My Card — showing your own details as a QR code
Your own saved details (My Card) can be shown on screen as a vCard QR code. Someone scans it there and then, and they have your details without you handing over a card.
The QR code can also be saved or shared as an image, and the vCard text can be copied — useful for an email signature or a message.
The screen that shows the QR code lists exactly what the other person will receive. If something on that list should not go out, edit your profile before showing it.
The other person does not need PixWork. It is a standard vCard QR code, so a phone’s built-in camera app can read it.
Scanning someone else’s QR code
Scanning a QR code with PixWork’s camera saves it as a contact right away.
PixWork reads standard vCard and MECARD codes. MECARD is the format Android’s own contacts app produces, so a code from someone who does not use PixWork will often still work.
Supported social and messenger handles come across too — LINE, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, X, Telegram, Instagram and others — alongside the phone number and email address. They travel inside the QR code as URLs, and PixWork works out which service each URL belongs to. A PixWork QR code always carries them in that form, and a code from another app is classified the same way if it carries a URL for a supported service.
How a scanned contact is saved
A contact taken from a QR code is saved directly, without going through AI analysis. There is no review-and-correct step the way there is after photographing a card.
If the same person is already saved, the two are merged automatically, with no confirmation step. The existing contact is updated from the QR code, so check the result afterwards if it held something you did not want overwritten.
You can edit it at any time after saving. Anything the QR code did not carry — job title, address, notes — can be filled in later, and anything that came across wrongly can be corrected with Edit.
QR scanning happens entirely on the device. With no network call and no AI involved, it works in a trade-show hall with no signal, and it does not use up a scan allowance.
When this is the right tool
- At an event or a meeting — when you have run out of cards, or the other person has none
- In an online call — show the QR code over screen share and the other person scans it with their camera
- Where the signal is poor — scanning needs no connection at all