“Bait and switch — The ad states it’s free. It is only free to download. Most apps are free to download. They want 35$ a month to use this. What a joke.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 251 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★15,728 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
104 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
The #1 QR Reader - QR code scanning, made simple and easy.
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FEATURES
- QR Code Scanner - Create your own QR Codes - Barcode Scanner (Scan coupons & Food labels) - Share QR Codes - Auto Scan
Use our app to scan any QR code and get the information you need fast! Create and share QR Codes for yourself and friends! Archive and save all QR Codes you have ever scanned or created.
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* SUBSCRIPTIONS
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Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 1.65 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.65, updated 2026-05-14.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (4 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (2.4% of 251 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Awful — Very poor instructions! CHINA AGAIN!! Dont waste your hard earned money. Couldnt get an answer n phn number provided. Very poor customer service! Said no fee for camera on own network cant get the camera to connect after…”
“Rip off — I bought 3 drones. The product n ver said we had to purchase a scanner app for $$$. False advertisement. You people should be reported and prosecuted by the Federal Trade Commission.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.65.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.