Hovercode Alternative: What to Consider When Switching

What Hovercode Does Well

Before discussing a Hovercode alternative, the provider's strengths should come first. According to the pricing page (as of October 2026), Hovercode offers 3 dynamic codes for free, without expiration, with unlimited scans, and without ads. A custom domain is already included in the smallest paid plan „Pro“. And for the period after cancellation, there is a clear rule: The first 3 dynamic codes remain active.

• 3 dynamic codes free, unlimited scans, no ads.
• Custom domain from „Pro“ (1 domain).
• After cancellation, the first 3 codes remain active; the rest can be reactivated.
• Mass import via spreadsheet, according to the help centre.

Reasons for an Alternative

According to the pricing page, the paid plans „Pro“ cost 11 €, „Business“ 37 € and „Business Plus“ 93 € per month. Export of scan activity as CSV and API is available from „Business“. If you need many codes but neither a custom domain nor an API, you should therefore focus mainly on what a plan contains in terms of codes and what it costs.

Criteria for Selection

• How many dynamic codes are included in the plan, and what does each additional step cost?
• From which plan is export and import available?
• Do you need a custom domain, or is a fixed short link address sufficient?
• What happens to printed codes after cancellation?
• Can you cancel monthly?

How Same-QR solves these points

Same-QR scales based on the number of codes, with unlimited scans in every paid plan and no ads during scanning:

The CSV export of all codes is included in every plan with Same-QR; CSV import is available from the Start plan.

At Same-QR, the end of a subscription is handled as follows: Codes within the quota of your new plan continue to run unchanged – in the free plan, the two oldest. Codes beyond that are deactivated by us only after a 14-day grace period, and you will receive three emails beforehand (7, 3, and 1 day before). Deactivated does not mean deleted: The code shows a notice instead of the destination when scanned and works again as soon as your plan covers it.

Where Hovercode has an advantage: Same-QR does not offer a custom short link domain, and the free Hovercode plan has one more code and no scan limit. In the free Same-QR plan, there are two codes with 10,000 scans per month; beyond that, the codes continue to work, with a short notice before the destination.

The switch soon

• List codes in the Hovercode account: Name, Destination, Short Link, Location of Print.
• Create codes at Same-QR, starting from the Start plan also via "Import a spreadsheet".
• Set the destination of each code in Hovercode to the new Same-QR link.
• Replace prints, then cancel. According to the pricing page, the first 3 codes continue to redirect.

The easiest way is the migration assistant under Dashboard → “QR codes” → “Move from another provider”: it reads your list as a CSV or Excel file, lets you assign the columns name, destination URL, old short link and labels, and creates the codes, as many as your plan allows. Afterwards you download a list “old short link → new Same-QR link”, which is exactly what you need for the bridge. An overview of switching is at sameqr.com/wechseln/en.

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