How to spell it, why people spell it so many ways, and what KandiCon actually is.
If you typed Candycon, Candicon, Kandycon, Kandi Con, Candy Con, Kandikon or Candykon and ended up here, you are in the right place. The name is KandiCon: one word, a capital K and a capital C.
"Kandi" sounds exactly like "candy", and most people hear the name before they ever see it written. So the K becomes a C, the I becomes a Y, the Con gets split off into its own word, or the C turns into a K. Every one of those is a fair guess. They all mean the same app.
The name is two parts. Kandi is how the rave and festival scene spells the bright pony bead bracelets people make and swap. It is usually explained as a play on "candy": bright, cheap and made to be shared. Con is as in a convention: the meetups and bead-alongs, and the convention weekend KandiCon is planning. Put together, KandiCon.
Whichever one you typed, the app is the same one, and kandicon.com is the address. On the App Store and Google Play it is listed as KandiCon.
There are other events called Candy Con or CandyCon, about sweets and the candy business. This is not one of those. KandiCon is about beads.
KandiCon is a free app and a community for people who make kandi. It does two things.
It makes patterns. Give it a photo, an emoji, a word or a name, and it turns it into a pony bead pattern with a bead list and row-by-row steps. You can also draw your own in the Pattern Studio. There are build guides for singles, ladder stitch, multi-stitch (peyote), X-base, rotator, 3D and flower cuffs, and charms. How the pattern maker works.
It is a community. Makers post photos and videos of what they made to the feed. People like and comment on each other's work and follow the makers they like. Makers go live while they bead, with a live chat. Posts can carry a poll, there are themed contests, VIP makers get extra room to post and a blue check, and there are tutorials and a learn path for every stitch.
It is for ages 13 and up. A person reads every report, anything can be reported or blocked, private messaging is switched off for safety, and there are no ads.
KandiCon is free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, free on Google Play for Android, and it works in any browser at kandicon.com/app with the same account, no download needed.
Start with how to make a kandi bracelet. It is one row of beads on stretchy cord and takes about fifteen minutes. Then:
If you are telling someone about it out loud, say "Kandi, with a K and an I, Con". Or just send them kandicon.com.
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