A .vcf (vCard) file is how phones and email programs export contacts. This page turns one into a spreadsheet you can read, sort and clean up in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets - or into a CSV laid out exactly as Google Contacts or Outlook expect for import - and turns a spreadsheet back into a .vcf your phone can open. It is free to use, with no account and no upload limit, and it runs entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded, and while the page stays open, a feature you have already used keeps working offline.
Many free converters ask you to upload the file. A contacts export is a list of other people's phone numbers, emails and home addresses, so here it is read and written in this browser tab and never sent anywhere. To look through a .vcf without converting it, open it in the VCF file viewer; for calendars, see the ICS Viewer.
- Why convert contacts here rather than on an upload site?
- A .vcf export holds names, phone numbers, emails, home addresses and birthdays of everyone you know. Upload converters get a copy of all of it. This page reads the file with JavaScript in your browser and writes the spreadsheet there too; nothing is sent to a server, and closing the tab clears it.
- How do I get a .vcf file from my iPhone or Android phone?
- On an iPhone, open Contacts, tap Lists, touch and hold All Contacts and choose Export; or sign in to iCloud.com, open Contacts, select all and choose Export vCard. On Android, open Contacts › Fix and manage › Export to file. Google Contacts on the web exports .vcf under Export › vCard.
- What happens to contact photos?
- They are left out of the spreadsheet - a cell cannot hold a picture - and the page says how many contacts had one. The .vcf you started with keeps them, and merging or splitting .vcf files on the third tab copies each contact exactly, photo included.
- Is anything lost going from VCF to a spreadsheet and back?
- Names, organizations, phones, emails, addresses, websites, birthdays, anniversaries, groups and notes come back as they were (the Google and Outlook layouts have no full-name column, so the display name is rebuilt from first, middle and last name). A spreadsheet column has one type, so a phone's custom label (Apple's "Grandma") and a "preferred" mark become plain types; other fields such as social profiles go into the Other fields column and come back as notes; photos are left out. The Outlook layout has fixed columns - three emails, one website, and a set of phone columns where a second mobile lands in Other Phone - so what does not fit goes into Notes, and it keeps no birthday without a year. vCard 2.1 cannot hold a birthday without a year either, and the page says when one is left out.
- How do I import a CSV of contacts into my iPhone?
- iPhones do not import CSV. Use the Excel / CSV to VCF tab to make a .vcf, then email it to yourself or AirDrop it and tap it on the phone, or import it at iCloud.com › Contacts. Android and Google Contacts take either the .vcf or the Google CSV.
- Which vCard version should I choose?
- 3.0 works with iPhone, Android, Google Contacts, Outlook and nearly everything else, so it is the default. 4.0 is the newest standard. Choose 2.1 only for an old phone or program that rejects the others; accented and non-Latin text is then written quoted-printable, as those devices expect.
- My spreadsheet's dates come out wrong or missing. Why?
- Birthdays are read from date cells, or from text written 1985-04-12, 19850412, 12.04.1985 or with slashes. A slashed date like 04/05/1990 is read month first (US style) unless the first number is over 12. A date that cannot be read is left out, and the page says how many were.