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Your card, with nothing to type

Name, phone, email and company inside the code. Scan it and the phone offers to save you.

  • Saved to the address book in one tap.

Your code

Fill in the content and your code appears here.


Reader

Read a code

Upload an image or use the camera. See what the code contains before you open it.

You can also paste an image with Ctrl/⌘ + V.

How it works

How to put your card in a code

Fill in only what you want saved

A name, one phone and one email usually do. Every extra field tightens the pattern and makes it harder to read.

Check the content before you export

The panel shows literally what the code carries. A mistyped email there becomes a hundred useless cards.

Pick the size for where it is going

A large PNG for a badge or an email signature; SVG when it is printed on the card alongside the rest of the design.

This code carries no link: it carries the whole record. The format is called vCard, the same one phone address books have used for decades, so scanning it does not open a browser — it opens the new-contact screen with your details already filled in. The person taps save and that is that, with nothing dictated and nothing mistyped.

Because everything travels inside, restraint matters here. Every field you add makes the code denser: a record with a name, a phone and an email produces a roomy code any camera reads instantly, while one with two numbers, a full address, a website and a job title produces a thicket of tiny dots that, printed two centimetres across on a business card, becomes a code nobody can scan. Put in what you actually want stored.

The price of depending on no server is that the record is frozen. The day you change phone, email or employer, the printed cards keep handing out the old details, and there is no way to correct them remotely. If your details move often, a code pointing at a page you can edit may suit you better.

In exchange it works anywhere and offline: at a trade fair with a saturated network, in a lift, in a country with no data. Nobody logs the exchange, not us and no intermediary, because there is nothing to look up — the information travels printed on the paper in your hand.

Questions about contact codes

How is this different from a code with my website?
A code with your website opens the browser; this one opens the address book. The details are already inside, so they are saved offline and without visiting any page.
Why is my code so crowded with dots?
Because it carries a lot of fields. The whole vCard travels inside the pattern, so the more information, the denser the code. Drop what is not essential and watch it open up.
I changed employer. Can I update the printed cards?
No. The record is written inside the code and is never looked up on a server, so what is printed keeps the old details. You generate a new code for the next print run.
Does it work the same on iPhone and Android?
Yes. Both recognise the vCard with the camera and offer to create the contact. What differs is the screen that appears, not what gets saved.
Do my details pass through a server when I create it?
No. The code is assembled in your browser and nothing you type is sent or stored. It is the same reason the tool keeps working with no internet.