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Description
TagDrop turns small files — text, HTML pages, images, audio, SVGs — into self-contained QR codes that work completely offline. Print one on a sticker or sheet of paper and leave it somewhere; anyone with the TagDrop app (or any QR scanner that follows tagdrop: links) can scan it and view the content immediately, with no internet connection, server, or account required. Think of it as a digital geocache: instead of a logbook in a box, the "cache" is the QR code itself. What you can do with it
- Drop a single page — encode text, an HTML page, an SVG image, or JSON into one QR code, either in-app (Create Cache) or with the web generator.
- Drop a whole "paper" — a printable sheet with a directory QR code (a paper manifest) plus one QR per file, built in-app (Create Paper) or with the web generator. Pages can link to each other with ordinary relative links, so a small static site survives being printed and scanned back in.
- Spread large content across multiple codes — split a payload too big for one QR into multiple sector codes placed along a trail. The app collects sectors in any order, reassembles and verifies them, and can recover a single missing sector from an optional parity code.
- Build trails, collections, and replies — link papers together with location hints, tag a loose set of stickers with a shared collection so they group into one card on the home screen and map, or mark a code as a reply to another to thread a conversation across drops.
- Browse offline — scanned pages render in an in-app viewer, with search and #hashtag filtering, and a hex/CBOR inspector for the curious. The Collections, History, and Map tabs let you revisit, locate, and manage everything you've found, and a single file can back up or restore it all.
- Tap instead of scan — write any TagDrop code to a blank or rewritable NFC tag, then read it back with a tap instead of the camera.
What’s new (2.4.0)
- Remote drop sources: add any URL that serves a TagDrop drops.json feed and its entries appear as map pins (📡 working, 📵 reported broken) so you can find drops before scanning them.
- Source management: enable or disable each source independently; disabled sources are greyed out on the list and their pins are removed from the map instantly.
- Refresh a source to pull the latest entries, or refresh all enabled sources at once from the menu.
- Source discovery: tap "Browse recommended sources" to
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What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.
- Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
- CameraTake photos and videos.
- Approximate locationDetermine the location via the network.
- Precise locationDetermine the location via GPS.
- NFCExchange data via near field communication.
- tagdrop.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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