VCARD 3.0 AND 4.0

vCard QR code generator

One scan saves your full contact card — name, number, email — into iOS or Android contacts. Offered in vCard 3.0 and 4.0, because they import differently.

A vCard QR code stores a contact card — name, phone, email, address — that a phone offers to save to its contacts.

Add the content

Full name

Phone

Email

Organisation

Job title

Website

Birthday

Street address

City

Region or state

ZIP or postcode

Country

Another number

Social profile

Note

vCard version

vCard 3.0 — the safe default. Imports cleanly into iOS Contacts, Google Contacts and Outlook.

Style this code

Style this code — colour, shape, branding, frame and output

Colour & contrastThe ink, the paper behind it, and the three eyes. Every choice is contrast-checked as you make it.

Foreground

18.0:1 against the background — clears the 4.5:1 a camera wants margin on.

Background

Transparency0%

Eye colours

ShapeHow the squares are drawn. The three eyes are styled apart from the data, because a scanner finds the code by them.

Modules

Every shape here is decode-tested before it is offered. Shapes that lose the symbol — diamond, star, heart — are not on this list, however good they look.

Eye frame

Eye centre

BrandingYour mark on the code. Every picture here costs scanability — the notes say how much, and the preview is the truth.

Logo image

Upload a logo

PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 2MB. The modules beneath it are cleared and error correction rises to cover the hole.

Background picture

Upload a picture

Sits behind the modules, quiet zone included. A busy picture is the classic reason a decorated code stops scanning — check the preview with a phone before printing.

Foreground texture

Upload a texture

Washes over the ink itself, so it is capped well below full strength — at full strength there is no code left to scan.

Frame & captionA border and a line of text around the code — the "scan me" that tells a passer-by what it is for.

Frame style

A frame is drawn outside the quiet zone, never into it — the canvas grows instead, so the border cannot cost the code its margin.

OutputWhat comes out of the download buttons, and what the symbol actually carries.

Options

PNG size

Margin4 modulesError correctionEncoding

Automatic picks the smallest encoding that carries your text, and is right almost always. The other three exist for older scanners that expect one specific encoding; each refuses text it cannot carry rather than mangling it. Encodings we cannot convert to correctly are not offered at all.The margin never goes below 4 — ISO/IEC 18004's minimum; smaller is not a QR code. A logo raises error correction to at least Q. Encoding is chosen by the encoder per symbol and shown in the readout — a manual charset menu only makes codes bigger.

Embedded data

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Sharma;Priya;;;
FN:Priya Sharma
TEL;TYPE=cell:+91 00000 00000
EMAIL:[email protected]
END:VCARD

The exact text the symbol carries — what any scanner will read out.

Save this design — free account, the code stays editable →

Your code

v745×45 modulesmixedEC-M124/124mask 1

4/4 4 of 4 checks passHow we measure

Print-ready PDF

A press file at the finished size: 3mm bleed, crop marks and a trim box a print shop’s checks read. The code is drawn black on white whatever the design above — how a colour prints is something only a test print can show.

Format

No account · no watermark · no scan limits

How big should a vCard QR code be printed?

A contact card is one of the largest static payloads: even name, phone and email pushes the code to version 4 or higher. That means more modules and a larger minimum print size — the readout under the preview shows both live. For business cards, consider the hosted digital business card instead: it encodes a short link, stays at version 2, and you can update your details after printing.

3.0 or 4.0?

vCard 3.0 imports cleanly into iOS Contacts, Google Contacts and Outlook, and is what we recommend by default. vCard 4.0 adds structured fields but Android’s stock importer is stricter with it. The table below shows what each OS actually keeps on import.

For teams

Generating cards for a whole team is a bulk job: upload a CSV of names and numbers, apply one design, and every card is scanability-scored before export.

What imports where

	iOS Contacts	Google Contacts
Name, phone, email	✓ Imports	✓ Imports
Company and title	✓ Imports	✓ Imports
Photo (embedded)	⚠ Bloats the code	⚠ Bloats the code
Social profiles (4.0)	⚠ Partial	✗ Dropped

vCard QR code questions

Can I update my details after printing?

Not with a static vCard — the data is inside the code. The hosted digital business card is the editable version: the code carries a short link, and the card behind it stays yours to change.

Why is my vCard QR so dense?

Every field adds bytes, and the code grows in versions to fit them. Keep to name, one number and one email for a printable code, or switch to the hosted card.

Should I embed a photo?

No. An embedded photo multiplies the payload and typically makes the code unprintable at business-card size. Hosted cards show photos without touching the QR payload.

Does it work without internet?

Yes — a static vCard is fully offline. The phone reads the contact straight out of the code.

Example vCard QR code made with this generator, decode-tested, not scored — An example vCard QR code from this generator — the same code the preview above shows, decoded before it was published.

Built to ISO/IEC 18004:2024 (the QR code symbology) · RFC 6350 (vCard 4.0)

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