Flowcode's free tier is tight and its paid tiers climb fast. Whooshly is one payment for codes, links, UTM, and cards.
Whooshly is a good Flowcode alternative if you like designed QR codes but not the pricing ladder underneath them. One payment covers dynamic codes, short links, a UTM builder, and digital cards within a generous campaign-asset allowance. Flowcode's genuine edge is design: its codes and landing pages are the best-looking in the category, and if brand aesthetics are the deciding factor it is a fair reason to pay them.
Comparison based on each vendor's publicly listed plans, checked August 2026. Prices change often — verify against the vendor's own pricing page before deciding.
At about $25/mo, Flowcode runs roughly $300 a year and $900 over three years, and you still don't own it. Whooshly's Core is $49, paid once.
One price, not a tier that climbs as you grow.
There's no plan to fall off, so nothing changes when you stop.
QR, short links, UTM, cards, pages, and agent access together.
Flowcode makes the most attractive QR codes on the market, with strong design tooling, polished landing pages, and good analytics presentation. For brand teams where the code itself is a design object, that is a real and defensible advantage.
Pick Flowcode if the visual design of the code and its landing page is the deciding factor, and you're happy to keep paying monthly to keep them live.
Credit where it is due: Flowcode is one of the 7 of 15 generators in our study that does NOT expire free codes. Its two free dynamic codes keep working. The constraint is measurement rather than survival — analytics are capped at 500 scans, and two codes is a small allowance once a campaign has more than one asset.
Our QR expiry study, 15 generators checkedDownload your link list, destinations, slugs, and tags, from Flowcode as a CSV.
Paste your destinations and claim the same custom endings where they're free. Add QR codes and UTM tags in the same place.
Update the links in your posts and campaigns, or connect your own domain on Pro so links keep the same host.
Check Flowcode's current plan terms before you rely on it, downgrade behaviour is exactly where dynamic-QR platforms differ most, and it's the detail people discover after printing. Whooshly has no tier to fall off: the Core purchase doesn't renew, so there's no downgrade event to survive.
Flowcode's free tier is two codes with analytics on the first 500 scans. Whooshly's free tier gives you three tracked links or codes, one digital card, one bio page, and one landing page, with no card required, and the one-time $49 Core lifts those caps permanently rather than starting a subscription. Credit where it is due: Flowcode states its codes always scan, with no lifetime scan expiry, on every tier including free.
Whooshly codes support your own foreground and background colours and print-ready SVG export, which covers most brand needs. Flowcode goes further on decorative design, if the code itself needs to be a showpiece, that's a fair reason to pick them.
Yes, any time, as many times as you like, on the one-time Core. That's the whole point of a dynamic code, and it isn't gated behind a higher tier here.
Over time, substantially. Flowcode's Pro Plus is around $25/mo billed annually (roughly $300 a year), and the tier above it is $250 a year again; Whooshly's Core is a single $49 that also includes short links, UTM tagging, and digital cards.
Bring your links, own your data, and never see a renewal email again.