Audio QR Code Generator
Sound on paper. Host the recording, encode the link, and a scan puts your voice message, podcast episode, audio guide or track into someone's headphones.
Create your audio QR code
Link to any web page
Try something like https://example.com/
This code is static and permanent. To change where it points after printing, .
Why Use This Tool
Turn an audio file, podcast or voice message into a QR code. Scan to listen on any phone. Free generator, no signup, great for cards, tours and labels.
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 It Works
- 1
Host the audio where a browser can play it
An MP3 on your own server, a SoundCloud or Spotify link, a podcast episode page, or a Drive file set to public. MP3 and M4A play in every mobile browser; more exotic formats do not, and a file the browser cannot decode simply downloads instead of playing.
- 2
Keep the file small
Export speech at 96kbps mono and music at 128kbps stereo. A three-minute clip lands around 2–3MB, which starts playing almost immediately on mobile data. Uncompressed WAV files are the usual reason an audio code feels broken — they are not broken, they are just enormous.
- 3
Decide between a file and a page
A direct file link opens a bare browser player, which is fast and slightly ugly. A simple page with a title, an image and an embedded player looks far better and gives you somewhere to put a follow-up link. For gifts and greeting cards the page is worth the extra work.
- 4
Print with a headphone hint
People scan in public and are startled by sudden sound. A small line — 'Scan to listen, headphones recommended' — sets the expectation and stops the immediate panic-lock that kills the play.
The uses that actually stick
Greeting cards and gifts carrying a recorded message, which is the highest-emotion use of any QR type and the one people photograph and share. Museum and gallery audio guides, replacing rented handsets with the visitor's own phone and headphones. Language learning and pronunciation on printed worksheets. Musicians putting a track on a poster, a flyer, or the back of a t-shirt. Accessibility, where a spoken version of printed information genuinely widens who can use it.
Accessibility deserves its own consideration
An audio code next to printed text is a real accessibility win for people with low vision or reading difficulties, but only if it is discoverable and labelled. Put it in a consistent position across your materials, describe it in plain words, and keep the recording to the same content as the print rather than a marketing rewrite. If the audio is the only way to get essential information, provide a text alternative too.
Rights matter more here than anywhere else
Music is the most aggressively enforced category of content there is. If you did not create the recording and do not hold a licence covering the use, do not put it behind a code on something you print and distribute — a QR code is a distribution mechanism, and takedowns follow it just as readily as they follow a website.
Free Tool vs linkutm Platform
Every code on this page is free to make and never expires. The linkutm platform adds the parts a printed code cannot do on its own — editing the destination, and counting the scans.
Frequently Asked Questions
Want To Know Who Scanned It?
A dynamic QR code keeps the same printed pattern while you change where it points, and shows you every scan — when, where, and on what device.
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