TapFi – Point your camera at handwritten WiFi credentials to connect

Name: TapFi – Point your camera at handwritten WiFi credentials to connect
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Author: jmkni

by jmkni·Apr 30, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●MidSolve My ProblemCozy

Handwriting OCR for WiFi cards, but Google Lens already does this for free.

Strengths

•Handles messy handwriting and spacing variations better than standard OCR.
•One-time £0.99 payment model avoids the subscription fatigue trap.
•Generates shareable QR codes from extracted credentials for easy team access.

Weaknesses

•Google Lens and iOS Live Text already extract text from images natively.
•Paying for a single-purpose wrapper when OS features are free is a hard sell.

Post Description

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 card or on a poster, this simply lets you take a picture of the details and it works out the SSID/Password (using Claude Sonnet) and connects you

New features since the last post:

- Create and share a QR code with others, so they can just scan the QR code and connect

- Use a photo from your library

- Save wifi details to connect later

Open to all feedback/criticism/improvement suggestions

Cheers :)