Six switches that stop your browser sending the signals you'd rather not send — online and last seen, “typing…”, “recording audio…”, read receipts, status views, voice-note playback. All six are off until you turn them on, and each one is separate.
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WhatsApp already gives you a read-receipts switch. The catch is what it charges you for it.
Turn off read receipts in WhatsApp and you also stop seeing everyone else's. No more blue ticks from you — and none from them either. You go quiet, and you go blind along with it. For most people that trade is the reason the setting stays untouched.
Official · both directions at onceWanova's toggle only stops the receipts you send. Theirs keep arriving exactly as before, so you can still see whether your own message landed and was read. That asymmetry is the entire reason this feature exists — and it's the same story for status: WhatsApp gives you no way to watch one without being listed as a viewer. This does.
You stop sending · you keep seeingThese three cover what WhatsApp Web announces about you while you're sitting in it.
You type; the “typing…” line never appears on their end. The message itself goes out exactly as it always did — the only thing missing is the announcement that you're writing it.
The same thing, for voice notes. You can record one without the “recording audio…” line telling them a voice message is on its way, and decide afterwards whether to send it.
While you're using WhatsApp Web, Wanova stops the signal that says you're here. Opening the tab to check one thing no longer tells everyone you're around and available.
The other three toggles are about looking. Normally WhatsApp reports back the moment you do — and for two of these it offers no setting at all.
You read the message; no blue ticks go back. Because it's one-way, theirs still show up for you — which is precisely what WhatsApp's own mutual setting takes away.
Watch someone's status without their status showing that you viewed it. WhatsApp gives you no official way to do this: normally it's view it and be listed, or don't view it.
Listen to a voice note without the sender seeing the played-back mark. Again, there's no WhatsApp setting for this one — playing it normally tells them you've heard it.
Wanova's panel has the six toggles and nothing else. They arrive off. Turn on the one you want and the other five stay exactly as WhatsApp left them.
Wanova reversibly switches off the outbound signal WhatsApp Web would otherwise send. That's the whole mechanism: something your browser used to report simply isn't reported.
Nothing here is permanent. Switch a toggle off and the normal behaviour returns — the receipts, the indicator, the online signal, all of it, just as before.
This category is sold on reassurance. Here's what we can actually stand behind, and what we can't.
Wanova alters what WhatsApp Web sends. That isn't something WhatsApp supports, so it carries real terms-of-service risk — and no tool, ours included, can remove it. That risk is the price of admission, not a bug we're about to fix.
All we'll describe is the mechanism: your browser stops sending six specific signals, and stops when you say so. What WhatsApp — or the person waiting on the other end — makes of a signal that no longer arrives is not something we're going to make promises about.
There's no Wanova server anywhere in this feature. It is your own browser declining to send a signal — nothing about these six toggles reaches us, because there's nothing for us to receive.
Reading it at 11pm and closing the tab solves tonight. It doesn't solve Thursday, when the message is gone from your head and the customer is still waiting.
Reading in silence has one failure mode: you read it, you don't reply, and by morning it never happened. Wanova tracks who's still waiting, who went quiet after your quote and what you promised — then drafts the reply for you to approve.
You always press sendSome of what's waiting is the same five questions you retype every week. Auto reply can take those off you — and nothing goes out before a visible pause: start typing in that chat and it's cancelled, and you take over.
Grace window — typing cancels itOne price per account — not per person and not per number. Every plan covers several WhatsApp numbers and as many teammates as share them. The AI co-pilot starts on Professional.
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Yes — that's the whole point of it. WhatsApp's own read-receipts setting is mutual: switch it off and you stop seeing everyone else's ticks too. Wanova's toggle is one-way. You stop sending read receipts, and theirs keep arriving exactly as before.
Yes. With that toggle on, watching someone's status update doesn't show up as a view on their end. WhatsApp itself gives you no way to do that — normally the choice is view it and be listed, or don't view it.
Yes, and the “recording audio…” one too — they're two separate toggles. With them on you can write a message or record a voice note without the other side being told you're doing it.
No. All six arrive off, and each one is an independent switch — turn on read receipts only and the other five stay exactly as WhatsApp had them. Turning a toggle back off brings the normal behaviour straight back.
There is real risk and no tool can remove it. Wanova alters what WhatsApp Web sends, which is not something WhatsApp officially supports, so it carries terms-of-service risk. We also won't tell you what WhatsApp — or the person on the other end — can work out from a signal that stopped arriving. We don't know that, and neither does anyone who promises you otherwise.
No. Wanova is a Chrome and Edge extension that lives inside WhatsApp Web, so the toggles cover the signals WhatsApp Web would send while you're using it. Nothing about your phone changes.
Every plan, Starter included. The privacy toggles are local switches — they cost us nothing to run, so they aren't held back for an upgrade. One flat price per account rather than per user: $14.99, $24.99 or $34.99 a month, covering several WhatsApp numbers and however many teammates work them.
No. This feature is entirely local — it is your own browser declining to send a signal, and there is no Wanova server involved in any part of it.
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