Free wifi QR code generator for Airbnb and Vrbo hosts

Enter your network name and password, press generate, and download a QR code your guests can scan to join the wifi without typing anything.

Your code appears here once you generate it.

Saves a 1024 by 1024 pixel PNG to your device, big enough to print.

The code is made in your browser, so your wifi password is never sent to us.

How guests use it

A guest opens the camera app on their phone and points it at the code.
A banner appears asking to join the network. They tap it.
The phone connects. Nobody types a password and there is no app to install.

Print the code and leave it where guests look first: inside a kitchen cabinet door, next to the coffee machine, or in a frame on the counter. One code works for every guest and every device, and it only needs replacing when you change the password.

If the code does not work

A wifi QR code either connects a phone in one tap or does nothing at all, which makes it hard to tell what went wrong. These are the causes, in the order they turn up.

Which phones can scan it

iPhones running iOS 11 or later read wifi QR codes with the built-in camera app, and Android 10 and later does the same. On those phones there is nothing to install. A guest on an older phone may need a QR reader app, or the password typed in by hand, so it is worth leaving the network name and password written out as well.

WPA3 networks

Leave the security setting on WPA/WPA2/WPA3. The wifi QR format has no separate WPA3 value, and phones read WPA as whatever encryption the network is actually running. The one case that still fails is a router set to WPA3 only with transition mode turned off: older phones cannot join that network at all, code or no code. Turning mixed WPA2/WPA3 mode back on in the router settings fixes it for those guests.

Special characters in the password

This is the most common reason a wifi QR code does not work. Semicolons, colons, commas, backslashes, and quotation marks all mean something inside the wifi QR format, so a generator that does not escape them encodes the wrong password. This one escapes them, so type your password exactly as it is, including capital letters and punctuation.

Hidden networks

If your router does not broadcast the network name, open More options and check the hidden network box before you generate the code. Without it, the phone searches for a network it cannot see and gives up after a few seconds.

A 5GHz only network

Plenty of older phones, e-readers, and smart devices can only see 2.4GHz. If your network runs on 5GHz alone, those devices will never find it no matter how good the code is. That is a router setting rather than a QR code problem, and most routers can broadcast both bands under the same name.

The phone has to be in range

Scanning does not connect anything by itself. The phone still has to reach the network, so a code taped by the front door of a large house may scan fine and then fail to join. Put the code where the signal is strong, and test it once from that spot with your own phone.

One honest caveat: laptops. Windows and macOS do not read wifi QR codes from the camera, so a guest working from the kitchen table still needs the network name and password in plain text somewhere. The code is for phones and tablets.

The wifi is one question of many

A code on the fridge answers the first thing a guest asks. It does not answer where to park, which bin goes out on Tuesday, how the thermostat works, or what time checkout is, and those arrive as messages instead. That is what FreshLinen is for: one link with the practical half of hosting in it, updated once and current for every guest after that.

A published FreshLinen book has this same wifi QR code built into its wifi page, made from the network name and password you enter once, so guests can scan it from the screen rather than hunting for the printed card.

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