Whorl

Whorl is a free messenger for private chats, group chats and channels, with voice and video calls. It runs in your browser and installs as an app on phones and computers.

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What Whorl is for

Whorl lets people message each other: one-to-one chats with friends and family, group chats for teams and communities of up to 200 people, and channels to publish posts to subscribers. It is free, has no ads and does not sell your data. Anyone can use Whorl at whorl.wtf after creating an account.

Features

Chats and groupsText messages with formatting, replies and quotes, reactions, polls, stickers and GIFs, pinned messages, folders and search.

ChannelsPublish posts to subscribers, with comments, view counts, scheduled posts, statistics and a public web page.

CallsOne-to-one voice and video calls.

MediaPhotos, videos, files up to 100 MB, voice messages with transcription, round video messages, locations and contacts.

SecurityEncrypted connections, data encrypted at rest on the server, two-step verification, passkeys, new sign-in alerts and session management.

EverywhereWorks in any modern browser; installs as an app on iPhone, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux, with push notifications.

Signing in with Google

You can create a Whorl account with your email and a password, or with your Google account. Whorl uses Google Sign-In only for authentication: it requests the basic openid, email and profile scopes and receives your name, email address and profile photo. We use them only to create your account, sign you in and fill in your profile. Whorl does not access your Gmail, contacts, Drive or any other Google data, does not post on your behalf, and does not use Google user data for advertising or to train AI models. See our Privacy Policy for details.

Who runs Whorl

Whorl is an independent project. Questions, feedback and data requests: support@whorl.wtf. Service status: status.whorl.wtf.