VCF to CSV Converter

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How to convert VCF to CSV

1. Export your contacts as .vcf — on iPhone use iCloud.com → Contacts → Export vCard; on Android use the Contacts app → Manage → Export; in Gmail use Google Contacts → Export → vCard.
2. Drop the file above — or click to browse and select it. Parsing happens instantly on your device.
3. Choose your columns and separator — pick which fields to include and whether your Excel expects commas or semicolons.
4. Download the CSV — open it in Excel, Google Sheets or import it into any CRM.

Why use this converter?

• 🔒 Private by design. The conversion runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded — your contacts never leave your device.
• ⚡ Handles real-world VCF files. Supports vCard 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0, folded lines, quoted-printable encoding and multiple phone numbers / emails per contact.
• 🆓 Free with no limits. No account, no watermarks, no capped conversions. Convert thousands of contacts in one go.

How to export your contacts as a VCF file

Before you can convert, you need a .vcf file. Here is how to export your contacts on the most common platforms. Once you have the file, drop it into the converter above and download your CSV in seconds.

iPhone (via iCloud)

1. On your iPhone, go to Settings → [your name] → iCloud and make sure Contacts syncing is turned on.
2. On a computer, open iCloud.com, sign in with your Apple ID and click Contacts.
3. Select the contacts you want (press Ctrl+A / ⌘+A for all), then click the gear icon and choose Export vCard.
4. Your browser downloads a .vcf file containing every selected contact.

Android (Google Contacts)

1. Open the Contacts app and tap Organize → Export to file, or open contacts.google.com in a browser.
2. Choose the account or label to export, then select vCard (for iOS contacts) as the format.
3. Tap Export — the .vcf file is saved to your Downloads folder.

Gmail / Google Contacts (desktop)

1. Go to contacts.google.com and sign in.
2. Select the contacts to export (or leave everything selected).
3. Click Export in the left sidebar, choose vCard, then click Export.

Outlook

1. Open Outlook on the web and go to the People tab.
2. Select the contacts you want, click Manage → Export contacts.
3. Outlook exports a CSV by default; to get VCF instead, open a contact and choose Forward as vCard, or use the desktop app's File → Save As → vCard option per contact. For bulk exports, third-party export tools can write a single multi-contact .vcf.

Tip: if your export contains thousands of contacts, don't worry — the converter above handles multi-thousand-contact VCF files in one go, right in your browser.

VCF vs CSV: what's the difference?

A VCF file (vCard) is a contact-exchange format. Each contact is stored as a block of labeled fields (FN for full name, TEL for phone, EMAIL, ORG, ADR, NOTE and so on), following the vCard 2.1, 3.0 or 4.0 standard. Phones and email apps love it because it preserves structure: multiple phone numbers per person, work vs. home labels, photos, and long notes with line breaks.

A CSV file is a flat spreadsheet: one row per contact, one column per field, separated by commas (or semicolons, depending on your region's Excel). Almost everything that isn't a contacts app — Excel, Google Sheets, CRMs like HubSpot and Salesforce, email marketing tools like Mailchimp — prefers CSV because it is trivial to sort, filter, deduplicate and bulk-edit.

Converting VCF to CSV is therefore a structure-flattening step: the tool reads every labeled field from the vCard blocks and lays them out as spreadsheet columns. Contacts with several phone numbers get them joined into one cell; notes keep their line breaks inside a quoted cell so nothing is lost.

Common problems when converting VCF to CSV

Everything lands in one Excel column

This is the classic separator mismatch. Your file is fine — your Excel just expects a different delimiter. In the US, UK and most of Asia, Excel splits on commas; in much of Europe and Latin America it expects semicolons. Re-download using the other CSV separator option in the converter and the columns will snap into place.

Accented characters or emoji look garbled

Old exports (notably from Outlook) sometimes use legacy encodings instead of UTF-8. This converter auto-decodes quoted-printable and UTF-8, which covers the vast majority of iPhone, Android, Gmail and iCloud exports. If a file still looks wrong, open it in a text editor and check whether the CHARSET parameter says something unusual — converting the file to UTF-8 first usually fixes it.

Some contacts are missing fields

VCF files are only as complete as the export that made them. Social-profile links, custom labels and contact photos are often dropped by the exporting app itself — no converter can recover data that isn't in the file. Use the column checkboxes to control exactly which fields land in your CSV.

Duplicate contacts after merging exports

Exporting from both iCloud and Google commonly produces duplicates. The fastest cleanup: convert both VCFs to CSV, stack them in Google Sheets, and use Data → Data cleanup → Remove duplicates on the email or phone column.

What to do with your converted CSV

• 📊 Clean up in a spreadsheet. Sort by company, filter out old numbers, fix capitalization — bulk edits that are painful on a phone take seconds in Excel or Google Sheets.
• 📇 Import into a CRM. HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and most CRMs accept CSV contact imports directly. Map the columns once and your pipeline is populated.
• ✉️ Build an email list. Email tools like Mailchimp and Brevo import CSVs natively — just make sure everyone on the list opted in.
• 💾 Keep a portable backup. A CSV is plain text: it opens in fifty years as easily as today, unlike proprietary backup formats.
• 🔀 Switch ecosystems. Moving from iPhone to Android (or the reverse) is dramatically easier when your contacts live in a neutral CSV first.

Ready? Convert your VCF to CSV now — free, private, and instant.

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