Barcode Breakdown

Point your camera at any barcode and Barcode Breakdown tells you exactly what's in it: every field, in plain English, and whether it's built correctly. Made for people who work with barcodes every day, in retail, produce, grocery, warehousing, pharmacy, shipping and packaging, and for anyone curious about what those stripes and squares really say. READY FOR SUNRISE 2027 Retailers are moving to 2D barcodes at checkout. GS1 US's Sunrise 2027 initiative asks point-of-sale scanners to read GS1 Data Matrix and QR codes with GS1 Digital Link by the end of 2027. These codes hold far more than a UPC: batch and lot, expiration and sell-by dates, serial numbers, weights and a web link, all in one symbol. Barcode Breakdown reads them today, so you can check your new packaging before it ships and see exactly what a register will see. EVERY GS1 APPLICATION IDENTIFIER, EXPLAINED • Breaks down each AI: GTIN, SSCC, GLN, batch/lot, best-by, use-by and pack dates, serial numbers, net weights and measures, prices, and many more • Checks the data with GS1's own syntax rules: wrong check digits, bad dates, missing separators and invalid combinations are flagged, with the reason • Identifies what you scanned: retail product, case or inner pack, pallet label, coupon, book, magazine, drug product, store random-weight label, and more • Shows the GTIN in every form (UPC-A, EAN-13, GTIN-14), the company prefix and, for many US products, the brand owner • Converts GS1 Digital Link URLs to element strings and back BUILT FOR RETAIL AND PRODUCE • Produce stickers and PLU codes: commodity, variety and organic, even when the PLU is only printed beside the DataBar • Store random-weight labels: item number and price • PTI case labels, including the Voice Pick Code • Coupons, refund receipts, store-internal numbers and add-ons • US drug products: the NDC from the UPC 57 BARCODE TYPES Retail and GS1: UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8, EAN-2 and EAN-5 add-ons, ITF-14, GS1-128, GS1 DataBar (Omnidirectional, Stacked, Expanded, Expanded Stacked, Limited) and GS1 Composite. 2D: QR Code, Micro QR, rMQR, Data Matrix, DMRE, PDF417, MicroPDF417, Aztec Code, Aztec Rune, MaxiCode, Codablock F, Code 16K and Code 49. Postal: Intelligent Mail, POSTNET, PLANET, Royal Mail 4-State, Mailmark, KIX, Australia Post and Japan Post. Industrial and specialty: Code 128, Code 39, Code 93, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, Industrial 2 of 5, Matrix 2 of 5, IATA 2 of 5, Datalogic 2 of 5, COOP 2 of 5, Code 11, MSI Plessey, Plessey, Telepen, BC412, Channel Code, PosiCode and DX film edge. Pharmaceutical: Code 32, PZN, Pharmacode and Two-Track Pharmacode. MORE THAN GS1 Over 80 data formats outside GS1 are decoded too: HIBC and ISBT 128 medical labels, shipping tracking numbers, UPS MaxiCode labels, postal addresses, boarding passes and bag tags, Wi-Fi networks, contact cards, calendar events, payment codes such as SEPA, Swiss QR-bill and Pix, fiscal receipts, vehicle VINs, Matter and HomeKit setup codes, and many more. SCAN IT ANY WAY • Live camera scanning, with the found code outlined • Import photos, screenshots and PDFs, or share them from other apps • Type or paste a barcode's data, in brackets or raw • Scan history, with copy and share of any value or the full breakdown PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything is decoded on your iPhone. No account, no ads, no tracking, and nothing you scan is sent anywhere. The reference data (GS1 prefixes, company names, PLU codes, NDC labelers) is built in, so it works offline, in a warehouse or a walk-in cooler. Barcode Breakdown is an independent app and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by GS1. GS1, GS1 DataBar and GS1 Digital Link are trademarks of GS1 AISBL.