Depop hashtag generator

Depop's numbers — and which ones are actually Depop's

Most marketplaces publish a character count for every field. Depop publishes almost none, so each figure here is marked with whose it is. Getting that backwards is how “about 1,000 characters” ended up being repeated as a Depop rule by half the crosslisting industry.

Hashtags per listing

5

Depop's own number: the listing flow asks for up to five, and a sixth does nothing.

Lengths Depop publishes

0

No character count for a description, for its first line, or for where text clips — checked across the help centre.

Characters per hashtag

20

Ours, not Depop's. It is the cap this builder applies everywhere — and the reason long phrases come back struck through instead of vanishing.

How hashtags actually work on Depop

Depop's own ranking page says search matches a shopper's words against the listing's description, its brand, its category and its colour. Hashtags are not named there as a separate field, and they do not need to be: they sit inside the description, so the words in them are part of the text being matched. What makes them different from the rest of the description is that they are the only part with a hard slot count — five, and the sixth is wasted keystrokes.

The classic mistake is spending all five on near-duplicates (#vintage #vintages #vintagestyle) or on giant hashtags where a new listing sinks in seconds. The pattern that holds up: one broad tag for reach, three specific tags that describe exactly this item, and one niche or aesthetic tag where your buyer actually browses.

• 5 hashtags maximum per listing — Depop ignores extras, so pick, don't pile.
• No spaces: #vintagelevis works, #vintage levis becomes just #vintage.
• Specific beats broad: #levis501 finds a buyer; #jeans finds a crowd you're lost in.
• Match the item. Tag-spamming unrelated trends can get a listing removed under Depop's listing rules.
• They can sit anywhere in the description — most sellers park them on the last line, which keeps the searchable opening clean.

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The Depop rule that no other marketplace here shares

Every other platform Sellura writes for has a box for this. Etsy has thirteen tag fields of twenty characters. eBay has no tags at all and expects the keywords in an 80-character title and in item specifics. Amazon has search terms and, since the July 2026 title cut, a second headline field. Walmart wants a brand-first product name between 50 and 75 characters and rejects promotional words outright. Shopify has tags whose own help page says search engines do not read them.

Depop has five hashtags and no title box anywhere in the flow — the opening words of the description do that job. That combination is unique in the set, and it is why a hashtag set cannot simply be ported: thirteen becomes five, the spaces have to close up, and a phrase that read fine as an Etsy tag has to survive being pushed into one word. #straightlegjeans is still legible; #handmadeceramicmug is at the edge; anything longer stops being read at a glance.

The multi-marketplace tag generator → · Moving a listing between marketplaces, rule by rule →

Where the phrases come from — and where they don't

One marketplace answers an unauthenticated autocomplete endpoint: Etsy. That is where the live searched phrases in this tool come from, and there is no Depop equivalent — Depop publishes no search-volume data at all. For Depop, and for every other platform behind the switcher, the tool builds candidate phrases out of your own words by the platform's rules and then formats them: spaces closed up, capped, duplicates collapsed.

Saying that plainly matters more now the generator carries a switcher listing every marketplace Sellura supports, because a switcher reads as a promise of data for everything on it. There is one platform's data. It is a decent proxy at the vintage and handmade end of resale, where Etsy and Depop shoppers type the same words, and a poor one for a phone case.

There is also a language selector on the tool above, and it sets the listing's language, not the interface's. It changes two things: which word lists the builder combines with, and which market Etsy's autocomplete answers for. The second turned out to matter more than expected. Asking for “vela” with no market set returns merchandise named after a fantasy novel; asking with the Spanish market set returns velas artesanales, which is what the seller meant.

How the keyword tool reads Etsy's autocomplete → · Keyword research for product listings →

What a twenty-character cap costs, in numbers

The twenty characters are ours. Depop publishes no hashtag length, so the tool applies the strictest cap in the set — Etsy's — on every platform. The upside is portability: a hashtag built here never fails for length anywhere you later cross-post it.

It is not free, and the tool shows you the bill rather than hiding it. Counted across sixty-six real autocomplete suggestions per language on 24 September 2026: English loses about six phrases in a hundred to that cap, German three, Spanish nine, French twenty. German does best because its compounds are one word — kerzenhalter, not halter kerze. French does worst because the phrases people really type carry their agreement and articles, and bougie personnalisée is twenty-one characters.

So a phrase that does not fit appears under your results struck through, with its length next to it. A tool that quietly returned four hashtags instead of five would just look like it had found less. Showing the cut phrases turns a limit nobody chose into something you can act on: shorten it, or carry it in the description, where there is no slot count at all.

Hashtags are step two. The first line is step one.

Depop has no separate title field — the first line of your description does that job, and it's the first thing a shopper reads on your listing. Sellura targets about 65 characters for it; Depop itself publishes no length. Lead with brand + item + the details buyers filter by (size, colour, era), then let the hashtags reinforce the same words. When the first line and the hashtags agree, you show up for the search and look right when the shopper lands.

The two budgets are separate, and treating them as one is the commonest way a Depop listing wastes itself. Hashtags parked in the opening line spend the most valuable characters you own on # symbols. An opening line repeated word for word across five hashtags spends five slots saying one thing.

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What the five free hashtags don't do

The set above is built from one line of input, by rule. It costs nothing, it never asks for an account, and it is the same five every time you type the same words — which is the point, because you can check it.

The full generator starts from a description of the item instead of a seed phrase, and that is what lets it do the things a rule cannot: read that the coat is a 1990s Burberry in a size 12 and put those words where each one earns its place.

• Free here: up to 5 hashtags, closed up and capped, from one keyword.
• In the generator: the first line inside the 65-character target, the 5 hashtags, the details worth naming, and a description in Depop's format — budgeted together so they stop repeating each other.
• Plus a 0–100 score on what comes back, four listing languages, and the same fields for every other marketplace Sellura supports, if you sell in more than one place.
• What none of it does: read your sales, your views or your search position. Sellura cannot see them, so it never reports them.

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A worked example, straight from the generator above

Typed into the tool at the top of this page: vintage burberry trench coat. No account, nothing stored. Type the same four words and the same five come back — this is a rule-based builder, not a dice roll, so it can be checked.

And one honest note about which slot came from where, because it changes what you should do with the result.

Both sets are five hashtags. The second one names the brand twice, the garment once and the decade not at all — which is the honest ceiling of a builder that works from four words, and the reason the paid generator works from a description of the item instead.

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