# QR Lite - QR Code Generator and Scanner

> 👌Easy-to-use, 🛡️privacy-friendly QR code generator and scanner.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `qr-lite`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** monyxie
- **Category:** privacy-security,social-communication,tabs
- **Daily users:** 3,157
- **Weekly downloads:** 108
- **Rating:** 4.92 / 5 (26 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-14
- **First published:** 2021-03-19
- **Size:** 2.18 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/qr-lite/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/monyxie/qr-lite](https://github.com/monyxie/qr-lite)

## Description

QR Lite is a lightweight, privacy-focused Chrome extension that allows you to generate and scan QR codes effortlessly without relying on any third-party services. It supports generating QR codes from your active tab, links, selected text, or custom user input. On the scanning side, QR Lite can decode QR codes from images, clipboard content, any part of a web page, or directly via your webcam.

Designed with user privacy in mind, all operations are performed completely offline, ensuring no data is sent over the network. The extension remembers previously generated or scanned codes, providing seamless access to your QR history. QR Lite is open-source software under the MIT license, promoting transparency and community collaboration. Experience an easy-to-use, secure way to handle QR codes directly in your browser with QR Lite.

## Rankings

- #1,651 — Overall
- #131 — Tabs
- #180 — Social & Communication
- #318 — Privacy & Security
- #6 — generator
- #12 — qr code

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `menus`
- `storage`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `scripting`

## 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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## Review summary

Users broadly praise QR Lite for reliably scanning QR codes from web pages, easy extraction without screenshots, and strong camera scanning. The app is noted as ad-free, lightweight, and simple, with good support for links/images and edit-before-save. Common downsides are limited functionality in certain views (PDF/SVG/about pages), a small region-selection quirk, and occasional private-window inconsistencies. Overall, it’s fast, convenient, and well-liked for generating and managing QR content.

### Pros

- Scans QR codes directly from web pages without needing screenshots; works reliably in-page.
- Camera-based QR scanning is a standout feature praised by users.
- No ads, lightweight, and easy to use with a simple interface.
- Handles links and images (including images with hyperlinks) and allows editing before saving.
- Clean, elegant UI that feels powerful and efficient.

### Cons

- Doesn’t work in PDF/SVG viewer mode or internal about pages due to API limitations.
- Region selection can require using the context menu twice, which users find a bit awkward.
- In private browsing, link and picture scans can revert to the default tab mode, causing inconsistency.

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