Scanly: QR Generator & Barcode

Scanly is a QR code scanner that tells you whether a code is safe before you open it — and a design studio for making QR codes people actually want to scan. Point the camera and it reads instantly. No shutter button, no waiting, no sign-up, no account. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHECKS THE LINK BEFORE YOU TAP IT QR code scams rose sharply in 2026, and the trick is always the same: the code hides where the link really goes. Scanly checks every link against 16 rules before you open anything, and shows you a plain-English verdict. • Spots look-alike domains — paypa1-secure.cyou is not paypal.com • Catches punycode and mixed-script tricks that look identical on screen • Follows bit.ly and t.co links to reveal the real destination • Flags raw IP addresses, hidden credentials, and abused domain endings • Checks the payloads other scanners ignore — a Wi-Fi code for a hidden or fake-hotspot network, a contact card smuggling a link, a phone number billed at a premium rate, a calendar invite carrying a link • Tells you exactly which rule fired and why, so it is never just "trust us" All of it runs on your phone. It works with no signal at all. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ READS EVERYTHING QR, Data Matrix, Aztec, PDF417, EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, ITF and Codabar. Scan from the camera, from a photo, or by sharing an image into the app from anywhere. • Batch mode — sweep a shelf and stack up every code without stopping • Counting mode — repeats count, and the running total is read aloud • Multiple codes in frame? Tap the one you meant • Product barcodes open in Google, Amazon, eBay, Open Food Facts, or any search page you paste in yourself ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MAKE QR CODES WORTH SCANNING A full QR code generator, free. • 14 types: website, Wi-Fi, contact card, email, SMS, phone, location, calendar event, plain text and more • Custom dot shapes, corner styles, colours and gradients • Put your logo in the middle • Frames with a label — "SCAN TO ORDER", "SCAN ME", or your own words • Save your look once and reuse it on every code • Export as PNG, SVG or PDF — real vector files that scale to a billboard • Print-ready sticker sheets, and bulk generation from a CSV Every export is scanned back before you get it. If your styling has broken the code, Scanly tells you instead of handing you a QR code that does not work — which is the single most common problem with custom QR codes everywhere else. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUILT FOR WORK TOO • Named counting sessions for stocktakes and check-ins • Import a list, scan against it, and see what is found, missing or unexpected • Unlimited history: search, tag, favourite, add notes • Export to CSV or JSON whenever you like — it is your data • Encrypted backup, locked with a passphrase you choose ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ YOUR SCANS STAY YOURS • The camera is the only permission Scanly asks for. Not your photos, not your contacts, not your location • Scanning a picture uses the system photo picker, so Scanly never gets access to your gallery • History never leaves your phone • A live privacy dashboard shows every network request the app has ever made, counted — not claimed • Optional fingerprint or face lock on your history ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FAST TO REACH Quick Settings tile, home-screen widget and long-press shortcuts, so scanning is one tap from anywhere. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT ADS Scanly is free and ads pay for it. They are kept where they belong: never on a safety warning, never over the camera, and never in the middle of a scan. You can watch one ad to turn them off for six hours. Everything in this list is free. No subscription, no trial, no locked features.