Privacy by default
Scans, documents, contacts - everything stays on your device. Nothing flows back to me unless you explicitly opt into webhooks (and even then, the destination is your server).
Built independently, in Europe.
NFC.cool is an independent product from Nicolo Stanciu, built between Germany and Portugal. One person, one 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.
The story
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, and an Android version focused on what Android does best - together carrying 72,500+ ratings at 4.5 stars across the App Store and Google Play. Everything still ships from one keyboard - one person, working between Germany and Portugal.
I keep it that way on purpose. No VC, no growth team - just one person who actually uses what they ship every day.
What NFC.cool stands for
On-device processing
OCR, photogrammetry, NFC parsing - all run locally. No cloud round-trips, no internet required.
Open standards
NFC Forum types, NDEF, vCard, iCalendar, OpenPrintTag. Where standards exist, NFC.cool follows them.
Free where it can be
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.
Get in touch
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.