# QR Code Generator

Generate a QR code from a link or any text and save it as a PNG or an SVG. Free, with no signup and no redirect through anyone else's domain.

Canonical page: https://filetity.com/qr-code-generator

## Capabilities

- Free: Yes, with no watermark and no page limit.
- Account required: No. There is no account system.
- Processed on device: Yes. The file is read by your browser and never uploaded. There is no server to send it to.
- Formats: Any text in. A PNG at 256, 512 or 1024 pixels, or an SVG that stays sharp at any size.
- Limits: About 2,900 characters at the lowest recovery level, and far fewer at the highest. That ceiling is the QR standard's, not this page's.
- Mobile: Yes, on any modern mobile browser. Large files are limited by the memory the phone gives the browser.
- Offline: Yes, once the page has loaded. The tool keeps working with no network connection.

## Questions

### Will this QR code expire?

No. It encodes your text directly, so there is nothing between the scanner and your link: no account here to lapse, no counter to hit, no domain of ours in the middle. Codes that expire are dynamic codes, which encode a short link on the generator's own server and forward from there. Those are useful when you need to change the destination later, and they are a liability on anything printed.

### Which error correction level should I pick?

Medium unless you have a reason. The four levels recover 7%, 15%, 25% and 30% of a damaged code, and the recovery data costs space: at the same physical size, a higher level packs in more and smaller squares, so it needs a better camera. High is worth it for something being printed, put on a window, or covered in the middle by a logo.

### Should I save the PNG or the SVG?

SVG for anything going to print or into a design tool, because it is drawing instructions rather than pixels and stays exact at any size. PNG for a slide, a chat message or a website, where a fixed size is what the software wants. Both come from the same code, so they scan identically.

### Can I make a QR code for a wifi network?

Yes. Paste WIFI:T:WPA;S:YourNetwork;P:YourPassword;; with your own network name and password, and phones will offer to join when they scan it. This is the case where a local tool matters most: your wifi password is being typed into a page, and here that page is running on your own machine with nothing to send it to.

## Related tools

- [SVG to PNG](https://filetity.com/svg-to-png): Turn SVG drawings into PNG images at whatever size you need.
- [Image Resizer](https://filetity.com/image-resizer): Make images smaller by pixel size, keeping their format and proportions.