How leaderboards work
It tracks your personal best
It tracks your personal best
A leaderboard remembers your best result on that app. Beat your own
record and it updates; a worse run leaves your best untouched. So you can
keep playing without fear of “ruining” a good score.
One board per app
One board per app
Each app has a single leaderboard. Even as the creator ships new
versions, scores roll into the same
board — so the competition carries on across updates.
The app decides what a score is
The app decides what a score is
Points, fastest time, longest streak — the app defines what counts, and
whether higher or lower wins. A speed-run can rank low-to-high; an arcade
game high-to-low.
You're pinged when you're beaten
You're pinged when you're beaten
Set a great score and hold the top for a while? If someone later beats
it, Whip sends you a notification — your cue for
a rematch.
A leaderboard is open to everyone who plays that public app — friends and
strangers alike. Your entry is your own personal best. Playing an app you
made doesn’t game its stats, and your scores live on the board, not in
anyone else’s private copy of the app.
Add a leaderboard to your own app
You don’t set anything up by hand — just ask for it while you build or edit in chat:Describe the score
Tell Whip what to track: “add a high-score leaderboard for fastest
lap time” or “keep a leaderboard of total points, highest first.”
Whip wires it up
The AI adds the board, the score submission, and the ranking display for
you — no code, no setup.
Publish and let the rivalry begin
Once you publish, everyone who plays your
app competes on the same board.
Related
What apps can do
Leaderboards are one of many superpowers — see the full toolkit.
Open and use apps
How playing works, and why your data stays your own.