Export your iPhone contacts to Excel
Your address book becomes a real .xlsx or .csv on the phone itself. Every field in its own column, ready to open or to import into Google Contacts and Outlook.
Download on the App StoreFree for 25 contacts. $6.99 once for the rest. No subscription.
Built for whole address books: 20,000 contacts came out in 0.95 seconds in our own test, with the network off.
One column per field, not one cell with everything in it
This is where every other export falls over. A contact has several phones, each with its own label, an address made of five parts and a birthday. The file keeps them apart.
Three formats
A real Excel workbook, a UTF-8 CSV with the byte-order mark Excel wants, or a vCard back out again.
Google and Outlook columns
Their exact header names, taken from each vendor's own import documentation, so the file imports without renaming anything.
Nothing leaves the phone
No accounts, no analytics, no servers. Turn on airplane mode and export anyway: the app has no networking code at all.
Already have a .vcf file? Convert it here, free
Drop it below and your browser writes the spreadsheet on this page. Nothing is uploaded. Turn off your Wi-Fi first and it still works. This page writes a readable table; the exact Google and Outlook columns are the app's job.
Your .vcf file
BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Ashworth;Marguerite;;; ORG:Ashworth Letterpress item1.TEL;type=pref:+1 555 0142 item1.X-ABLabel:_$!<Mobile>!$_ item2.TEL:+1 555 0187 item2.X-ABLabel:studio EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=WORK:m@example.com ADR;type=HOME:;;41 Prospect St;Providence;RI;02906;USA BDAY:1979-03-08 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Okonkwo;Ada;;; ORG:Harbour Freight Co TEL;type=CELL:+44 20 7946 0031 TEL;type=WORK:+44 20 7946 0032 EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=WORK:ada@example.co.uk ADR;type=WORK:;;2 Oak Avenue;Bristol;;BS1 4DJ;United Kingdom END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Ferreira;Tomás;;; TEL;CELL:+351 912 000 000 EMAIL;INTERNET:tomas@example.pt ADR;HOME:;;Rua das Flores 12;Porto;;4050-262;Portugal BDAY:1988-11-02 END:VCARD
What comes out. 16 columns, scroll sideways
| First name | Last name | Company | Phone 1 | Phone 1 Type | Phone 2 | Phone 2 Type | Email Type | Address Type | Street | City | State | ZIP | Country | Birthday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marguerite | Ashworth | Ashworth Letterpress | +1 555 0142 | mobile | +1 555 0187 | studio | m@example.com | work | home | 41 Prospect St | Providence | RI | 02906 | USA | 1979-03-08 |
| Ada | Okonkwo | Harbour Freight Co | +44 20 7946 0031 | mobile | +44 20 7946 0032 | work | ada@example.co.uk | work | work | 2 Oak Avenue | Bristol | BS1 4DJ | United Kingdom | ||
| Tomás | Ferreira | +351 912 000 000 | mobile | tomas@example.pt | home | Rua das Flores 12 | Porto | 4050-262 | Portugal | 1988-11-02 |
A sample card is shown. Drop your own .vcf
anywhere on this panel, or choose it.
One value per column. Phone numbers stay text, so leading zeros and plus signs survive, and your own labels survive too. The converter is one readable file if you want to check that it never calls out.
What this does
A .vcf file (a vCard) is what a phone or an address book gives you when you
export contacts. It is readable text, but it is one block per person, so a file with four
hundred contacts is unusable as a list. This page turns it into a table: one row per person,
one column per field.
The conversion happens in your browser. There is no server to send the file to, no account, and no analytics on this page. If you open your browser's network tab while converting, you will see nothing leave.
Getting a .vcf out of your phone
iPhone
One person: open Contacts, tap them, then Share Contact. The whole address book cannot be done on the phone at all. Apple's own instruction is to sign in at iCloud Contacts, select all, then use the Share button on the right and choose Export vCard, and its page says plainly that you need a computer or a tablet for it.
What comes out is everything, as one file: no picking people, no picking fields, and it is
still a .vcf that needs converting afterwards. The app does the same job on the
phone in a minute, which is the entire reason it exists.
Android and Google Contacts
At contacts.google.com, choose
Export and pick vCard. On the phone itself, the Contacts app has
Settings → Export, which writes a .vcf to your storage.
Outlook and other address books
Most of them export vCard as well; anything that ends in .vcf works here,
including the older 2.1 files that older phones and some CRMs still produce.
What the converted file looks like
- One column per value. Three phone numbers means three columns, each with its own label column, instead of three numbers crammed into one cell.
- Addresses split into street, city, state, ZIP and country, so a mail merge works.
- Custom labels kept as they were written, including the ones an iPhone stores separately from the number itself.
- Every cell written as text, so a phone number starting with 0 or + is not turned into a number by the spreadsheet.
- Both a real
.xlsx(opens in Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets) and a.csvsaved as UTF-8 with the byte-order mark Excel wants.
Contact photos are ignored, because a spreadsheet has nowhere to put them.
Questions people actually ask
Is my contacts file uploaded anywhere?
No. The page has no server side. Your file is read with the browser's own file reader, converted by the script linked above, and handed back to you as a download. You can put the machine in airplane mode before dropping the file and everything still works.
Will Excel mangle my phone numbers?
No. Every cell is written as text, which is the whole reason a converter like this exists:
the common failure is a spreadsheet reading +1 555 0142 as arithmetic or
stripping the leading zero from a ZIP code.
Can I import the result into Gmail or Outlook?
You can, but those two want their own column names. This page produces a readable spreadsheet, which is what most people are after. If you need a file that Google Contacts or Outlook imports without touching the headers, the iPhone app writes their exact column names.
How many contacts can it handle?
Thousands. It is your own machine doing the work, so the limit is your browser's memory, not somebody's upload cap.
Which vCard versions work?
2.1, 3.0 and 4.0, including quoted-printable text from older phones and lines folded across several rows. If a file does not parse, it is worth telling us. The format has more dialects than it should.
Export the address book you are holding
Free for 25 contacts. $6.99 once. No subscription.