Scanova is a business-oriented QR platform with custom design, dynamic codes, analytics, bulk generation and an API. AriaQR overlaps on the dynamic and analytics side and differs sharply on the code itself: with AriaQR, your image is the code, and every code is verified before you download. Here is the comparison.
What is Scanova?
Scanova is widely known as a QR code generator built for businesses and marketing teams. In general terms, it offers dynamic codes for many content types, a design editor with colors, patterns and a logo in the center, scan analytics, bulk generation from spreadsheets, and an API for developers. It is popular with Indian businesses and used internationally. Check their site for the current feature set and pricing.
Its codes follow the standard pattern: a grid you can color and pattern, with a logo placed in the middle and optional frames.
What does AriaQR do differently?
AriaQR turns the picture into the code. Upload a product shot, a logo, a portrait or an illustration, and the code lives inside it as a field of dots, with translucent eyes and margins. For larger artwork, "Code in your image" places the code inside a poster or photograph and returns the full piece with the code blended in.
Every code is verified on real decoders under real-world conditions before download: distance, angle, low light and small size. Codes are dynamic by default, so the destination can change after printing and every scan is tracked, with analytics that use no cookies. UPI and Wi-Fi codes are static and work offline.
AriaQR vs Scanova: side by side
| AriaQR | Scanova | |
|---|---|---|
| What the code looks like | The image is the code | Colored, patterned grid with a logo in the center |
| Verification before download | Yes, real decoders, real-world conditions | Not advertised |
| Dynamic links | Default for most kinds | Yes |
| UPI payment codes | Yes, static, works offline, your image as the code | Yes, check their site for details |
| Analytics | Scans, unique visitors without cookies, hour of day, device, in-app browsers, city, map, placements, CSV, alerts | Scan analytics in their dashboard |
| Bulk | Bulk upload on the account page, plus the API and MCP | Yes, in the product |
| API | REST API and MCP server on the plan | Yes |
| Pricing model | Pay once per code, or subscribe (see pricing) | Check their current pricing |
Which one is better for payment codes at a counter?
A counter code is scanned dozens of times a day by people in a hurry, and a failure is money walking out. AriaQR's UPI kind bakes the payment payload into the code so it works in any scanner with no network, and the artwork around it can be your logo or a photo of the shop. The code is then decoded under harder conditions before you download, which is the part that matters for a standee under shop lighting.
Scanova supports payment codes as one of many content types. Whichever tool you use, test the printed standee, not the screen; the free QR code tester accepts a photo of the print.
How does bulk and API work compare?
Scanova has bulk generation built into the product and an API. AriaQR's quarter plan includes a REST API and an MCP server: send an image URL and a destination, get back a verified code, read its analytics, change its destination. It is the same engine and the same verification the site uses, so codes from a pipeline are checked exactly like codes from the dashboard.
For a batch from the browser, AriaQR's bulk upload on the account page takes fifty images at a time, each with its own destination, and hands back a zip of masters and a CSV of links. For codes created from your own systems or from an AI agent, the API and MCP server have no per-call cap. Teams keep a client's or a department's codes in their own workspace.
How does the analytics compare?
Both count scans on dynamic codes. AriaQR's dashboard adds unique visitors without cookies, hour-of-day heatmaps in the scanner's local time, device and OS, in-app browser detection, city-level location, a map, placements for comparing several codes in one campaign, CSV export, daily link-health checks and alerts. Scanova provides analytics in its own dashboard; depth depends on the plan.
Who should choose which?
Choose Scanova if you want a broad business platform with bulk uploads in the interface and a logo-in-the-middle look is fine.
Choose AriaQR if the code has to look like the brand, has to scan first time in print, and you want editable destinations, cookie-free analytics and an API without a large platform around them. Generating is free; you pay only to download a verified code.