How does a vCard QR code work?

A vCard QR code encodes contact information in the standard vCard format that phones understand natively. When someone points their camera at it, the phone recognizes the contact and offers to add the name, phone, email, and other details straight to their address book, with no app or typing required. It's ideal for business cards, conference badges, email signatures, and storefront windows. This generator builds a vCard 3.0 and renders it to a downloadable PNG entirely in your browser.

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vCard QR Code Generator.

Fill in your contact details and get a QR code that drops straight into someone's phone as a contact card. Perfect for business cards, badges, and email signatures. The QR updates as you type; download a high-resolution PNG when ready.

// first name // last name

// organization // job title

// phone // email

// website // address

// error correction

// enter contact details to generate a QR code

// vCard text

// QR encoding powered by qrcode-generator v1.4.4 · MIT license

// tips for vCard QR codes

A vCard QR encodes your details in the standard contact format phones understand. Scanning it pops up an "Add to Contacts" prompt: no typing, no app.

Keep it lean. The more fields you add, the denser the QR and the harder it is to scan at small print sizes or from a distance. Name, phone, and email cover most cases.
Test before you print. Scan it with the actual phone you expect your audience to use; both iOS and Android read vCards natively.
Higher error correction (Q or H) helps if you overlay a logo or print on a textured surface, at the cost of a denser code.

Privacy: your details are turned into a vCard string and encoded to a QR locally. Nothing is sent to a server; view-source to confirm.

Related: sharing WiFi instead of a contact? The WiFi QR Code Generator does that. Plain text or a URL? Use the QR Code Generator.

// a free, browser-only tool by Tiempo Software, built in Omaha, Nebraska. Runs entirely in your browser; nothing you enter is uploaded. see all tools.