Make your code
Copy it from your browser's address bar. If you leave off https://, it's added for you.
A scan shows these words on the phone, exactly as typed.
Exactly as it appears in the WiFi list, capitals and spaces included.
Leave this empty if the network has no password.
Almost every network is WPA/WPA2. If you're not sure, leave it.
Your code appears here.
If the link might ever change, a static code means reprinting. What you typed is in the squares themselves. Change the address, the text or the WiFi password, and every copy already printed or shared still says the old one.
Black on white, no colors or logo: that's what every camera reads best. PNG for printing at home or sharing, SVG for a print shop or any size.
When free is the right answer
A static code holds what you typed and nothing else. A phone reads it directly: there's no HelmQR server, or anyone else's, between the scan and your link. It's the honest choice when what it holds won't change:
- your home or office WiFi, if you don't plan to change the password;
- a link to a site you own and will keep at the same address;
- a line of text, like a serial number or a short note.
A link code still needs the site it points to. If that page moves or closes, the code opens a dead address, and the only fix is a new code.
When to pay $19 instead
When the address might change: a menu that moves to a new link, a listing that ends, a page you haven't built yet. A HelmQR code prints our short address, and a scan goes wherever you've set it today. You change where it goes from your edit link, and the printed code stays the same.
What this page does with what you type
- Nothing leaves your browser. The code is drawn by a script inside this page. There's no form to send and no request when you type or download.
- Nothing is kept. No signup, no email, nothing stored in your browser. Close the tab and it's gone.
- No tracking. We count visits to this page the way we count every page of our site: no cookies, no IP addresses kept, and nothing you type. See privacy.
- The encoder is open source. It's the qrcode library by Ryan Day (MIT license), written into this page with its license notice, so you can read every line with your browser's View Source.