vCard is the open standard for contact exchange and carries rich fields — name, organisation, job title, multiple phone numbers, email, website, address and notes — and imports cleanly into iPhone, Android, Outlook and Gmail. MeCard is a compact Japanese format that fits into a slightly smaller QR code but supports fewer fields. AnyTool generates vCard 3.0 (RFC 2426) because it has near-universal scanner support; vCard 4.0 adds features but some phones parse it inconsistently, so 3.0 remains the safest choice for a contact QR.

Alongside the QR code, AnyTool lets you download the raw .vcf (vCard) file, which is the same contact data the QR encodes. A .vcf opens in Apple Contacts, Google Contacts, Outlook and most email clients with an “Add contact” prompt, so you can attach it to an email or message for people who cannot scan a code. The file is built in memory in your browser and never uploaded, and it is convenient for adding your details to an email signature or sharing in a chat.

After entering your contact details, scroll to the printable digital business card section. The tool draws a clean card on a local canvas with your name, job title, organisation and up to five contact lines (mobile, work, email, web, address) next to the QR and a “Scan to save contact” caption. Click Download card PNG to save it, or Print card to send it to your printer at about 150mm wide for a standard card. Everything is rendered locally, so nothing is uploaded.

A QR code has limited capacity, so a long vCard — many fields, a long address or a long note — produces a dense, harder-to-scan code; trim the note or address and raise the size if needed. Scan failures otherwise come from low contrast or an oversized logo, so keep dark-on-light contrast, leave the quiet zone intact, and use H error correction with a logo. Import quirks happen because some scanners split or merge the name differently or ignore a second phone number; vCard 3.0 is the most widely supported version, but you should always test the finished code on a real phone before printing it at size.