Whee

Is Whee safe?

It is about as safe as TikTok itself, which is not a compliment on privacy. Whee is a separate chat and photo app from TikTok that signs you in with your TikTok account and pulls in your connections. It is not a stranger-chat app like Wizz or Yubo, so the risk of meeting a predator through it is lower. But it has no privacy policy of its own, Apple's label says it uses your contact info and identifiers to track you, and the Google Play label TikTok filled in says data is not encrypted in transit. We score it 46/100, close to TikTok (41) and below its sister app Lemon8 (51).

What Whee is

Whee launched quietly in June 2024 in a few countries, Malaysia among them, as a friends-only photo feed: snap a photo, add a filter, let friends comment or message you. Lowyat.NET noted at the time that you needed a TikTok account and could not sign up in the app. In 2026 its store listing describes it as "TikTok's social chat app", with chat, stories and "lightweight" social features, and calls it "Whee - TikTok Chat".

The app is growing. Google Play in Australia showed more than 5 million downloads in October 2026, and Apple's Australian store ranked it No. 44 in Social Networking. It was also listed on the US App Store, though we could not find it on the US Google Play store.

What data Whee collects

A lot, and most of it tied to you. Apple's privacy label lists contact info and identifiers as data used to track you across other companies' apps and websites. Linked to your identity are purchases, financial info, contact info, your phone contacts, the content you post, search history, identifiers, usage data and diagnostics.

The Google Play label adds web browsing history and a postal address, both marked optional and both used for advertising or marketing, and says device IDs are used for advertising too. It also says no data is shared with third parties, while Apple's label describes cross-app tracking. Those two statements are hard to reconcile.

Whee does not have its own privacy policy. Its Google Play listing points to TikTok's general policy, whose version for regions outside Europe and the US was last updated in July 2025. That policy covers device data including "keystroke patterns or rhythms", app and file names, and the linking of your activity across devices.

The encryption label

The most unusual detail is in Google Play's security section. For Whee, TikTok declares that "data isn't encrypted" and that "your data isn't transferred over a secure connection". Almost every app declares the opposite. This may be a mistake in the form rather than the real state of the app, but it is TikTok's own statement, it appears the same in every Google Play country we checked, and the labels for TikTok and Lemon8 say the opposite. We score security on it. Whee is also not listed in the scope of TikTok's bug bounty on HackerOne, which covers the main TikTok app, the TikTok Shop seller app and other TikTok products. We found no reported breach of Whee data.

Who you meet and age ratings

Because Whee builds on your TikTok connections rather than a feed of strangers, unwanted contact is less likely than on discovery apps. The weak point is that many teenagers follow and are followed by people they have never met on TikTok, and those links carry over.

The age ratings do not agree. Apple rates Whee 16+ in the US, while Google Play in Australia rates it 12+. TikTok's own minimum age is 13. Parents should go by the stricter rating.

How to use Whee more safely

1. Before installing, prune your TikTok follower and following lists: Whee reuses them.
2. Do not give Whee access to your phone contacts unless you need it to find friends.
3. Skip the optional address and browsing fields, and turn off ad tracking on your phone.
4. Do not send anything sensitive through Whee chat while the encryption label says what it does.
5. For a teen, use the 16+ App Store rating as the guide and check their connections with them.

How we scored it

Privacy (33) is the weakest factor, because Whee shares TikTok's broad data policy, tracks contact info and identifiers and links contacts and search history to you. Security (42) follows TikTok's own label saying data is not encrypted in transit. Regulatory record (86) is the strongest: no regulator has acted on Whee itself, and TikTok's fines count only on the TikTok page.