duet
one other. you can be picky.
set who you're hoping for — and who you're not. a gender, an age range, a distance. then one good match, chosen just for you.
a whim for —
what feels right,
right now?
whim finds you someone nearby who feels like the same thing — a coffee, a walk, a long lunch — and you go, soon. no profile to perfect, no plans to schedule. just the impulse, answered.
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the feeling
the best afternoons
were never the ones
you planned.
you know the feeling — restless, a little bored, vaguely wanting company but not a whole production. not a calendar invite three weekends out. not forty messages to land on a time.
whim is for the impulse before you talk yourself out of it. you feel like something; you say so; someone nearby felt it too. you meet. that's the whole idea — and somehow it's the part everything else forgot.
how it works
four taps, then you're out the door.
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cast a spark
tap what you feel like — a coffee, a walk, a long lunch, a pub. roughly here, sometime soon. that's the whole ask.
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choose who finds you
duet for one good stranger you can be a little picky about. quartet for three or four, left entirely to chance. then you wait — usually a minute or two.
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say yes — quickly
when whim finds your match, you both get a short window to accept. no endless deliberating; the moment is the point.
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meet, then let it fade
you drop into a small chat to sort where and when. it clears itself 24 hours later — no archive, no pressure, no breadcrumbs.
who finds you
two souls,
or a small crowd.
the same spark, two temperaments. pick your appetite for chance.
quartet
three or four strangers. all chance.
no filters. no picking. whim throws together a little crowd of whoever's nearby and game — and that unscriptable mix is the entire point.
quartet leaves more to fate — you choose only the place & the time.
why whim
built to be unplanned.
most apps want you optimising — a better photo, a tighter filter, a fuller calendar. whim is pointed the other way on purpose.
a blob, not a headshot
you're a little illustrated character — not a profile photo. people turn up for your company, not your camera roll, and nobody's being ranked on their jawline.
serendipity, not a search
no endless catalogue to swipe. whim deals you one hand and lets chance do the thing curation never could.
roughly, never exactly
we share an approximate distance — “about 3 km” — and nothing else. no live location, no map, no pin on your front door.
nothing to keep up with
no feed, no followers, no streaks to protect. the chat clears itself in 24 hours and whim goes quiet until you feel like it again.
lit right now
somewhere near you, someone just felt like exactly that.
- ~2 min
- a typical wait for a spark
- 24 h
- before a chat quietly fades
- 0
- photos asked of you, ever
- 2–4
- souls to a spark
go on, then
feel like
something?
whim is a free download. cast your first spark tonight and see who's near.