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Share QR codes with people you trust — safely.
PassAround is a private group tool for sharing any transferable QR code — a sports subscription, a multi-entry ticket, a family membership — without ever exposing the code online.
Free download · iPhone and Android
The idea
One pass, shared the way it was meant to be.
Lots of passes are transferable — yours to lend when you're not using it. But screenshotting a QR into a group chat is messy: it gets forwarded, saved, used twice, or sits in someone's photo roll for months.
PassAround replaces that with a structured pool. An admin gathers the codes that the group is allowed to share, grants entry credits to members, and the system hands out one code at a time — to one person, at the moment they actually need it.
How it works
Four moving parts.
An admin builds the pool
The group admin uploads the QR codes that are legitimately shareable — their own, or contributed by trusted members.
Members get credits
No money changes hands. The admin grants integer credits to members of their group. 1 credit = 1 entry.
Claim at the gate
When a member arrives, they tap once in the app. It picks a code from the pool (rotating to avoid collisions) and hands it to them — one person at a time.
Secure reveal, then gone
The QR opens full-screen inside the app, protected against screenshots and screen recording. Scan at the gate, close it — done.
Safety
Things we did so the code stays in the right hands.
The QR never leaves the app
Codes are revealed only inside the app's secure viewer, which blocks screenshots and screen recording. Nothing lands in a chat or photo roll.
Invites need approval
When a member shares an invite link, a group manager approves the join request before anyone gets in. No silent growth.
One-at-a-time rotation
The picker avoids handing out the same QR to two people in quick succession, so a code isn't burned by simultaneous use.
Cooldown + daily caps
Members can't claim more than a few times a day, with a cooling-off period between claims. Heavy users get visible to admins.
Audit log
Every claim is timestamped, with the venue and the device that triggered it. Misuse leaves a trail.
Admin-moderated pool
Members can suggest codes, but only the admin approves them into the pool. No one slips an unrelated QR in.
What you can share
Only what was meant to be shared.
PassAround is a coordination tool. It does not grant any right that the underlying pass doesn't already give you. Before uploading anything, check the rules of the pass itself:
- Is it transferable under its own terms? (Many sports subscriptions and multi-entry tickets are; many event tickets and personal memberships are not.)
- Is it yours to share, or contributed with the permission of the person it belongs to?
- Are you respecting the venue's policy — capacity, time slots, daily limits?
If the answer to any of those is “no”, this isn't the right tool. The platform deliberately doesn't enable mass distribution: it's for groups that already have the right to share, just need a less chaotic way of doing it.
Privacy
What we collect, and why.
Your account
Sign in with Apple, Google, or email — just enough to know who's in the group and deliver your passes. Used for nothing else.
Location (at claim)
When you claim a code, we log which venue you're at. Used for accounting and pool rotation — never to block you.
No ads, no data selling
Members never pay each other; the only purchase is the optional Plus subscription. We don't sell your data or run ads. We use Google Analytics to see how the site is used; details in the privacy policy.
Your group, your data
Each group is a separate tenant. Your admin sees activity inside the group. The platform operator sees aggregate operational data.
Policy
The short version.
PassAround is provided by L121 (contact: lab@l121.org) and offered as-is. Apart from the optional Plus subscription, no money moves through the platform — we don't buy, sell, or own any pass, and we're not a party to anything between you, your group, and the venue.
You are solely responsible for what you upload and how you use the platform. By using PassAround you confirm that everything you share is permitted under the underlying pass's terms.
The full disclaimer lives at /disclaimer. Anything else, or feedback? Drop me a note.
Pricing
Free to start. Plus for bigger groups.
PassAround is free for a small group, and no money ever changes hands between members. If your crew outgrows the free tier, the optional Plus subscription (paid by the group owner, in-app) unlocks more groups, more members, and more passes. That's the whole business model — no ads, no data selling.
Get the app and start your group.
PassAround lives on your phone. Download it free, create your group in a minute, and invite the people you trust. Joining a friend's group? They'll send you a personal invite link.