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Deskifier for Bubble.io

Turn your Bubble.io app into a desktop app

Deskifier was born in the Bubble ecosystem. Point it at your Bubble app's URL and ship signed Mac, Windows and Linux apps with auto-updates, tray icons and native APIs. No code export, no plugins required to start.

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Why a desktop app for your Bubble product?

Bubble gives you a serious web app without writing code. But your users still reach it through a browser tab, and a tab is easy to close and easy to forget. A desktop app puts your product in the dock and the taskbar, launches at login, keeps running in the background, and sends real native notifications. For SaaS products, that presence is retention.

Because Deskifier loads your live Bubble app, everything keeps working exactly as it does on the web: your workflows, your database, your plugins. When you push changes in the Bubble editor, your desktop users see them instantly. There is nothing to rebuild.

What your Bubble app gains

System tray and menu bar presence
Your app stays one click away in the tray or macOS menu bar, keeps running when the window closes, and can launch at login.
Real native notifications
OS-level notifications with replies and click actions that work even while the window is closed, not browser notifications a user has to keep a tab open for.
Native actions from your workflows
Trigger desktop behaviors from your Bubble workflows through the Deskifier SDK and configurable behaviors: filesystem access, global shortcuts, window control, printing and more.
Signed, notarized installers
DMG for macOS with Apple notarization, signed .exe for Windows. Your users never see a Gatekeeper or SmartScreen scare screen.
Auto-updates handled for you
Desktop shells update themselves silently in the background. Your Bubble app itself updates the moment you deploy, just like the web.
App store distribution
A managed pipeline into the Mac App Store and Microsoft Store, plus Linux .deb and Snap Store packages, when you want a storefront presence.

From Bubble app to desktop app in three steps

  1. 1
    Point Deskifier at your Bubble URL
    Paste your app’s link (yourapp.bubbleapps.io or your custom domain). That’s the whole integration.
  2. 2
    Configure the native shell in the dashboard
    Pick window size and titlebar style, upload your icon, add tray menus and native behaviors. All point and click, in the spirit of Bubble itself.
  3. 3
    Download signed installers
    One build produces Mac, Windows and Linux installers, signed and ready to hand to your users or submit to the stores.

Frequently asked questions

No. Deskifier wraps your live Bubble app as it exists today. Workflows, plugins, database and logins keep working unchanged. If you later want native features like tray menus or filesystem access, you can add them from the Deskifier dashboard without touching your Bubble editor.

Desktop users get your changes immediately, exactly like web users, because the desktop app loads your live Bubble app. You only rebuild the desktop shell when you change the native configuration itself, and those updates install silently through the built-in auto-updater.

No. Your users just install your app and use it. Deskifier only needs your app to be reachable at a URL, which any paid Bubble plan provides.

Yes. Deskifier has a managed submission pipeline for the Mac App Store, produces .appx packages for the Microsoft Store, and builds .deb and Snap packages for Linux stores. Store review policies still apply to your app’s content.

A PWA still lives inside the browser sandbox: no system tray, no launch at login, no reliable background running, no store presence, and an install flow most users never find. A Deskifier app is a real installed application with all of those, while still loading your live Bubble app.

Keep reading
12 things web apps can’t do →Why your SaaS needs an app store presence →No-code desktop apps →

Ship your Bubble app to the desktop.

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