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vCard QR code generator
Fill in your name, phone, email and more; anyone who scans the code can save you as a contact in one tap.
Prefix, middle name, suffix
Address and note
Generated on your device — the contact details are never sent anywhere.
Works in your browser. No account needed.
Frequently asked questions
Do phones save the contact without an app?
Yes. The iPhone Camera app and Google Lens and the camera on most Android phones recognise a vCard QR code and show a prompt that opens the contact, ready to save. No scanner app or internet connection is needed, because all the details are inside the code itself.
Why vCard 3.0 and not vCard 4.0?
vCard 3.0 is the version phones, Google Contacts, Outlook and older address books read most consistently. vCard 4.0 adds little that matters for a business card and is not handled as reliably everywhere, so the code and the .vcf file both use 3.0, with special characters escaped and long lines folded as the standard requires.
Should I use vCard or MECARD?
vCard is the safe default: it keeps organisation, job title and labelled work and mobile numbers. MECARD is an older, more compact format that makes a coarser code, and the iPhone Camera and Google Lens read it, but it has no field for organisation or job title and a few scanner apps ignore it. Use it only when a shorter code matters more than those fields.
Why is my QR code so dense, and does that matter?
A QR code grows with every character it holds. A name, phone and email make a code that scans easily at 2 cm; add an address and a long note and it can pass 400 bytes, with small modules that blur on business-card print or low-end cameras. The tool shows the byte count and warns as it grows — shorten fields, remove the note, or lower the error correction to make it coarser.
Which error-correction level should I choose?
Error correction lets a scratched or partly covered code still scan, at the cost of a denser pattern. M (15%) suits most business cards and screens. Choose L for the smallest, coarsest code when the contact is long, and Q or H for codes that will get worn or dirty. A logo in the centre always uses H, because it hides part of the code.
Is my contact information private?
The code and the .vcf file are created in your browser; nothing you type is uploaded or stored. The code itself is not encrypted, though: anyone who scans it sees every field, so include only what you would print on a business card.
About this tool
A vCard QR code carries a complete contact card inside the pattern: name, organisation, job title, phone numbers, email, website, address and a note. When someone points a phone camera at it, the phone offers to add the contact, which is faster and more accurate than typing from a business card, badge, flyer, email signature or conference slide. It is a static code: there is no link to a web page in between, so it keeps working forever and nobody can track the scans.
The generator writes standard vCard 3.0, the version address books read most consistently. Names are split into the structured parts address books expect, phone numbers are labelled mobile or work, and commas, semicolons, backslashes and line breaks are escaped as the specification requires, with lines longer than 75 bytes folded. Names and addresses in any language are stored as UTF-8. You can also choose MECARD, a shorter format that makes a coarser code but cannot hold an organisation or job title.
Every field makes the code denser, and dense codes are the main reason contact QR codes fail to scan on small prints. The tool shows the exact size in bytes and the number of modules, warns as the code gets dense, and refuses to render when the contact is too long for a single code at the chosen error-correction level. Colours are checked too: low-contrast combinations are blocked, and light-on-dark codes get a warning because some scanners cannot read them.
Alongside the QR code you can download the same contact as a .vcf file, which you can attach to emails, link from your website or import into Google Contacts, Outlook and Apple Contacts. Both are created entirely in your browser, and nothing you enter is uploaded.