iOS app
ReleasedQR Import
Scan a QR code without leaving the app you found it in.
Overview
A QR reader and generator for iPhone and iPad with two ways in: the app itself, scanning live through the camera or from a photo, and a Share Sheet extension that decodes a code from any image or PDF wherever you find it. Long-press a QR code in Safari, Photos, Files or Mail, share it to QR Import, and read the result without opening the app at all.
What it does
- Decodes where you found it
- The Share Extension accepts any image or PDF from the system Share Sheet, so a code in a web page, an email or a document is one long-press away — no camera, no app switch.
- PDFs page by page
- A shared PDF is rendered to images and every page is scanned, which is what it takes to find the code on page four of a ticket or an invoice.
- Knows what it just read
- Payloads are classified as link, Wi-Fi, contact or plain text, so the result offers the action that actually fits — open the URL, or copy it.
- One shared history
- Scans from the extension and from the app land in the same history, held in an App Group container that both targets read and write.
- Generates codes too
- Build a QR code from any payload with square, rounded or dot modules, custom eye shapes and colours, and an optional centre logo.
- Logos without breaking the code
- Embedding a logo forces high error correction, because covering part of a code is only safe if the redundancy is there to absorb it.
Built with
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- VisionKit
- Core Image
- iOS 17+
- iPadOS
Worth knowing
Two targets, one decoder
The app and the Share Extension share the decode path, the history store and the generator, so a fix reaches both. The project is generated from a single `project.yml` with XcodeGen rather than a hand-edited Xcode project.
QR only, deliberately
The Vision request is restricted to QR symbology. Aztec, Data Matrix and PDF417 are a one-line addition, left off until something needs them.
Where it runs today
Built for iPhone and iPad on iOS 17 and later. Live camera scanning needs real hardware — the button hides itself where the camera is unavailable, so the simulator falls back to the photo picker.
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