A message QR code sends someone straight from their phone camera to a chat conversation in a messaging app. The code stores a deep-link URL that can route to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Messages, Viber, Line or WeChat. People land in the chosen app with the conversation ready to open. For SMS routing, the code can use the sms URI scheme defined in RFC 5724. Phone-number deep links follow the tel URI scheme in RFC 3966.
Add your logo, brand colours and AI-generated designs so the code matches your support card, sales deck, estate agent board, restaurant table display, service business card, influencer bio card, healthcare form, banking reminder, event badge or community invite. Print it on support cards, sales decks, boards, table displays, business cards, healthcare forms, statements, lanyards and posters to guide people into the right messaging conversation.
Choose the platform deep link, personalise the code with your logo and AI-generated designs, then download it in PNG, SVG or PDF for support cards, sales decks, business cards or community posters.
Decide which messaging app suits your audience. WhatsApp works well for international support. Messenger may suit local bookings. Signal can suit healthcare. Copy the deep-link URL such as wa.me, m.me, t.me or discord.gg with your phone number or invite code.
Add your logo, brand colours and pixel patterns. Choose from 1200+ templates or create AI-generated designs to match the look of your support card, sales deck, estate agent board, table display or healthcare form.
Export in PNG, SVG or PDF. Print on support cards, sales decks, boards, table displays, business cards, healthcare forms, statements or event lanyards. Test the scan on iOS and Android before full production.
Encode any messaging app deep link into a one-scan conversation entry, add your logo and AI-generated designs for recognition, track scans across support cards and business cards, and edit destinations later.
See who scans your message QR, when each scan happens and where it was placed. Real-time dashboards for support cards, sales decks, estate agent boards, restaurant table displays, healthcare forms and event lanyards.
Track message scans
Turn long WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal or Telegram deep links into custom short links with UTM parameters for cleaner attribution. Test placement variations across support cards, sales decks and business cards.
Shorten message links
Add your logo, brand colours and QR Art to every message code. Use 1200+ templates for support teams, sales staff, estate agents, restaurants, service providers, influencers, healthcare and event planning.
Personalise your message QR
A WhatsApp QR sends scans directly into WhatsApp through a wa.me deep link, while a message QR offers a multi-platform choice. Use the dedicated option when the platform is already confirmed.
Open WhatsApp chat
An SMS QR opens the phone's built-in SMS app through the sms URL scheme, while a message QR routes to messaging apps. Use both for wider compatibility whatever apps people have installed.
Open the SMS draft
An email QR opens a message draft in an inbox, while a message QR starts a live chat conversation. Use both on support cards to give people a write-or-chat option.
Capture email sign-ups
A Telegram QR sends scans straight to a t.me invite, while a message QR gives people a choice when events run across several platforms. Use both when Telegram is the main channel.
Open Telegram chat
A message QR starts a live chat, while a vCard saves the full contact record, including name, phone, email, address and website, to the address book in one tap. Use both on bio cards.
Save a contact card
A URL QR can send people to any external destination, while a message QR stores a specific messaging app deep link. Use both on packaging for a website and support chat journey.
Open any webpageOpening chat conversations in one tap with message QR codes.
Choose your messaging platform and copy its deep-link URL, such as wa.me/[number] for WhatsApp, m.me/[username] for Messenger, t.me/[username] for Telegram or discord.gg/[code] for Discord. Paste it into QR Code AI, add pre-filled text where the platform supports it, then customise the design with your logo and brand colours. The finished QR code opens the conversation directly on iOS or Android with the draft message ready.
A message QR code can point to messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, Discord, Signal, iMessage or LINE, each using its own deep-link URL to open the right conversation. An SMS QR code uses the sms: URI scheme, for example sms:[number]?body=[text], and opens the phone’s built-in SMS app without needing a third-party app. Choose message QR for app-based audiences and SMS QR for the broadest device coverage.
Yes. Message QR codes are free on QR Code AI. You can create them, customise them with your logo, brand colours and AI-designed templates, then download them in PNG, SVG or PDF without watermarks. Most message QR codes are dynamic by default, so you can edit the destination after printing and track each scan in your dashboard with country, device, browser and timestamp data.
Yes, some messaging platforms support pre-filled text in their deep links. WhatsApp supports text parameters in wa.me links, and Telegram supports text parameters in certain t.me sharing formats. Support varies by platform, so the exact syntax depends on the app you are using. Check the official documentation for each service to confirm which deep-link format allows message prefilling.
Create a landing page with buttons for WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal, Telegram, Discord and any other platforms your audience uses, then encode that page as a standard website URL QR code. When people scan it, they arrive on the chooser page and select their preferred app. This works well when your audience is split across regions, devices or messaging habits.
Scanning a QR code from a text message depends on where the code appears. On iPhone, save the QR image to Photos, open it, then press and hold the code so iOS can detect it and offer the link. On Android, take a screenshot, open it in Google Photos, then use Google Lens to detect the QR code. If the code is on another screen, point your camera at it directly.