Best QR code generators with analytics in 2026: scan tracking, priced and compared

Scan analytics come from the redirect: a dynamic QR code encodes a short link on the vendor’s domain, the vendor logs each visit before forwarding it to your page, and the dashboard is a view of that log. What you pay for is which fields the log keeps, how long you can see them, and what leaves the dashboard. The full ranking scores the same tools on our common grid; the dynamic guide covers what happens when you stop paying, and the free generators guide covers static codes, which carry no analytics at all.

Why each pick fits

Oh My Code: analytics on the cheapest plan, billed monthly

Tested by us September 21, 2026 · two controlled browser visits counted; exports and history not tested

Oh My Code’s The Boss, one step above the entry plan The Friendly, lifts codes, scans and users to unlimited at $14.99 a month; both plans also exist as one-time purchases, at $59 and $169. Our two visits were a small series, not a campaign: exports, history length and cross-device deduplication were not validated, and we have not configured a pixel. Skip it if a public code will pass 500 scans a month and you want to stay on the entry plan. Oh My Code review · Account test

Uniqode: the deepest analytics and the longest history

From the vendor's pages September 22, 2026 · help center; no dashboard tested

Uniqode has no monthly billing and no free dynamic tier: Essential’s $9 a month is paid as $108 upfront, the ladder runs to Core at $49, Plus at $99 and Business+ at $399, and trial codes deactivate at day 14. Email reports come with every plan. Uniqode review

Hovercode: free total and unique scans

From the vendor's pages September 22, 2026 · pricing FAQ; no dashboard tested

Hovercode hosts its data in Frankfurt, which matters if the scan log is personal data under your rules. Pro is 9.17 EUR a month billed yearly; Business adds API access, and its unlimited history lasts while the subscription is active. Skip it if you need device or location data without paying. Hovercode review

Flowcode: campaign attribution, metered by scans

From the vendor's pages September 22, 2026 · plan comparison; no dashboard tested

Flowcode is built for attribution rather than for QR codes: its plan comparison also lists landing page clicks and scheduled email reports, with custom tracking pixels on the Enterprise line, priced on quote. Pro Plus is $60 billed monthly for 50 codes; Growth is annual only. The comparison marks which paid plan unlocks each export with a check mark, not in text, so confirm it before you buy. Flowcode review

Scanova: Google Analytics and webhooks on a $9 plan

From the vendor's pages September 22, 2026 · pricing grid; dashboard behind signup, not tested

Scanova’s Lite is the cheapest documented route from a QR dashboard into your own tools. Standard, $50 billed monthly, also adds event and click tracking and PDF, image and Excel exports. The dashboard sits behind signup, so none of this is measured. Skip it if you were going to buy Basic for its analytics. Scanova review

QR Code Generator by Bitly: 10,000 scans on an entry plan

From the vendor's pages September 22, 2026 · pricing page tracking line; prices read August 10; no account

QR Code Generator by Bitly’s 10,000 scans are the largest allowance on any entry plan we track, with a 14-day trial. The vendor says trial codes deactivate when the trial ends, so a code printed during the trial loses its numbers. QR Code Generator by Bitly review · Oh My Code vs QR Code Generator by Bitly

Analytics by tool

One row per dynamic platform, in alphabetical order. The score is the analytics criterion of our grid, out of 10, with its evidence type. Entry plan = the cheapest paid QR tier per tool. "Not documented" means the vendor pages we read do not state it; "?" means no check was made. Dimensions are the ones the vendor documents, except where the row note cites our account test: that row also reflects what we saw, and Oh My Code's dimensions are only the ones we observed. A score marked Hands-on means we also watched a small series of scans in that dashboard (see the review); no scan campaign has been run. Entry prices sit in the pricing index. Static-only generators with no scan tracking are outside this table: Adobe Express, QR Code Monkey, QRzie, covered in the free generators guide.

How long can you see your scans?

It depends on the plan, and history is what most vendors charge for. Uniqode keeps 60 days on Essential, 90 on Core, 180 on Plus and everything on Business+; its second brand, The QR Code Generator, keeps 14 days on Free, 60 on Flex at 4.50 EUR a month billed yearly, 90 on Core and 180 on Plus. Scanova keeps 30 days of totals on Basic and everything from Lite; Hovercode, 3 months on Free, 12 on Pro and all of it on Business; ME-QR, a year on its free plan, with an ad on every scan, and three on paid plans. Flowcode meters scans rather than months. Oh My Code, QR Code Generator by Bitly, QRFY, QR.io and QR Tiger state no limit on the pages we read, which is not the same as promising one.

