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Qrafter reached one million downloads in eleven months
Jan 6th
Qrafter has been available on the App Store since January 29, 2011. It has reached and passed one million downloads in eleven months, just before celebrating its first birthday. I am really happy to see its name being passed around on social sites, being considered as one of the best QR Code readers/generators on the market. It is currently the most widely used QR Code app for education, from elementary schools to MBA programs.
Thank you all for your support, this encourages me to continue to add new features to both Qrafter and Qrafter Pro as fast as possible.
Happy new year everyone! 
Difference between Qrafter and Qrafter Pro
Oct 6th
You’ll see that Qrafter now has two versions, Qrafter and Qrafter Pro. Qrafter is a FREE app and Qrafter Pro is $2.99. Why two versions?
The two apps share the exact same code base. Qrafter is a FREE scanner and if you want to create QR Codes or download vCards, you need to purchase its in app purchase called Pro Pack. Qrafter Pro on the other hand, comes with Pro Pack enabled when you purchase it.
So if you want to get into QR Codes and test them, download Qrafter. After getting used to this technology, if you want to create QR Codes on your device, purchase Pro Pack directly inside Qrafter or uninstall the app and purchase Qrafter Pro.
Qrafter Pro was created so that educational institutions can benefit from volume discounts. Also some people like to purchase full apps directly from the App Store instead of using in app purchases. So these two versions will cover all bases.
You can download Qrafter from here and Qrafter Pro from here.
Qrafter and Qrafter Pro 4.0 for iPhone and iPad released
Oct 6th
Today Qrafter and Qrafter Pro 4.0 were released on the App Store. The highlights of this version are:
- A new and great looking icon thanks to Walter Krivanek
- New QR Code settings pane, that includes error correction level, margin size and character encoding settings
- A new scan mode called Batch Scan which lets you scan multiple QR Codes without reinitializing the scanner
- A new uniform color scheme
- Internationalized Domain Name support
You can download Qrafter from here and Qrafter Pro from here.
Qrafter 3.1 for iPhone and iPad released
Sep 2nd
Qrafter 3.1, the social media edition is now ready for your iPhone and iPad. Here are the changes:
- This version has a new scanner mechanism, which initializes more than 4 times faster, meaning it will be ready under a second.
- Added Facebook integration
- Revamped Twitter integration
- Both Facebook and Twitter integrations let you post your scanned or generated QR Code images directly from inside the app. Both use the native APIs that the social sites provide to developers, which means no additional service or configuration is required
- Made the restoration process of the Pro Pack easier, so that you can enjoy it on multiple devices.
You can download Qrafter by clicking the badge below:
Qrafter 3.0 for iPhone and iPad released
Jul 24th
Qrafter reached v3.0. The iPhone version has not changed too much, but adding a brand new iPad interface and so making the app universal, I changed the version to v3.0 instead of v2.1. With this version, comes a few changes:
- The app is now universal, and it has a brand new iPad interface. It is the first QR Code app that has been designed from ground up for iPad, instead of taking the iPhone version and making it bigger.
- Ad Removal in app purchase has gone, Advanced Functionality Pack has been renamed to Pro Pack and it now both removes ads and unlocks advanced features.
- Before v3.0, you weren’t able to regenerate scanned QR Codes if you had not purchased the Pro Pack, but with this version, you’ll be able to regenerate them without purchasing the Pro Pack. To send, save or print those QR Codes, you’ll still need to purchase the Pro Pack though.
You can download Qrafter by clicking the badge below:
Qrafter reached version 2 in only five months
Jun 21st
Qrafter first appeared on the App Store at the end of January 2011 and got a lot of positive feedback from its users and the QR Code community as a newcomer. It is the highest rated and most useful QR Code app on the App Store and I am doing my best to keep it that way.
Now, we are at the end of June, and Qrafter has already reached version 2. I promised a complete and robust QR Code generator when I first put it on the App Store and after five months, it is ready for use. Here are some facts about it:
- It can encode many different content types into the QR Code including URLs, your location, contact information from address books including Exchange and Gmail, and more.
- It can change the color of the QR Code it creates.
- It can save the QR Code to your photo albums, can email it, and it can even print it directly from inside the app to AirPrint supporting printers.
- It can encode non-ASCII characters and even Japanese, Cyrillic and Hebrew characters unlike other inferior generators.
- It works offline, so you don’t need any network connectivity to create QR Codes whatsoever.
Still evolving…
May 26th
Two dimensional codes are getting out of control. Facebook started experimenting with QR Codes, other 2D codes are being widely used in the industry, so my little generator evolves again.
This time I added Aztec Code support to the generator. Also, I now have the possibilty to add more than 50 other symbologies thanks to another great open source software called Zint.
So the generator name changes for the last time (I hope 
). Now you can create your two dimensional codes using QR Code and 2D Code Generator!
Have fun!
PHP QR Code Generator evolves!
Mar 12th
PHP QR Code Generator page is the most visited page on my blog. It has evolved from a small page with a few features into a full featured real time generator on which you can choose from a lot of actions for your device and create different image types, even vector images. As far as I know, there are no free generators on the internet that can match its features, and it is also better than most of the paid ones.
It even works on new generation mobile phones like iPhone or Nexus One.
And as of today, it can also create Data Matrix codes, thanks to the folks who have created the wonderful libdmtx library. So, I have made a name change on the page.
It is now called PHP QR Code and Data Matrix Generator. I hope it continues to prove useful to everyone who use it.
Oh, Smashing Magazine, what hast thou done?
Jan 16th
PHP QR Code Generator page was posted on the twitter account of Smashing Magazine, and the traffic of this humble blog has risen twenty-fold! Not that I am complaining…
The page seems to be useful to a lot of people, so I will probably add new features to it when I find spare time.
New PHP QR Code Generator Page
Jul 11th
Checking my blog stats, I saw that most people come to my Real Time QR Code Generator PHP Function post. So, I decided to create a decent page for QR Code generation instead of linking to a URL which accepts only base64 encoded variables. The new page is PHP QR Code Generator page, and now you can, not only create an image that redirects you to a web address, but also can call a phone number, send an sms and send an e-mail. Also you can just encode plain text into a QR Code image.
UPDATE: vCard and bookmarks creation added.
Hope it proves to be useful for some people out there.
