QR Code Reader vs Egress Recon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QR Code Reader
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QR Code Reader is the best & fastest QR Code/barcode scanner & QR code creator for iPhone. By using your phone's camera, QR Code Reader - CamScanner will automatically scan and recognize the information of QR Code or barcode of all major code formats(QR code, barcode, Datamatrix, Code128, Code39, EAN-8, EAN-13, Google Auth). Create and share unlimited QR codes with our powerful Generator! Key Features: # Easy to Use # Our QR code reader and barcode scanner can automatically detect and scan any code without pressing any buttons. You can scan QR Code using either your camera or just read it from your gallery. If you are in a low-light environment, the flashlight supports you to scan and read QR codes and barcode. # Powerful QR Code generator # Create your personal QR Codes in seconds for various social media platforms or web-resources. You can change everything from background color to dots shape of your QR code with our powerful Generator. # Scan history # Don't worry if you do not have your QR Code in hand. You can always review your scan history! Forget which codes you created? Our History keeps them too! # Support Batch Scan # If you have a lot of QR code/Bar code need to be scanned, we provide a convenient and fast batch scan function. You can use this function to scan your QR code in batches. After all the scans are completed, you can check them together. You can use this function to increase the speed of scan. About Subscription: Subscriptions are managed by users. Users can close subscriptions by going to ‘‘ Account Settings ’‘. The unused portion of the free trial period will be lost when the user purchases a subscription. Your payment will be charged to your iTunes account with your confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will be automatically renewed unless the automatic renewal is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the valid period. Privacy policy: https://serhii-blinov.com/applications-privacy-policy/ Terms of Usage: https://serhii-blinov.com/applications-terms-of-usage/ Support: https://serhii-blinov.com/contact-us/
Egress Recon
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You are on a guest Wi-Fi you did not choose. Something will not connect and nobody can tell you why. Egress Recon answers that from your phone, in under a second. WHICH PORTS GET OUT Sixteen common outbound ports, tried against real public services. You get more than "open" or "closed": • Refused and timed out are different answers. One means something on the network actively rejected the connection; the other means it was dropped silently. • Intercepted is its own finding. The connection succeeded, but the thing that replied was not the service you asked for — a portal, a proxy, or a middlebox re-signing TLS. WHAT NAT YOU ARE BEHIND Your public address, and whether your NAT gives you a reusable mapping or a symmetric one — the reason a video call falls back to a relay. Carrier-grade NAT is reported with its confidence and the evidence behind it, never as a bare label. IPv6 and NAT64 state, and whether you can reach your own public address from inside. WHAT IT DOES TO DNS Whether plain DNS gets out. Whether the network's resolver agrees with a public one. Whether it invents answers for names that cannot exist. And whether DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS still work when plain DNS does not — each tested with a real query, not just a connection. WI-FI VERSUS CELLULAR The most useful thing a network tool can tell you is "this Wi-Fi blocks it, and your cellular connection does not." Egress Recon runs the same tests over both and shows the difference — attributing it correctly in both directions, because blaming the café for something your carrier blocks helps nobody. BEHIND A CAPTIVE PORTAL It tells you the portal is there, shows the URL it is pushing you to, and labels the results "before you sign in." Sign in, run again, and it shows you exactly what changed. IT SHOWS ITS WORK Every verdict comes with what was actually observed: the banner the server sent, the certificate it presented and who issued it, the exact response that came back. You can check the reasoning instead of trusting a colored label. Where something cannot be determined, it says so and why. Two ports in the standard set have no public server to test against, so they stay untested rather than showing a red cell that means nothing. Share any run as text, a web page, a PDF, or JSON. Saved runs are grouped by network. PRIVACY • No analytics, no telemetry, no accounts, no ads, no third-party SDKs. • It never scans your network. Every probe goes to a public internet service — never your router, never your other devices. That is why it never asks for local network permission. • It does not read your Wi-Fi name. That needs location permission, which it never requests. • Saved runs stay on your device. A report leaves only when you share it. Egress Recon for Mac and for iPhone and iPad are both free apps on one App Store record. Requires iOS 17 or iPadOS 17.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Egress Recon at none against QR Code Reader's 2. QR Code Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (12 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. QR Code Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Egress Recon asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | QR Code Reader | Egress Recon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 12 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Serhii Blinov | Brian Reed |
In-app purchases
QR Code Reader
- 1 Week3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- 1 Month$7.991 Month
Egress Recon
No in-app purchases
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