Mush Social vs Bubbl Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mush Social
This app offers a map-first social experience, connecting users, vendors, and organizations in real-time. Discover local trends, engage with communities, and enjoy interactive features like smart seating and live polls. It also includes multi-language translation and earning opportunities through advertising.
- Map-first social experience
- Real-time posts and timelines
- Smart seating for events
- Multi-language translation
- Vendor and organization updates
- Interactive 3D map view
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Mush Connect Locally, Engage Globally Mush is a map-first social app that connects people, vendors, and organizations through real time posts, smart seating, and interactive timelines. Whether you’re at a stadium, on campus, or exploring your city, Mush transforms your surroundings into a live social experience. Share posts, discover what’s trending nearby, and connect with communities all in one platform. With Mush you can stay updated through a real time timeline, explore trends in your community, and navigate with Mush Map, a 3D interactive view of people, events, and vendors around you. Fans can enjoy smart seating, live polls, coordinated chants, and in-stadium promotions, while vendors and organizations share offers and updates directly inside the app. Reach, Mush’s multi language translation feature, breaks down language barriers so everyone can connect instantly. You can even earn as you watch through smart advertising, making Mush a platform where engagement turns into value. What makes Mush different is its unique combination of social, commercial, and organizational layers. It brings together features you’d expect separately such as timelines, maps, discovery, and vendor interactions into one scalable and secure ecosystem built to handle over 500,000 users in the same area. From students and communities to clubs and stadiums, Mush delivers a smarter way to connect with the world around you. Download Mush today and experience your community like never before. www.mushsocial.com
Bubbl Widget
This app places live text feeds from your closest friends directly onto your home screen. Share thoughts and statuses instantly, creating a digital sticky note experience for your inner circle. React to messages and build a history of shared moments.
- Live text feeds on home screen
- Share thoughts and statuses
- Digital sticky note experience
- Friend reactions with emojis
- Build message history
- Dedicated widgets for individuals
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Bubbl is a widget that shows live text feeds from your best friends, right to your Home Screen. You and your best friends will see each other's thoughts & statuses every time you unlock your phone. It’s a little glimpse of what everyone’s up to throughout the day. Think of a sticky note with something sweet written to your loved ones, hanged on the mirror, fridge or a desk. They see it whenever they pass by, but now, it’s directly on their home screen. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add the Bubbl widget to your Home Screen 2. When a friend sends you a custom note, it instantly appears on your Bubbl widget! 3. To share back, tap into the widget, create a new note with your own touch, and then hit send! It appears right on your friends’ Home Screens FOR YOUR CLOSE FRIENDS • To keep things for the inner circle, you can only have 20 friends on the app. • On Bubbl, there’s no worrying about follower count, just add your best friends and family and live in the moment. • With Bubbl, you’re able to be real and share your thoughts to the people that matter. REACT TO FRIENDS' BUBBLS • Send a Bubbl reaction to your friends to let them know you saw their note. • They’ll get a notification and you’ll love watching the emojis rain down on your notes. • We don’t count or track the reactions, so you can be real and authentic without worrying about likes and filters like other platforms. BUILD A HISTORY OF YOUR BUBBL • As you and friends share notes, you’ll build up a history of all notes sent. • Share them out as photos capturing those “love it” moments. ADD BUBBL FOR YOUR BESTIES AND CRUSHES • Decorate your home screen with more widgets dedicated to your crush or your bestie • Choose who shows up in each individual widget, and see notes only from that person. Download the free app! We’re keeping Bubbl free so you can send to the people that matter (friends, family, bestie, etc.). With Bubbl, your phone will feel like it’s bringing you closer to your best friends.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Mush Social at none against Bubbl Widget's shown. Mush Social also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Bubbl Widget's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bubbl Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bubbl Widget has 812 ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Mush Social's written reviews are positive against 71% of Bubbl Widget's.
Mush Social ships an update every 5 weeks, Bubbl Widget weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mush Social | Bubbl Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (34 ratings) | 4.7 (812 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 | 812 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 360 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | regie legaspi | Saif AL Essai |
Customer experience
Mush Social
Bubbl Widget
Bugs and requests
Mush Social
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Bubbl Widget
Reported bugs
2 issues- Short messages in last update
- Unable to log in with phone number
Requested features
3 requests- Dark mode option
- Customizable text color
- Android version
In-app purchases
Mush Social
No in-app purchases
Bubbl Widget
No in-app purchases







