QR Droid vs Barcode Scanner – Best code scanner app for Android

Hi there friends, I agree that you must have your own favorites for code scanner apps for your dear android Smartphone and so have I.

So, let me compare two of the best code scanner apps for android. I’ll keep this comparison short and try to cover every aspect of both scanner apps.

QR Droid vs Barcode Scanner

File Size

QR Droid: 3.4 MB version 4.1.1 as updated on 7 December 2011.

Barcode Scanner: 589 Kb version 3.72 as updated on 11 November 2011.

Let the file size not trick you. The file sizes are different because both applications offer different features.

However, I must tell you that both apps install themselves on the SD card and some files go to your cache memory, but that is nothing to worry about.

Pick your app, if you want extremely light scanner app with limited features then go for Barcode scanner and if you want a fully featured, yet a heavy app, then go for QR Droid.

Installation and Running

You can download the app from Android Market that is linked with your account and your Smartphone will install it automatically when you are connected to the internet.

Running the apps is just a tap away (as usual). If you work with bar codes on a daily basis and have internet access then any of these apps will help you greatly when you make a purchase and aren’t sure about the product.

You can create a shortcut of both apps by tapping and holding for a little while till they appear on your home screen.

Features

I have already mentioned above that QR Droid is heavy but fully featured and Barcode Scanner is light with limited featured.

Some features include (both apps):

• Searching the scanned product on the internet (internet connectivity required).
• Sharing it via email and available apps like blogger, Bluetooth, wordpress, dropbox, Gmail, evernote, google+, translate, etc. Basically, it depends on how many apps you have that allow you to share something.
• Sharing via SMS.

Exclusive Features (only QR Droid)

• QR Droid has all the features of Barcode scanner and if you are not bound by little internal memory then it would be your first choice.
• These screenshots will show you the options that you get with QR Droid.

Conclusion

I am sure that you have sensed my bend towards QR Droid because I am not bound by little internal storage.

I have Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 upgraded to Gingerbread 2.3.4 and it has 150 MB of internal memory. It is not a lot but it is enough to hold some of the essential files that need to be copied on the phone memory after SD card.

I find QR Droid to be very helpful when I need to create QR Codes. As a matter of fact, I love both apps.

Barcode Scanner is simple and fast and it takes only a couple of seconds to learn the details of the products that I scanned.

Barcode Scanner doesn’t offer you a lot of interface or even settings for that matter. So, for people who like really (really) simple apps, this app would be just great.

QR Droid offers great set of settings and you can set it to run like Barcode Scanner as well. I mean that, just like Barcode Scanner’s first step is to scan the code as soon as you tap the app, you can also make this as a default step of QR Droid.

I would recommend you to install both apps and have best of both worlds. However, rest is yours to decide and pick what works best for you.

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