QRFY runs on trials and subscriptions. Whooshly is one payment, with no countdown attached to the code you just printed.
Whooshly is a good QRFY alternative if you want dynamic QR codes without a trial window or a recurring plan behind them. One payment covers dynamic codes, short links, a UTM builder, and digital cards within a generous campaign-asset allowance. QRFY offers a wide range of code types and a polished builder; the trade-off is that its codes live inside a subscription, so check what happens at the end of a trial or plan before you commit a code to print.
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 $19/mo, QRFY runs roughly $228 a year and $684 over three years, and you still don't own it. Whooshly's Core is $49, paid once.
No trial window deciding whether your printed code lives.
The core toolkit is bought, not rented.
Codes, links, UTM tags, and cards share one dashboard.
QRFY is more generous than most of its category. Every paid plan includes unlimited dynamic codes, unlimited scans, a custom domain, and CSV bulk creation, alongside an unusually broad set of code types (PDF, menu, video, coupon) and a clean builder. On features per month it is a genuinely strong product.
Pick QRFY if you need its long tail of specialised code types and you're comfortable keeping a subscription running underneath your printed codes.
Qrfy is one of the 8 of 15 generators in our study that can expire a code. Its 7-day trial deactivates dynamic codes, and per Qrfy's own support documentation a lapsed scan does not fail cleanly — it lands on a vendor "service page" instead of your destination, so a customer scanning your flyer sees an upsell screen.
Our QR expiry study, 15 generators checkedDownload your link list, destinations, slugs, and tags, from QRFY 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.
Read QRFY's current trial terms before printing anything, trial-created dynamic codes are a common place for QR platforms to set an expiry, and the cost lands on you only after the print run. The general rule holds everywhere: a dynamic code resolves for exactly as long as the platform behind it chooses to serve it.
Yes, two ways. A static code has the URL baked in and scans forever without an account, but can never be edited. A Whooshly dynamic code is editable and tracked, and the Core that covers it is a one-time $49 rather than a recurring plan, so there's no renewal that could switch it off.
They keep pointing at QRFY, because the pattern on paper encodes their redirect. Keep that account alive until those specific printed pieces retire, and put Whooshly codes on everything you print from now on.
Core supports up to 10,000 campaign assets across dynamic QR codes, links, cards, bios, and pages. Scans are not metered.
Across a year or more, yes, because there is no second year. QRFY's best rate is around $19/mo billed annually (about $228 a year); Whooshly's Core is a single $49 and never renews. To be fair to QRFY, what you get for that $228 is generous: unlimited codes, unlimited scans, and a custom domain. The difference is that you are renting it.
Bring your links, own your data, and never see a renewal email again.