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Apps made on Whip draw from two curated toolkits: about 40 approved live data sources they can fetch from (weather, Wikipedia, currency rates, trivia, art collections, and more), and a set of professional building blocks for graphics, games, sound, charts, and animation — including Three.js, PixiJS, and Matter.js. Here’s the full menu. You never need to memorize any of this. Describe what you want — “a morning briefing with real weather” — and Whip picks the right pieces. But if you know exactly what you’re after, you can ask by name: “build it with Three.js” works.

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Live data sources

Apps reach these through Whip’s own servers — never the open internet — so every source is safe, free, and keyless. Where a source asks for credit, Whip’s AI builds the attribution into your app automatically.
  • US National Weather Service — forecasts and alerts
  • wttr.in — worldwide weather
  • USGS — live earthquake feeds
  • Sunrise–Sunset — golden-hour times anywhere
  • GBIF — biodiversity and species data
  • Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons — articles and images
  • Wikidata — structured facts about nearly everything
  • Free Dictionary — definitions
  • Datamuse — rhymes and word-finding (poetry apps love this)
  • REST Countries — flags, capitals, populations
  • The Met Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago — open-access artwork collections
  • Open Library — book data and covers
  • Project Gutenberg — public-domain books
  • PoetryDB — classic poetry
  • NASA image library — space photography
  • Internet Archive — historical media
  • iTunes Search — songs, albums, podcasts
  • MusicBrainz + Cover Art Archive — music metadata and album art
  • YouTube — video thumbnails and privacy-friendly embeds
  • Hacker News — tech news and search
  • Spaceflight News — launches and space headlines
  • Frankfurter and ExchangeRate — live currency rates
  • TimeAPI — time zones
  • Nager.Date — public holidays worldwide
  • QR Server — QR code generation
  • Open Trivia DB — quiz questions by category
  • JokeAPI and icanhazdadjoke — jokes on demand
  • Advice Slip — fortune-cookie wisdom
  • DiceBear, Gravatar, UI Avatars — generated avatars
  • Lorem Picsum, RandomUser, JSONPlaceholder — stand-in images and demo data
This is the complete list — if a source isn’t on it, apps can’t reach it, which is the safety rail, not a bug. Separately, Whip’s AI can research the whole web while building your app and bake in a snapshot of what it finds — that’s how a “2026 movie quiz” gets real 2026 movies. The list grows over time; the changelog announces new sources.

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Building blocks

These are the professional libraries Whip’s AI can build your app with — the same tools human developers use. Grouped by what they unlock:
Three.js (with React Three Fiber and Drei) — spinning planets, 3D dice, product viewers, little explorable worlds.
PixiJS for fast 2D graphics and Matter.js for real physics — bouncing, stacking, colliding, toppling. Arcade games live here.
Framer Motion and Anime.js for silky animation, canvas-confetti and tsParticles for celebrations and particle effects, plus animated counters and typewriter text.
Howler — sound effects and music that work the same on every phone.
Recharts — line, bar, pie, and area charts for trackers, budgets, and dashboards.
use-gesture for swipes, pinches, and drags; SortableJS for drag-to-reorder lists; Embla for smooth carousels.
perfect-freehand for natural drawing and signatures, color pickers and palette tools (react-colorful, colord), and html-to-image for turning a view into a shareable picture.
Markdown rendering, code syntax highlighting (Prism), beautiful math equations (KaTeX), QR codes, date handling (date-fns), toast notifications, and thousands of icons (Lucide).
Under it all, every app is built with React and styled with Tailwind CSS — the same foundations behind much of the modern web. That’s what makes what you build real, not a mockup.

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Common questions

Not at all. Describe the result you want and Whip chooses the right building blocks. Naming a library is a power move for people who already have one in mind — never a requirement. Start with prompt tips instead.
No — the list is a hard boundary, enforced by Whip’s servers. It keeps a stranger’s app from sending your data somewhere sketchy. If you want live data from something not listed, ask in the Discord — new sources get added over time.
Some sources (Wikipedia, museum collections, trivia databases) require attribution. Whip’s AI adds those credits automatically so your app plays by the rules.

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Last modified on July 2, 2026