81 CHARMS · 14 CATEGORIES · FREE
Every charm.
The whole catalogue, with what each charm is and where it comes from. Read from the application itself, so this page and the app cannot disagree.
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Quick answer
Hangly ships 81 charms across 14 categories, free, on macOS and Windows. They range from protection charms like the nazar and the drishti bommai, through luck charms from Japan, China and Europe, to Tamil spiritual symbols and 11 seasonal charms that arrive on their own. Any image of your own can be a charm too.
Key takeaways
- 81 charms across 14 categories, all free
- 29 regions represented, from Turkey to Tamil Nadu to Ancient Egypt
- 11 seasonal charms in four packs, which arrive on their own and hand the rope back afterwards
- Every charm is selectable by hand at any time of year
- Any image of your own becomes a charm, at no cost
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81 charms
Protection 6
A glass eye bead hung to deflect the evil eye, the envious glance believed to bring misfortune. Found across Turkey, Greece and the wider Mediterranean, on doorways, cradles and dashboards alike.
An open right hand, often with an eye in the palm, carried as protection against harm. Shared by Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities from Morocco to the Levant.
A lemon and green chillies strung together and hung at shop doors and on vehicles across India to ward off the evil eye, and to give bad luck something sour to chew on instead.
A fierce painted face hung outside homes and building sites in Tamil Nadu. Its job is to draw the evil eye onto itself and away from whatever it guards.
The dung beetle, sacred to the sun's rebirth each morning as it rolls its ball across the sky. Worn as an amulet in ancient Egypt for protection and renewal.
An Ojibwe hoop webbed like a spider's, hung over a sleeping child so the bad dreams catch in the net and the good ones slip through the middle and down the feathers.
Luck & Fortune 4
The endless knot, tied from a single red cord with no beginning and no end. A symbol of longevity, unity and good fortune, hung at Lunar New Year.
A round, weighted doll modelled on the monk Bodhidharma. You paint one eye while making a wish and the other when it comes true, and it always rights itself when knocked over.
The beckoning cat, raised paw inviting good fortune through the door. A raised right paw is said to bring money; a raised left paw brings customers.
Iron shaped by fire, nailed above a door for luck. Hung open end up it holds the luck in; open end down it pours the luck over those who pass beneath.
Ritual & Home 2
The temple bell of Hindu and Buddhist worship. Its ring is said to clear the mind of the person who strikes it and to announce their arrival to the divine.
A geometric mobile of rye straw hung above the table at midwinter in Finland to bless the coming harvest. The name comes from the Swedish word for sky.
Classic 5
A plain glass bead, the charm Hangly ships with. Simple, weighty and never out of place.
Everyone's first lucky charm. The lightest in the set, so it swings the fastest.
Worn on the sleeve, or in this case at the top of the screen.
Cut, faceted and indestructible. Heavy enough to hang the rope nearly straight.
For photographers and the perpetually nostalgic. The heaviest charm in the box.
Seasonal 11
No two alike, and none lasting — which is most of why they are worn. A six-armed crystal of ice, the shape water takes when it freezes slowly enough to be careful about it.
Hung on doors and harnesses through midwinter, when a bell was how you found the way home in weather that hid the road. Brass, so it carries.
A shepherd's crook in boiled sugar, hung on trees since the nineteenth century. The red stripe came later, and nobody is quite sure who added it.
Carved first from turnips in Ireland, then from the far more obliging pumpkins of North America. A light in a face in a window, to keep the dark occupied.
The oldest costume there is: a sheet, two holes, and the entire idea of a visitor who has not quite left. Hung at Halloween, when the door is said to be ajar.
An omen in Europe and a blessing in China, where the word for bat sounds like the word for fortune. It depends entirely on who is doing the looking.
A clay lamp filled with oil and lit at Diwali, set in rows along walls and windowsills. The festival is named for them: a row of lights, against a new-moon night.
