About Keepsake Studio

Keepsake Studio (keepsakeqrcodes.com) is a design studio for QR codes that people keep: the framed code on a wedding table that collects every guest's photos, the quiet square in an order of service that opens a tribute page, the code inside an anniversary card that plays a message. It is published by Sumvia, the team behind the Sumvia.net network of free browser tools, and it exists because the codes made for life's biggest occasions are usually the ugliest ones on the internet — bare squares from generic generators, printed small and forgotten.

What the Studio makes

A keepsake project pairs a standards-compliant QR code with the presentation it deserves: a frame, a caption, styling that suits the occasion. The composition is designed entirely in your browser and downloads as an ordinary image you can print at any size — table cards, programs, framed prints. The Studio workspace holds the projects you choose to save, and every saved project can be reopened, adjusted, and downloaded again from any device.

Codes that cannot be held hostage

Every code this studio produces is static: your destination is encoded directly in the image itself, with no redirect through our servers. That matters for keepsakes more than for anything else — a wedding-table code may be photographed and kept for decades, and a memorial card should never stop working because a subscription lapsed. A downloaded keepsake would keep scanning if this site vanished tomorrow. The honest trade-off: a static code cannot be edited after printing and scans cannot be counted. For objects made to outlast a website, we think that is exactly the right default.

The account, and the 30-day deal

You do not need an account to use the site, and downloads are yours forever. A free account does one thing: it stores the projects you explicitly save, so you can refine a design over a few sittings and reopen it on another device. The deal is stated plainly rather than buried in fine print: free projects are kept for 30 days from the day they are saved, then removed. The retention window is enforced in the database itself — an expired project is invisible to every client, not merely hidden by the interface. Working photos are processed in your browser during composition; only the saved composition reaches our database.

Tested composition logic

The studio's logic is implemented as small, typed functions with automated tests. The artistic engine is shared byte-for-byte with KeepsakeCodes.net, the free one-off keepsake generator — a guard test fails this site's build if the two ever drift — and the QR encoding follows the same standards discipline as their sibling site GenerateQRCodes.net: worked examples in page copy are produced by the same code that powers the tools, so documentation cannot drift from the implementation. The methodology and accuracy page documents the formats, the conventions, and what is deliberately not modeled.

Before you print something that matters

We say this on every page that composes a code, and it belongs here too: always test a keepsake with a real phone camera, at the size you intend to print, before the occasion. Scanning reliability depends on print size, contrast, and lighting — a ten-second test protects an object that may be kept for years. For consequential printing runs (hundreds of programs, permanent signage), test on more than one device.

Get in touch

Found a problem, or want the studio to support an occasion it doesn't yet? See the contact page — reports of codes that fail to scan are especially welcome and are treated seriously.