Why I built enteqr
August 2026 ยท Pragadees
This started as a small internal itch. I needed a QR code for some merch we were printing. A simple thing. Paste a link, get a QR code, print it, move on with my day.
It was not simple.
Every QR site I opened wanted something from me first. Sign in. Accept cookies. Close this popup. Look at this ad. And after all of that, the QR code it finally gave me looked nothing like our design. Wrong colors, ugly corners, sometimes a watermark sitting right on it. So I would download it anyway, open it in an editor, and fix it by hand. Every single time.
Adobe has a genuinely nice one. But it also wants a sign in, and the good parts are paid. I did not want an account. I wanted a QR code.
And then there is the bigger problem. Backlinks.
Most free QR generators do not put your link inside the QR code. They put their link. Someone scans your poster, it first goes to their server, and then it redirects to your page. A random company sits between you and every person who scans your QR, counting the scans, watching where they come from. And if that company shuts down or decides free was a mistake, every QR you ever printed just dies.
It feels scammy because it is. Your QR code should be yours.
So we built our own
I work at Ente. Privacy is not a feature for us, it is the whole company. So the answer was obvious.
enteqr is the simple thing I wanted that day. You paste your link. The QR code appears. You download it. Done. Everything happens in your browser. Your link goes straight into the code. No account, no cookie banner, no ads, no backlinks, nothing stored anywhere, ever.
And because I care about how things look, this part was non negotiable: the QR codes had to be beautiful. Rounded modules, colors that are actually yours, your logo in the middle, frames with your own words on them. If you care about the thing you are making, the QR code on it should not be the ugly part.
Print it on your merch. Stick it on your store counter. Put it on a poster, a menu, a business card, a wedding invite. Or hit share and it becomes a little story card you can post anywhere. It is yours, fully, forever.
The love part
I spent a silly amount of time on things nobody asked for. The card on the homepage tilts toward your cursor like it knows you are there. The stickers can be picked up and dropped wherever you like, and they stay there. It is maybe a little over-animated, but every interaction is hand picked and done with love.
even the share card is yours to customize
Go make one
It is free. There is no catch, no upsell waiting behind a button. If it saves you the twenty minutes it used to cost me every time, it has done its job.