WiFi QR: make and scan Wi-Fi QR codes on iPhone and iPad

What can you do with WiFi QR?

Create a code for your network

On the Generate tab you type the Network Name (SSID), pick the Security Type and enter the Password. The code draws itself above the form the moment those three are valid, so you just hold the screen up for a guest. Use current fills in the name of the Wi-Fi you are already on.

Before it draws anything, the app checks the rules that make a code actually connect: a name of at most 32 bytes, a WPA password of 8 to 63 characters, a WEP key of a valid length. Characters like ; and : get escaped automatically, because a raw one breaks the format.

Share, print and design

• Send the code as a PNG with Share QR Code (Messages, WhatsApp, Mail, AirDrop, Print and whatever else is in your iOS share sheet).
• Export a saved network as an image or PDF from Export Options, and pick whether the title, name, password and security type get printed.
• Build a card you'll reuse in Export Templates: layout, colours, an icon, a subtitle like "Scan to connect" and the code's size.
• Fit several codes on one A4 sheet with Batch Export (Premium).

Scan and keep networks

The Scan tab reads a Wi-Fi QR code through the camera and shows the name, the password (hidden behind dots until you tap the eye) and the security type, then lets you join or save it. History keeps everything you've saved, with search, a favourite star, and a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget for whichever one is your favourite — that part needs iOS 18.6 or later.

Quick start

1. Open the app on the Generate tab.
2. Tap Use current to pull in the name of the network you're connected to, or type it exactly as your router shows it.
3. Choose the Security Type: WPA/WPA2/WPA3 covers almost every home router.
4. Type the Wi-Fi Password. The code appears at the top.
5. Hold the screen up for your guest to point their camera at, or tap Save to History to keep the network for later.

Free, and what Premium adds

WiFi QR costs nothing to download. For free you can make and show as many codes on screen as you want, save up to 3 networks, export or share the image once (with a small watermark on it) and build 1 custom template. A short optional ad buys you one extra save or export at a time. The free version carries ads.

Premium — a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase, your call — drops the ads and the limits, and throws in larger export resolutions, QR styles with rounded or dot modules, a centre icon, a gallery of ready-made templates, batch export, Face ID lock on individual networks, groups and share counts.

Privacy, offline use and permissions

Everything runs on your device. Generating, showing, saving and scanning a code all work with no internet connection at all; the network is only needed for ads, rewarded ads and App Store purchases. There's no account and no iCloud sync — your saved networks live on this device and disappear if you delete the app.

• Camera: only to scan codes on the Scan tab.
• Location: only when you tap Use current, because iOS will only hand a Wi-Fi name to an app that has location permission. Nothing about where you are gets stored or sent anywhere.
• Face ID or Touch ID: only to open a network you've locked.

What it cannot do

No app on iOS can read the password of a network you've already saved, so yes, you still type it once. The scanner works off the live camera, never a screenshot or photo. Enterprise networks that ask for a username (802.1X) aren't supported here. And a Wi-Fi QR code isn't a lock — anyone who scans it reads the password, and the code keeps working until you change that password on the router.