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CLUSTER CARDS-CODES-OFFLINE · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-09-30

QR code paper backups

This cluster consists of tools that convert secrets or files into QR codes for printable, offline paper backups, including key-splitting and reconstruction schemes. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from—only two dated entries exist before the index start, and the rest predate the index or are undated. Traction leaders are paper-age, QuorumPony, and qr-backup, each with 0 stars, so no product shows meaningful activity.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2022: 1FEB 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
SEP 2022OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 5 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01PaperCript0★13 daysliveopen sourceOffline password manager that encrypts passwords into printable QR cards, requiring a master password to scan and recover them.
  2. 02paper-age0★14 daysliveopen sourceTool that backs up secrets as encrypted QR codes printed on paper for secure offline storage.
  3. 03QuorumPony0★1 moliveopen sourceOffline secret-sharing tool that splits a key or password into printable QR cards and reconstructs it from any K of N cards.
  4. 04qr-backup0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTool that encodes files as QR codes for printable paper backups.
  5. 05qrdv0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceUtility that encodes arbitrary data into QR code videos with optional encryption for secure transfer.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.