If you’re using Whop, you’ll know that a whop is built from a collection of apps. These apps are what shape the experience and bring your whop to life.
Based on the apps that you add to your whop, it can become any platform you can imagine - from an online course platform, to a digital recipe bank, to a sports betting community. Adding apps to a whop is easy and free, and you can do it with just a few clicks.
In this guide, we’re going to remember what a whop is and learn what Whop apps are, how you can add them to your own whop, and how you can remove them if needed.
Jump straight to our guide on installing Whop apps.
What is a whop?
A whop can simply be explained as an “internet hub” - but it’s actually much more than that.
Think of your favorite digital platform: Instagram, Discord, Coursera, Reddit, or any other. They all have unique features that they offer, but since each platform is tailored for a specific purpose, they might not be the best fit for your dream platform.
Ok, now think of features of these digital platform features as modules - Discord has the text channel module, one of the strongest features of the platform, and Coursera has comprehensive online courses.
It would be great to merge the two platforms, wouldn’t it?
Well, you can do that with a whop.
A whop is a modular platform where you pick which features it has. Do you want to create a course platform that also has chat rooms, forums, livestreams, and even embedded websites? That’s a whop.
We’ve been mentioning features as “modules” - those are called “apps” on Whop. Each app serves a different purpose, and they will transform your whop into whatever you want it to be.
After adding the apps you need, you can create pricing options so that people can get memberships and access to your whop - you can even make them free if you want to.
Your whop will be your very own internet hub with features that you want, and you can sell access to.
Read this guide for further explanation on what a whop is.
Let’s learn a bit more about apps on Whop.
What are Whop apps?
As we mentioned, a whop is a modular hub, and you should think of Whop apps as its “modules” or "features".
There are many apps on Whop that allow you to do all kinds of things. Let’s take the Chat app, for example. It’s basically a chat room where the members of your whop can communicate with each other.
Then there's the Events app to organize events within your whop, the Guess The Score app for score-guessing competitions, and the Content Rewards app to help you promote your brand with UGC and clipping.
We’re just scratching at the surface of Whop apps with these examples - there are many more apps that you can use.
Best of all, you add these apps to your whop for free, and you can even add the same app multiple and create mirror versions of the same app in multiple whops (under the same organization.)
This means that you can create multiple chat rooms, courses, forums, link directories, embedded websites, or even sell access to your web apps with OAuth protocols.
Some of the most popular apps on Whop are:
- Course - with this app you can create comprehensive courses within your whop. It supports classic video lessons, text pages, files, graded and non-graded quizzes, and more.
- Content Rewards - create a performance-based UGC content reward. Outline what you want, set your budget, and watch your brand get shared all over social media (Intagram, Twitter, TikTok, or YouTube.)
- Chat - create a chat room within your whop. You can decide who can chat and who can react, as well as the username colors, banned words, and more.
- Files - create a file directory within your whop, allowing you to easily share files with the members of your whop.
- Content - this app can simply be explained as an online PDF file. You can use powerful formatting to create text pages for your members to see.
Now that you know what apps are, let's take a look at how you can add apps to a whop.
Adding apps to a whop
Adding apps to a whop is super easy, but first, you must have a whop. If you don’t already have one, take a look at our How to create your own whop guide to get started.
If you got your whop ready to go, let’s move on adding apps to it, starting with the desktop flow.
Adding apps to a whop on desktop
Apps on Whop are separated by categories. For example, the Chat app is under the Chat category of your whop, the Course app is under Learn, and Website embed is under Tools.
As an example, we're going to add the Chat and Events apps to our whop. Let's take a look at the steps you should follow:
- Navigate to the category of the app you want to add and click the Add app button at the bottom right of the section. This is going to display a list popup of the available apps you can add.
- After selecting the app you want to add, you'll be prompted to give the app a name and optionally make it visible, hidden, or locked (so that you can upsell the app) and change its expiry.
- Once you're done with the initial settings of the app, click the Create button to add the app to your whop.
Once you add an app to your whop, you can access its settings using its settings button (cogwheel icon). After clicking the App settings button, you're going to see the App settings popup on your screen.
The App settings popup has nine settings:
- App icon: You can change the app's icon to an emoji or a custom image by clicking on the edit icon button at the top left of the popup.
- Name: You can change the app's name to fit its intention. For example, if you're going to use a Chat app for networking purposes, you might want to name it "Networking Chat."
- Description: Apps don't have descriptions by default. By adding a description to an app, you can change how it looks on your store page. The description field has a character limit of 90.
- Visibility: The best practice in some apps, like Course and Document, is adding content to it before making it visible to your members. If you select Draft (hidden) in the visibility popup while adding the app to your whop, you can change this setting later on by selecting the Visible option in this field.
Or, if you want to monetize that specific app within your whop, you can select the Locked option, which will display two options: Free and Paid (one-time).
Selecting the Free option will allow you to add a waitlist to the app, allowing all of your members to apply before they're able to use the app.
Selecting the Paid (one-time) option, on the other hand, will allow you to set a price for the app and upsell it after checkout, before checkout, or inside your whop. To learn more about the upsell feature, check out our How to use the new upsell feature on Whop guide.
- Expiration: You can set an expiration date for an app using the date selector under the Expiration field. Once an app expires, your members won't be able to access it.
- Add to other whops: You can click on the Add button next to other whops under the same organization as the whop you're adding apps to. Clicking the Add button will create a mirror instance of the app between the two whops, and members of both whops will be able to use it.
- Screenshot protection: By disabling the Allow users to take screenshots on iOS option under this section, you can prevent your members from taking screenshots when viewing the app.
- Show activity on Discover: You can select to make your app's activity either Visible or Hidden on Discovery. If you're not looking to create a publicly available whop, you should select Hidden. Otherwise, it's always better to select Visible so that people can discover your whop.
- Delete app: Let's say you want to remove a duplicate app or an app doesn't fit the idea you had when you created your whop. By clicking the red Delete button in this section, you can remove them from your whop. Keep in mind that once you confirm the deletion, you won't be able to revert this action.
How to remove an app from a whop on desktop
As you might've seen in the settings of an app, the popup also has the Delete button. Clicking on it with display the Delete app confirmation window, and clicking the Delete app button there is going to permanently remove the app from your whop.
Keep in mind that this action is irreversible.
Adding apps to a whop on mobile
Adding apps to a whop on the Whop mobile app follows the same principles.
First, let's press the on a category we want to add an app in. As an example, we're going to press on the Chat category. There, you'll see the Add chat button at the bottom right (or Add app if the category supports multiple apps) - pressing on it will display the Add new app popup and prompt you to give a name to the app, set its visibility, and expiry.
Once you're done with the initial adjustments, press the Create button at the top right to add the app to your whop.
After adding the app to your whop, you'll be able to see it listed in the category. By pressing on the App settings button (cogwheel icon) next to the app, you can see its settings like app icon, name, description, visibility, and more.
How to remove an app from a whop on mobile
If you ever want to remove an app for any reason, you can do it via the settings of the app.
Once you're in the settings of an app, you'll see the Delete app button at the bottom of the settings. Pressing on it will display a confirmation message asking if you're sure.
Confirming it by pressing the Delete button in the confirmation popup will remove the app from your whop with all of its content.
Keep in mind that this action is irreversible.
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