Bracket: Scan & Design Codes

Bracket scans barcodes and designs QR codes. Most tools do one half of that job well. Bracket does both. Thirteen symbologies decode: QR Code, Data Matrix, Aztec, PDF417, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, Codabar, ITF, EAN-8, EAN-13, UPC-A and UPC-E. Read them with the camera, from a photo, from the first page of a PDF, from your clipboard, or from a file another app shares in. Pinch to zoom and tap to focus. WHAT THE CODE CONTAINS Bracket recognises the payload and offers the next step: open a link, join Wi-Fi, call, write an email or a message, open a map, save a contact, add a calendar event. Contacts and events are handed over as a standard card or invitation file and you choose where they go, so Bracket needs no access to your contacts or your calendar. BEFORE YOU OPEN A LINK Eight checks run on the device on every scanned address: IP-address hosts, punycode lookalikes, brand-lookalike domains, suspicious top-level domains, plain HTTP, known shorteners, unusually deep subdomains, and credentials buried in the URL. Optional matching against URLhaus, ThreatFox, PhishTank or your own blocklist downloads those lists to your phone, so the link you scanned is never transmitted. Warnings are informational and never block you. DESIGN Fourteen templates in six groups cover links, email, SMS, phone, contact cards, calendar events, locations, Wi-Fi, plain text and four social profiles. Style the result with foreground and background colours, four module shapes, three eye frames and three eye centres, fifteen QR-art silhouettes, a center logo and a caption frame. Export as PNG, SVG or PDF. The vector formats come from the code's geometry, not from tracing an image, so they scale to any size for print. Shape frames and caption frames are PNG only and the picker says so. Bracket then decodes its own rendered design and tells you whether it still scans before you share it. An at-risk export asks for confirmation. VOLUME WORK Turn a CSV into a ZIP of individually named PNGs for events, packaging and signage. Or sweep continuously, with duplicates rejected and up to 500 codes per session held until you confirm, then export the batch as CSV. HISTORY AND PRIVACY One searchable list of everything scanned and made, with favourites, tags, notes, and clear-all behind a single confirmation. Export it as a ZIP of two CSV files, two JSON files and your settings. No account, no analytics, no cloud sync. Two kinds of network call exist: the purchase check, and the threat lists if you enable them. It requests no location permission of any kind. Scanning, every smart action, all fourteen templates, all three export formats and 50 history entries are included. One purchase unlocks the designer, bulk generation, continuous scan and unlimited organised history. No subscription. 83 languages, tested right-to-left, checked at 200% text size.