Rooted in mud and opening clean above it, which is the whole of what it is taken to mean. Drawn at Diwali in rangoli on the threshold, to invite Lakshmi in.
Paper and silk over a frame, hung in strings at Diwali and at the lunar new year. Light you can carry, and light that says the house is keeping the festival.
Invented to frighten off what the new year might otherwise bring, and kept for a thousand years after anyone believed that, because it turned out to be a good way to begin.
A round coin with a square hole, strung on red cord: heaven round, earth square, and the year ahead threaded through the middle of both.
Marvel 6
Hanging head-down from a thread of his own, which is the way he is most often drawn and the only pose in this set that was already a charm before anybody hung it. Pair him with Spider Thread.
Caught mid-swing on a line he shot a moment ago, one arm up and the rest of him still travelling. The second of him in this set, and the one that looks like it is going somewhere.
Concentric rings and a white star, struck face on. The heaviest thing in the set after the hammer, and it hangs like it.
Red and gold plate with the eye slits lit. Faces forward, so it reads as a mask rather than as a head.
Mjölnir, head square on, a rune lit on its face. The heaviest charm in the app, and on a chain it barely moves.
A closed green fist inside a ring. Solid, and the dullest-sounding charm here — nothing about it rings.
DC 5
Wings spread wide and brushed steel-dark. The widest charm in the app, which is why it hangs at a smaller size than the rest of its set.
The crest, cut as a shield and set in silver. Red on chrome, and it catches the light from the same corner every other charm does.
Gold wings folded into a W, over red and blue. Broad across the shoulders and narrow at the point, so it settles nose-down.
A single bolt in red and gold. The lightest charm in the set and the quickest to swing.
A lit green stone in a silver ring. The one charm in this set that glows rather than shines.
Tamil Spiritual 5
Murugan's spear, and the sign of the god himself rather than a weapon he carries. A vel is planted at his hill shrines and carried by pilgrims at Thaipusam; the leaf-shaped blade is read as wisdom, broad at the base and sharp at the point.
Vinayagar — Ganesha — struck in relief inside a wreath. He is asked first, before any journey, any examination and any new venture, because he is the one who removes what is in the way.
The Om, set in gold and stoned in red and green. It opens a prayer and closes one, and is cut above doorways so that the sound is there whether or not anyone is saying it.
Karuppasamy, a guardian deity of the village boundary, cast dark and standing with his aruval raised. He is set at the edge of a settlement facing outward: the one who keeps watch on what a house cannot see.
The mani, rung on the way in and not on the way out. The note is meant to clear the mind of whatever it walked in carrying, so that what happens next is the only thing in it.
BTS 7
Namjoon — RM, the leader, and the one who speaks for the seven when there is speaking to be done.
Seokjin — Jin, the eldest, and by his own long-running claim worldwide handsome.
Yoongi — SUGA, who produces as Agust D and says the least of the seven on stage.
Hoseok — j-hope, the dancer of the group, and the one the others call their sunshine.
Jimin — the smallest of the seven and the one trained in contemporary dance before any of this.
Taehyung — V, the baritone, and the one who named himself after a letter.
Jungkook — the maknae, the youngest, and the one who joined at fifteen.
Football Legends 5
Portugal's number seven, in the maroon and gold of the home shirt. The seven is the only number in this set that has become a name.
Argentina's sky blue and white stripes with the ten on the back — the shirt a World Cup was finally won in.
Brazil's canarinho yellow, green at the collar and cuffs, ten on the back.
The C, F and M interlocked under a royal crown — granted by Alfonso XIII in 1920, which is where the Real comes from.
Blaugrana: the St George's cross and the Catalan bars above, the blue and claret halves below, a ball at the foot.
Music Legends 6
Green roots over black, sat down in oversized everything, looking like she would rather not be photographed.
Half-blond dreads and folded arms, sitting the way the album covers had him sit.
