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Add your first bee
Each bee is one account: a WhatsApp number, a Slack workspace, a Gmail address. This guide uses WhatsApp as the example. Other bees work the same way, with their own sign-in.
You’ll need Waggle installed and open (guide 1), and your phone with WhatsApp on it.
1. Add the bee
- Click the hexagon in the menu bar → Add a Bee.
- Choose WhatsApp.
You can also add bees from Settings → Bees → Add a bee.
What success looks like: a new bee appears on your desktop and opens, showing a QR code.
2. Sign it in
- Open WhatsApp on your phone.
- Go to Settings → Linked Devices.
- Tap Link a Device and scan the code in the bee.
What success looks like: the bee says Connected under its name and shows your chats, with unread counts.
WhatsApp only copies recent history to a linked computer. Older chats load from your phone when you open them, so keep your phone online.
Other bees
| Bee | How it signs in |
|---|---|
| Telegram | Scan a QR code: Telegram on your phone → Settings → Devices → Link Desktop Device. If you use two-step verification, the bee then asks for that password. |
| Your email address and password, then Sign in. Most providers want an app password rather than your normal one. Waggle fills in the servers for you. | |
| Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Teams | See guide 3. |
| iMessage | See guide 4. |
| Calendar bees | See guide 5. |
| Web, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini | See guide 7. |
Add one bee per account. Two Slack workspaces are two bees; two Gmail addresses are two bees.
3. Use it
- Open: click the bee. It opens into a small chat panel.
- Reply: click a chat, type in the message box and click the send arrow.
- Go back or close: press Esc. In a chat, Esc goes back to the chat list; Esc again closes the bee. A half-typed message stays in that chat.
- Move: drag the closed bee anywhere on your desktop.
- Resize: open the bee, move the pointer to any edge or corner until it turns into a double arrow, then drag. Each bee remembers its size.
- More options: right-click the bee for Rename…, Edit Icon & Name…, Outline, Sound, Remove Bee… and more.
What success looks like: when a message arrives, the closed bee wiggles and shows the unread count. Muted chats stay quiet.
During your trial, and after
During the 14-day trial you can add as many bees as you like, of any kind. After it, your first bee is free: Free Bee keeps one bee of your choice live on this Mac. Worker Bees covers any 3 bees, the same 3 on each of your Macs, and Whole Hive every bee. See guide 10.