Bubble vs. Microsoft Power Apps

At a glance

Best for

Best for founders and teams that want to build and launch a full web or mobile app without engineers.

Freelancers
Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

Best for

Best for organisations already inside a Microsoft 365 tenant that want governed business apps built on their existing data.

Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion	Bubble	Microsoft Power Apps
Starting price	From $32 / month Starter, web only, billed monthly; $29 per month billed annually. Mobile only starts at $49 and web plus mobile at $69 monthly. A free plan covers building and testing.	lower value Free Developer Plan; Power Apps Premium from $22 / user / month Annual billing. Premium falls to $14 per user per month with a 2,000 seat minimum. Extra Dataverse database capacity is $40 per GB per month, and Copilot Studio is bought separately as pre-purchased credit units.
Free trial	Free plan	Free Power Apps Developer Plan for non-production use; separately a 30-day trial of the per-user plan, extendable twice to 90 days
Commercial use	Yes	Not stated
Output	Web apps and native mobile apps built in one visual editor, with a managed database and user accounts	Canvas and model-driven business apps that run in a browser and in the Power Apps mobile app on phone and tablet
API	Not stated	Yes, Dataverse and Power Platform developer APIs, plus prebuilt and custom connectors
Hosting	Not stated	Microsoft cloud, managed per environment from the Power Platform admin center
What it generates	Web apps and native mobile apps built in one editor; the AI app builder can generate a complete app from a single prompt	Canvas and model-driven business apps plus Power Pages sites; Copilot generates the Dataverse tables and relationships from a description, and Plans turns a use case in natural language, with images such as process flows, into a solution blueprint
Stack and frameworks	No-code visual programming: you build by pointing and clicking instead of writing code	No hand-written framework code: canvas apps are laid out in Power Apps Studio, model-driven apps are generated from the data model. Developers extend them with JavaScript on the client, Azure functions and plug-ins on the server, custom connectors and virtual tables
Auth and database	Managed database with separate development and live environments, plus built-in user management for signup and login	Microsoft Dataverse as the built-in database, or connectors to SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server and on-premises sources; identity, environments, data loss prevention policies and auditing are administered centrally in the Power Platform admin center
Hosting and deploy	Apps run in the browser or install from the app stores as native apps, hosted on Bubble's infrastructure	Runs on Microsoft's cloud only, organised into environments; a US Government cloud meets FedRAMP High and DoD DISA IL2, and there is no self-hosted option
Payments	Payments run through Bubble's official Stripe plugin: one-time charges and recurring subscriptions, with billing and plan management handled by Stripe	No checkout of its own; a Stripe connector is available in the connector library to work with customers, orders and invoices, and Power Pages has a separate payments integration
Access to the code	No-code visual editor, extended through community-made plugins	Apps live in the platform rather than as an exportable codebase; they move between environments as solutions, and code enters through JavaScript, plug-ins and custom connectors rather than by exporting what was generated
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	Community forum	Not stated
Onboarding	Documentation and knowledge base	more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials
Company size	more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise	Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations	Not stated	Microsoft Dataverse, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, Stripe, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Automate

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price Bubble From $32 / month Microsoft Power Apps Free Developer Plan; Power Apps Premium from $22 / user / month
Free trial Bubble Free plan Microsoft Power Apps Free Power Apps Developer Plan for non-production use; separately a 30-day trial of the per-user plan, extendable twice to 90 days
Company size Bubble Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Microsoft Power Apps Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Output Bubble Web apps and native mobile apps built in one visual editor, with a managed database and user accounts Microsoft Power Apps Canvas and model-driven business apps that run in a browser and in the Power Apps mobile app on phone and tablet
What it generates Bubble Web apps and native mobile apps built in one editor; the AI app builder can generate a complete app from a single prompt Microsoft Power Apps Canvas and model-driven business apps plus Power Pages sites; Copilot generates the Dataverse tables and relationships from a description, and Plans turns a use case in natural language, with images such as process flows, into a solution blueprint

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Bubble

Strengths

Builds web and native mobile apps in a single editor
Generates a complete app from one prompt with the AI app builder, then lets you refine it
Large ecosystem of community-made plugins and connectors

Limitations

Priced in monthly workload units, so a busy app's running cost rises with usage instead of staying fixed
The free plan cannot run a live app on a custom domain

Microsoft Power Apps

Strengths

Copilot builds the Dataverse data model, not just the screens, and keeps editing it conversationally
Connects to SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and SQL Server through prebuilt connectors, so existing data stays where it is
Central governance for environments, data loss prevention, access and auditing across the whole tenant
Free Developer Plan with Dataverse for learning and non-production work

Limitations

Microsoft cloud only, with no self-hosted option
What gets built is not an exportable codebase, so leaving the platform means rebuilding
Copilot app generation depends on Dataverse access and is limited by region availability
Priced per user per month, so cost tracks how many colleagues run the app rather than how many apps exist

Plans

Pricing

Bubble

Free $0 Build and test for free; launching an app requires a paid plan.
Starter $32 Per month for web only ($29 billed annually). Mobile only $49, web plus mobile $69.
Growth $134 Per month for web only ($119 billed annually). Mobile only $199, web plus mobile $249.
Team $399 Per month for web only ($349 billed annually). Mobile only $529, web plus mobile $649.
Enterprise Not stated Quoted by Bubble; handled through an account manager.

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Microsoft Power Apps

Power Apps Developer Plan $0 Three developer environments, prebuilt and custom connectors, 2 GB Dataverse database and 750 flows a month. For building and testing, not for production.
Power Apps Premium $22 Per user per month on annual billing. Unlimited Power Apps and Power Pages for the assigned user, prebuilt and custom connectors, 250 MB database and 2 GB file capacity, agentic features in model-driven apps and Microsoft 365 Copilot chat.
Power Apps Premium, 2,000+ seats $14 Per user per month on annual billing at volume, with a 2,000 seat minimum. Same features as standard Premium.

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What users say

Review Scores · opens after launch

Bubble

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Microsoft Power Apps

Ease of use: Not rated yet
User interface: Not rated yet
Onboarding: Not rated yet
Support and service: Not rated yet
Value for money: Not rated yet
Features: Not rated yet

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Where this comes from

Bubble https://bubble.io · no check date recorded yet

Microsoft Power Apps https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-apps · no check date recorded yet

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.