Social Media QR Code Generator

A social media QR code opens your profile on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook or another network, so someone can follow you without searching for your handle.

Type the handle without the @, or paste the whole profile link and the tool uses it as-is.

Fill in: Handle or profile link

A social media QR code is a plain link code whose link happens to be a profile address. Scanning it opens Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Telegram or Snapchat at your page, in the app when the app is installed and in a browser when it is not. It saves the scanner from spelling a handle correctly from across a room.

How to make a Social Media QR Code

  1. Pick the network from the list — the tool builds the profile address in the shape that network uses.
  2. Type your handle without the @, or paste the whole profile link if you would rather copy it than retype it.
  3. Scan the preview with a phone that is not signed in to that account, so you see what a stranger sees.
  4. Download the SVG and put it where someone is standing still — a table tent, a counter card, the back of a receipt.

Ways to send someone from print to your profile

What the code points atWorks from printSurvives a handle changeNeeds something else set up
The profile itselfYesNoNo
A link-in-bio pageYes, and you edit the pageYesYes — a link-in-bio account
A page on your own websiteYes, and you edit the pageYesYes — a website
The handle printed as textYesNoNo

Frequently asked questions

Can one code point at more than one network?

No. A QR code holds one address, so it opens one profile. If you want Instagram and YouTube on the same poster, point the code at a link-in-bio page or a page on your own site that lists both, and print that one code.

Do I type the @ before my handle?

Either way works. The tool removes a leading @ before building the address, and adds one back for YouTube and TikTok, which need it in the URL. If you paste a full profile link instead, the tool uses that link exactly as you pasted it.

Does it open the app or the browser?

That depends on the scanner's phone. If the app is installed, most phones hand the link to the app; if it is not, the link opens the profile page in a browser, where the network usually asks them to install or sign in.

What happens if I change my handle later?

The printed code breaks. The old handle is written inside it, and the network will not forward the address to your new one. If you expect to rename, point the code at a page you control instead of at the profile.

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