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.
Free to download. Browsing and making never need an account — you only sign in to post, follow or message.
KandiCon has been on the App Store since July 2026. It is free, and every making tool works offline.
Requires iOS 17 or later.
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.
Send us the Google account email you use on your phone and we will add you to the test.
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.
Kandi has always been about handing the one you made to someone else. KandiCon is the same idea with a feed attached.
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.
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.
Meet the founder
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. 🧵💖