Artemisia Gentileschi
1593–1656
Tortured as a witness at her own rape trial; painted Judith with a butcher's accuracy
Naples, Campania — her burial place in the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini was lost when the church was demolished
Memory should be passed on, not sold.
QR Memorial is a free place to keep the memory of a person, an event or a place. You write the page, we give you a QR code. Fix the code to a headstone, a bench, a wall or a plaque, and anyone who scans it will find the page you wrote.
No payment. No account required to read. Nothing to install.
What we promise
Free, and not "free for now"
There is no paid plan, no trial that ends, no feature held back for money. Memory is not a product, and the person who built this site does not want to be paid for holding yours.
We do not follow you
No analytics service, no advertising pixels, no third-party trackers, no cookie for reading. We count openings, not readers: a page carries a number saying it was opened forty-seven times, and there is nowhere in our database to record who any of them were.
Three things, and only three
If you create a page we keep your email address, the name you choose to show, and the language you prefer. That is the whole of it. No password is stored, because signing in is a one-time link sent to your inbox.
Open to everyone
A grandmother, a village fire, a shipwreck, a tree that stood for two hundred years. If it deserves to be remembered and it is true, it belongs here.
How it works
Write the page
A name or a title, the dates, up to five photographs, and as much or as little text as you want to leave.
Mark the place
Put a pin on the map: a grave, a roadside, a house, a square. Visitors get directions in one tap.
Take the QR code
Download it as a sharp image and have it engraved, printed or fixed wherever the memory lives.
Someone scans it
A stranger with a phone finds out who was here, and what happened. That is the whole idea.
Why the site exists
Someone walks past a headstone with a name and two dates on it and learns nothing. Someone stands where something important happened and has no way to know. A whole life reduced to a dash between two years, and then, in a generation or two, not even that.
This site was built by one person who thinks that is a loss, and that fixing it is not a business. Everything here is given away. If it helps you keep someone, that is the whole return.
Pages already here
To show what a finished page looks like, the site opens with memorials to historical figures and events, each one checked against the record: the dates, the places, and where they lie.
Concepción Arenal
1820–1893
Attended university dressed as a man; became Spain's first prison inspector for women
Pereiró Cemetery, Vigo, Galicia
Primo Levi
1919–1987
A chemist who survived Auschwitz and spent forty years explaining it precisely
Monumental Cemetery of Turin, Piedmont
Maria Montessori
1870–1952
One of Italy's first women doctors; left medicine to watch how children learn
Catholic cemetery, Noordwijk aan Zee, Netherlands
Luís de Camões
1524–1580
Wrote Portugal's national epic and died poor; the bones in his tomb may not be his
Jerónimos Monastery, Belém, Lisbon
Rosalía de Castro
1837–1885
Published in Galician when Galician was a language you were mocked for writing in
Panteón de Galegos Ilustres, Convent of Santo Domingo de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela
Straight answers
Is it really free?
Yes. There is no card field anywhere on this site, and there never will be one.
What happens to the page if the site closes?
You can download everything you wrote at any time, as a file you keep. We would give notice long before anything shut down, and we would say so honestly rather than quietly deleting.
Can anyone edit my page?
Only you. A page can be changed only from the account that created it.
Does the QR code stop working?
No. The address it points to never changes, even if you rewrite the page a hundred times. An engraved code stays good.
Do you show adverts?
No, and we do not sell anything, to you or about you.