Free Spotify QR Code Generator

Make a QR code for Spotify

This Spotify QR code generator turns a Spotify link into a code people scan with their phone camera to open your playlist, song, album, artist profile or podcast. Use it on gig posters, merch, café walls, party invitations and album inserts.

Spotify has its own scannable code too, the Spotify Code. How each one gets scanned decides which to print, so that comes first.

Spotify Code or QR code: which to print

Spotify's help shows a Spotify Code being scanned from inside the Spotify app: tap Search, tap the search bar, tap the camera, then Scan. A QR code needs only the camera app every phone already has.

• Print a QR code on posters, flyers, menus and packaging, where strangers scan with whatever app they open first.
• Use a Spotify Code for fans who already use Spotify's scanner. Spotify's help points to spotifycodes.com for a high resolution one.
• Print both on merch or an album insert, each with its own label, when most of your audience listens on Spotify.

Copy the right link from Spotify

1. On a phone: open the playlist, song or album, tap the 3 dots, then Share, and copy the link.
2. On a computer: right click the item, or click its 3 dots, then Share and Copy Link.
3. Check it: paste the link into a note on your phone and tap it. It should open the exact playlist or track you mean to print.

Copy the link, not the Spotify URI the desktop app shows when you hold Alt or Option. If the copied link opens the right playlist when you tap it, it opens the same way from the code.

Keep the playlist open to everyone

The code opens whatever the link points to, in its current state. Spotify's playlist settings decide what a scanner sees:

• Public playlists: every new playlist on Spotify starts public, which is what a printed code needs.
• Private playlists: Spotify's help says nobody can open a private playlist, even with its link. Make it public before you print.
• Links shared from a private playlist: they give view access and expire after 7 days. A printed code needs the playlist's own public link.
• Collaborative playlists: an invite to add songs is valid for 7 days, so it suits a group chat, not a poster. Print the listening link and send invites to people you know.

Test it before it goes on a wall

• 2 phones, 2 networks: scan with an iPhone and an Android phone, once on WiFi and once on mobile data.
• The right page: check the scan opens the playlist itself, not a search page or a sign in screen.
• Real size, real light: print a proof at full size and scan it from where people will stand. The minimum QR code size guide shows how big to go.
• Say what it opens: a label such as "Scan to play our playlist" plus the playlist name tells people what they get, and makes a sticker pasted over your code easier to spot.

When a dynamic code is worth it

A static code holds 1 Spotify link forever. That suits an album, a podcast or an artist profile. A dynamic code is worth it when the link changes after printing:

• A playlist per season: point the same table card at the summer playlist, then the winter one.
• A new release: print the code on gig posters before the single is out, and point it at the track on release day.
• Weekly mixes: a DJ or a gym swaps in this week's playlist without touching the printed code.
• Scan counts: a dynamic code counts scans, so you see which poster or venue sends listeners.

A free QRplify account adds 1 dynamic QR code with 1,000 scans a month, and it never pauses. The static code above needs no account at all.

Where Spotify QR codes work best

• Artists and bands: gig posters, merch tags, vinyl and CD inserts, the back of a flyer.
• Cafés, shops and gyms: a "playing now" card on the counter or by the speakers.
• Weddings and parties: the playlist on the invitation or the welcome sign.
• Podcasts: the show or 1 episode on event badges, slides and business cards.

How to create it

1. Paste the Spotify link: into the field above.
2. Style it: your colors and a frame label such as "Scan to listen".
3. Download: PNG or JPG for screens and social posts, SVG for print at any size.
4. Test before you print: scan it on 2 phones, on WiFi and on mobile data.

Publish your Spotify QR code

Copy the link from Share, keep the playlist public, paste it above and scan test on 2 phones. Export SVG for print, or a PNG for screens and social posts.