[2] Information encoded often includes web addresses, geographical coordinates, and small pieces of text, in addition to commercial product codes.

This application supports many different types of barcodes, including those used to identify products in commerce.

The application can decode several 2D barcodes including the widely used QR Code and Data Matrix.

QR codes are often embedded in websites; Barcode Scanner can open a browser at the encoded site, for example, facilitating the download of an application.

As of May 2016[update], this is one of the most downloaded Android applications as listed by Google Play, with over 600,000 ratings and over 126 million user installs.