SNAPCHAT

QR code to add someone on Snapchat

An add-me link in a plain code, readable by any camera — unlike a Snapcode, which only Snapchat can read.

A Snapchat QR code stores a link to a Snapchat profile, which a phone opens on Snapchat’s add-friend screen.

Add the content

UsernameThe public username. Not a display name and not a phone number.

Style this code

Style this code — colour, shape, branding, frame and output

Colour & contrastThe ink, the paper behind it, and the three eyes. Every choice is contrast-checked as you make it.

Foreground

18.0:1 against the background — clears the 4.5:1 a camera wants margin on.

Background

Transparency0%

Eye colours

ShapeHow the squares are drawn. The three eyes are styled apart from the data, because a scanner finds the code by them.

Modules

Every shape here is decode-tested before it is offered. Shapes that lose the symbol — diamond, star, heart — are not on this list, however good they look.

Eye frame

Eye centre

BrandingYour mark on the code. Every picture here costs scanability — the notes say how much, and the preview is the truth.

Logo image

Upload a logo

PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 2MB. The modules beneath it are cleared and error correction rises to cover the hole.

Background picture

Upload a picture

Sits behind the modules, quiet zone included. A busy picture is the classic reason a decorated code stops scanning — check the preview with a phone before printing.

Foreground texture

Upload a texture

Washes over the ink itself, so it is capped well below full strength — at full strength there is no code left to scan.

Frame & captionA border and a line of text around the code — the "scan me" that tells a passer-by what it is for.

Frame style

A frame is drawn outside the quiet zone, never into it — the canvas grows instead, so the border cannot cost the code its margin.

OutputWhat comes out of the download buttons, and what the symbol actually carries.

Options

PNG size

Margin4 modulesError correctionEncoding

Automatic picks the smallest encoding that carries your text, and is right almost always. The other three exist for older scanners that expect one specific encoding; each refuses text it cannot carry rather than mangling it. Encodings we cannot convert to correctly are not offered at all.The margin never goes below 4 — ISO/IEC 18004's minimum; smaller is not a QR code. A logo raises error correction to at least Q. Encoding is chosen by the encoder per symbol and shown in the readout — a manual charset menu only makes codes bigger.

Embedded data

https://snapchat.com/add/snapchatThe exact text the symbol carries — what any scanner will read out.

Save this design — free account, the code stays editable →

Your code

v329×29 modulesbyteEC-M35/44mask 0

4/4 4 of 4 checks passHow we measure

Print-ready PDF

A press file at the finished size: 3mm bleed, crop marks and a trim box a print shop’s checks read. The code is drawn black on white whatever the design above — how a colour prints is something only a test print can show.

Format

No account · no watermark · no scan limits

A Snapcode and this are different objects

Snapchat’s own Snapcode is a proprietary dot pattern its app reads and nothing else does. This is a QR code carrying snapchat.com/add/<username>, so a stranger’s camera opens it without the app installed. On a printed sign that difference is the whole decision.

It opens an add screen, it does not add anyone

The link lands on the profile with an add button. Nothing happens without a tap, which is the behaviour you want on anything printed and handed out.

The account it names is public by construction

Printing this publishes the username to everyone who passes the sign, permanently and unrevocably. That is fine for a business account and worth a second thought for a personal one — a printed code cannot be unpublished.

Snapchat QR codes

Is this a Snapcode?

No. A Snapcode is Snapchat’s own format, scannable only in their app. This is a QR code any camera reads.

What happens without the app?

The link opens in a browser, which shows the profile and offers the app.

Can I make one from a phone number?

Not here. It would publish the number to everyone who scans, and a printed code cannot be withdrawn.

Can I use it on packaging?

Yes, and it behaves like any other link code. Snapchat’s own Snapcode carries brand styling this one does not, so check which your campaign was asked for.

Want to change it after it’s printed?

Make it a dynamic code: it carries a short link you can point somewhere new at any time, and it counts every scan. A free account includes 5 dynamic codes and needs no card — and a dynamic code keeps redirecting even if you never upgrade.

Make it dynamic, free How dynamic codes work