What is a dynamic app QR code?
An app QR code is one code for both app stores. It checks which phone is scanning and sends iPhones to the App Store and Android phones to Google Play. Computers and other devices land on a website you choose, and there is an optional app page with your icon, rating and screenshots.
How it works
- You add your store links and a fallback website.
- The QR code holds a short link. When it is scanned, QuickQRC looks at the device.
- Each phone goes to its own store, and everything else to your website.
An app code opens a page QuickQRC hosts for you, so it uses one of your plan's hosted pages as well as one dynamic code.
How to create a dynamic app QR code
You make the code in the QuickQRC dashboard. The free plan is enough to follow every step below, and the whole thing takes a few minutes once your content is ready.
Step 1: Create a free account
Press Sign up free on this page and enter your email address and a password. No card is needed. QuickQRC sends a link to confirm your email address; open it and you land in your dashboard.
Sign up with an email address and a password.
Step 2: Pick the Apps type
If you came from this page, the wizard opens with Apps already selected. Otherwise choose New QR code in the sidebar and click the Apps card. The phone on the right shows what an app page looks like, so you can check you picked the right type. Press Next.
The Apps type selected in step 1 of the wizard.
Step 3: Add your content
Start with the name field at the top. Only you see it, so use something you will recognise in your list of codes later.
The Apps form has these cards:
- The app: the app icon, name, developer, a short pitch, category, price and store rating.
- Store links: the App Store and Google Play links, the download button look, and the website for computers and other phones.
- Showcase: screenshots, reasons to install and a "What's new" section with the version number.
- Look and feel: page style, colours, icon shape and fonts.
The live preview updates as you fill in the form.
Step 4: Design the QR code
Press Next to style the code itself. The tabs across the top cover the dot shape and colours, a logo in the middle, a frame with a call to action such as "Scan me", and the error correction level. The scannability score on the right warns you if a colour choice makes the code hard to read.
Shape, logo, frame and error correction level, with a scannability score.
Keep the dots darker than the background, and keep a plain margin around the code. Most scanning problems come from low contrast or a busy background.
Step 5: Generate and download
Press Generate. The code is saved and appears in My QR codes with its short link.
Your new code in My QR codes, with its short link.
Click the QR icon on the code's row to open it. Download PNG suits screens and documents; the arrow next to it offers SVG and PDF for print, plus JPEG and WebP. You can also copy or share the code from the same window.
Download the code as PNG, or pick SVG or PDF for print.
Scan the downloaded code with your own phone, then print a test copy at the real size and scan that too before you print the full run.
Step 6: Edit it whenever you need to
To change the app content later, press Edit on the code's row, make your changes and save. Design restyles the code, and the chart icon opens its scan statistics. The short link inside the printed code never changes, so every copy already printed shows your update on its next scan.
If you only fill in one store, phones on the other system go to your fallback website.
Tips for app QR codes
- Copy store links from the store's own share button, so they open the right listing.
- Set a fallback page that explains the app for people scanning on a computer.
- Update the version and "What's new" text with each big release.
- Test the code with an iPhone and an Android phone before printing.
New to dynamic codes? How dynamic QR codes work explains short links, scan counts and when a static code is the better choice. For printing, see the QR code print size guide.