# QR Code - PicIT

> Context menu extension to convert links and selected text into QR-Code to share with your mobile phone. Offline OpenSource-Tool that enables you to encode and store urls and free text (UTF-8) as PNG- / SVG-Image file. Auto use of url and clipboard.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/picit](https://chrome-stats.com/d/picit)

## Overview

- **ID:** `picit`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Mirad Jok
- **Category:** appearance,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.7
- **Last updated:** 2023-10-11
- **First published:** 2020-10-04
- **Size:** 99 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/picit/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/JokMirad/PicIT](https://github.com/JokMirad/PicIT)

## Description

QR Code - PicIT is an offline and open-source Firefox add-on that allows you to encode and store URLs and free text as QR-Codes. It enables easy sharing with your smartphone and provides the ability to save QR-Codes as PNG or SVG images on your local filesystem.

## Rankings

- #106,181 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `clipboardRead`
- `downloads`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/picit)