Universal Code Scanner5.0 - App Store

Universal Scanner is a privacy focused, simple and lightweight application for verifying the content of a wide range of 2d codes. The main features are:
- Displays code type and raw content (as text or hex)
- Option to check scanned URLs against phishing (Quishing)
- Converts EPC QR codes (SEPA transfers) to 'bank://' or 'payto://' URL (useful if your banking app does not support EPC codes)
- Converts Swiss QR codes (QR-bill) to 'payto://' or 'bank://' URL
- Import of calendar entries (vCalendar) and contacts (vCard)
- Optional: send scans to a browser in the local network
- Share raw data or converted data with Airdrop
- No user tracking
- No analytics
- No ads
- No in-app purchases (voluntary donations only)
- No automatic opening of links (could be enabled in settings)
- Scan history optional and disabled by default
- Small download size

Supported code types:
QR, EAN8, UPCE, Aztec, EAN13, ITF14, Code39, Code93, PDF417, Code128, DataMatrix, Code39Mod43, Interleaved2of5, Codabar, MicroQR, MicroPDF417, GS1DataBar, GS1DataBarLimited, GS1DataBarExtended

Version History - New: Scans can be sent to a browser in the local network, e.g. on your computer. Can be enabled in Settings.

- Support for Swiss QR codes (QR-bill)

- Support for calendar entries (vCalendar)

- Raw data can be shown as hex

- Further improvements and bug fixes 5.0 Oct 1 - Introducing Scan History: Your scanned codes are now saved automatically - up to 200 items. Auto-save is disabled by default and can be enabled in Settings.

- Bug fixes for older iPad models. 4.1 May 10 - Added zoom and focus point of interest (single tap in preview)

- New settings to restore last zoom and light

- Generic support for url schemes (containing '://')

- Show additional technical details for Aztec, PDF471 and DataMatrix codes

- Bugfix for Camera orientation

- New app icon 4.0 12/05/2025 - Improved scanning performance, especially for very close and small codes 3.2 11/15/2025 - Short-URLs like bit.ly, t.co and many others will be resolved to their target url and checked for phishing 3.1 08/28/2025 - Option to check scanned URLs against phishing (Quishing)
- Small bugfixes 3.0 07/25/2025 - Improvement to determine already encoded URL´s
- For QR codes Mode and Version are shown
- Show Binary content of QR codes if no usable information was found 2.7 11/25/2024 - Small improvement for EPC codes with spaces in iban and bic 2.6 07/13/2024 - The code type is now also included when sharing raw data
- Support for code content GEO: 2.5 04/28/2024 - Display of TSE data (KassenSichV), often found on receipts. There is no validation/check, only a readable view of the data contained. Only the "Kassenbeleg-V1" transaction is supported. 2.4 04/14/2024 - Support for MECARD:
- Always try to convert the raw data, not only for QR codes (e.g. MECARD: content in Aztec codes) 2.3 04/11/2024 - Show error correction level (L, M, Q, H) for QR codes 2.2 04/05/2024 - Added support for WIFI-QR codes
- Bugfixes 2.1 04/03/2024 - Added support for new code types: Codabar, MicroQR, MicroPDF417, GS1DataBar, GS1DataBarLimited, GS1DataBarExtended
- New content recognition for QR codes with type: VCARD, SMSTO, TEL, MATMSG, MAILTO, SMTP
- While scanning you could manually switch on the camera light
- New option to switch on/off haptic feedback when a code is recognized 2.0 04/01/2024 - Bugfix for handling non-standard QR codes 1.7 03/17/2024 New in this version:

- Added privacy policy link in settings 1.6 10/03/2023 New in this version:

- Switch between front and rear camera

- Landscape orientation for iPads 1.5 12/14/2022 New in this version:

- Bugfix for Remittance Information 1.4 05/17/2022 New in this version:

- New setting if you want to scan in full screen or in a smaller frame (smaller frame is default) 1.3 04/27/2022 New in this version:

- Bugfix for settings page 1.2 04/18/2022 1.0 04/12/2022