Whistle UP
Romanian whistleblowing platform launched by Bucharest business lawyers with public monthly pricing, a two-month free trial, and Directive-aligned structured intake.
Romanian SMEs and group structures that want a local legal-compliance narrative, public monthly pricing, Directive-aligned structured intake, and an effective self-serve trial.
Distinctive features
- Public monthly pricing with clear single-entity and group packaging
- Working two-month self-serve free trial with immediate handler access
- Directive 2019/1937 Art 2(1) categories fully exposed in the reporter intake wizard
- Full text of Law 361/2022 and the Directive embedded in the handler admin
- Multi-entity group structure with per-entity reporter codes, QR codes, and white-label HTML/CSS access pages
- Granular permission model for handler accounts (per-report access, per-entity access, billing, settings separated)
Add-ons and conditions
Costs or terms not included in the headline price.
- Hosting country, ISO certifications, retention controls, and sub-processor list are not disclosed publicly
- Legal-obligation timers (7-day acknowledgement, 3-month feedback) are stated in reporter copy but automation is not visible from the trial
Notable
- Public monthly pricing is unusually honest for the Romania-native set:
€49/monthfor one entity,€99/monthfor up to five entities, and a two-month free trial that actually provisions a working handler account on signup. - Signup only asks for admin email, legal name, tax code (CUI), and trade register number (J). The account activation email arrives immediately with a one-time temporary password that the handler is forced to change on first login.
- The handler admin has five tabs: Legislație (the full text of Law 361/2022 and Directive 2019/1937, article-by-article), Registrul raportărilor (report register with XLSX export), Companii asociate (multi-entity config with per-company reporter codes, QR codes, and a Bootstrap-5 HTML/CSS white-label surface for the access page), Conturi de utilizator (user accounts with a genuine six-permission RBAC grid), and Modificare parolă.
- The reporter intake is a seven-step wizard: intro, identification (explicitly optional), Directive Art 2(1) category, professional context, persons involved, description, documents (10 files / 20 MB PDF+JPG with a metadata warning for anonymous reporters), and a final summary.
- The reporter portal is branded per-entity via an 8-character access code (e.g.
LCJLXOHR), a QR code, and ahttps://whistleup.eu?id=XXXXURL. The access-page HTML can be customised per associated company. - Commercial claims matched product reality on every point tested. What is missing is independent verification of security posture: no ISO claim, no hosting country, no sub-processor list, and no DPA or DPIA template surfaced in the trial.
Scoring review - 2026-04-23
Scored under the 25-criterion rubric v2 at access tier H (hands-on handler account on a self-serve free trial; reporter wizard fully traversed without submitting a report).
Base score: 27 / 50. Romania country bonus: 4 / 6.
| Category | Score | Max |
|---|---|---|
| A. Legal compliance | 8 | 16 |
| B. Reporter experience (RO) | 7 | 10 |
| C. Handler experience | 4 | 10 |
| D. Security | 2 | 8 |
| E. Commercial | 6 | 6 |
What lifts Whistle UP up: hands-on review confirmed that the Directive-aligned intake, the handler RBAC grid, the multi-entity model, and the self-serve trial all work as advertised. For a Romania-only product that is still far cheaper than pan-EU SaaS, that is a materially better procurement signal than public pages alone suggested.
What caps it: security and operational depth remain the weak axis. Hosting country, certifications, retention controls, append-only audit, DPA/DPIA, deadline-reminder automation, and per-case reporter passcodes were all absent or unverifiable in the tested tier.
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Frequently asked questions about Whistle UP
Answers derived from vendor-published materials dated on this page.
- Is Whistle UP suitable for SMEs under 250 employees?
- Whistle UP does not publish entry-tier pricing, so SME buyers need to request a quote to assess fit. Procurement is self_serve. Romanian SMEs and group structures that want a local legal-compliance narrative, public monthly pricing, Directive-aligned structured intake, and an effective self-serve trial.
- Which national whistleblower laws does Whistle UP explicitly reference?
- Whistle UP explicitly cites the following national transpositions of Directive 2019/1937 in its public materials: Romania (Law 361/2022), EU Directive 2019/1937. Absence from this list does not mean the platform can't be used in other EU jurisdictions — all 27 member states have transposed the Directive. Verify jurisdictional fit with the vendor directly.
- Does Whistle UP process whistleblower report content with AI?
- No — Whistle UP does not process report content with AI or machine translation per its vendor materials. Verify the vendor's subprocessor list to confirm no downstream AI processing occurs.
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