Before printing, decide how long after the campaign you will still want the numbers, and buy that many days: a code on a shop window collects scans for years.

What counts as a scan, and as a unique scan?

In every dashboard we read, a scan is a visit to the redirect link, so opening the link from a browser counts the same as a phone camera; that is how our Oh My Code series was produced. Unique scans are counted by each vendor’s own method: Hovercode’s FAQ says one person scanning several times counts once, and none of the vendor pages we read document how the same person is recognized across days or devices, so treat the unique count as an estimate, not a headcount. By default, location is estimated from the network address, which Hovercode calls an estimate that is not always accurate; GPS-level positions depend on the scanning device agreeing to share its position, and a dashboard cannot know that a scanner refused.

Can you get scan analytics for free?

Yes, with limits. Each free plan reports something different and carries its own catch:

• Hovercode: total and unique scans on 3 codes, 3 months of history, no ads.
• Flowcode: device, time and date on 2 codes for the first 500 scans only; no ads, and a lifetime scan promise on every tier.
• ME-QR: scans, cities and device types on 10,000 codes with a 1-year history; the person scanning sees an interstitial ad.
• The QR Code Generator: scans, unique users, cities and devices on 2 codes; 14 days of history, a 3-second ad on every scan.
• QR Planet: one free dynamic code that never expires, capped at 50 scans a day; its features page documents scan analytics and GPS without saying if the free code gets them.
• QR Tiger: 3 codes after registration, with a published cap of 500 scans each. Our September 29 test recorded five accesses, two uniques, the expected iOS/PC split and a matching CSV, with country FR and city blank; this small sample does not establish location accuracy or retention.
• Canva: nothing on a free or Pro code; Insights need Business, Enterprise or Nonprofit.
• QRStuff: an analytics toggle comes pre-checked on the anonymous free code, which the vendor limits to 7 days and 10 scans; ours died on day 10 (log).

Can you track a static code?

Not through the generator, because the generator is not in the path: QR Code Monkey, QRzie and Adobe Express score zero on analytics for that reason. Two routes still give you numbers: UTM parameters on the destination URL, read as sessions in your own analytics, which costs nothing and survives every vendor; or a short path on a domain you own, whose redirect you log yourself, which also keeps the code alive if you change tools. Neither gives a per-scan device or location breakdown unless your own analytics do; the free generators guide covers both.

Retargeting pixels, consent and integrations

Three vendors document retargeting pixels in the pages we read. Oh My Code ships Meta, GA4 and Google Ads pixels with The Boss, per its article of July 2, 2026: you paste the pixel or tag ID into a dynamic code’s settings and it fires on scan, before the redirect. QRFY lists Google and Facebook pixel integrations on every plan, behind a 7-day trial that locks codes until you pay for a 3-, 6- or 12-month plan upfront. Flowcode puts custom tracking pixels on its Enterprise line only. Uniqode’s pricing page mentions retargeting without documenting a pixel.

Only Oh My Code’s article describes consent: every scan of a code with a pixel goes through a consent page, no tag fires before consent, and a person who declines still reaches the destination. QRFY’s and Flowcode’s pages do not say. A person who scans a poster has not seen a cookie banner, and the redirect happens before your page loads, so ask for the mechanism before enabling pixels on codes displayed in the EU or the UK, and test it yourself: we have not.

To get data out without pixels, Scanova documents Google Analytics and webhooks from Lite and Zapier from Standard; Flowcode lists webhooks and S3 delivery; Hovercode adds webhooks on Business Plus; QR Planet documents webhooks and an MCP server; QRStuff lists Slack, monday.com and Gmail. Uniqode’s help center describes email reports and CSV rather than integrations, which is worth knowing at $108 upfront.

The ones to think twice about

• Canva’s Pro plan, 12 EUR a month, reports nothing on its QR codes.
• QR.io charges $39.99 a month for scan counts with time and location; its pages document no device breakdown, although our small account test showed one.
• QRStuff’s Lite Suite, $10 a month, caps every code at 200 scans; its $250 Enterprise card lists limited analytics.
• QRFY, QR.io and QR Code Generator by Bitly lock or deactivate trial codes, so a code printed during the trial loses its numbers with its redirect.

Analytics, in one rule

Buy the number of days, not the list of fields. Between a $5 plan and a $99 one, what changes is how long you can look back, what you can export, and whether the data can leave through Google Analytics, a webhook or a CSV. If the destination will never change and a session count is enough, a free static code with UTM parameters gives you that for nothing. The dynamic guide explains what the redirect costs you when you stop paying, and the pricing index lists every entry price with its date.