🌈 Free on the App Store · Android in testing

KandiCon

The kandi app and the community around it. Turn any photo into a pony-bead pattern you can actually make, spell out word bracelets, design your own on a grid — then share what you made with makers who get it.

Download on the App Store See what's inside

Get KandiCon

Free to download. Browsing and making never need an account — you only sign in to post, follow or message.

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iPhone & iPad

KandiCon has been on the App Store since July 2026. It is free, and every making tool works offline.

Download on the App Store

Requires iOS 17 or later.

In testing

Android

The Android build is real and running, but it is still on Google Play’s internal and closed test tracks — there is no public listing to install yet.

Ask for a test invite

Send us the Google account email you use on your phone and we will add you to the test.

Make

Six ways to start a bracelet

The hard part of beading a picture is working out which bead goes where. KandiCon does that part — on your device, with no account and no internet needed.

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Photo → pattern

Point it at a pet, a drawing, a festival photo. Every spot is matched to the closest real pony-bead color you can buy, so it still looks right once it is beads. Dial the colors and the size up or down until it is buildable.

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Emoji browser

Hundreds of emoji, each one a tap away from being a pattern. The fastest way to make something you will actually finish tonight.

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Word bracelets

Type a name, a lyric or an inside joke and get the bead-by-bead layout back, letters spaced and centered for you.

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Designer

Prefer to draw it yourself? Place beads on a grid one at a time, in single, ladder or multi-stitch cuff layouts.

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Guide & shopping list

Every pattern comes with numbered, row-by-row steps and an exact count of each color — so you know what to buy before you start.

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Try it on

Hold your wrist up to the camera and see the cuff at real size before you string a single bead. Drag to move, pinch to size.

Community

Kandi is made to be traded

Kandi has always been about handing the one you made to someone else. KandiCon is the same idea with a feed attached.

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The feed

Post photos and videos of your kandi, your hauls and your trades. Like, comment, and hype the people who show up.

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Follow makers

Follow the people whose work you love, set a profile photo or an emoji avatar, and message friends directly.

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Tutorials

Step-by-step guides for cuffs, multi-stitch, charms and more, written by makers who bead them.

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Contests

Pattern challenges with prizes, run from inside the app.

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Meetups & events

Bead-alongs, meetups, and the first KandiCon convention at the Javits Center in New York. See what is on.

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Your library

Everything you make is saved to your own library — publish a pattern for others to bead, or keep it to yourself.

600+ makers and counting

More than 600 makers have joined the KandiCon community since the app launched in July, and they are the reason it is worth opening. Patterns get published, remade in someone else’s colors, and posted back to the feed the same week.

You do not need any of it to use the app. Browsing and making are free and work with no account at all — signing in is only for posting, following and messaging.

Made for young makers, and built like it

KandiCon is for makers aged 12 and up. It lets people post, comment and message, so the safety tools are not an afterthought — they are in every screen that shows someone else’s work.

PLUR — the rules everyone agrees to

PPeaceKeep it chill. No fighting, no drama — this is a place to make and share.
LLoveHype each other up. Comment kindly, celebrate makes, welcome new makers.
UUnityOne community, all skill levels. Beginners belong here too.
RRespectRespect people and their work. Credit the patterns you build on.

How we keep it that way

Report anything, anywhere. Every post, comment, pattern, tutorial and profile has a report action. Reports are reviewed, and offending content and accounts are removed — typically within 24 hours.
Block any maker, instantly. Blocking hides their posts and comments from you and stops them messaging you, from the moment you tap it.
Moderators can remove anything. Admins hide or delete anything that does not fit PLUR, and can remove an account outright.
No personal info. Last names, addresses and phone numbers stay out of posts and messages. That is a rule, not a suggestion.
An age gate on first launch, and zero tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behavior.
Your data is yours. Delete your account and its content from inside the app, or from the page below, whenever you want.

Meet the founder

Laila — founder & head of beads

KandiCon started with Laila and a giant tub of pony beads.

Laila has always loved beading — the sorting, the colors, the quiet focus of stringing a bracelet one bead at a time, and the joy of handing the finished one to a friend. She did not just make bracelets; she worked out how to bead whole pictures into her cuffs, counting the rows and colors by hand on paper.

That is where the app came from. If she could turn a picture in her head into a beaded cuff, why could an app not do the counting and leave makers the fun part — the making? Every starter pattern, every stitch style and every design choice traces back to a real bracelet Laila made first. She is the founder, the first tester, and the reason the whole thing exists. 🧵💖

Start making

Download on the App Store Ask for an Android test invite See KandiCon events

Get in touch

hello [at] kandicon [dot] com