A Flowcode Alternative Without Scan Limits

What Flowcode charges

Flowcode's pricing page lists:

• Free: up to 2 Flowcodes, analytics for up to 500 scans, destination editable.
• Pro Plus, $25 a month billed annually: up to 50 Flowcodes and landing pages, analytics for up to 6,000 scans, 3 collaboration seats.
• Growth, $250 a year: starts at 150 Flowcodes and landing pages, analytics included for the first 10,000 scans with geo-location.
• Growth Plus and Enterprise: usage-based or custom.

Reticle Pro is $7 a month, or $60 a year, for unlimited dynamic codes with no scan cap and no analytics cap. Their figures above were read off their own pricing page on August 10, 2026; pricing changes, so confirm before you buy.

The scan cap is the difference that matters

Most QR products meter the number of codes. Flowcode also meters scans, and specifically the analytics on them: 500 on free, 6,000 on Pro Plus, the first 10,000 on Growth.

That is a limit with an awkward shape, because it binds exactly when things go well. A code that nobody scans never reaches it. A code on packaging that took off, a sign that worked, a campaign that outperformed, is the one that crosses the line, and it crosses it at the moment the numbers are most worth having. You end up with the least data about your best-performing thing.

It is also the limit people are least likely to plan for, because you size a plan by counting codes, which is easy, not by predicting scans, which is guesswork.

Reticle caps neither, on any plan. A free dynamic code has unlimited scans, and one you're actually using never expires: a link with zero scans for 90 days is reclaimed after two email warnings, and any scan or one click keeps it active. Its aggregate reporting keeps counting for as long as the link is live. Pro adds a per-scan record with city, device, OS and time, exportable to CSV, and there is no scan number at which it stops.

Codes per dollar

The count comparison is straightforward. Pro Plus is $25 a month for up to 50 codes. Reticle Pro is $7 a month for an unlimited number, with no higher tier to graduate into. If you need more than 50, Flowcode's next step is $250 a year starting at 150.

Worth noting that Flowcode counts Flowcodes and landing pages together against the same allowance, so a setup that pairs each code with a page consumes the allowance twice as fast as the number suggests.

Where Reticle is stronger

Beyond the scan caps, six things this plan includes:

Your own domain on the printed code, so it reads go.yourbrand.com/menu rather than someone else's short domain. On a printed piece, that address is part of the design.

White-label on that domain. Attach it and Pro swaps in your name and logo on the pages it serves, plus your brand color on the Reticle dashboard.

A page builder behind the code. Pro builds the hosted page too, not just the code that opens it: eight block types (hero, text, image, buttons, social, contact, dividers and spacers), a theme with your own colors, font and corner style, 18 starting templates, and up to 24 blocks on a page. It serves on your own domain under your own name, and it does not consume a code allowance, because there is no allowance to consume.

An API and scan webhooks. Create and manage links from your own scripts, and have every scan posted to your systems as a signed JSON event within seconds of it happening. Point one at Zapier or Make and scans reach a CRM or a spreadsheet with no connector to build. Details are on the API page.

A built-in scanner and the Studio's decode-back check, so you can confirm a code reads before it goes to print. No major competitor bundles one.

Everything in one tier. Smart routing, file codes, link pages, passwords, and scheduling are all in the $7 plan rather than distributed up a ladder, and there is no tier above it, so nothing is a future upsell.

Design depth, and what each side charges for it

Flowcode's circular codes are its signature look, and its design tool is genuinely pleasant. The difference is where the paywalls sit. Per Flowcode's own product pages and help center (read August 14, 2026): the free tier offers a curated color palette with the full hex picker on paid plans, call-to-action text placement is a paid feature, and codes carry Flowcode's own logo mark plus a privacy URL inside the code itself, with the logo removable on Pro Plus and above and the privacy URL not removable on any plan.

Reticle's Design Studio puts the whole manual toolkit in the free tier: circle codes with text around the rim, 8 module patterns including hearts and stars, any hex color on modules, corner eyes, and background independently, gradients, caption text above and below the code, decorative canvases, and one-click templates. Your codes carry your design and nothing of ours; there is no Reticle mark inside any code on any plan. Designing needs no account; downloading what you made takes a free one. Describe-the-look AI design is included too, with 5 free uses a month and no monthly limit on Pro.

Printed codes do not transfer, either way

If you have already printed Flowcodes, you cannot move them to Reticle without reprinting. The printed pattern encodes their short link, so it will always resolve through their servers. That is true of every dynamic QR provider, in both directions, including this one.

Which makes the custom-domain question worth settling before your next print run rather than after it. A code printed on a domain you own is the only version of this you can move later, because the address on the paper is yours rather than your vendor's.

Trying it

The free Studio needs no account: pick a type, style it, export a PNG or SVG with no watermark. For the dynamic side, the demo workspace is a real Pro account you can look through without signing up, and the free plan's 3 dynamic codes are enough to test on something real. Full plan detail is on pricing.

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