Free QR code generator, PDF tools and full page screenshots

Create a QR code free in three steps

NeoReader is a free QR code generator that works online in any browser. There is nothing to download, no account to make and no trial to cancel. For a quick code, paste a link into the tool at the top of this page. For every style option, open the full QR code designer:

1. Add your content. Paste a link, or choose Wi-Fi, contact card, email, SMS, phone, WhatsApp, calendar event, location, crypto or text.
2. Make it yours. Pick colours, a dot pattern, corner shapes, a “Scan me” frame and your logo. The code is test-scanned as you edit.
3. Download. PNG, JPG or WebP for screens, SVG or PDF for print, up to 4000 pixels. Or copy it to your clipboard.

That is the whole process. For printing tips and a longer walk-through, read how to make a QR code.

What a completely free QR code generator should include

Plenty of sites call themselves free and then ask for an email address at the download step, stamp a watermark on the code, or lock SVG files behind a plan. Here is what you get from NeoReader without paying:

• No sign-up, no email and no watermark.
• Logo upload, colours, gradients, dot styles, corner styles and frames.
• PNG, SVG, PDF, JPG and WebP downloads, including print sizes.
• A live scan test with warnings when colour, contrast or a logo make the code unreliable.
• Static codes with no scan limit, no expiry date and no ads between the scan and your link.
• Bulk generation from a list or CSV, a barcode generator and a QR code scanner.

Free QR codes that never expire

A frequent complaint about free QR codes is that it stopped working months after it was printed. That happens when the code holds a short link to the generator's own server rather than your link. When the trial ends, the redirect is switched off or replaced with an upgrade page.

NeoReader makes static codes. Your link or text is stored in the code itself, so there is no server in the middle to switch off, and nobody tracks who scans it. The QR code generator with no expiration page explains the difference, and why QR codes stop working helps if a code from another service has broken. If you do need to change a code after printing, create a free account and make a dynamic code instead. It points at a short NeoReader link you can edit any time, and it never shows ads to the people who scan it.

Free QR codes for business

Codes you make here carry no licence fee, so you can print them on packaging, menus, business cards, posters and adverts. Common uses:

• Restaurants and cafés: a menu link on every table, and a Wi-Fi code by the till.
• Business cards: a contact card that saves your details straight into a phone.
• Reviews: a code that opens your Google review page.
• Shops and packaging: a link to instructions, a product video or your WhatsApp.
• Events: a calendar invite or ticket page on the poster.

Need a code for every table, product or guest? The free bulk QR code generator turns a list or CSV into a ZIP of styled codes.

A free QR code for Wi-Fi, PDFs and more

A QR code can do more than open a website. With the free generator you can make a code that joins a Wi-Fi network, saves a contact card, opens a WhatsApp chat, adds a calendar event, shows a map location or starts an email or text message. See the Wi-Fi QR code generator or the QR code for business cards for the most popular ones.

For a PDF, image or video, upload the file to a service you control, such as Google Drive, Dropbox or YouTube, set sharing to “anyone with the link”, and turn that link into a QR code. The PDF to QR code page walks through it. File hosting is coming soon with NeoReader Pro.

How to choose the best free QR code generator

Before you print anything, check four things: does the code point straight to your content or through a redirect, is there a watermark, can you download SVG or PDF for print, and can you add a logo without paying. Our guide to the best free QR code generators compares the popular options on those points, and there are side-by-side pages for QR Code Monkey and Canva users.

Are free QR codes safe?

A QR code is only as safe as the link inside it. Codes made here hold your link directly, so nobody can change where they point after you print them. When you scan a code, the NeoReader scanner shows the destination first and warns about look-alike brand sites, hidden destinations and other phishing tricks. Our guide to QR code phishing explains what to look for.

Free online, private by default

The generator runs in your browser on iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac and Chromebook, so there is no QR code app or software to download. What you type and the logo you add are handled in your browser, and we don't receive or store them. The same goes for the free QR code scanner, which reads codes from a screenshot, photo or webcam and checks links for phishing before you open them.

Free PDF tools with no daily limits

Merge, compress, split, rotate and convert PDFs without an account or a daily cap. Start with merge PDF, compress PDF or PDF to Word, or see all PDF tools. Each tool page explains how your file is handled.

Full page screenshots in one click

The free Full Page Screenshot extension captures an entire web page, however long, and opens it in an editor where you can crop, blur private details and add arrows or text before saving it as a PNG or PDF. To edit a screenshot you already have, use the online screenshot editor.

More free tools beyond the QR code maker

The same site has a free barcode generator for UPC, EAN, Code 128 and Data Matrix, with check digits calculated for you, and a bulk QR code generator for batches of up to 1,000 codes. For your browser there is the NeoReader QR extension, which makes a code for the page you are on and scans codes on screen, and the NeoReader full page screenshot extension.