Put your contact card in a QR code: one scan pre-fills your name, phone, email, company, and website in the other person’s contacts app — no typing, no typos, no “I’ll text it to you later.” Built entirely on your device.
How to make a contact QR code
- Fill in the fields you want to share — first or last name is the only requirement; empty fields are simply left out of the card.
- Keep it lean: every extra character makes the code denser and harder to scan at business-card size.
- Pick error correction Q or H if the code will live on a printed card that gets handled.
- Download the PNG (documents, email signatures) or SVG (print shops), and test-scan it.
What gets encoded
The tool writes a standards-compliant vCard 3.0 — the same BEGIN:VCARD format your phone
exports contacts in — with your name structured for correct sorting, and phone, email,
organization, title, and URL as typed. Commas, semicolons, and line breaks in your entries are
escaped per the spec, so a company like “Smith; Jones, Inc” survives the round trip intact.
Camera apps on iOS and Android recognize the format and offer to save the contact directly.
Where it beats a paper card (and where it doesn’t)
The QR wins on accuracy: scanned details land in the contacts app exactly, immediately, in the right fields. Put it on business cards, conference badges, email signatures, and slide decks. Its honest limitation is that it’s frozen at print time — a new phone number means a new code. If your details change often, encode a link to a page you control with the plain QR generator instead, and update the page rather than the print. (Sharing your network instead of your number? That’s the WiFi QR generator.)
Private by design
Your name, number, and email are encoded on your device and go nowhere else — no upload, no account, no stored cards. The only copy of the code is the one you download.