TapFi

What it does

Point your phone at a handwritten WiFi card and TapFi connects you automatically. No typing passwords into tiny keyboards ever again.

Turn any handwritten or printed WiFi card into a one-tap connection. No more squinting at tiny passwords on café receipts. Built for messy cards from real cafés, bars, hotels, and Airbnbs, not perfectly-typed text. Automatically tries variations of the password (wrong spaces, wrong casing, the usual) so you don't have to. If the card has a WiFi QR code, TapFi spots it and connects instantly, with no typing at all. When a sign lists more than one network, TapFi works out which one is actually nearby and joins it. Turn your own network into a clean QR card to hand a guest, print, or stick on the wall. Install, point, tap. No sign-up, no email, no password to create just to use an app about…from tapfi.uno

In the maker’s words, at launch

I've submitted this before but it got lost in the noise so hope it's ok to submit it again, I've added quite a few new features since last time This is a little app I built to deal with a pain point I find when travelling a lot, often you're in a cafe/pub or airbnb and the wifi details will be written down on a…

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