Workshop vs Bubble

At a Glance

Choose Workshop if you want:

• You want portability and ownership: build locally and deploy on your terms.
• You want full flexibility in UI, architecture, and integrations as you scale.
• You’re building beyond a browser-only app (desktop/mobile/offline or local models).
• You want a path that aligns with developer workflows long-term.

Choose Bubble if you want:

• You want a visual no-code builder to launch a web app quickly.
• You prefer built-in hosting and platform-managed infrastructure.
• You want a plugin marketplace and platform conventions over custom architecture.
• You’re optimizing for speed-to-MVP without engineering-heavy choices.

Where Workshop and Bubble Differ

Deployment & Ownership

Workshop: Workshop is built around ownership: develop locally, deploy where you want, and keep a portable project that isn’t locked to a hosted builder.

Bubble: Bubble is a platform experience: you build and run inside Bubble’s environment. It’s convenient for launching quickly, but it’s a different tradeoff than owning a deployable codebase.

Working With Real Data

Workshop: Workshop is designed to integrate directly with real data sources—databases, warehouses, APIs—and to support product workflows around that data.

Bubble: Bubble makes it easy to stand up app logic quickly using platform primitives, plugins, and integrations, especially for MVPs.

Flexibility & Tech Stack

Workshop: Workshop is meant to stay flexible as requirements grow: custom UI patterns, deeper integrations, and evolving architecture.

Bubble: Bubble is flexible within platform conventions. For many MVPs that’s ideal; for complex products, platform constraints can become a factor.

Ideal Team Profile

Workshop: Teams who expect to scale a product with long-term engineering ownership and deployment flexibility.

Bubble: Teams who want a no-code path to launch quickly and are comfortable with platform-managed infrastructure.

Best for Different Use Cases

Building a Website

Workshop: When Workshop makes sense: You want a website that’s part of a broader product stack you can own and deploy.

Bubble: When Bubble makes sense: You want to ship a website + web app quickly using a visual builder and hosted platform.

Building an AI App

Workshop: When Workshop makes sense: AI is central to the product and you need full control over models, data access, and UX.

Bubble: When Bubble makes sense: You want to prototype AI-powered flows quickly using integrations and platform features.

Building a Dashboard

Workshop: When Workshop makes sense: You need a dashboard that behaves like product UI with roles, embedding, and workflow actions.

Bubble: When Bubble makes sense: Your dashboard can live as a set of app pages built in a no-code environment.

Building an Internal Tool

Workshop: When Workshop makes sense: You want internal tools with stricter ownership, deployment, or offline requirements.

Bubble: When Bubble makes sense: You want internal tools fast and are comfortable running them on a hosted platform.

Why Teams Choose Workshop Long-Term

• Own the project as requirements grow beyond a hosted builder.
• Deploy in the environments your customers and security teams require.
• Use cloud or local models depending on privacy and cost constraints.
• Extend beyond web into desktop/mobile/offline when needed.