10 Best Barcode iPhone Applications
We have always been skeptical about the quality of barcode applications that are available in the App Store. There are too many of them around but so many of them are worse than junk. Thankfully, a few developers have gotten it right, so you can scan barcodes properly on your iPhone. These apps make shopping a whole lot more fun. If you are looking for barcode iPhone applications that work, here are 10 apps you should try:
Barcode Scanner: a pretty useful tool for price shopping. Just scan products to get pricing information on them. Supports multi-vendor searching.
Consmr Barcode Scanner: a powerful product guide for iPhone. It lets you see product ratings, reviews, and other useful information. You can scan product barcodes, filter using tags, and use Facebook to get recommendations.
NeoReader: a universal barcode scanning application capable of reading QR, EAN, UPC, and Data Matrix codes. It is fairly reliable too.
RedLaser: one of the best barcode scanners for iPhone. Scans UPC, EAN, and UPC-E barcodes and lets you compare prices using Google Products and Amazon.
ShopSavvy: this is a handy tool to find the products you need at the prices that work for you. It has a pretty decent barcode scanner and gives you access to local deals and sales.
FoodScanner: a great tool for those who watch their diet closely. Allows you to scan UPC barcodes on the foods you eat and lets you know how much calorie you are taking in.
AT&T Code Scanner: a free scanner that handles UPC, QR, and Data Matrix barcodes. You can use this to compare product prices, view mobile sites, and do a whole lot more.
Quick Scan Pro: this app reads UPC, EAN, ISBN, and other commercial barcodes. It offers price and product search features to. LED light option while scanning is available.
Cardstar: a cool free barcode scanner that could come in handy stores. It’s a useful for storing your store cards info and rewards.
Barcodas for iPhone: a unique barcode scanner that makes music patterns out of scanned ean and UPC barcodes. It makes shopping for products a whole lot more fun.
There are plenty of other barcode readers available for iPhone. These 6 performed in the most reliable fashion in our tests. What’s your favorite barcode application for iPhone? Please add your suggestions below.
[*Updated: May 2012]
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Just tried Scandit, (http://www.iscandit.com) it has user reviews, really good pricing data including amazon and integration with Facebook. Definitely, one of the top barcode scanning apps I've used.
October 23rd, 2010 at 9:54 am -
Thanks aldogger, we are glad you like our new app. For those interested, here is a video of the Scandit app:
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October 23rd, 2010 at 3:22 pm -
I find keeping track of what’s happening with the price of household groceries very difficult and supermarkets seem to be intent on trying to hoodwink us into thinking were getting bargains so I have been looking for an app that will allow me to scan my purchased grocery barcodes and allow me to enter their price so as I can quickly scan items on my next shop and track fluctuations in my groceries prices! Pretty simple idea really!
November 5th, 2010 at 1:20 am -
Price Scanner iPhone App
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http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/price-scanner/id40…December 17th, 2010 at 9:45 am -
I downloaded Scandit along with ShopSavvy and RedLaser because I wasn't sure which I would like the best. I went throughout my home scanning anything I could find with each application. My experience led me to this conclusion, Scandit proved to me to be the best of them all. Loved it. ShopSavvy was also good but I like Scandit better. RedLaser I am not impressed with at all. No options, nothing. Scandit and ShopSavvy provided much more information, details, reviews, and cheaper prices than RedLaser and RedLaser did not perform any better in it's scanning operations than Scandit or ShopSavvy. So I am very happy with Scandit, love it.
January 9th, 2011 at 1:23 pm -
Is there an ap for picking restaurants while traveling?
January 21st, 2011 at 7:31 pm -
I just tried all free barcode apps (wouldn't mind paying for an app, but can't know in advance if it will suit my needs) and none of them does what I would like. The problem is I am from Eastern Europe so none of these programs' searches are relevant to me. Most of the programs immediately go searching the web after I scan the barcode. I don't want that. All I want is to scan the code, enter name of the product, and enter the price for a specific store. This way I could compare prices in several big supermarkets and see where the best deal is. I know I'm not asking for too much, it only seems no developers foresaw this situation (where I don't need the darn search).
So please, any of the developers of these applications, would you please add this functionality?
Thanks!January 30th, 2011 at 1:36 pm -
Dusan,
I may have the same problem. I haven't bought the phone yet, but can't find a simple driver to be able to input from the scanner into QuickOffice or similar with the it.
Vic
February 7th, 2011 at 10:25 pm -
Not available in the Canadian Store
February 10th, 2011 at 1:18 am -
Hey Alex! I've been looking for the same type of thing! Any luck??
February 11th, 2011 at 10:22 am -
Zagat uses the GPS to show you local resturants. Works good for us. There is a charge for this app.
