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CLUSTER DESKTOP-PHYSICS-CHARM · 6 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-12

Desktop physics charm toys

This cluster comprises desktop toys that hang a physics-simulated charm from the screen or menu bar, letting users swing, nudge, or throw it with realistic momentum and reactions to window movements and cursor interactions. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from; it predates the index or its members are undated. Among traction leaders, Hangly leads with 34 stars, followed by Hangly-Windows (4 stars) and Dangle (1 star).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2026: 5OCT 2026: 1
SEP 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 5 hobby · 1 indie

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Hangly34★1 mo—hobbymacOS desktop toy that hangs a physics-simulated charm from the menu bar and lets users nudge or throw it with realistic momentum.
  2. 02Hangly-Windows4★28 daysliveindieDesktop ornament that hangs a charm on a simulated rope, letting users push it and watch it swing with realistic physics.
  3. 03Dangle2★17 days—hobbyDesktop toy that hangs a customizable charm from the top of the screen and lets users swing it with realistic physics.
  4. 04Swingo1★22 dayslivehobbyDesktop companion app that shows physics-based customizable charms reacting to window movements, cursor interactions, and gravity on the user's screen.
  5. 05desktop-blanket1★10 days—hand-codedhobbyDesktop toy that places a cloth-simulated rug over macOS desktop icons, with physics-based dragging, folding, and icon mounds.
  6. 06desktop-black-hole1★1 mo—hobbyDesktop toy that displays an animated black hole on the Windows screen and can act as a status light for local AI coding activity.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.