Honest answer to "what QR app should I download": for most people, none. Both halves of the job are already solved without an install.
Every iPhone since iOS 11 and every Android since version 9 scans natively — point the camera, tap the banner. The step-by-steps: iPhone · Android. For desktops and screenshots, our browser scanner covers it with nothing installed.
This site is the "app": 20 QR types, logos, colours, gradients and print-ready downloads, running in any browser on any device. No install, no permissions, no account — and unlike most generator apps, no watermark and nothing uploaded. Want it one tap away? Open the site and use your browser's Add to Home Screen — it behaves like an app, costs nothing and updates itself.
The app stores are full of "QR scanner" utilities that are advertising shells: interstitial ads on every scan, subscription prompts for what the camera does free, and permission grabs (contacts, location) that a scanner has no business asking for. Security researchers regularly find malicious scanners among them. The camera and the browser have none of those problems.
Warehouse-grade bulk scanning, inventory systems tied to a database, or enterprise MDM-managed scanning — genuine app territory. For making a code, scanning a menu or checking a label, you are already equipped.
Your camera. iOS 11+ and Android 9+ scan natively; Google Lens covers older Androids. Third-party scanner apps mostly add ads to a free feature.
The browser does it better: this site generates 20 types with full design control, free, no install. Add it to your home screen and it works like an app.
Many are ad-heavy and some have been outright malicious. Prefer the built-in camera; if a scanner app demands contacts or location access, delete it.
The generator needs the page loaded, then creates codes in your browser without sending anything to us. Add to Home Screen makes it one tap away.
20 types, logos, colours and print-ready files — free, no signup, generated in your browser.
Open the generatorMake it editable first — free with any print order, repoint forever, no subscription.