RedLaser

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(UPDATE 11/18/2015) Sadly, there's nothing to recommend this former leader in barcode scanning solutions. I don't know what's happened to the enterprise, but it no longer looks up scanned barcode data online - at least not on my iPhone 6+. I see it's now owned by eBay, so perhaps they bought it to rob it of some technology and let the product languish - a sad but common tale of the dot com era.

(Free; no iPad-native version available) - One of the earliest and still at the top of the heap of barcode-reading apps, RedLaser continues to improve this free app. Scan an item in your kitchen and find out where to buy more. Scan an item in the store and see where you can buy it for less (or whether you've already got the lowest price in hand, which also happens). RedLaser also reads those QR Codes you see in magazines, billboards and in TV, and even lets you _create_ a QR code to share a URL, email address or just text with another smartphone or tablet user without sharing your own email identity (I've had this happen at trade shows).

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