Simple QR Code Maker: Professional QR Codes, Built for Your Brand

Create beautiful, on-brand QR codes — right on your Windows PC, no account required, no data sent anywhere.

Simple QR Code Maker is a free Windows desktop app that gives marketing managers and graphic designers everything they need to produce professional QR codes in seconds. Generate, customize, export, and decode — all without leaving your machine.

Why Simple QR Code Maker?

Most QR code tools are web apps. You paste in a URL, download a blurry PNG, and hope for the best. That works fine for a one-off personal link. It does not work when you need consistent branding, high-resolution vector exports, logo integration, and the ability to produce dozens of codes across a campaign without juggling browser tabs or hitting a paywall.

Simple QR Code Maker is built for people who make QR codes as part of their job — not just once, but repeatedly, with care, and with brand standards to uphold.

Your Data Stays on Your Computer

This is not a cloud service. When you generate a QR code in Simple QR Code Maker, nothing is sent to a server. There are no accounts, no subscriptions, no API calls, and no telemetry. Your URLs, your brand assets, your history — everything stays on your PC.

Why does that matter?

  • Confidentiality: Marketing campaigns often involve URLs that haven’t launched yet. Pasting an unreleased product URL or an internal campaign link into a web-based QR generator means that URL is now on someone else’s server. With Simple QR Code Maker, it never leaves your machine.
  • Speed: There is no round-trip to a server. You type, the QR code appears. Instantly (even when making 100!).
  • Reliability: No internet connection required. Produce QR codes on a plane, backstage at an event, or anywhere your work takes you.
  • No price increases or feature gates: Everything is installed on your PC. Features don’t disappear because a pricing tier changed.

Local-first isn’t just a philosophy — it’s a practical advantage for professionals who need to move fast and stay secure.

Built for Marketing Managers

Brand Presets — Apply Your Identity in One Click

Define your brand once: primary color, secondary color, logo, logo size, and error correction level. Save it. From then on, every QR code you make can match your brand with a single click.

You can maintain multiple brand presets — useful if you manage several clients, product lines, or campaign identities. Switch between them instantly and apply them to any new code.

Batch Generation — One Code Per Line

Running a campaign with fifty different landing page URLs? Paste them all in, one per line, and Simple QR Code Maker generates a separate QR code for each one. Save them all at once as individual files, or export the entire set as a ZIP archive. No repeating the process fifty times.

History — Never Lose a Code You Made

Every QR code you generate is saved to your local history automatically. Colors, logo settings, error correction level, and the original content are all preserved. Click any history item to instantly restore and regenerate that code. Useful when a client asks for the same code again six months later.

Export Formats That Designers Actually Need

  • PNG — For digital use, social media, and presentations
  • SVG — Scalable vector format, perfect for print and large-format work. Paste directly into Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, and more!
  • Both at Once — Save PNG and SVG simultaneously to the same folder
  • ZIP Archives — Bundle multiple codes for easy delivery to clients or teammates
  • Copy to Clipboard — Paste directly into Figma, Illustrator, Word, or any app

Built for Graphic Designers

Full Color Control

Set any foreground and background color, including transparency in the background. A real-time contrast ratio display tells you whether your color combination will scan reliably — no guessing, no test-and-fail. Choose colors from a full-spectrum color picker with alpha channel support.

Logo Overlay with Intelligent Sizing

Place any image — PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, or SVG — at the center of your QR code. Control the logo’s size as a percentage of the total code area and adjust padding precisely. The app automatically enforces safe logo size limits based on the error correction level you’ve chosen, so the code always remains scannable.

AI-Powered Background Removal

For logos with a white or colored background that you’d like to make transparent before embedding in a QR code, the app uses on-device AI (Microsoft Windows AI) to remove the background automatically. Preview the result before applying. No need to open Photoshop for a simple background removal — and because it runs on your device, your logo image never goes anywhere.

SVG Vector Output

Print at any size without quality loss. Simple QR Code Maker exports genuine SVG files — not a rasterized image embedded in an SVG wrapper. Scale a QR code to a billboard or a business card, and it stays sharp.

Error Correction Levels

Choose from four error correction levels:

LevelRecovery CapabilityBest For
Low (L)7%Clean digital displays where nothing will obscure the code
Medium (M)15%General use — a sensible default
Quartile (Q)25%Printed materials that may get scratched or slightly dirty
High (H)30%Codes with a logo overlay, or harsh physical environments

Higher error correction makes the code more resilient — and gives you more room for a logo overlay.

Minimum Recommended Size Calculator

The app calculates the minimum physical size the code should be printed at based on the number of modules, error correction level, and your expected scan distance. Stop guessing whether that QR code will scan on a 3-inch product label — the app tells you the answer.

Decoding: A Full Toolkit for Scanning Existing Codes

Simple QR Code Maker isn’t only a generator — it’s also an advanced QR code reader.

Open or Paste Any Image

Drop an image onto the decoding page, open it from a file, or paste directly from your clipboard. The app detects every QR code in the image simultaneously and highlights each one with a bounding box. Click any detected code to see its content, copy it, or send it directly to the generator to create a matching version.

Advanced Image Processing

When a code won’t scan — because the photo is dark, the contrast is low, or the angle is off — the built-in image processing tools can fix it:

  • Grayscale conversion — removes color noise
  • Color inversion — handles light-on-dark codes
  • Contrast adjustment — brings out faint codes
  • Levels control — fine-tune black point and white point, with eyedropper tools to sample directly from the image
  • Perspective correction — mark the four corners of a distorted or skewed code; the app straightens it automatically

These are the kinds of tools usually found only in dedicated image editors. They’re here because sometimes a QR code arrives as a photo and needs work before it can be decoded.

Works as a Windows Share Target

Other apps on your PC can share images directly to Simple QR Code Maker for decoding. If you receive a screenshot of a QR code in your email client or browser, share it straight to the app without saving a file first.

The Full Feature List

QR Code Generation

  • Instant, real-time code preview as you type
  • Single code or one-code-per-line batch mode
  • Adjustable error correction level
  • Custom foreground and background colors with transparency support
  • Live contrast ratio feedback
  • Logo overlay with size and padding controls
  • AI logo background removal (on-device)
  • Brand presets with one-click application
  • Automatic history with full settings restoration

Export & Sharing

  • PNG export
  • SVG export (true vector)
  • Save both formats at once
  • ZIP archive export for batches
  • Copy PNG or SVG to clipboard
  • Copy raw SVG markup to clipboard
  • Configurable default save location

QR Code Decoding

  • Decode from file, clipboard, or drag and drop
  • Multi-code detection in a single image
  • Click to select and view individual codes
  • Copy decoded content or open URLs
  • Send decoded content to the generator
  • Full image processing toolkit for difficult codes

Customization & Settings

  • Light, dark, or system-default theme
  • Configurable base text prefix for batch codes
  • Minimum size display toggle
  • Save-both button visibility toggle
  • Scan distance scale factor adjustment

Download Simple QR Code Maker

Simple QR Code Maker is available free on the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 and Windows 11 (x64 and ARM64).

No account. No subscription. No data sent anywhere. Just a fast, capable QR code tool that works the way professionals need it to.

Simple QR Code Maker is an open source Windows application maintained by TheJoeFin.