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CSV to VCF

Build a vCard file your phone can import from a spreadsheet of contacts.

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CSV to VCF is free to use as often as you like, directly from this page. You will find it under Contacts, with VCF to CSV and Merge VCF files for the neighbouring cases.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What is CSV to VCF?

Build a vCard file your phone can import from a spreadsheet of contacts.

When would I actually use this?

Moving an address book between a phone, a mail client and a spreadsheet, merging exports from two devices that each hold half the contacts, and reading a .vcf someone sent without importing it first.

What is the most common mistake?

Splitting a structured field on its separator without honouring the escape. A vCard writes a name and an address as parts joined by semicolons — but a semicolon inside a value is escaped, so a company written "Dupont & Sons\; Ltd" is one part and naive splitting tears it in two. Long values fold onto continuation lines for the same reason.

How is CSV to VCF different from VCF to CSV?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: VCF to CSV is the one to open when you need it to turn a vCard address book into a spreadsheet-ready CSV, one contact per row. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Merge VCF files is the closest one after this: Combine several vCard files into a single address book you can import once.

What else is worth having open alongside it?

VCF to JSON and VCF viewer — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

vCard files are read against the published specification, with line folding undone and escapes honoured before anything is split. The tools do not reconcile duplicates by guessing: merging keeps what both files agree on and shows you the rest rather than silently choosing.

Further reading

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ExplainerWhy Your CSV Breaks Accents and Dates in ExcelThree completely different faults hide behind the same sentence. One is the encoding, one is the separator, one is Excel guessing at types while it opens the file — and the fix for each is different. Here is how to tell them apart in five seconds.How-toMerging Two Subtitle Tracks Into a Bilingual Version: What Actually Happens to the CuesCue 12 of the English track is not cue 12 of the French one, because translators split and join sentences differently. Two strategies exist for pairing them; this merger uses neither — it interleaves. Here is what that gives you and when it is good enough.How-toSubtitles to a Spreadsheet, and Back: What Survives the Round TripA comma is quoted, a quotation mark is doubled, and a two-line cue keeps both lines — verified byte-identical over three consecutive round trips. What can still change your file is the spreadsheet in the middle.ExplainerSemicolon, Tab, Pipe: Choosing a Delimiter That Survives the TripWhy the reader's language decides the delimiter, what the converter does to the quoting when you switch, what the sep= first line really is, and the count of quoted cells on the same export written five ways.ExplainerConverting Formulas to Values Keeps the Cached Answer, Not the CalculationA spreadsheet file stores both the formula and the last answer Excel computed. Stripping the formula leaves the stored answer — and leaves a blank wherever the file never carried one.ExplainerThe Number 1 and the Text "1" Are Not DuplicatesDeduplication compares whole rows exactly, cell type included. Five identical-looking rows came out as three, because one held a number, one a string and one a string with a leading space.