Loxley QR & Barcode Scanner

Scan a code, and get something you can actually use. Create one, without knowing the format by heart. No ads, no accounts, no tracking, and no internet permission at all.

Three tabs: Scan, History, Create.

WHAT IT UNDERSTANDS Most scanners hand you a wall of text. This one reads what the code is and offers the matching thing to do. A wifi code gives you the network, the security type and the password, with a button through to wifi settings. A contact card offers to add the contact. A phone number offers to dial it, an email offers to write one, a location opens your maps app, a calendar entry offers to save itself. Plain text is plain text, and a product barcode gives you the number, ready to copy.

LINKS, HONESTLY A printed code tells you nothing about where it leads, and a sticker can be pasted over a real one. So a scanned link never opens straight away. You get a screen showing the domain it actually lands on in large type, the whole address underneath with nothing trimmed, and a note about anything odd it can spot: a shortening service hiding the destination, an address with no domain name, characters dressed up to look like ordinary letters, a login trick before the domain.

The app has no internet access, so it cannot check a link against any database, and it says so instead of showing you a reassuring tick it has not earned. Reading the address yourself beats a green badge from a list that has not heard of a domain registered this morning.

HISTORY Every code you scan is kept, newest first, searchable, on this phone and nowhere else. Tap one to bring it back with its buttons. Delete one, or clear the lot. Export the list as plain text or as a CSV for a spreadsheet, through the normal share sheet.

CREATE A form for each kind, not one box you have to fill with raw syntax. Wifi takes a name, a password, the security type and whether it is hidden. There are forms for contacts, email, phone, messages and locations, plus plain text and links. Six barcode types as well: EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, Code 128, Code 39 and ITF. Share the finished image, which is also how you save it.

THE REST
• A torch button, because half of scanning happens in bad light
• Scan a code out of a picture, for when someone sends you one in a screenshot
• Rescan the same code as many times as you like
• Five themes, including high contrast
• Works completely offline

WHAT IT DOES NOT DO It will not look a product barcode up for you. That needs a server, and this app has no internet access; giving it some would mean sending every code you scan to somebody. Instead, the barcode number is right there to copy, with a button that hands it to your browser to search if you want that.

THE LOXLEY PROMISE
• No ads, ever
• No tracking, no analytics, no accounts
• One permission: the camera. No internet permission, so it cannot phone home
• Free, and yours to keep

Loxley Labs makes simple tools the old way: something that does one job well, then stops. No subscriptions, no terms that change after the sale.

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