Free QR Code Generator

Create a custom QR code for a link, Wi-Fi network, contact card, WhatsApp chat, event, or message. No signup, no expiry, and nothing you type ever leaves your browser.

  • 10 types, no account
  • Codes never expire
  • PNG, SVG & PDF
  • Encoded in your browser
  • Free for commercial use

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All QR Code Tools

Choose a tool below to get started. Every tool is free, runs in your browser, and requires no account.

Core QR code generators

The types most people need: a link, a message, a document, a date.

Generate Free QR Codes for URLs

Turn any link into a free URL QR code in seconds. No signup, no expiry. Download PNG, SVG or PDF, add your logo, and track every scan with linkutm.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Text

Create a free text QR code from any short message, note, or code. No signup, works offline. Download PNG, SVG or PDF, or make it dynamic and trackable.

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Generate Free QR Codes for PDFs

Turn any PDF into a free QR code that opens the document on scan. No signup. Ideal for menus, manuals and brochures. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Email

Generate a free email QR code that opens a pre-filled message to your address on scan. No signup. Ideal for support and sign-ups. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for SMS

Make a free SMS QR code that opens a pre-filled text message on scan. No signup. Perfect for opt-ins, support, and campaigns. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Phone Calls

Create a free call QR code that dials your number the moment it is scanned. No signup. Great for cards, flyers and signs. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Events

Create a free event QR code that adds your event to any calendar on scan. No signup. Great for invites and posters. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Free Multi-URL QR Code Generator

Create a free multi-URL QR code that offers several links from one scan. No signup. The best multi-link QR code maker for bios and packaging. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for App Downloads

Create a free app download QR code that sends users to the right store on scan. No signup. Boost installs from print and ads. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Design and tracking

Branded codes, editable destinations, and scan analytics.

Social media QR codes

One code per platform, with the right profile address prefilled.

Generate Free QR Codes for Social Media

Create a free social media QR code that links all your profiles from one scan. No signup. Perfect for bios, print and packaging. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Instagram

Create a free Instagram QR code that opens your profile on scan and grows your followers. No signup. Perfect for print and packaging. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Facebook

Generate a free Facebook QR code that opens your page or profile on scan. No signup. Great for stores, events and flyers. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for WhatsApp

Make a free WhatsApp QR code that starts a chat with your number on scan. No signup. Add a pre-filled message for support or sales. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for LinkedIn

Make a free LinkedIn QR code that opens your profile or company page on scan. No signup. Great for cards and events. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for YouTube

Create a free YouTube QR code that opens your channel or video on scan. No signup. Drive views from print, packaging and slides. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for X (Twitter)

Make a free X (Twitter) QR code that opens your profile on scan and grows your audience. No signup. Ideal for events and print. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for TikTok

Create a free TikTok QR code that opens your profile on scan and wins followers. No signup. Perfect for packaging and events. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Telegram

Generate a free Telegram QR code that opens your channel or chat on scan. No signup. Grow your community from print and slides. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Snapchat

Create a free Snapchat QR code that opens your profile on scan and adds followers. No signup. Great for events and packaging. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Pinterest

Make a free Pinterest QR code that opens your profile or board on scan. No signup. Perfect for print and product tags. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Spotify

Create a free Spotify QR code that opens your track, album or playlist on scan. No signup. Perfect for posters and merch. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Discord

Create a free Discord QR code that opens your server invite on scan. No signup. Grow your community from streams and print. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for WeChat

Generate a free WeChat QR code that opens your account on scan. No signup. Ideal for stores, cards and packaging. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Business and local

Codes for shops, restaurants, offices and anything with a front door.

Generate Free QR Codes for Restaurant Menus

Create a free menu QR code so guests view your digital menu with one scan. No signup, update the menu anytime. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Google Reviews

Create a free Google review QR code that opens your review link on scan and wins more reviews. No signup. Great for counters. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Business Cards

Create a free business card QR code that shares your contact details on scan and saves to phones. No signup. Perfect for cards. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Wi-Fi

Create a free Wi-Fi QR code so guests join your network with one scan, no password typing. No signup. Print it for the wall. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Locations

Make a free location QR code that opens your address in maps on scan. No signup. Perfect for stores, events and invites. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Coupons

Generate a free coupon QR code that reveals your offer on scan. No signup. Track redemptions and boost sales from print. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Tickets

Create free ticket QR codes for fast, paperless check-in on scan. No signup. Ideal for events, shows and travel. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Free QR Code Sticker Generator

Design a free, print-ready QR code sticker in seconds. No signup. The best QR code sticker maker for products, windows and packaging. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Generate Free QR Codes for Yelp

Create a free Yelp QR code that opens your business page on scan and earns more reviews. No signup. Great for counters. Download PNG, SVG or PDF.

