Make a QR code for text, a link, or Wi-Fi

The QR code tool encodes a short piece of text as a square you can scan. Three kinds of content are built in. Text is stored exactly as you type it. A URL is checked as a web address, and https is added if you typed example.com with no scheme, so a phone opens it as a link. Wi-Fi builds the WIFI: string that phone cameras already understand: the network name, the password, the security type, and whether the network is hidden.

The square is drawn in the browser. You can download a PNG at 256, 512, 1024, or 2048 pixels, or an SVG that stays sharp when a designer places it. Error correction is level M, the usual setting for a link or a Wi-Fi code: a small mark on the paper does not always kill the scan, and the code is not so dense that a phone fails in ordinary light.

There is a limit of 500 characters. A QR code can technically hold more, and then it becomes a tight texture that fails as soon as the print is small or the light is poor. If the real content is a paragraph, put the paragraph on a page and encode the link.

1. Open QR Code and choose URL, Text, or Wi-Fi.
2. Fill the fields. For Wi-Fi, WPA/WPA2 is the right choice for almost every home and office router. WEP is only for old hardware. No password means an open network, and the password box is turned off so you do not encode a secret you did not mean to require.
3. Pick a size. 512 pixels is a good default for a slide or a printed A6 card. Use SVG if the file is going into a layout program.
4. Scan the preview with your own phone before you print a batch. The status under the square shows the exact string that was encoded.

Reserved characters in a Wi-Fi name or password are escaped. A semicolon or a comma in the password must not be read as the end of a field, and the page inserts the backslashes the format requires. You do not type those backslashes yourself.

A QR code is not a lock. Anyone who can see the square can read what you put in it, including a Wi-Fi password. That is the point of a guest-network card, and it is the wrong place for a password you would not hand to everyone in the room. Do not encode a one-time login code, a private document link with a secret token, or a password you still use for anything else, and then leave the print on a wall.

Text mode does not add https and does not check that the string is a URL. Use it for a serial number, a short note, or a link whose exact characters matter, including a scheme this page refuses in URL mode.

The string is encoded on your device. QuickConvert does not receive the URL or the Wi-Fi password. The PNG or SVG you download contains that information, because otherwise the code would not work. Generating the image does not need a network once the page has loaded. The Privacy Policy covers analytics and ads on the public site, which see the page view and not the characters you typed. A longer walk-through is in how to make a QR code.