February 18th, 2011 at 4:37 pm -
darn, that's why I am here hunting for a barcode scanning app to fill spreadsheet with help from my iPhone camera.
March 4th, 2011 at 12:33 pm -
2decode is good for phone cards with 2D barcodes
March 11th, 2011 at 12:40 am -
Will this app work on ipad?
March 12th, 2011 at 11:18 am -
@klmehl
Test it: DDQ QR Code scanner: fast, errorless scanning and interpretation. Get it here : http://itunes.apple.com/app/ddqr-code-reader/id42…
The next release (in about 10 days!) wil contain an iPad version for FREE!March 14th, 2011 at 2:33 am -
Use Tripadvisor in Canada, Urbanspoon in USA. Both give restaurants by rating, price, ethnic/type of food. Both allow google maps to plot routes via builtin GPS.
March 14th, 2011 at 10:17 am -
I have a lot of stuff from Amway and always try to find a better way to do inventory. The barcode scan app I download to my iPhone 4 does not seem to read Amway’s barcode. Is there any app will fix my problem?
April 8th, 2011 at 5:04 am -
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July 21st, 2011 at 9:14 am -
Can I suggest my App, Bar-Code ?
Tnx
RobSeptember 2nd, 2011 at 9:14 am -
New Mom here
Is there an app that will allow you to scan a product and tell you what store it came from? Ex. Diapers. This would be very helpful for people with newborns and babies in generalSeptember 20th, 2011 at 12:28 am -
Hi Hope. I can\’t recall one but I\’ll do some research
September 20th, 2011 at 3:26 am -
looking for system to handle small bar-coded inventory, where we enter our own codes. Suggestions?
October 21st, 2011 at 4:24 pm -
After reading several of the comments, I think I can help.
My app Scan to Spreadsheet does just as the title suggests. Each scan records the scan to a spreadsheet that you can email from your phone. Additional columns are available for notes.
Also available for Android.
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November 12th, 2011 at 12:51 am -
I have the same request as Hope, only for returning a gift without having to ask where it came from. Any scanners tell what store the item came from?
December 28th, 2011 at 12:06 pm -
@Maggie. I look for it. I think I have seen something like that but am not sure if it is still available in the App Store.
December 28th, 2011 at 2:05 pm -
Is there an app for scanning several product bar codes in a grocery store and having its price total displayed on my iphone/ipad? For example, if I want to scan a loaf of bread, carton of milk and a tub of margarine and have the total price of these 3 items displayed on my iphone or ipad?
January 8th, 2012 at 12:53 am -
Oh same here was just searching n no luck. I have downloaded some grocery apps but still need to bring along pen an paper the. Load into iPhone n manually enter the price or quantity n then it gives u a total. Still lot of work. I’m a new mother n stuff ain’t cheap I’d like to know how much money I’m forkin out before I get to the cashier n save embarrassment n holdin up the line cuz i decide that I’m not goin to buy a certain item
January 16th, 2012 at 4:32 pm -
You cant use a bar code scan app for a local supermarket. i.e. you cant expect the phone to know the price difference at different stores. It’d be great if stores had a code where we could download a database and then the phone updates automatically the prices.
February 20th, 2012 at 12:27 pm -
A barcode scanner that saves the bane of the product and lets you add in the cost with a running total would be great, using a calculator is fine… Till you want to put something back and cant remember its value
March 3rd, 2012 at 10:19 am -
need the same thing! please update here once you find an app like this. thanks!
May 26th, 2012 at 10:38 pm -
Hi, is there any application for iPhone 4S that can open the parking gate? I mean I have the access card for the parking, can I for example scan it by my iPhone and instead of using my access card only I will put my iPhone on the card scanner and it will open?
June 22nd, 2012 at 3:24 am -
I have to look for that one specifically. We have listed some parking apps here in the past but not what you are asking about.
June 22nd, 2012 at 3:27 am -
its a really great app. The only things i miss, is a option to view the barcode on iPhones screen, so that it can be scanned with another barcode scanner.
it would be great if u made this possible in the next update. August 26th, 2012 at 8:14 am -
I am looking for a barcode scanning app that will read the entire barcode on the front of a magazine.
The right side of the code is the issue date, this is necessary for inventory and return purposes.September 19th, 2012 at 3:25 pm -
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September 28th, 2012 at 7:37 am -
What about an app that scans different items to learn if they are legit. Ex: tickets; licenses. To make sure you don’t get ripped off!
March 30th, 2013 at 12:44 am -
is there a barcode app that checks the quality of the barcode, for example, checks all the parameters are correct and the quality of the print
April 25th, 2013 at 7:09 am -
I have seen some early concepts on that. We will cover those in a future post.
May 18th, 2013 at 6:33 pm
