QR Code Scanner & Creator vs Simple Viewer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Simple Viewer
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Simple Viewer opens files. Quietly, quickly, and without asking for anything in return. Share any file from any app — Mail, Messages, Files, a browser, a cloud drive — and Simple Viewer renders it the way it was meant to be read. No account. No upload. Files stay on your device. It is designed for the moment when you just need to see what's inside a file. RENDERED WITH CARE • PDF with smooth scrolling and pinch-to-zoom • Markdown with typography that reads • Source code with precise syntax highlighting • JSON, XML, and YAML, pretty-printed • CSV and TSV, as readable tables • Excel spreadsheets (XLSX) • Word documents (DOCX) • ZIP archives, browsed inside • Plain text, logs, and scripts • x509 certificates BUILT FOR iPHONE AND iPAD • Open from any app via the iOS share sheet • Recent files, one tap away • Orientation-aware on iPad • Works offline. Always. NOTHING YOU DON'T NEED No sign-up. No subscription. No ads. No tracking. No cloud sync. No bloat. Just a clean surface for reading what you already have. Because simple is elegant.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: QR Code Scanner & Creator at 6.0 against Simple Viewer's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
QR Code Scanner & Creator ships an update every 4 weeks, Simple Viewer monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | QR Code Scanner & Creator | Simple Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 小云 许 | STLink |
In-app purchases
QR Code Scanner & Creator
No in-app purchases
Simple Viewer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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