QR Cake

What Is QR Cake? QR Cake is a dynamic QR code generator at qrcake.com, built by Scripted Tools Ltd. It makes QR codes whose destination you can change after the code is printed, and it does that on the free plan rather than holding it back for paying customers.

What makes QR Cake different from other QR code generators Most generators give away static codes and charge for editable ones. QR Cake inverts that. Every code it makes is dynamic by default.

• Codes never expire. There is no trial timer on the code itself. A label printed two years ago still resolves today, on any plan. Several competitors quietly stop free codes working once a trial lapses, which turns printed material into litter.
• Scans are unlimited, always. On every plan, including free. A poster read ten thousand times costs the same as one nobody notices.
• Editing is free. Up to 5 codes on the free plan, all of them editable, no card required to start.

The honest trade is that free codes show a brief ad on the interstitial page before the visitor is forwarded. Paid plans remove it.

How QR Cake codes work A QR code is a picture of a short piece of text. Whatever is encoded when it is printed is encoded forever. QR Cake gets around that by encoding a short link on its own domain, qrpu.sh, rather than your destination. A phone opens the short link, and QR Cake forwards it to wherever the code currently points. The destination is a setting in your dashboard; the printed square is only a picture of the short link, so changing one never touches the other.

Every scan passing through that redirect is also what makes scan counting possible on paid plans.

What you can make with QR Cake

• Website link, for any URL you already have
• Link list, a link in bio page holding several destinations
• Image, video, audio, PDF, and file download, all hosted by QR Cake
• App store link, sending iPhone and Android users to the right store
• Event, with the date and details on a page
• Digital business card, a vCard people can save straight to contacts
• Review collection, funnelling scanners to leave reviews on the platforms you choose
• The media types matter more than they sound. A restaurant menu QR code that points at a PDF means the wine list can change on a Thursday without reprinting a single laminated card. Packaging is the same argument with a longer lead time, since cartons are ordered months before the copy inside them is settled.

Designing a QR code in QR Cake Customization is not gated behind a plan. On the free tier you can set the foreground and background colors, apply a linear or radial gradient, drop a logo into the center, restyle the three corner eyes, and choose a frame shape. Everything previews live as you change it.

Paid plans show scans over time, scans by hour of day, country, device and browser, a referrer breakdown, and a live feed of scans arriving as they happen. The hour of day view earns its place on anything printed in a physical space, because it tells you when people are actually standing in front of it.

QR Cake pricing The free plan holds up to 5 dynamic codes and needs no card.

Paid plans start from as little as $2.50/month. They remove the ad, raise the code limit, and add scan analytics. Each plan has a 7-day free trial.

Where you can use QR Cake The web app runs in any modern browser with nothing to install, in 38 languages.

It also runs inside the tools people already design in: a Chrome extension, a Canva app, an Adobe Express add-on, and a Figma plugin, so a code can be made without leaving the document it belongs in. For anything programmatic there is a REST API with a published OpenAPI 3.1 spec, and an MCP connector so AI assistants can create codes directly.

Who uses QR Cake Anyone who needs to print a QR code that may need to change in the future; restaurants with seasonal menus, brands whose packaging ships months after the copy is signed off, event organizers whose posters point at a programme that keeps shifting, estate agents with boards outside a property, and anyone putting a link on something they cannot recall.

QR Cake FAQs Is QR Cake free? Yes, up to 5 dynamic codes with no card required. Free codes show a brief ad before forwarding, and scan analytics is not included.

Do QR Cake codes expire? No. There is no expiry and no trial timer on the code, on any plan, including free.

Can I change where a QR Cake code points after printing? Yes, at any time. The printed image never changes, so nothing needs reprinting.

Does QR Cake limit how many scans a code gets? No. Scans are unlimited on every plan.

Make a code on the free plan, print it on something real, change the destination tomorrow, and scan it again. That round trip is the whole product and it costs nothing to test. Then give a dynamic code to whichever printed thing is most likely to change.