The Whip home screen and organizing with folders

Your Whip Home screen is your library of every app you’ve made or saved. Learn to sort, rearrange, make folders, and organize your Whip apps.

Your Home screen is your personal library — every app you’ve built and every app you’ve saved from someone else, all in one place. It works like your phone’s home screen: rearrange apps by holding and dragging, drop one onto another to make a folder, and sort your whole library however suits you.

What’s on Home

Tap the Home tab to land in your library. Up top you’ll find today’s date, the Whip logo, and the notification bell. There’s also a search bar — Search by name or creator — that searches only your own library.

Everything below is your apps: the ones you made and the ones you saved, together. An app that’s still building shows a progress spinner right on its tile, so you can watch it come together without leaving Home.

Sort and view your library

Tap Sort by to change how your library is arranged:

My home

Your custom order — a grid you arrange by hand. This is the default and the only view where you can drag things around.

Recently played

A list with your most recently opened apps up top.

Recently added

A grid ordered by when each app joined your library.

Alphabetical

A tidy A-to-Z list.

By creator

Grouped by who made each app.

By category

Grouped by category, like Gaming or Food & Lifestyle.

Rearrange and make folders

In the My home view, you can organize like it’s your phone.

1. Enter edit mode

   Press and hold an empty spot in the grid, or just start dragging a tile. Small − badges appear on each tile — that’s how you know you’re in edit mode.

2. Drag to rearrange

   Drag tiles into whatever order you like. Nearby tiles shuffle to make room.

3. Make a folder

   Drop one app right on top of another and Whip creates a folder around them, named New folder to start. Drag more apps onto a folder to add them.

4. Leave edit mode

   Tap an empty part of the grid to finish.

Working with folders

Tap a folder to open it in a soft overlay showing the apps inside.

Rename a folder

Tap the folder’s name and type a new one — up to 60 characters.

Take an app out

Drag an app out of the folder to return it to your main grid. When a folder drops below 2 apps, it dissolves on its own and its apps go back to the top level.

Delete a folder

Tap the trash icon in the folder. The folder goes away and its apps return to your Home grid — the apps themselves aren’t deleted.

Remove an app from Home

Long-press a tile to open its menu, or use the − badge in edit mode. What you’ll see depends on the app:

Removing is not deleting. Taking a saved app off Home just removes your bookmark — the creator’s app stays live for everyone. Removing an app you made archives it (tidies it out of your library) without deleting it or erasing your work. To truly delete one of your apps, use its menu and choose Delete Whip — see archive or delete.

When Home is empty

Brand new and nothing here yet? Instead of a blank page, Whip shows a Popular apps grid so you’ve got something to try right away. Build your first app or save one, and it’ll show up on Home.

Group apps by the moment you use them — a “Morning” folder for your habit tracker and coffee timer, a “Game night” folder for the party games. Home becomes a launcher tuned to your life.

Common questions

Does removing an app from Home delete it?

No. For saved apps it just removes your bookmark; for apps you made it archives them. Neither erases anything.

Why can't I drag my apps around?

Dragging only works in the My home view. Switch Sort by back to My home and press-and-hold to enter edit mode.

How do I create a folder?

There’s no separate “new folder” button — just drop one app onto another and a folder appears around them.

Related

Open and use apps

What happens when you tap an app, and why your data stays yours.

Follow, like, and save

Saving apps is how other people’s creations land on your Home.