50K workload units per month, and six hours of server logs. Native mobile apps can be published to the iOS and Android app stores, and production-ready apps include security scanning. Bubble can connect with services such as Stripe and Google Maps. A 14-day trial is listed; unless canceled, it converts to a paid Starter subscription. Starting that trial involves a temporary $1 card pre-authorization, which expires within 5-10 business days. Starter Web + Mobile costs $59 a month, billed annually; Growth costs $209 a month, billed annually, and Team costs $549 a month, billed annually. The maker is Bubble Group, Inc., headquartered in New York, NY, United States, and founded in 2012.

WaveMaker is an agentic app generation platform for building web and mobile applications. Its Design to Code agent converts Figma designs into front-end code, design tokens, and a themed component library. In Hybrid Developer Studio, developers can move between agent, visual, and editor modes to review and refine generated code. WaveMaker describes its coding approach as a two-pass system combining deterministic AI with human review. It connects to databases including MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, IBM DB2, and HSQLDB, and can generate REST APIs for database entities, queries, procedures, and Java services. Authentication options include database, LDAP, Active Directory, CAS, SAML, OpenID, custom Java, and token-based methods. The platform documents role-based access controls and protections against XSS and CSRF. It offers a React Native product for mobile applications and supports enterprise deployment of web and mobile apps. Platforms include web, Android, iOS, API, and self-hosted deployment. Pricing is on request; a free pilot with an expert is also offered, with no duration stated.