Wi-Fi QR Code Generator

Free Wi-Fi QR code generator. Put your network name and password into a QR code that connects a phone with one scan, no typing. Everything happens in your browser — the password is never sent anywhere.

Exactly as it appears in the list of networks, including capitals and spaces.
The blank border around the code. The standard asks for 4; below that, scanners start to miss it.
The text a phone reads. The backslashes are escapes, not part of your password.

What it does

A Wi-Fi QR code is not magic and not a login: it is a short line of text holding the network name, the password and the security type. A phone that reads it fills in the connection dialog for you. That also means the password is in plain sight to anyone who scans the code — which is fine for a cafe wall or a guest network, and a bad idea for the network your work laptop lives on.

How to use it

  1. Type the network name exactly as it appears when you look for Wi-Fi.
  2. Choose the security type and enter the password. Almost every modern network is WPA.
  3. Download the code and print it, or show it on screen for someone to scan.

Frequently asked questions

Which security type should I pick?
WPA, unless you know otherwise. The same option covers WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 — phones work it out from the network itself. WEP only exists for equipment old enough that it should not be carrying anything you care about. Open is for networks with no password at all.

Is it safe to print this?
The password is inside the code as readable text, so anyone who scans it can also read it. That is exactly what you want on a cafe wall and exactly what you do not want on the network your computers are on. Many routers offer a separate guest network — that is the one to put on the wall.

It does not connect. What went wrong?
Nine times out of ten the network name is slightly off — a capital letter, an extra space, a dash instead of an underscore. The name has to match character for character. Check too that the phone is in range: the code fills in the dialog, it cannot reach a network that is not there.

My password has a semicolon or a backslash. Does that break it?
Not here. Those characters are separators in the Wi-Fi format, so they have to be escaped, and this page does it for you — that is why you may see extra backslashes in the box above. Type the password exactly as it is; generators that skip this step produce codes that fail on precisely those passwords.

Wikipedia — QR code
Wikipedia — Wi-Fi Protected Access
Wikipedia — SSID