BarMaker vs QR Code Scanner & Creator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BarMaker
Easily create and scan QR codes and barcodes. Share scanned results to your Mac or PC browser, or transfer data like contacts and clipboard content. Customize your codes with colors, embedded images, and text.
- Create QR codes and barcodes
- Scan QR codes and barcodes
- Transfer contacts, location, clipboard
- Push scan results to Mac/PC browser
- Customize code color and embed images
- Drag and drop support on iPad
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BarMaker can help you to create/scan QR Code or Barcode images or transfer contacts, location, clipboard and so on. You can use it to create/scan QR Code or Barcode. You can also push the result into Mac/PC browser after scanning and visit the Scanning Result from PC/Mac's browser. You can custom your QR Code or Barcode (like change color or embed an image on QR Code or add your custom text). Also you can create qr code from Safari by pressing share button to share url. It also supports scanning for white barcodes on black background. It supports Drag&Drop on iPad. You can drag barcode image from the app to another app or drag a item from Favorites/History list to another app and it will auto make it to barcode image and insert to target App. You can also drop a barcode image to main UI to decode. BarMaker supports following formats: QR Code Code-39 Code-128 EAN-8 EAN-13 ITF UPC-A Codabar PDF 417 Aztec DataMatrix
QR Code Scanner & Creator
Quickly scan and read QR codes from your device's camera or photo album. Create custom QR codes with text, web links, or contact information, and personalize them with your own photo as a logo. Share your generated codes easily.
- Scan QR codes quickly
- Create custom QR codes
- Add photo as logo
- Generate various content types
- Read QR codes from album
- Support flashlight for dark environments
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The quickest and most efficient QR Code reader and creator. Nowadays, QR code becomes a way of our life, you can see it everywhere. How can we ignore them? Quickly equipped with this fast QR Code scanner and generator, to discover the magic veil of QR codes. Besides decoding, you can also create your personal QR code, add your photo as logo, share them through email or social utilities, let your friends know your idea or thoughts at the first time. Features: 1.Scan and read QR code quickly. You can know the meaning of QR code in one second. 2.Support flashlight, even in night or dark places, you can still scan QR code. 3.Support reading QR code picture from album, quickly know what surprise your friends want to give you. 4.Can generate all kinds of content qr code. For example, text, web address, name card, telephone number and mixed content etc. 5.Can add your photo as logo, generate colorful QR code. 6.Can save the QR code you created to CameraRoll. So useful and efficient QR code utility, come and have a try, I'm totally free!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: QR Code Scanner & Creator at 90% against BarMaker's 14%. QR Code Scanner & Creator also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). BarMaker's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 weeks). On 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
QR Code Scanner & Creator is free to download; BarMaker costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BarMaker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: QR Code Scanner & Creator has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 14% of BarMaker's written reviews are positive against 90% of QR Code Scanner & Creator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
BarMaker ships an update every 6 days, QR Code Scanner & Creator every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and August 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BarMaker | QR Code Scanner & Creator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | +9 | 4+ |
| Developer | 垚 沈 | 小云 许 |
Customer experience
BarMaker
QR Code Scanner & Creator
In-app purchases
BarMaker
No in-app purchases
QR Code Scanner & Creator
No in-app purchases








