QR Puppy
100% free • forever
QR Puppy makes the code, hands it to you, and walks away. No tracking links, no redirects, no “sign up to keep your code working.” Just an honest little square that does exactly what you told it to. 🐾
Quick make
instant • free
Pick one — the puppy does the rest.
Somewhere along the way, QR codes got predatory. We think that stinks.
Lots of “free” generators secretly point your code at their server first, then forward it on. Handy — until they put it behind a paywall and your printed flyers go dead.
Those middle-man redirects log every scan: who, where, when, what device. Your customers didn't sign up to be followed for scanning a menu.
“Your dynamic QR code will stop working unless you upgrade.” A code that can be switched off was never really yours.
Free today, free tomorrow, free when you forget we exist and come back in three years.
Pick a type, fill in the details, make it adorable, download. It all happens on your device.
Decoded on your device, never uploaded. We'll also show you exactly where a link goes before you tap it.
The QR Puppy Manifesto
A black-and-white square is just a number printed in light and dark. It costs nothing to make and nothing to keep working — forever. Yet an entire industry has turned that harmless square into a subscription, a tracker, and sometimes a trap. We think that's wrong, and we built QR Puppy to prove it doesn't have to be that way. 🐾
The trick is simple. A “free” generator doesn't encode your link into the QR code. It encodes a link to their server, which then forwards visitors to your real destination. They call this a “dynamic” QR code and sell it as a feature. What it really is, is a leash — and they hold the other end.
Once your code is printed on ten thousand flyers, stamped on a product, or etched onto a restaurant table, you can't change it. They know that. So the price goes up, the “free trial” ends, and a message appears: pay, or the code goes dark.
“Upgrade now or your QR code stops working.” When a code is already printed on physical things you've paid to produce, that's not a sales pitch — it's a ransom note with a logo. Pay forever, or watch your own materials break.
Static QR codes never expire — the math doesn't rot. But middle-man codes are switched off the moment you stop subscribing. Menus, business cards, gravestones, parcel labels, museum placards — all bricked on a billing cycle.
Every scan flows through their redirect, so every scan is logged: location, time, device, IP, how many times. Your customers scanned a poster. They didn't consent to being tracked across a parking lot.
Redirect codes train people to trust that a square will quietly send them somewhere else. Scammers love that. Fake parking meters, counterfeit invoices, swapped restaurant stickers — “quishing” attacks thrive on the redirect culture these platforms normalized.
Your scan analytics, your destination URLs, your campaign — locked inside someone else's dashboard. Export is “premium.” Leaving means your codes die. That's not a service; it's a hostage situation dressed as a SaaS.
“Free QR code generator!” — in the largest font. The part where it's only free until it isn't, and only yours until they decide otherwise, is in the footer, in grey, six point.
📜 We're lobbying for it
Predatory QR practices exploit a gap most people don't know exists. We're calling on lawmakers and consumer-protection regulators to close it. Here's the bill we want — and we'll back anyone who carries it.
Are you a legislator, regulator, journalist, or just someone who got burned? Use QR Puppy, share it, and tell people the square was supposed to be free.
QR Puppy has no servers, no accounts, and no analytics — there's literally nowhere for your data to go, because every code is built in your own browser. Don't take our word for it: the whole thing is open. Read it, audit it, fork it, self-host it, print it on a t-shirt.
A tool that asks you to trust it should let you verify it. That's the deal.
For as long as QR Puppy exists, it will be: