vCard Generator: A Digital Business Card With A QR Code

This vCard generator takes one short form and gives you three things at once. The first is a .vcf file — the standard contact format that iPhone, Android, Outlook, Gmail and every address book on earth can import. The second is a contact QR code holding that same file, so someone can point a camera at your screen or your business card and be offered "Add to contacts" without typing a thing. The third is a digital business card: one self-contained HTML page with your details, tap-to-call and tap-to-email links, a Save to contacts button and the QR code printed on it.

Who It Is For

Anyone who has to hand over their details more than once a week and does not want to order more cards: a freelancer at a market stall, a photographer at a wedding, an estate agent, a tradesperson, a stallholder, a speaker with a slide at the end of a talk. You do not need to know what a vCard is. Fill in the boxes, download the file, print the code on something.

What It Gets Right

Most of the reasons a .vcf refuses to import are invisible ones, so this vcf generator handles them for you. Files are written with CRLF line endings, not the Unix ones a text editor would give you — that alone is the commonest cause of an import that silently does nothing. Commas, semicolons, backslashes and line breaks inside your values are escaped, so a company called "Hartley, Vance & Co." arrives intact instead of splitting into two fields. Long lines are folded at 75 octets without ever cutting an accented character in half. And 3.0 and 4.0 are genuinely different files, not the same file with a different version line: 4.0 uses quoted type lists, a separate PREF parameter and tel: URIs. Pick 3.0 — the default — unless you know the other end is modern.

Limits

A vCard QR code carries the whole contact, so every field you add makes the pattern finer. A name, a number and an email scans from across a table; add a full address and a note and you need to print it bigger. The tool shows the encoded size and says when to trim. There is no photo field, no social profiles and no logo — for links to your profiles, the Link In Bio Generator is the right tool, and for a plain code pointing at a page, use the QR Code Generator. Everything runs in your browser: nothing you type is uploaded until you press Publish.

Why Publish The Card

A published card solves the density problem outright. Instead of squeezing every field into the QR pattern, you put the card on a short link and point a code at that — small, easy to scan, and it can hold as much detail as you like. Publishing takes one click, needs no account, and the page is live over HTTPS in seconds. The link lasts 30 minutes unless you claim it; claiming is free, and it lets you choose your own address and, on a paid plan, connect a custom domain. See how it works.