Caught mid-lean with the fedora down and one sequinned glove up — the pose that needs no caption anywhere on earth.
Sat on a flight case with an acoustic, which is where the songs start before a stadium gets involved.
999 across the hoodie — his own number, six-six-six turned over, for taking a bad thing and making something of it.
Sequined red jacket over black, arms out and eyes shut, halfway through the note that made the night famous.
Friends 6
Coffee in hand, bag on the shoulder — which is how she spent a decent fraction of ten years.
Arms folded, all in black, and everything behind her exactly where it ought to be.
Holding a dinosaur, because he is a palaeontologist and would like a moment of your time to explain it.
Leather jacket, finger up, mouth open. You already know the line.
In the suit, hands in pockets, mid-sarcasm. Could his job BE any harder to describe?
Guitar in hand, which means a cat somewhere is about to be sung about at length.
Breaking Bad 7
Yellow hazmat, a flask of blue in one hand and the gas mask in the other. Still telling himself it is about the family.
Beanie and a yellow jacket, standing like a man who has just been told off and is about to be told off again.
Pinstripes, a loud tie and a sign carrying his own catchphrase, which is the most honest thing about him.
The good suit, the glasses, and absolutely nothing showing on his face. That is the frightening part.
Leather jacket, hands where you can see them, and a patience you would be unwise to test.
The porkpie hat, the glasses, a bag in one hand and the product in the other. The same man as the hazmat, further along.
The Fleetwood Bounder, sun-bleached and desert-dented, that did the cooking before anybody had a laboratory. The most recognisable vehicle on television.
Stranger Things 6
Pink dress, buzzed hair, one hand out. The nosebleed comes after.
Walkie-talkie up, waiting on a reply from someone who may not be able to answer.
Cap on, headset on, halfway through a sentence and not slowing down for anybody.
Camo bandana and a wrist-rocket, drawn and aimed. The only one of them who came prepared.
Holding the string of Christmas lights his mother nailed to the wall to spell things out, letter by letter.
The face opens into five petals. That is the whole of what anybody needs to know about it.
Categories
| Category | Charms |
|---|---|
| Protection | 6 |
| Luck & Fortune | 4 |
| Ritual & Home | 2 |
| Classic | 5 |
| Seasonal | 11 |
| Marvel | 6 |
| DC | 5 |
| Tamil Spiritual | 5 |
| BTS | 7 |
| Football Legends | 5 |
| Music Legends | 6 |
| Friends | 6 |
| Breaking Bad | 7 |
| Stranger Things | 6 |
7 charms are listed without artwork here. They ship in the app; their drawings have not been published to this site yet.
Frequently asked questions
How many charms does Hangly have?
81, across 14 categories, in Hangly 2.0.0. Every one is free, and you can add any image of your own as a charm on top of them.
What kinds of charms are there?
Protection (6), Luck & Fortune (4), Ritual & Home (2), Classic (5), Seasonal (11), Marvel (6), DC (5), Tamil Spiritual (5), BTS (7), Football Legends (5), Music Legends (6), Friends (6), Breaking Bad (7), Stranger Things (6).
Do the seasonal charms only appear in season?
No. All 81 charms can be chosen by hand at any time of year. What the calendar changes is what the app puts on the rope by default — the Halloween set in October, Diwali, Christmas and New Year in their turn — and it puts back whatever was there when the season ends.
Where do the charms come from?
29 places, from Turkey and Tamil Nadu to Japan, China, Finland and Ancient Egypt. Each charm records its own origin, and the meanings given here are the ones the app itself carries.
Is this every charm, or only some of them?
Every one. This page lists all 81 charms in Hangly 2.0.0, including the ones the app surfaces seasonally. It is generated from the application's own catalogue, so nothing can be missing from it that is present in the app.
In short
81 charms across 14 categories, free on macOS and Windows, every one selectable at any time. The counts here are read from the shipped application rather than written by hand, and the meanings are the ones the app itself carries.