One question a day

Who are you thinking about?

Every other app asks what you’re doing. Whimzi asks who is on your mind, and you answer with names from your own contacts. No feed. No profiles. Nobody you don’t already know.

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How a day works

Two ways an answer travels.

The question tells you which kind it is before you answer, never after. That is the whole bargain: you always know where a name is going.

Delivered

You tell them.

Your answer is sent. They find out they were on your mind, with your name on it, and nothing at all is asked of them in return.

One person is enough.

Could match

Or you both do.

Your answer is held. It surfaces only if they name you under the same question, and then you both see it in the same moment. If they never do, they never learn you did.

It takes both of you.

Why hold anything back

Nobody has to go first.

Over nine in ten of us can name a friend we have lost touch with and would like to speak to again. Barely a third ever send the message. The reason is not that we forget.

Asked what stops them, people put the same thing first: they might not want to hear from me. A held answer removes exactly that. Going first costs nothing, because going first is invisible.

The Mystery tab: cards showing that someone answered a question with your name, without saying who.

When somebody is there

You can ask who. They choose.

When someone has named you and you have not named them, you see that somebody is there, not who. You may ask, once. Asking is safe, because they already know they named you.

Then it is theirs to decide. If they say nothing, you are told nothing, and it is never raised again. A name is only ever revealed by the person it belongs to.

The Whimzi inbox, listing what has come back to you.

The rules

What Whimzi will never do.

The only reason anyone is willing to name someone here is that naming them is free. Every line below exists to keep it that way, and each one is enforced in the database rather than promised in an app.

A held answer is never revealed one-sidedly. Not by a row, not by a count, not by timing.
Your address book is never uploaded. Numbers are scrambled on your phone before anything is sent, and only the people you pick are sent at all.
No streaks, no nudges to contact anyone, no note about how long it has been. Skip a day and nothing is ever said about it.
No feed, no public profiles, no follower counts. There is no directory, so there is nothing for a stranger to search.
If you could not already message them, you cannot list them. Everything is keyed on a number you already have.
You can never pay to learn who named you. That would be selling somebody else’s privacy, and it is not for sale.

Someone may already have told you.

People can name you before you have an account. Anything they chose to send is waiting the moment you arrive. Anything they held is still theirs.

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