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. Send someone a gift when you want them to know. Let a mutual answer wait safely in Mystery. No feed. No public profiles. Nobody you don’t already know.

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How a day works

Some arrive as Gifts. Others wait in Mystery.

A gift arrives with your name. A mutual answer waits in Mystery. The app tells you which one you are choosing before anything happens, never after.

Gift

Let them know.

Choose a gift, or answer a one way daily question. It arrives with your name. They can let you know it landed, but nothing at all is expected from them.

A gift asks for nothing back.

Mystery

Let it wait for both of you.

Your answer is held. If they name you under the same question, you both get a grand reveal in the same moment. Otherwise your identity stays private. If they ask who, you alone decide whether to reveal it.

A match 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, showing waiting mutual answers and anonymous answers that are safe to show.

When somebody is there

You can ask who. They choose.

Mystery first shows the mutual answers you gave that are still waiting. Anonymous answers addressed to you appear only when enough different people are there to protect everyone’s identity.

You may ask who, once. The person can reveal themselves or stay a mystery. A reveal becomes a grand reveal and opens a private conversation. If they stay hidden, their name is never shown and you cannot ask again.

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 never reveals who is behind it without a mutual match or that person choosing to reveal. Not by a row, a count or 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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