QR Code Reader, Scan Barcode

A two-way code utility for iPhone and iPad from BEGAMOB GLOBAL LIMITED. On the reading side it handles QR codes containing links, contact cards and Wi-Fi credentials, plus retail barcodes that lead to product information, price comparisons and reviews.

The creating side is where it tries to stand out. Generated QR codes can be coloured and styled, which matters for anyone printing them on a menu or a business card, and they can hold URLs, text, contacts and other common data types. Every scan and every generated code sits in a history list, and sharing goes out by message, email, social media or as an image file.

Day to day it is mostly reactive: a code on a poster, a parcel label, a router sticker, each scanned in a moment and dealt with. The generator gets used in bursts. A small business owner might spend an evening building a styled QR code in brand colours for a flyer, export it as an image and send it to the printer. Later, the history list is where you go to recover a link you scanned last week without having to find the poster again.

Custom-coloured QR codes are the specific pull. Plenty of apps scan, but people making signage, menus or wedding stationery want a code that matches a colour scheme, and this listing says so directly. iPad support is the other draw, since many scanner apps are phone-only and awkward on a tablet.

Five screenshots are shown. For a scanner whose selling point is styled codes, at least a couple of those probably show colourful generated QR designs rather than the camera view. The rest will be the usual viewfinder, result sheet and history. The listing doesn't describe the app's own colour scheme or whether it adapts to iPad layouts beyond running on one.

Version 1.7.1 marks a relatively young app still in its first major release. BEGAMOB GLOBAL LIMITED is a company name, though the listing gives no further background. The 4.6 rating is based on only about a thousand reviews, so a few hundred opinions could move it either way. This page links to the App Store only.

Rated 4+ and free to download. The listing is silent on in-app purchases, subscriptions and ads, which doesn't mean there are none, only that they aren't advertised. Product lookups and price comparisons will need a connection; basic QR decoding generally won't. Camera permission is required. No account is mentioned. Storage needs and any regional restrictions on product data are unknown from the page.