15+ Best Barcode Scanner iPhone Applications
40We have always been skeptical about the quality of barcode scanner applications that are available in the App Store. There are too many of them around but so many of them are unreliable. 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 15+ apps you should try:
NeoReader: a universal barcode scanning application capable of reading QR, EAN, UPC, and Data Matrix codes. It is fairly reliable too.
Think Dirty: helps you learn more about beauty products you would like to buy. It offers barcode scanning for over 305k cosmetics and beauty products. Lets you save products to your shopping lists and purchase them online.
pic2shop: a pretty awesome barcode reader app that enables you to compare product prices fast. It supports iPhones and iPads.
Bakodo: this app scans all types of barcodes, allowing you to open URLs and perform searches. Helps you get detailed product information to make better decisions.
Scan Halal: lets you scan food items to get a breakdown of ingredients, including their source. It supports products in the U.S. and Canada.
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.
Quick Scan Pro: this iPhone barcode scanner reads UPC, EAN, ISBN, and other commercial barcodes. It offers price and product search features too. LED light option while scanning is available.
Shopwell: a powerful iPhone barcode reader that shows you which foods you should avoid to stay on your diet. Great for folks who may have food allergies.
NxtNutrio: want to avoid genetically-modified foods? Maybe you want to learn which foods are healthy for you. This application has you covered. It helps you get a better handle on food label reading.
ScanLife: a QR code reader and barcode scanner for your phone. It supports popular barcode formats (QRCode, Datamatrix, EZcode). Over 30 different online retailers are covered.
Quick Scan: supports UPC, EAN, ISBN, and other commercial barcodes. You can search prices, sort your scans, and save your favorite products.
GoodReads: more than just a barcode scanner for iOS. GoodReads helps you discover, read, and rate books. You can recommend books to your friends too.
Cardstar: a cool free barcode scanner that could come handy in 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.
Scanbot 6: a document and QR code scanner that lets you capture URLs, contacts, addresses, and locations. It can also scan single & multi-page documents.
Inventory Control: turns your iPhone or iPad into a barcode scanner to organize your inventory. Gives you stock and price information as items are scanned. Items can also be added manually.
There are plenty of other barcode readers available for iPhone. These 15+ apps performed quite well for us.
Your turn: What’s your favorite barcode application for iPhone? Please add your suggestions below.
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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.
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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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!
Hey Alex! I've been looking for the same type of thing! Any luck??
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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.
Is there an ap for picking restaurants while traveling?
Zagat uses the GPS to show you local resturants. Works good for us. There is a charge for this app.
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.
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!
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
Not available in the Canadian Store 🙁
darn, that's why I am here hunting for a barcode scanning app to fill spreadsheet with help from my iPhone camera.
2decode is good for phone cards with 2D barcodes
Will this app work on ipad?
@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!
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?
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Can I suggest my App, Bar-Code ?
Tnx
Rob
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 general
Hi Hope. I can\’t recall one but I\’ll do some research 🙂
looking for system to handle small bar-coded inventory, where we enter our own codes. Suggestions?
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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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.
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?
@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.
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?
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
need the same thing! please update here once you find an app like this. thanks!
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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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!
I have seen some early concepts on that. We will cover those in a future post.
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
Did you ever find an app that checks barcode quality?
Is there a barcode scanner than will id the product and tell you who has it for sale/on sale for the best price as far as groceries go?