Wallet Libre vs Barcode Info

Wallet Libre turns a card you already carry into a pass in Apple Wallet. Photograph the barcode, check the number it read, and add it. That is the whole flow — everything after it is optional. WHY IT EXISTS Most library cards use Codabar, a barcode format Apple Wallet has no support for. Wallet Libre draws the bars itself, at the same width they are printed on the card, so the pass scans where the plastic did. QR, Code 128, PDF417 and Aztec are handled natively when your card carries one. Some formats cannot be rebuilt into a pass at all — EAN, UPC, Code 39, Code 93 and ITF among them — and the app tells you so when it reads one, rather than quietly shipping a barcode that will not scan. LET IT FILL IN THE REST Ask it to, and Wallet Libre reads the photo of your card and suggests a title, colors drawn from the card itself, and the issuer's logo. Nothing is applied without you seeing it first, and you can skip the whole step and type the details yourself. IT SHOWS UP WHERE YOU USE IT Give a pass locations and Apple Wallet offers it on your lock screen when you arrive — no app to open, nothing to search for. Wallet Libre finds the places for you: from a built-in directory of US public libraries that needs no network round trip, or from a map search anywhere else. You choose which ones stay. Apple Wallet carries up to ten per pass, and one tap picks the ten nearest you. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOUR CARD Choose the colors, or take them from the photo. Use a letter or an emoji where there is no logo to find. Add the fields printed on your own card — a member number, a join date, an expiry. PRIVACY There is no account and no sign-in, and there is nothing to create. Apple requires every pass to be signed with a registered developer certificate, and a certificate cannot ship inside an app. So the card's details go to the signing server, are signed, and are discarded before the response is sent. They are never stored and never logged. The optional fill is the only other thing that leaves your iPhone: when you ask for it, the photo of your card and the text read from it are sent to be interpreted, and are not kept afterwards. Tap the other button and nothing is ever sent anywhere.

Point your camera at any barcode and see what it actually encodes - instantly, offline, with no ads and no sign-up. Barcode Info identifies the code type, verifies the check digit, and tells you where the product's barcode was registered. Scan a QR code and it classifies the content: link, Wi-Fi network, contact card, email, phone number, and more. Scan a shipping label and it reads the fields the label carries. WHAT YOU GET - Symbology identification: EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, Code 128, Code 39, Code 93, Codabar, ITF-14, QR Code, Data Matrix, Aztec, PDF417 - Check-digit validation for product codes (GTIN-8/12/13/14), with UPC-E expanded to its UPC-A equivalent - Country of registration from the GS1 prefix, with country flags - including special ranges such as in-store codes, ISBN, and ISSN - GS1 label fields on GS1-128 and GS1 DataMatrix codes: batch or lot, best before and expiry dates, serial number, pallet number (SSCC), weight and size - Content detection for QR codes: links (with one-tap open in browser), Wi-Fi, contacts, email, phone, SMS, location, calendar events - Scan history saved on your device: reopen any result, swipe to delete, or clear everything at once - Settings that show what the scan photos take up, with a way to delete one photo or all of them HONEST BY DESIGN The GS1 prefix shows where the manufacturer registered the barcode, not where the product was made. Barcode Info says so, plainly, instead of pretending otherwise. In-store and company-internal codes are labeled as such rather than mapped to a misleading country. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything works offline. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your scan history never leaves your device.