Free URL / Website QR Code Generator
Generate a free QR code for any website URL. Customize colors, add your logo, and download as PNG, SVG, or JPG.
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Choose a QR type
How to create a URL / Website QR code
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Copy the full web address you want to link to, including the https:// prefix.
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Paste it into the Website URL field — the live preview builds the QR code as you type.
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Fix any validation warning before continuing; the generator checks for a real domain and extension, not just a URL-shaped string.
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Open Customize appearance to set colors, pick a dot and corner style, and optionally upload a logo.
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Click Generate QR Code, then download the result as PNG, SVG, or JPG.
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Print or publish the code, and scan it yourself once before mass-printing to confirm it opens the right page.
Common uses for URL / Website QR codes
- Restaurant table cards linking to an online ordering page
- Business cards linking to a portfolio or LinkedIn profile
- Product packaging linking to a setup or how-to-use video
- Event posters linking to a registration or ticketing page
Tips for better results
- Shorten very long URLs first — less data means a simpler pattern that scans faster and more reliably.
- Test the code on a couple of different phones before printing at scale.
- A short, branded domain looks cleaner on signage than a long tracking URL.
Features
- Real domain validation
- Checks for a valid top-level domain and blocks private or local IP addresses, catching malformed links before they're baked into a printed code.
- Automatic scheme normalization
- Adds https:// automatically if you paste a bare domain, so you don't need to type it every time.
- Live preview as you type
- The QR pattern updates instantly while you edit the URL, before you even click Generate.
- Full visual customization
- Foreground and background colors, dot and corner styles, size, quiet-zone margin, error correction level, and an optional center logo.
- PNG, SVG, and JPG export
- Download in whichever format fits your use case — SVG for print at any size, PNG or JPG for digital.
Benefits
- Bridges print and digital instantly
- Turns any physical surface — packaging, signage, a printed card — into a one-scan doorway to your website.
- No app required to scan
- Every modern phone's built-in camera reads QR codes natively, so there's nothing for the person scanning to install.
- Fully private generation
- The URL never leaves your browser during generation — nothing is logged or sent to a server.
- Free with no limits
- Generate and download as many URL QR codes as you need, with no account and no watermark.
- Looks like your brand
- Color and logo customization means the code doesn't have to look like a generic black-and-white square.
Frequently asked questions
The literal web address you enter, normalized to include https:// if you left it off. When scanned, the phone's camera app reads that text and offers to open it in the default browser — nothing is shortened, redirected, or rewritten.
No. This generates a static QR code — the URL is baked directly into the black-and-white pattern. If the destination changes, you'll need to generate and reprint a new code. For a link you can repoint later, put a redirect (e.g. a URL shortener you control) behind the QR code instead of your final page.
No. Everything here runs client-side in your browser with no server round-trip, so there's no scan-tracking or analytics built in. If you need scan counts, encode a link to a redirect service that logs hits, and use that URL here.
Yes — if you leave the scheme off (e.g. "example.com"), the generator automatically adds https:// before encoding it. It won't guess at http:// for legacy sites that don't support HTTPS, so confirm your site actually serves securely first.
The validator checks for a real, resolvable-looking domain — a valid top-level extension and no private/local IP address — instead of just confirming the text looks URL-shaped. That catches typos like a missing ".com" before you print something that goes nowhere.
Yes. Any valid URL works, including deep links to a specific product page, article, or in-app path — paste the exact address you want opened.
Yes, a shortened link is just another URL. Keep in mind the QR code then depends on that shortener staying online — if it shuts down or the link expires, the code stops working even though nothing about the QR code itself changed.
Practically, yes — very long URLs (past a couple hundred characters) produce a denser QR pattern that's harder for cameras to read at a distance or in a small print size. Shortening the link first, or increasing the error correction level, both help.
Yes. Paste the store listing URL directly — scanning it opens the store app or web listing exactly like tapping the link would.
To read the code itself, no — decoding is done entirely on-device. But to actually load whatever page the URL points to, the phone needs a working connection at scan time, same as clicking any link.
QR codes encode data as a grid of modules — more characters require more modules (or a higher version), which makes the pattern visually busier and slightly harder to scan from far away. A shorter URL produces a cleaner, more scannable code.
Only if the URL itself doesn't change. If you're restructuring URLs during a redesign, set up redirects from the old paths to the new ones so QR codes already in circulation keep working.