GENERATED FROM SOURCE · 2026-09-30
Hangly by the numbers.
Every figure here is counted from the application's own source at build time. None of it is typed in by hand, which means none of it can quietly go out of date.
Quick answer
Hangly ships 81 charms across 14 categories, 11 of them additional. It runs on macOS 14 or newer as a universal build, and on Windows 10 or newer with separate x64 and native ARM64 builds. The macOS release is 2.1.2 at 35 MB; Windows is at 2.1.2. It is free on every platform.
Key takeaways
- 81 charms across 14 categories in Hangly 2.1
- 11 additional catalogue charms, in four packs
- Three builds: macOS universal, Windows x64, Windows ARM64 native
- macOS 2.1.2 at 35 MB, down from 89 MB before 2.0
- Free on every platform, with no account and no paid tier
Where this number comes from
81 charms is read from CharmLibrary.json inside the shipped application — the catalogue the running app loads. It cannot disagree with what you have installed, because it is the same file.
This page previously published a different figure, twice. It said 75, which counted the SVG files in the website's artwork directory rather than the product, and before that 80+, which was written by hand. The website carries artwork for 75 of the 81 — five of the Classic charms are drawn in code rather than from vectors, and a few of the newest have not been copied across. That gap is why counting the website was the wrong method rather than a close approximation.
Every charm it contains is listed on the charms page. The catalogue is committed at src/data/hangly/charm-library.shipped.json, extracted from Hangly 2.1. A build check re-counts it and fails if any figure published here drifts from 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 |
Platform support
| Build | Requires | Processors | Updates through |
|---|---|---|---|
| macOS | macOS 14+ | Apple Silicon & Intel | Checks weekly through Sparkle and installs in the background. |
| Windows | Windows 10+ | Intel & AMD 64-bit | Updates itself through Velopack: it checks once a day and installs quietly while you are away from the PC, then shows what is new. |
| Windows on ARM | Windows 11+ | Snapdragon & ARM64 | Updates itself through Velopack: it checks once a day and installs quietly while you are away from the PC, then shows what is new. |
The native Windows ARM64 build is the unusual one. Almost nothing in this category publishes one, because a Windows-on-ARM machine reports Win64; x64 in its user agent and is therefore invisible to any site detecting platforms the obvious way.
The physics
The charm is a damped pendulum. It hangs from a fixed anchor at the top of the screen and swings under gravity, losing energy to damping on each pass until it comes to rest. It responds to being dragged and flicked, and the cord is simulated rather than drawn as a static line — which is why several cord styles behave differently under the same push.
Two properties follow from that and matter more than the simulation itself. It settles: once at rest the animation stops, so an idle charm costs nothing. And it is click-through and never takes keyboard focus, so it is structurally incapable of intercepting a click or interrupting a screen share — a constraint the whole design is built around rather than a setting.
Technical specifications
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Current macOS version | 2.1.2 |
| macOS released | 2026-09-30 |
| macOS download size | 35 MB |
| Minimum macOS | 14.0 |
| Current Windows version | 2.1.2 |
| Minimum Windows | 10 for x64, 11 for ARM64 |
| Charms | 81 |
| Categories | 14 |
| Additional catalogue charms | 11 |
| Website artwork files | 75 |
| Custom charms | Any single image |
| Price | Free, no account, no paid tier |
| macOS code signing | Developer ID signed and notarised |
| Windows code signing | Not signed yet — SmartScreen warns once |
| macOS updater | Sparkle |
| Windows updater | Velopack |
| Artwork format | SVG vectors, drawn at runtime |
Frequently asked questions
Where does Hangly's charm count come from?
81, across 14 categories, read from the catalogue inside the shipped Hangly 2.1 application. The website carries artwork for 75 of them — five Classic charms are drawn in code rather than from vectors, and a few of the newest have not been copied across.
How many collections are there?
14: Protection, Luck & Fortune, Ritual & Home, Classic, Seasonal, Marvel, DC, Tamil Spiritual, BTS, Football Legends, Music Legends, Friends, Breaking Bad, Stranger Things.
What physics does Hangly actually simulate?
A damped pendulum. The charm hangs from a fixed anchor at the top of the screen and swings under gravity, losing energy to damping until it comes to rest. It responds to being dragged and flicked, and it stops animating when it settles, which is why it costs nothing while idle.
How large is the download?
The macOS build is 35 MB. It was 89 MB before version 2.0, which shipped the vector artwork the app draws from instead of a compiled catalogue that also carried a bitmap of every charm it never used.
Which platforms and processors are supported?
macOS 14 or newer as a universal build covering Apple Silicon and Intel, Windows 10 or newer on x64, and Windows 11 on ARM64 as a native build rather than emulation.
Can these figures be cited?
Yes. Everything here is generated from the repository at build time — the collections component, the artwork directory and the Sparkle feed — and the page records the date it was generated. If a figure is wrong, the underlying data is wrong.
In short
81 charms across 14 categories, three builds covering macOS universal and Windows on both x64 and ARM64, and a 35 MB macOS download. Free everywhere. Every figure is counted from source at build time and the page carries the date it was generated, so it is safe to quote.