Crypto Bubbles alternatives
Every bubble chart draws the same public market data, so the interesting question is not which board looks better. It is who pays for the product, what happens when you tap a coin, and how much of the market you can shape on screen. This is one comparison done properly — the board most people mean by "crypto bubbles", next to mine.
I make one of these. My name is Shamil Shamilov and I build Crypto Heatmap, the second product on this page. That is a conflict of interest and no amount of even-handed writing removes it.
So the page is built to be checked rather than believed: section 05 lists the cases where the other one is the better choice, section 06 shows how to verify every claim here yourself in under a minute, and each statement about another company is dated. Nothing on this page is a referral or affiliate link — not to an exchange, and not to a competitor.
01 The real difference
Who pays for the chart you are reading
Market data is not a differentiator here. Prices, market caps and volumes come from the same handful of sources, and no bubble chart has better numbers than another. What differs is what each product needs you to do next — and that follows almost entirely from how it is funded.
Two products, two answers:
| Crypto Bubbles | Crypto Heatmap | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned by | MEXC Fintech, Inc. | One developer |
| Paid for by | Advertising — its App Store listing carries the “Contains Advertising” rating | Nothing. No ads, no paid tier, no exchange deals |
| Tapping a coin opens | A coin panel with a Trade tab listing fifteen exchanges | The coin — chart, supply, links, categories |
| Referral links out | Exchange links throughout | None, anywhere in the product |
| Account | Not required | Not required. There is nothing to sign up for |
None of that makes Crypto Bubbles a bad product, and it is run by people who know this market better than most. But a chart that earns money when you click through to a trade is optimising for a different outcome than a chart that earns nothing at all, and the difference shows up in small places: which coins get a badge, what sits at the top of a coin panel, how hard it is to leave a screen without passing an offer.
Worth knowing which one you are reading. That is the entire argument of this section, and it is checkable in about thirty seconds — section 06.
Banter Bubbles is the other name that comes up in this category. It is not on this page because it went somewhere else entirely: token swaps run from the coin popup, an account required before use, and a media channel attached. That is a trading product with a chart in it, and comparing it row by row against two market viewers would flatter all three.
02 The board
What you can actually do with it
The second difference is depth. A bubble chart is a market map, and a map is only as useful as the questions you can ask it: show me only the coins on this exchange, only this ecosystem, only what moved this week, only what sits between two market caps. Below that line, both draw circles.
| Crypto Bubbles | Crypto Heatmap | |
|---|---|---|
| Views | Bubbles | Bubbles, heatmap and a sortable list |
| Coins | Top of the market | 1,000 |
| Periods | Several | Seven, from 15 minutes to a year |
| Compare coins | Not offered | Up to six at once, on one chart |
| Filters | Basic | Category, ecosystem, exchange, futures, market-cap and 24h-volume ranges, gainers and losers |
| Coin detail | A panel | A full screen: chart, supply, contracts, categories, links |
| Appearance | Fixed | Palettes, bubble labels, layout |
| Price alerts | Not offered | Push notifications |
| Currencies | USD | 24 |
| Languages | English | 20 |
| Mobile app | A wrapper around the website | Native on iOS and Android, plus the web version |
| Price | Free, with ads | Free. No paid tier, no trial |
Claims about Crypto Bubbles last checked 13 August 2026. Products change; if something here is out of date, it is a mistake rather than a position, and it gets corrected.
03 Native
Why the app is not a website in a box
Crypto Bubbles ships its phone app as a wrapper: the website, loaded inside an app shell. It is a reasonable way to be on two stores at once and it costs almost nothing to maintain. What it costs is the part people actually feel — a bubble chart lives or dies on how the circles move under a finger.
Crypto Heatmap is a native app on both platforms. The bubbles have real physics: you can drag one, throw it, watch it push the others out of the way and settle. It runs at the screen's refresh rate, it opens without a loading spinner, and it keeps working on a bad connection because the last board it drew is still there.
There is a web version too, with the same features, for anyone who would rather not install anything. That one is genuinely a website — but it is the same product, not a thinner tier of it.
04 Independence
What "no ads" is actually worth
It is an easy thing to claim and a hard thing to keep, so it is worth being specific about what it means here. No advertising in the app or on this site. No paid tier and no feature behind a payment. No account, and no email asked for at any point. No referral or affiliate links — tapping a coin opens the coin, not an exchange with a code attached.
None of that is a business model waiting to be switched on later. It is the reason the app is small and the reason there is no pressure on any screen to send you somewhere. If it ever changes, it will be written here rather than discovered.
The honest version of the trade-off: a product funded by nothing is a product with one developer and no marketing budget, which is why you have probably not heard of it. The other one has a cryptocurrency exchange behind it, and that shows in reach — a million installs against a few thousand.
05 The other direction
When Crypto Bubbles is the better pick
A comparison where the author wins every row is not a comparison. Three cases where the answer is the other one:
You already know where everything is
It came first, and most people who look at bubble charts have used it. A layout you know beats a feature you have not needed yet. If you only ever glance at the board and the ads do not bother you, switching buys you very little.
You want the board everyone else is looking at
When someone drops a screenshot of "the bubbles" into a chat, it is usually that one. Looking at the same picture as the people you talk to has real value, and a smaller product cannot give you that no matter what it adds.
You want it to be someone else's problem
There is a company behind it, with staff and an operating budget. Behind this one there is me. If something breaks on a Sunday the difference is real, and weighing it is not irrational.
What is left is the case this product is for: you want the market as a picture, you want to slice it finely, and you would rather not be sold anything while you look at it.
06 Verification
How to check all of this yourself
Everything above is checkable without installing anything, mostly from the store listings. In rough order of how fast it goes:
- Who owns it. The App Store listing names the seller and Google Play names the developer. That is where "MEXC Fintech, Inc." comes from, not from an inference.
- Whether it carries ads. Apple requires the age rating to disclose it: a listing that shows "Contains Advertising" contains advertising.
- Whether it is a wrapper. Look at the download size and the minimum OS version. A native chart app is tens of megabytes; a listing in the low teens with a very old minimum iOS is a web view.
- Whether it asks for an account. Open it. This takes ten seconds and it is the claim most worth checking, because it is the one that changes most often.
- Where a tap goes. Tap a coin and read the panel that opens. If there is a button to trade it, the product is paid for by that button.
All five apply to this product as well, and they are supposed to. The store listing for Crypto Heatmap carries no advertising disclosure, and tapping a coin opens the coin.
07 Try it
The board is on the front page
No install and no account: the front page draws the live market as bubbles and as a heatmap, with the same data the app uses. If you want the full version — all 1,000 coins, the filters, the comparison chart and the alerts — it is on iOS, Android and the web.
If you would rather understand the picture before choosing a tool for it, the guide to reading a bubble chart explains what size and colour mean, and what they hide. It is the same information whichever board you end up using.