About QR Scanner (PFA)
QR Codes become more and more important. In some areas they have even replaced the traditional barcode. A QR Code is able to store up to seven thousand characters and therefore is qualified for more complex content, e.g....
QR Codes become more and more important. In some areas they have even replaced the traditional barcode. A QR Code is able to store up to seven thousand characters and therefore is qualified for more complex content, e.g. vCards. Hence nowadays QR Codes can nowadays be found on nearly every advertisement poster and animate the user to scan it with his smartphone. Thus, it is no longer necessary take a hand written note, it is enough to scan the QR Code. Correspondingly, there are already many QR Code scanner apps available in the Google Play Store. It belongs to the Privacy Friendly Apps group developed by the research group SECUSO at Technische Universität Darmstadt. More information can be found an secuso.org/pfa
Our Privacy Friendly QR Scanner App differs with respect to two aspects:
1. The Privacy Friendly QR Scanner App only requires the minimum amount of permissions, namely:
Most of the QR Code scanner apps available in the Google Play Store need several permissions on top of the ones needed: e.g. reading contacts or your call log and retrieving data from the Internet. Most of these requirements are not necessary for the functionality they actually are supposed to provide.
2. The Privacy Friendly QR Scanner App supports its users in detecting malicious links: QR Codes provide new possibilities for an attacker, as QR Codes can contain malicious links, i.e. links to phishing webpages or webpages from which malware would automatically be downloaded. Therefore it is important to carefully check the link before accessing the corresponding webpage. Since it is difficult for the user to spot malicious links, the Privacy friendly QR Scanner App supports the user by highlighting the domain (e.g. in that case for https://www.secuso.org, secuso.org would be highlighted). To avoid not checking the link and in particular the highlighted domain carefully, the app provides information about possible fraud and its users need to confirm that they checked the link and it is trustworthy. Note, the information shown after scanning an URL based QR Code is not customized for every URL. Hence, it should be considered as an advice for the user how to behave in general.
The Privacy Friendly QR Scanner App supports most of the usual qr code types. Bar codes and other widely used codes are also supported.
The app belongs to the group of privacy friendly apps, that are developed by the SECUSO research group. More information can be found at https://secuso.org/pfa
You can reach us via
Twitter - @SECUSOResearch https://twitter.com/secusoresearch
Mastodon - @SECUSO_Research@bawü.social https://xn--baw-joa.social/@SECUSO_Research/
Job opening - https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/Job_Offers_1557.php
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of QR Scanner (PFA) since it was posted on our website on 2016-10-01 05:18:49.
The latest version is 4.6.0 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 13:12:28. See below the changes in each version.
QR Scanner (PFA) version 4.6.0
Updated At: 2024-03-26
Changes: - Improved translations
- Support for new languages: Catalan, Czech
Many thanks to the community who contributed the translations!
QR Scanner (PFA) version 4.5.9
Updated At: 2024-01-24
Changes: Fixed a bug when scanning a qr code containing contact information
QR Scanner (PFA) version 4.5.8
Updated At: 2024-01-24
Changes: - Bug fixes and improvements
QR Scanner (PFA) version 4.5.7
Updated At: 2024-01-17
Changes: - Added camera selector button
- Added zoom functionality
- Add option to share text with the qr generator to quickly generate qr codes
- Add option to delete multiple entries in scan history at once
- Other bug fixes and improvements
QR Scanner (PFA) version 4.4.0
Updated At: 2023-11-08
Changes: Many new languages are supported in this version: French, Japanese, Turkish, Danish, Galician, Polish, Chinese.
Many thanks to the community who contributed the translations!
QR Scanner (PFA) version 4.3.0
Updated At: 2023-08-30
Changes: - Added icon for maxicode
- Added setting to manually select dark/light mode
- Added monochrome icon variant for Android 13
- Added option to connect to Wi-Fi (Android 11+)
- Added button to save generated codes to history
- Fixed dark theme dialogs
- Added support for scanning calendar events
- Other bug fixes and improvements
QR Scanner (PFA) version 4.2.0
Updated At: 2022-08-18
Changes: Added quick settings launch button
Added Startpage and Brave search as search engine providers
QR Scanner (PFA) version 3.3.1
Updated At: 2022-01-20
Changes: - Renamed the "proceed" button to better reflect the action being done
- Added the option to hide the "search"-Button when scanning text
- Added a flashlight button to the scanning view
- Scanning VCards now sends more data to the contact app
- Fixed some crashes
QR Scanner (PFA) version 3.2.0
Updated At: 2021-12-17
Changes: - Added the ability to scan inverted qr codes
- QR Generator can now encode codes up to 1817
- Minor Bugfixes
QR Scanner (PFA) version 3.1.0
Updated At: 2020-10-29
Changes: * Fixed consecutive scans
* Fixed processing "tel:" qr codes
* Fixed en/disabling beep on scan
* Fixed automatic save scans to history
* Fixed reading aztec codes
* Fixed code generation for urls
* Fixed showing other app than e-mail apps only for "mailto:"
* Fixed a crash when accessing the history on some devices
* Added option to encode pure text
* Removed write to storage permission for newer devices
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