> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://whip.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What can apps made on Whip actually do?

> Apps built on Whip can save your data, chat with AI, pull live info from the internet, use your camera, and keep high-score leaderboards — no code.

Apps made on Whip are real apps, not mockups. They can remember your data between visits, hold their own AI conversations, pull live information from the internet, use your camera and location (only if you allow it), and keep high-score leaderboards — all from a plain-language description.

Here's the full toolbox, and what people build with each piece.

## Remember things — apps that save your data

Any app you build can store real data on your account: habits logged, budgets tracked, journal entries, game progress. Your stuff survives closing the app, phone restarts, even deleting and reinstalling Whip.

And here's the part people love: when you share an app, [every player gets their own private copy](/using/open-and-use-apps). Your journal app can go viral and nobody — not even you, the creator — can read anyone else's entries.

<Tip>
  Ask for it in plain words: "a workout log that **remembers my sets between sessions**"
  or "a savings tracker that **keeps my history**." The AI wires up the
  saving automatically.
</Tip>

## Think — apps with their own AI inside

Apps can have a real AI chat built into them — streaming replies, multiple conversation threads with saved history, photo understanding, and even AI image generation (up to 4 images per reply). That unlocks a whole species of app:

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  <Card title="Companions & tutors" icon="graduation-cap">
    A Spanish-drill buddy, an interview coach, a bedtime-story narrator that
    remembers where the tale left off.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Story games" icon="scroll">
    Choose-your-own adventures where the AI plays dungeon master and
    illustrates scenes as you go.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Creative tools" icon="palette">
    "Turn my photo into a watercolor", avatar makers, filters, style
    transfer — real AI image generation on demand.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Advisors" icon="messages-square">
    A wine-pairing consultant, a plant doctor you send leaf photos to, a
    closet stylist.
  </Card>
</Columns>

In-app AI has a generous daily allowance (about 500 messages a day, up to 3 chats going at once), and apps that use it always [ask for your consent before the first open](/using/data-ai-and-consent).

## Know things — live data from the internet

Apps can fetch live information from a curated set of about 40 safe, free public sources — weather, currency exchange rates, trivia, word definitions, museum art, Wikipedia, and more — so you can build a morning-briefing app or a currency converter that's actually current. The [full list of data sources lives here](/building/apis-and-libraries). For safety, apps can only reach that vetted list through Whip's servers; they can never browse the open internet or send your data somewhere sketchy.

Separately, the AI can research the web **while building** your app — ask for "a quiz about 2026 movies" and it looks up real 2026 movies, baking a fresh snapshot into the app.

## Sense the world — camera, location, mic, and motion

With your explicit permission, apps can use your camera (scavenger hunts, photo challenges), location (a "how far did I walk" tracker), microphone, and motion sensors (shake-to-roll dice, tilt-to-steer games). Every app must [ask you first with a real Allow/Deny prompt](/using/app-permissions), one app at a time — and you can revoke anything later in Settings → Permissions.

## Compete on leaderboards

Game-style apps can keep a **high-score leaderboard** that tracks each player's personal best and ranks everyone who plays. Whip even notifies you when someone beats your score, so a solo game becomes a rivalry with the whole community. [How leaderboards work](/using/leaderboards).

## Look and feel like real apps

Under the hood, Whip gives the AI a serious toolkit — professional building blocks covering 3D and 2D graphics, real physics, sound and music, animations and visual effects, gestures, charts and data visualization, plus a dedicated game-building kit and proper fonts. The full menu, with names you can ask for ("build it with Three.js"), is on the [APIs & libraries page](/building/apis-and-libraries). Apps can show native pop-ups, run full-screen, and behave like something you'd download — because they are real apps.

## What apps can't do

Honesty corner: apps on Whip can't be submitted to the App Store as standalone apps (they live inside Whip), can't browse the open internet freely, can't read your clipboard, and can't touch your camera or location without asking. Those aren't missing features — they're [the safety rails](/using/app-permissions) that make it safe to play a stranger's creation.

## Related

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  <Card title="Prompt tips & ideas" icon="lightbulb" href="/building/prompt-tips-and-ideas">
    Turn these capabilities into your first ten apps.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Leaderboards" icon="trophy" href="/using/leaderboards">
    Give your game a high-score board the whole community competes on.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>