Strikodo vs calQuery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Strikodo
Easily scan and create various types of barcodes using your device's camera or photos. Save, edit, and share scanned barcodes, or generate new ones from text, links, contacts, and more. Access barcodes on your Apple Watch and home screen widgets.
- Scan barcodes from camera or photos
- Create barcodes from text, links, contacts
- Supports numerous barcode types
- Save, edit, and share barcodes
- Apple Watch integration
- Home screen widgets
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Strikodo is an App to scan barcodes and to create those. It supports a large number of barcode types and supports a large variety of content types that can be encoded within these barcodes. SCAN BARCODES Scanning barcodes can be done using the built-in camera (torch and the different lenses are supported as well), but you can also scan photos for barcodes. The App supports manual scanning but also automatic scanning to scan a large number of barcodes very fast. Scanned barcodes can be saved within the App, so you can open them anytime later again, edit them, share its content, process its content etc. CREATE BARCODES Creating barcodes is very intuitive, easy and fast. You just pick the type of barcode you want to create, its type of content and then either enter the content or pick it from other sources (like the Contacts, a Map, etc). The barcode is updated "live" while entering or editing the content, so there're no additional steps required to actually get the resulting barcode. The App makes it also possible to create barcodes from within other Apps, without leaving these Apps. All that is required would be to use the "Sharing" feature of these other Apps and then pick "Strikodo" from the Sharesheet. This will directly create a barcode from the shared data (for example any text, a web link, a location from the Maps Apps, a contact from the Contacts App, etc.), which then can be saved within Strikodo and shared again. Depending of the content that is encoded in the barcodes, Strikodo provides a large number of actions you can apply on this content. This can be a simple product search, but also opening a link in a browser, sending E-Mails or messages, making a phone call, show a location on a Map and much more. APPLE WATCH The saved barcodes can be also made available on the Apple Watch, so you can have access to these barcodes even if you don't have the iPhone with you. Even the watch is able to execute certain actions based on the content of the barcodes (like making phone calls, sending messages, show a location on a map) WIDGET The saved barcodes can be also added to the home screen as Widget, so these are accessible immediately without the need to launch the App first (iOS 14 and later). PRIVACY The App respects your privacy. Scanning and creating barcodes happens on the device itself, no data is leaving the device, no internet connection is required. There's no tracking, no ads, no hidden costs, no subscription. DETAILS The following bar code types are support (both for scanning and creating): - QR Code - Aztec Code - Data Matrix - PDF-417 - UPC-A - UPC-E - EAN-8 - EAN-13 - ITF-14 - Interleaved 2/5 - Code 39 - Code 39/43 - Code 93 - Code 128 The following content types are supported (depending of the barcode type): - Sequence of digits (simple Barcodes) - Text - WLAN Hotspots - Web addresses - Contacts (VCard, MeCard) - Events - Phone numbers - SMS numbers - E-Mail adresses - Geo coordinates The following actions can be applied (depending of the barcode content): - Product search - Display a location or address on a map - Save addresses in the Contacts - Save events on the Calendar - Make phone calls - Send Messages/SMS - Send E-Mails - Join WLAN networks - Open Web sites The following sharing options are available (for the barcode graphic and the content): - Share via ShareSheet - Send by E-Mail - Send via Message/SMS - Copy to Clipboard - Save in Album - Print the Barcode
calQuery
Easily search your iPhone or iPad calendar for past events. Results can be sorted by date, location, or alphabetically. Tapping a result opens the corresponding day in your native calendar app.
- Search past calendar events
- Sort results by date, location, alphabet
- Open events in native calendar
- Supports iPhone and iPad
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With calQuery you can search the calendar of your iPhone of iPad. Unlike the search function of the calendar app, even long past events are found. The search results can be sorted by date, location and alphabet. By selecting a result, the corresponding day is displayed in the calendar app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: calQuery at Free against Strikodo's $1.99. Strikodo's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
calQuery is free to download; Strikodo costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Strikodo against 5.0 for calQuery. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Strikodo ships an update every 4 months, calQuery every 9 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Strikodo | calQuery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Clauss | Uwe Holtkamp |
Customer experience
Strikodo
calQuery
In-app purchases
Strikodo
No in-app purchases
calQuery
No in-app purchases









