At a glance
As of 6 October 2026. QR Island’s prices are today’s, include tax, and come from our own price list.
| Feature | QR Island | QRCode Monkey |
|---|---|---|
| Price of a static code | Free | Free (“100% free”, its home page says) |
| Account needed | No: QR Island has no accounts | No account needed to make a code, in our use of its home page |
| Expiry and scan limits | Free codes never expire; no scan limit | Codes don’t expire; no scan limit |
| Business use | Allowed, free or paid | Allowed |
| Free code types | Link or text, Wi‑Fi, contact card (vCard), email, phone, SMS, WhatsApp, location, event | URL, text, email, phone, SMS, vCard, MeCard, location, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wi‑Fi, event, and five cryptocurrency addresses |
| Logo | Free: PNG, JPG, SVG or WebP up to 5 MB | Free: PNG, JPG, GIF or SVG up to 2 MB, or one from its gallery |
| Shapes | 11 module shapes, 5 corner frames, 6 corner centres | Body, eye frame and eye ball shapes, and a template gallery |
| Colour gradients | With the Island pack (US$6.99 once) | Free, linear or radial |
| Free downloads | PNG (1024 px) and SVG with your design, with a small credit line; a print sheet at true sizes | PNG and SVG with your design; PDF and EPS in the classic style only, without design or logo |
| Where the code is made | In your browser: free code content is never sent to our server | Its FAQ says it doesn’t save or reuse your data, and keeps generated images cached for 24 hours |
| Ads | None, and no cookies for visitors | Ads on the page, including for QR Code Generator PRO and Bitly |
| Codes you can edit later | Editable code: US$19 a year, with private daily scan counts and the Island pack | None of its own; it links to QR Code Generator PRO for dynamic codes |
| 3D | Your code as the courtyard of one of 25 3D islands; island pictures and a video | No |
| API | Not yet (a waitlist is open) | Yes, through RapidAPI |
Where QRCode Monkey is the better pick
- Free gradients. Linear and radial colour gradients are free there; on QR Island they come with the Island pack.
- More free code types. MeCard, ready-made Facebook, Twitter and YouTube types, and Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin and Dash addresses. QR Island has nine types, and makes social links with the Link type.
- EPS and PDF downloads, for print workflows that need them, though only for the classic black-and-white code. QR Island has no EPS; its free print sheet can be saved as a PDF from the browser.
- A developer API and a template gallery. QR Island’s API is still on a waitlist.
Where QR Island is different
- Your code on a 3D island. Pick one of 25 worlds and the code becomes its courtyard, with a free island picture for posts and print sizes and a video in the Island pack. See the 3D QR code generator.
- Made in your browser. Links, Wi‑Fi passwords and contact details you type for a free code never reach our server, and the page has no ads, ad trackers or cookies for visitors.
- Scan checks as you design. A light colour gets a warning and a darker shade in one click, a design phones can’t read waits for a fix before download, and a logo is kept within half of each block’s error correction.
- Editable codes built in. One yearly price per code, tax included, with no account: a private manage link changes the destination and shows daily scan totals. See the dynamic QR code generator.
- A print sheet at true sizes, from your code’s smallest safe size up, each with roughly how far away it scans.
- WhatsApp codes as their own type, with the number checked for a missing country code.
One thing QR Island’s free files have that you should know about: a small “Made with QR Island” line under the code. The Island pack’s print files have none.
Which should you use?
For a plain, classic code in EPS, a crypto address, or a free gradient, QRCode Monkey does the job well. For a code that looks like part of your brand’s world, a print sheet that tells you how small you can go, or a code you may need to repoint later from the same place, try QR Island. Both are free for static codes, so the quickest test is to make the same code in each and scan the printouts.
Sources
Read on 6 October 2026. Features and prices change; check each site before you decide.
- QRCode Monkey: home page, About section and FAQ (free use, expiry, scan limits, commercial use, logo files, colours, shapes, formats, data, dynamic codes, code types) and API page.
- QR Island: our pricing, FAQ, privacy policy and terms.
QRCode Monkey is a trademark of its owner. QR Island isn’t affiliated with it, and this page uses its name only to compare the two.
