NFC.cool is an independent product from its founder, Nicolo Stanciu, built between Germany and Portugal. The mission: make NFC accessible for the rest of us. It’s a famously nerdy technology and most apps for it are too technical - so NFC.cool sets out to be the best mobile scanning toolkit anyone has, built for everyone.
NFC.cool started as a personal itch. Apple opened up NFC on iOS in 2017, and I was one of the first to build for it - I shipped the first version of NFC.cool Tools that year, put it on the App Store, and watched a small but passionate community form around it.
NFC.cool has since grown into a family of apps: the full scanning toolkit (NFC, QR, Barcodes, Documents, 3D, Room Scans, Webhooks), the dedicated Business Card app on iPhone and Android, and an Android build of the toolkit focused on what Android does best - together carrying 75,500+ ratings at 4.5 stars across the App Store and Google Play. Everything is still built by its founder, between Germany and Portugal.
I keep it that way on purpose. NFC.cool isn’t VC-backed, so the people I answer to are the ones using the apps, and I use what I ship every day.
Tags you read and write, documents, passports and ID cards, 3D models: the app processes them on your device, and their contents don't reach me. If you turn on webhooks, scan data goes straight to your server. For what the app does share, such as analytics, crash reports, ads and purchases, see the privacy policy.
OCR, photogrammetry, NFC parsing: all run locally. No cloud round-trips, no internet required.
NFC Forum types, NDEF, vCard, iCalendar, OpenPrintTag. Where standards exist, NFC.cool follows them.
Reading NFC tags, scanning QR codes and barcodes, document scanning, 3D and room scanning - the core toolkit is free to use. The free tier is ad-supported; an optional Platinum subscription removes the ads and unlocks the advanced workflows. The essentials never cost anything.
The fastest way to reach me is by email. I read everything personally. Feature requests directly shape the roadmap; bug reports get triaged within a day.
For press inquiries, see the press page.