Reviewing your contacts
Export your address book as a vCard, convert here, and open the CSV in a spreadsheet to see everyone in a table.
vCard to CSV
Convert a vCard (.vcf) contact file to CSV in your browser, ready for a spreadsheet.
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Converts vcard (.vcf) to csv in this tab, with nothing sent anywhere.
Runs entirely on your deviceThe conversion happens in this browser tab. Nothing you type is uploaded, logged or stored, which is worth knowing for anything you would not paste into a search box.
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A vCard file is how contacts are exported from a phone or an address book - the .vcf format - and it is nearly useless for anything except importing back into another address book. To actually work with your contacts, to review them in a spreadsheet, deduplicate them, or import them somewhere that expects a table, you need CSV. This converts a vCard file, whether it holds one contact or hundreds, into a clean CSV with a column for each field. It matters that this happens in your browser: a contact file is intensely personal data - names, phone numbers, email addresses of everyone you know - and pasting it into an unfamiliar website is exactly the kind of thing that should give anyone pause. Here it never leaves the tab.
Work through the input
- The file is split into individual vCard entries, each beginning with a BEGIN:VCARD marker.
- For each contact, the key fields are read - full name, email, phone, organisation and title.
- Property parameters are handled, so an entry like EMAIL;TYPE=WORK still yields the address rather than being missed.
- The contacts become rows in a CSV with a header naming each column.
- Fields containing commas or quotes are escaped so the CSV stays valid.
When vcard to csv is useful
Importing into another system
Many CRMs and tools import CSV but not vCard. This is the bridge, done without uploading your contacts.
Check the output
- It extracts the common fields - name, email, phone, organisation, title. A vCard can hold many more (addresses, birthdays, photos), which are not included in this summary table.
- A contact with several emails or phone numbers has the first of each taken, since a flat table has one column per field.
- Photos and other binary data embedded in a vCard are not represented in CSV.
- Very old or unusual vCard variants may store fields differently and not map cleanly.
- The output is a working contact table, not a lossless representation of every vCard property.
Questions about vCard to CSV
Does it handle a file with many contacts?
Yes. Each vCard entry in the file becomes its own row.
Which fields are included?
Name, email, phone, organisation and title - the common columns. Addresses, birthdays and photos are not in the summary table.
What if a contact has two phone numbers?
The first is taken, since a flat table has one column per field.
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