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Sharing your chart by QR code

2 min

This guide describes the Pillars phone app. The website does the same calculations, but some screens and features work differently or aren't here yet.

Handing someone your chart can be as simple as showing them your phone. No email, no account, no internet. Just two phones, face to face.

Showing your code

In People, tap Show Julian's code (with your name, of course).

You'll see a QR code and, under it, The code contains: your name, date of birth, time and birthplace. Take a second to check it before you show it.

Scanning someone else's

On the other phone: People, Add person, Scan their code. Point the camera at the code on the screen.

The app reads it and says: "We found these details. Who is this person to you?" Pick a relationship, tick the permission box and tap Save. The chart is calculated on that phone, the same careful way, and their page opens.

If nobody is saved on that phone yet, tap Scan a QR code on the first screen instead. The person you scan becomes "you" there, so there's no relationship to pick.

If it doesn't work:

  • Check that the app is allowed to use the camera, in your phone's settings.
  • If the app says "That isn't a Pillars code", it's a different kind of QR. Ask the other person to open their code from People.

What's inside, and what isn't

The code carries the birth details and nothing else:

  • the name,
  • the date of birth,
  • the time, and how sure it is,
  • the birthplace,
  • the traditional formula choice (Male or Female).

It doesn't carry notes, events, relationships, favorites, other people or settings.

And it travels directly. One camera reads the other screen. No server ever sees it.

Whose code is it?

The code belongs to whoever is "you" right now. If you've picked your mother, the button says "Show Rosa's code" and the code carries Rosa's details. That's handy: you can pass her chart to your sister's phone without your mother installing anything. Just ask her first.

Share with care

Anyone who scans your code gets your birth date, time and place. Only show it to people you trust.

A photo of the code works just as well as the real thing. So think twice before you send a screenshot or post it anywhere.

And once it's on someone else's phone, it's theirs. They can keep it or delete it, but you can't take it back from yours.