Email QR Code Generator
A code that opens a new email addressed to you, with the subject and the first line already written — so what arrives is what you asked for.
Runs on your device — nothing you type is sent anywhereMedium — up to 15% of the code can be dirty, torn or covered and it still reads.
The blank border is part of the specification, not decoration. Below about four modules some readers stop finding the code at all.
What this code actually contains
A QR code is a way of drawing a piece of text. This is the text, exactly as a scanner reads it — useful for comparing against a code from somewhere else when one works and the other does not.
A single QR code holds around 1,800 characters at most, and fewer at higher error correction. Long text belongs on a page with the link in the code.
How it works
Three steps, no account, and nothing you type leaves your computer.
Fill in the details
The generator is already on the right kind. Everything updates as you type.
Set it up
Error correction, size, border and colours. The tool warns you when a colour pair will not scan, rather than letting a print run find out.
Download
PNG for screens, SVG for anything going to a printer at a size you do not know yet.
Where people use one
On a business card
Opens a message addressed to you rather than making somebody type an address off a card into a phone keyboard.
A job advert or a notice
With the subject pre-written, so applications arrive sorted instead of a hundred messages called "hi".
A support or returns notice
On the packaging or the receipt, with the order reference already in the subject line.
A form nobody fills in
Sometimes an email with the right subject is a better ask than a web form, and a code is quicker than either.
What an email code can and cannot decide
An email code holds a mailto: address, which is the same thing behind every email link on every website. The phone hands it to whichever mail app is set as the default and a new message opens, already addressed.
You can fill in the subject and the body as well, and this is the part worth using. A code on a job advert that opens a message with Application: warehouse assistant already in the subject line saves you sorting a hundred emails called "hi".
Which app it opens
Whichever one the phone has set as its default — and that is the phone's decision, not the code's. On an iPhone it is Apple Mail until somebody changes it, under Settings, then Gmail, then Default Mail App.
It is worth understanding why the code is not simply pointed at Gmail, because that is the obvious fix and it is the wrong one. The person scanning is usually not you. A code on a card or a window is read by strangers on their own phones, and a Gmail link would drag somebody who uses Outlook through a Google sign-in. mailto: respects whatever each person already has, which is the only sensible behaviour for something printed.
Nothing is sent when they scan
A common worry, and the answer is no. Scanning opens a draft. Nothing leaves the phone until the person presses send, and they see everything you pre-filled before they do. You cannot send an email from a QR code, and neither can anybody else.
Punctuation in the subject
An & or a % in a subject line will cut the link short in a generator that does not encode them, so the message opens with half a subject or none. Those are escaped here, along with line breaks in the body.
No redirect, and nothing to expire
Most free QR generators produce a code that does not contain your data. It contains their URL, which forwards to yours. That is sold as a feature, and it creates three problems nobody mentions on the way in: the code dies if that company does, the free tier often expires anyway, and every scan is logged by somebody you have never met.
A code made here carries the data itself. There is no lookup, no service in the middle and nothing to expire, because once the image is downloaded this page has no further part in it. The trade is real and worth stating: you cannot change it afterwards. If that matters, point a link code at a page you control and change what is on that page.
Nothing you type is sent anywhere
The encoder runs in your browser. What you type is turned into an image on your own machine and never transmitted, which you can check by disconnecting after the page loads — it carries on working.
Common questions
Which mail app will it open?
Whichever the phone has as its default. On an iPhone that is Apple Mail until you change it, under Settings, then Gmail, then Default Mail App. The code stays generic on purpose, because whoever scans it may not use the same app you do.
Does scanning it send an email?
No. It opens a draft with everything you pre-filled visible, and nothing leaves the phone until the person presses send.
Can I fill in the subject and message?
Yes, and it is the most useful part. A pre-written subject means what arrives is already sorted.
Will an ampersand in the subject break it?
Not here. Characters that would otherwise cut the link short are encoded, along with line breaks in the message body.
Is my address sent anywhere?
No. The code is built in your browser and the address is turned into an image on your own machine.
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