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Lucky Dangle | A lucky charm for your Mac🧿">

Choose your charm

Each one comes from a tradition around the world, with a small<br>ritual of its own. Pick a charm to hang it on this page.

🧿<br>Nazar boncuğu<br>Turkey and the Mediterranean A glass eye worn against the evil eye. Give it a flick when you want a little cover.<br>Give it a flick

Hamsa<br>Middle East and North Africa An open hand carried for protection and good fortune. Give it a flick to send bad luck on its way.<br>Give it a flick

Nimbu-mirchi<br>India Seven chilies and a lemon hung at the threshold to turn away misfortune. Replace it with a fresh one when the week is up.<br>Hang a fresh garland

Drishti bommai<br>South India A fierce guardian painted to meet the first bad glance. Repaint it through seven colors whenever you want a fresh start.<br>Repaint the guardian

Daruma<br>Japan A wishing doll for goals that take some grit. Paint one eye when you make a wish and the other when it comes true.<br>Make a wish

Maneki-neko<br>Japan A beckoning cat that invites good fortune in. Call on it and watch its raised paw wave.<br>Beckon good fortune

Horseshoe<br>Europe and the Americas Hung points up so the luck stays put. A good flick is all this one needs.<br>Give it a flick

Scarab<br>Ancient Egypt An ancient amulet for renewal and new beginnings. Spread its ceremonial wings for a moment, then let them rest.<br>Spread the wings

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🍀<br>Emoji<br>Yours Choose any emoji and make the ritual your own. Hang the one that feels lucky to you.<br>Pick an emoji ✦

Missing the charm you grew up with?<br>Suggest a dangle.<br>New charms arrive in free updates.

At home on your Mac

Lucky Dangle lives in the menu bar and leaves the rest of your Mac<br>alone.

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Stays in the menu bar, with no Dock icon or open window.<br>Only the charm catches your cursor. Everything else clicks straight through.<br>Choose your own shortcuts to dangle it or perform its ritual.<br>Drag it along the top edge to re-hang it anywhere on your screen.<br>Meet every charm and its story in the built-in gallery.<br>New charms arrive through free, built-in updates.

Make it yours

Leave it there for company or call it down when the moment needs<br>something extra.

🪟 Keep it close

It hangs quietly at the top of your screen and never gets in<br>the way. On crowded days, send it behind your windows and it<br>keeps watch from the desktop.

⌨️ Call it down

Hide it on ordinary days. Bring it back before a deploy,<br>demo, interview, or anything else that could use some luck.<br>Here, ⌃D toggles it and ⌃S performs its ritual.

🎯 Give it a ritual

Paint the daruma's eye. Replace a tired garland. Repaint the<br>guardian. Every charm has one small thing it can do.

💬 Share the story

It shows up in screenshots and screen shares. When someone<br>asks, you have a story to tell.

Bless a moment

Lucky Dangle also listens for luckydangle://. Add<br>one line to a script, shortcut, or git hook and the charm comes<br>forward, drops in, and performs its ritual right on cue.

# before a deploy, a demo, a big meeting<br>open "luckydangle://bless"

Lucky pricing

You pay once and it’s yours forever.

Lucky<br>$7.77<br>All charms, plus any emoji you want to hang<br>Every future charm and update<br>No subscription, no account, no license keys<br>Get Lucky Dangle

Extra Lucky Extra Lucky<br>$11.11<br>Everything in Lucky<br>Your charm suggestion goes to the front of the queue<br>A little extra support for the person making it<br>Measurably more luck*<br>Be Extra Lucky *not measurable

A direct download for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later. Signed by the developer and notarized by Apple.

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