vCard QR Code Generator
Create a scannable digital business card (vCard).
How to use the vCard QR Code Generator
- Fill in your contact details.
- Download the QR code and add it to your card or email signature.
About the vCard QR Code Generator
vCard is the standard digital contact-card format that phones, mail clients and address books have understood for decades. This tool builds a vCard 3.0 record — name, formatted name, phone, email and optionally company — and encodes that text directly into the QR code. Scan it and the phone offers to save you straight into contacts, no typing. That makes it the natural thing for the back of a business card, an email signature, a conference badge or a shop counter.
The thing to understand is that the payload is the vCard text, so the code gets dense fast. Every field you add pushes it to a higher version with finer modules, which means it must be printed larger or scanned closer. That is why this tool defaults to a larger image size and offers only the fields that earn their place. Keep entries short and resist cramming in an address and three phone numbers; a sparse code that scans instantly beats a complete one people give up on.
Two honest caveats: exactly how a phone imports the card varies by app, and a QR code is not encrypted, so everything in your vCard is readable by anyone who scans or photographs it. Only include details you are happy to hand out. If you need one contact route only, the simpler phone QR code or email QR code produces a much lighter code.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly is a vCard?
A standard text format for a contact card, recognised by essentially every phone and address book. This tool writes a vCard 3.0 record containing your name, phone, email and company, and encodes that text in the code.
Why is my vCard QR code so much busier than a URL one?
Because the whole contact card is inside the code, not a short link to it. More fields means more data, a finer grid, and a code that needs to be printed larger. Keeping each field short genuinely helps.
Does the person need an app to scan it?
No. Modern iPhone and Android cameras read vCard QR codes and offer to add the contact directly.
Can I add a photo or address to the card?
This tool keeps to name, phone, email and company. A photo in particular would balloon the payload and produce a code too dense to scan reliably from print, which is why it is left out.
Is anything I enter uploaded?
No. The vCard and the code are both built in your browser. Bear in mind, though, that a QR code is not encrypted — anyone who scans the finished code can read every detail in it.