QR Card

Pick an entry from your address book or fill out your own data and QR Card creates a personal and a business QR code. QR codes are device independent and can be read from most mobile devices and smartphones. There is no easier way to share your contact information!

Both QR codes can also be displayed on the Apple Watch. (requires watchOS 9 or higher)

On iOS 17 or higher, the codes can also be displayed as a homescreen widgets.

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Screenshot Gallery

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FAQ / Help

The smaller the code, the better!

Try to limit the contact entry to as little data as possible. The smaller the QR code, the easier to read/scan, especially on the Apple Watch!

Special characters / umlauts are not properly displayed

The app uses the vCard specification to encode the contact data. vCards use Unicode formatting to encode all special characters, including umlauts. Some QR-Code scanners do not properly support Unicode characters and might display unknown characters instead. Unfortunately, this cannot be fixed within the code – instead try a different QR-Code scanner.

What are the limits for the content?

A QR code can hold up to 3000 characters/bytes – however, such a code would be really big, and not practical at all. The app limits codes to 2000 characters. Some asian character sets do require up to 4 bytes to display one character, so in those cases the limit is 500 characters. 

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Using myQRvCard on the Apple Watch

QR codes on the Apple Watch are automatically synched from the iPhone. If you just see the message “Set Data in iPhone app first” instead of a QR code, edit a small bit of information and try again. Updates to the code on the watch are always initiated from the iPhone, when the data of the code changes.

If you have a lot of data in your contact, the code might be to big to properly work on the watch due to the limited display space available. In that case, try to limit the size of your content.

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Version History

V2.1.1 – October 15, 2024

• Updated for iOS 18
• Bug fixes

V2.1 – February 27, 2024

• Added widgets for homescreen and lockscreen (requires iOS 17)
• Various interface and bug fixes

V2.0.2 – September 20, 2023

• Updated for iOS 17
• Minor interface optimizations
• Updated watch app (requires watchOS 7)

V2.0 – March 31, 2023

• Complete redesign of data entry screens
• Added generic URL and picture URL fields
• Dropped support for iOS 13

V1.7.8 – October 21, 2022

• Added work fax number
• Display size of code

V1.7.7 – September 27, 2022

• Minor bug fixes
• Updated for iOS 16
• Dropped support for iOS 12

V1.7.6 – February 14, 2022

• Fixed text encodings, including umlauts

V1.7.5 – September 27, 2021

• Updated for iOS 15

V1.7.4 – December 5, 2020

• Support for iOS 14
• Requires iOS 12 or higher

V1.7.3 – October 29, 2019

• Fixed crash when sharing code to Photos

V1.7.2 – September 26, 2019

• Support for iOS 13, including dark mode
• Dropped support for iOS 9

V1.7.1 – October 5, 2018

• Improved support for new devices and iOS 12

V1.7 – June 7, 2018

• improved address book access
• replaced ad banner
• removed support for watchOS 2 – this update requires watchOS 3 or higher

V1.6 – November  1, 2017

• Siri integration – use “show my qr code” to display your QR card directly from Siri. Define in settings whether it should pick the work or home card.

V1.5 – October 16, 2017

• Improved support for iOS 11 and watchOS 4. Removed Glance for watchOS 1/2
• Minor bug fixes

V1.4 – November 4, 2016

• Improved support for iOS 10 and watchOS 3. Dropped support for iOS 8.
• Switched to admob ad network

V1.3 – May 20, 2016

• Removed iAd banner
• Minor bug fixes

V1.2 – Jan 12, 2016

• 3D touch for quick access to either QR code
• Support for split view on iPad

V1.1 – Nov 23, 2015

• Support for watchOS 2.0
• Sharing

V1.0 – Sep 22, 2015

• Initial Release