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Forms, bookings and files

Send people to a form, a calendar, a meeting or a document.

Media, products and personal

Photos, video, audio, packaging and the codes people make for themselves.

Why Use This QR Code Generator

Most free QR generators quietly route your codes through their own redirect, then switch it off when a trial ends. Every code here is static and self-contained, so it keeps working forever with nobody in the middle.

Free, Unlimited, No Signup

Generate as many QR codes as you need without an account, a trial, or a credit card. Free codes carry a small linkutm wordmark in the bottom corner; create an account to replace it with your own logo or remove it entirely.

Your Data Never Leaves the Browser

Every code is encoded and rendered locally in JavaScript. Wi-Fi passwords, contact details, and campaign URLs are never uploaded to a server or logged anywhere.

Designed, Not Just Generated

Twelve ready-made designs pairing eight module styles with shaped finder patterns, brand colours, and gradients. Export a code that looks like it belongs on your packaging, not like a default black square.

Print-Ready PNG, SVG, and PDF

Download a 1200px PNG for digital, a vector SVG that scales to a billboard without a single soft edge, or a print-ready PDF. Copy straight to the clipboard when you just need it in a deck.

How to Make a QR Code

Four steps, about thirty seconds, no account required.

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Pick what the code should do

Choose one of ten types across the top of the generator, website URL, Wi-Fi network, contact card, social profile, WhatsApp chat, calendar event, email, SMS, phone number, or plain text.

2

Fill in your details

The QR preview redraws as you type, so you can watch the symbol get denser as you add content. Shorter payloads produce cleaner codes that scan faster and from further away.

3

Style it to match your brand

Pick one of the twelve design presets beside the preview to set the module pattern, finder-corner shape, and colour or gradient in a single click. Keep strong contrast between the pattern and its background.

4

Download and test before you print

Export PNG for digital, SVG for print, or PDF for a press-ready page, then scan the exported file, not the on-screen preview, with two or three real phones at the distance your audience will actually stand.

Every QR Code Type You Can Create

Ten types generate instantly in your browser with no account. Three more, PDF, Multi-URL, and App, resolve through a short link you own, so they are editable and trackable, and need a free linkutm account.

URL QR code

Free

Send scanners straight to a landing page, product, form, or campaign URL.

Plain Text QR code

Free

Serial numbers, instructions, coupon codes, or any message that should appear on scan.

Contact QR code

Free

Saves your details straight to the scanner's phone book. The digital business card.

Social QR code

Free

Land scanners straight on your profile, one tap from following you.

Phone QR code

Free

One scan opens the dialler with your number entered. Ideal for print and signage.

WhatsApp QR code

Free

Opens a WhatsApp conversation with your business, optionally with a pre-filled first message.

Email QR code

Free

Opens the scanner's mail app with your address, subject, and body already filled in.

Wi-Fi QR code

Free

Guests scan once and connect. No password typed out loud, no card on the counter.

SMS QR code

Free

Opens the messaging app with your number and message ready to send.

Event QR code

Free

Scanners get a calendar entry with your title, location, and start and end times.

Multi-URL QR code

Account

One code opens a hosted page listing up to 20 labelled links, and every link on it is tracked separately. Ideal for a link-in-bio card, an event agenda, or a product support hub.

App QR code

Account

Point one code at your App Store or Google Play listing, then track installs from print, packaging, and events as a real channel instead of untagged direct traffic.

Learn More About QR Codes

What Is a QR Code? A Complete Guide

A QR code is a printed pattern that carries data a phone camera can read. That is the whole idea, everything else is a detail about what you put inside it and where you print it.

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Bulk QR Code Generation

One code is a five-second job. Five hundred codes is a data problem, and the part that goes wrong is almost never the generating.

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Types of QR Codes and When to Use Each

A QR code is just a container. What you put inside it decides what the phone does on scan, and picking the right one is the difference between a scan and a shrug.

