Barcodes - store all your loyalty cards
Digital wallet for iOS that lets you scan and store tags
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Jake Nelson

Barcodes - Digital wallet for iOS that lets you scan and store tags

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Ditch your physical access tags or loyalty cards. Barcodes is the best way to scan and store your QR codes & barcodes then use them with a few taps! Always be able to display your cards on your phone, your watch, or even a widget on your home screen!

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Jake Nelson
Maker
Hey everyone! I got sick of Stocard bugging me for location access and push notifications when I just wanted some discounted spuds at Tesco with my club card. So I built the privacy-friendly digital barcode wallet that I wanted to use! Despite the name, you can also use it to scan and store QR codes. Highlights: 📸 Add barcodes from camera or images ☁️ iCloud backup and sync 🧠 Smarts through Siri and shortcuts to identify patterns ⌚️Apple Watch app and home screen widgets As well as: 🚫 no location access 🚫 no push notifications 🚫 no data tracking 🚫 no account needed ⚡️ You can store 10 barcodes for free, or unlimited cards with a 0.99 a month subscription or 9.99 once off lifetime unlock. If you choose to use the free version then once every 12 hours an ad is displayed when you open the app, which can be dismissed. Ads are powered by Not Evil Ads, the privacy friendly ad network for iOS. If you're using another loyalty card wallet app I would love to hear what you think of Barcodes!
Marcel Darvas
Totally feel your frustration with Stocard. Last time I was in a grocery store and needed a barcode I was shocked about the mobile data warning it would have used to get my offloaded app to open. Appreciate the pricing, maybe you can bake in ‘Add to Wallet’, for privacy friendly location detection (probably with user-set location data)
Jake Nelson
Maker
@marceldarvas yeah after a while I had a note with all the things I would do differently haha, and then I eventually built it. Yeah that's a good idea, I haven't looked into what the 'Add to Wallet' would enable completely yet. Because of the Siri integration, if you have suggestions enabled, Siri can learn your patterns and suggest the app at places where you use it frequently without me ever needing location access in app! Which is perfect I think 😁
Harshit Choudhary
I've been testing it, and it's well-designed. However, in India, people will either ask for the physical card or ask you to show them the email. Nevertheless, I have found one application for it: storing the ISBNs of my books. Also, I think it is a little pricey; a good pricing example I could find is Stats.fm (formerly Spotistats), which is both well-designed and reasonably priced.
Jake Nelson
Maker
Hey @choudhary! Thanks for checking it out. I didn't know that about the market in India, that people ask for the physical card, that's really interesting. At the moment my goal with the pricing is to make it accessible and useful to everyone by having a limited free tier, and then making an app that is worth the cost if they choose to upgrade. I don't track or sell any user data, so it means that the app is the product not the user! Thanks for the feedback though on the pricing, I'll take that on board and keep it in mind 😊
Harshit Choudhary
@jknlsn Indian market is still in the early stages of adoption. With time, it will become more fluid. When UPI (a mobile based payment method; https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-...) was initially introduced, people used to make you wait until they were certain they had gotten the money, but this is no longer the case. (it processes around 4 billion transactions per month: https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-...) and just for illustration purpose (since they are very different things), SWIFT processes around 1.5billion transactions a month (https://www.swift.com/about-us/d...) Because Barcode is more of an utility software than something that people will spend a lot of time with, I believe it should be priced such that people will buy it and forget about subscriptions and other stuff.
Yaroslav Chuykov
Congrats with the launch, wish you high place on today's rush!
Ollie Page
Really like this Jake. I've been using a shared apple photo album with barcodes in up until now. I had real trouble getting it to work with Shortcuts though. This is a much nicer implementation - I've bought the lifetime premium! My $0.02 is that I found for my use cases (Gym, supermarkets) I couldn't find any applicable icons that "fit" those use-cases. Searching for those key words didn't produce much, and I would expect something like a barbell/dumbbell icon for Gym and a grocery basket for supermarket. I imagine Gyms and Supermarkets are a pretty popular usecase for barcodes. Only other idea is that when I was entering my barcodes, I found the lack of buttons a bit confusing. Users may be confused that they need to swipe "down" to complete a barcode implementation. If you try leave a review on the apple store, it has the same interface as when you implement a barcode, but even Apple has buttons on the top left and top right to confirm the review. I felt like this was missing on Barcodes. Otherwise, what a great app! Happy to support it and I'm pleased it works on my phone, Shortcuts & Apple watch. Great job.
Jake Nelson
Maker
Thanks Ollie! Appreciate you checking it out and the feedback. You're right, the icons could have a wider range. They're constrained by what is available in Apple's built in SF Symbols, but I will look for alternatives. The search could also be improved, the shopping cart should come up for basket potentially in that example. The save button makes complete sense, will implement that in the next version! Glad that it works for you and you found it useful! 😁
Daniel Yolkin
Cg with the launch and thanks for bringing more choice to barcode app selection!
Nicole Ogloza
@jknlsn I love this idea, but how do you monetize??!?! Could this even be used for scanning barcodes at grocery stores in a way?
Jake Nelson
Maker
@nicole_ogloza monetisation is basically just from the in-app purchase to remove ads and let you store unlimited cards! My thinking is that if you use the app enough you'll see the value. At the moment no plan to add scanning barcodes at grocery stores, but it's an interesting idea!
Nicole Ogloza
@jknlsn thanks for that!!!! already see great value, but there are a lot of bar codes out there to work with in creative ways!
Maria
Cool idea! I like it and I must try it out! Congrats on the realization and the launch! ^_^
Jake Nelson
Maker
@maria_brm thanks! Let me know what you think :)
Maria
@jknlsn Surely! I will be glad to share my first impressions! ^_^
Diego Jimenez
Love how simple yet practical the concept is, cool stuff @jknlsn !
Jake Nelson
Maker
Thanks @diegojimenez! I appreciate it 👏
Maria Alexandrova
a wonderful video presentation
James Gross
On the app store your one time purchase says, $9.99 not $7.99
Jake Nelson
Maker
@james_gross1 yep sorry that was a typo! Updated now, good catch.