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Static vs Dynamic QR Codes

The most consequential decision you will make about a QR code, and the one most people make by accident.

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QR Code Best Practices

Six rules that separate codes people actually scan from codes that get printed, ignored, and quietly written off.

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QR Code Use Cases by Industry

Every industry below shares one problem: getting someone holding a phone to reach a web page without typing anything.

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QR Codes for Restaurants

Hospitality adopted QR codes faster than any other industry, and got a lot of it wrong. Here is what works on a real floor, and what quietly annoys guests.

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QR Codes for Real Estate

A board outside a house is seen by exactly the people you most want: locals, at the property, already curious. A code turns that glance into a viewing.

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QR Codes in Retail Stores

Retail has the shortest attention window of any environment a QR code lives in. What works is a code that answers one question the shelf cannot.

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QR Codes in Healthcare

Healthcare has the clearest use cases and the tightest constraints. The codes that work are the ones that move admin off paper without moving patient data into public view.

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QR Codes for Hotels

A hotel room is one of the few places a guest will genuinely read a printed card. Codes work here because they replace the directory folder nobody opens.

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QR Codes for Education

Classrooms are the ideal environment for QR codes: a room full of phones, a shared surface everyone can see, and a constant need to get thirty people to the same link.

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QR Codes for Non-Profits

Fundraising happens at moments, a talk, a collection tin, a poster on a church noticeboard. A donation code turns those moments into gifts instead of good intentions.

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QR Codes for Insurance and Finance

Financial services get more value from QR codes than most industries and carry more risk from them. Both facts come from the same place: money moves at the end of the scan.

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QR Codes on Billboards

Most billboard QR codes are unscannable, and the reason is arithmetic. Get the size and the placement right and outdoor becomes a measurable channel.

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QR Codes on Flyers and Leaflets

Flyers are the format QR codes suit best: held in the hand, read at leisure, kept on a fridge. And they are the format where the code most often gets no thought at all.

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QR Codes on Digital Signage and Screens

Screens introduce a problem print does not have: the code can disappear. Everything about designing for digital signage follows from that.

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QR Codes on Business Stationery

Stationery is printed in bulk, used for years and rarely revisited. That makes it the format where a badly chosen QR destination costs the most.

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QR Codes on Clothing and Apparel

Fabric is the hardest surface a QR code lives on. It moves, it stretches, it creases and it gets washed, which is why the tag matters more than the garment.

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QR Codes in Travel and Tourism

Travel is where QR codes became normal, because a phone is the only document a traveller reliably has. It is also where connectivity is least reliable, and that shapes what works.

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QR Codes for CPG and Packaged Goods

Packaging is the most valuable print surface a brand owns and the most constrained. A code is how you get a label's worth of information onto a phone.

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QR Codes for Book Publishers

A book is printed once and lives for decades. That single fact decides almost everything about how a publisher should use QR codes.

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QR Codes for Games

Gaming audiences scan without hesitation, which makes codes unusually effective, and makes anything valuable behind them a target worth protecting.

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Lab Results and Secure Document QR Codes

A code on a report is a convenience for the patient and a liability if it is built wrong. The rule is simple: the code opens a door, it is never the key.

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Free Generator vs linkutm Platform

This tool covers everything a static QR code can do. The moment you need to measure scans or fix a destination after printing, you need a dynamic code.

Capability
Free Tool
linkutm
QR codes you can generate
Unlimited
25 a month
Content types
10 static
All 13, including PDF, Multi-URL, and App
Design presets, colours, and gradients
12 presets
Full control
PNG, SVG, and PDF download
Works with no account
Editable destination after printing
Scan tracking and analytics
Location, device, and referrer breakdown
Branded short domain on the code
Paid
Custom back-half (your own short code)
Your own logo instead of the linkutm mark
Paid
Frames with a scan call to action
Paid
Error correction level control
Always H
L, M, Q, or H
Built-in UTM builder and templates
Folders and tags to organise your codes
Team workspaces and extra seats
Paid

QR Code Questions, Answered

Know Which QR Codes Actually Work

Dynamic QR codes you can re-point after printing, scan analytics by city and device, branded short domains, and a UTM builder that keeps your GA4 reports clean. Start free, no credit card required.

Free plan includes 25 QR codes a month. No credit card required.