VCF File Viewer & vCard Reader

Open a VCF file and read every contact exported from an iPhone, Android phone, Google or Outlook - photos, numbers, emails, addresses and birthdays. Merge duplicates, then convert VCF to Google or Outlook CSV, an Excel XLSX sheet for the Excel Viewer or a clean vCard. Got an email archive instead? Try the PST Viewer, and open calendar invites (.ics) in the ICS Viewer.

Your contacts stay on this device. The file is read by your browser - nothing is uploaded, saved or shared.

Drop a VCF file here or browse One file or many - 10,000+ contacts welcome. Nothing is uploaded. .vcf.vcardGoogle CSVOutlook CSVTakeout .zip

Try a sample

No upload vCard 2.1, 3.0, 4.0 10,000+ contacts Duplicate finder

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Pick a contact to see every detail.

How to open a VCF file online

Open your contacts. Drop a .vcf file anywhere on the page, browse for it, paste vCard text, or try the sample. Several files and ZIP exports from Google Takeout work too.
Browse and search. Search every field, sort by first name, last name or company, filter by phone, email, photo, birthday or group, and jump with the A-Z bar. Click a contact to see all its details.
Clean up. Find duplicate contacts by phone, email or name, preview and merge them, and spot empty or broken cards.
Export. Download Google CSV, Outlook CSV, Excel XLSX, plain CSV, JSON, a cleaned vCard 3.0 or 4.0 file, one VCF per contact, the contact photos, or print the address book.

Keyboard shortcuts

Search contactsCtrl + F
Next / previous contact↓ / ↑
Select the contactSpace
Open a fileCtrl + O
Print the address bookCtrl + P
Jump to a letterType the letter in the list

VCF viewer features

Every vCard version

2.1, 3.0 and 4.0 in the same file, with folded lines, grouped labels like item1.X-ABLabel and custom X- fields.

Readable names, any language

Quoted-printable names from old Android phones, CHARSET tags, UTF-16 files and legacy code pages are decoded for you.

Built for big address books

Parsing runs in the background and the list only draws what is on screen, so 20,000 contacts scroll smoothly.

Search, sort and filter

Search every field, sort by name, company or next birthday, filter by phone, email, photo or group, and jump with A-Z.

Full contact cards

Photos, labelled numbers, emails, addresses with map links, social profiles, birthdays with age, notes and the raw vCard.

Duplicate finder

Spots the same person by phone, email or name, previews the merged card and merges in one click.

Export anywhere

Google CSV, Outlook CSV, Excel XLSX, plain CSV, JSON, clean vCard 3.0 or 4.0, one file per contact, photos and a printable book.

100% private

Contacts are read by your browser and never uploaded. There is no account and nothing is kept after you close the tab.

Convert VCF to CSV for Google, Outlook or Excel

A VCF file is great for phones, but spreadsheets and email apps often want CSV.

Each app expects its own column names, which is why a generic CSV often imports with empty fields.

Export	Best for	What you get
Google CSV	Google Contacts, Android	First Name, Last Name, E-mail 1 - Value, Phone 1 - Label and the rest of Google's own headers, groups as labels.
Outlook CSV	Outlook, Microsoft 365, Outlook.com	Mobile Phone, Business Phone, Home Street and the other Outlook fields, with a UTF-8 mark.
Excel XLSX	Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers	A real .xlsx workbook, one row per contact, every phone and email in its own column, filters on.
Plain CSV	Any spreadsheet, LibreOffice	The same readable columns as UTF-8 CSV with BOM, comma, semicolon or tab.
Cleaned VCF	iPhone, iCloud, any phone	A tidy vCard 3.0 or 4.0 file with merged duplicates and readable names.
JSON	Developers, CRMs	Structured fields for every contact, ready for scripts.

Open the result in the CSV Viewer to check it before you import, or study a JSON export in the JSON Viewer.

How to export contacts to a VCF file

Every phone and email app can save contacts as a VCF file.

Here is where to find it:

iPhone - in Contacts, open a list, long-press it and choose Export, or select all at iCloud.com Contacts and pick Export vCard.
Android - open Contacts, then Settings or Fix and manage, Export to file. Samsung phones save a .vcf to My Files.
Google Contacts - select the contacts, choose Export and pick vCard. A Google Takeout ZIP works too, just drop the whole ZIP here.
Outlook - Outlook for Windows exports one VCF per contact (Save As), which you can drop here all at once to combine them.
Mac Contacts - select the contacts and choose File, Export, Export vCard.

Contact photos come out as JPEG or PNG. Need a square profile picture? Use the Image Cropper, and turn iPhone HEIC photos into JPG with HEIC to JPG.

Garbled names? Here is why

Contacts written in Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic or with accents often break when they move between phones.

The table shows the usual suspects and what the viewer does about them.

You see	Should read	What happened
=D0=98=D0=B2=D0=B0=D0=BD	Иван	Quoted-printable from an old Android phone. Decoded automatically, even when the line is broken in two.
Ð˜Ð²Ð°Ð½	Иван	A UTF-8 file read as Western. Detected automatically.
Ïåòðîâ	Петров	A Windows-1251 file from an old Nokia or Outlook. Detected, or pick it under Options.
MÃ¼ller	Müller	UTF-8 read as Windows-1252. Fixed by exporting a cleaned VCF.

Once names look right, export a cleaned vCard - it is saved as UTF-8, which every modern phone reads correctly.

About VCF files

A VCF file (vCard) is the standard way to store contacts.

It is plain text: each contact sits between BEGIN:VCARD and END:VCARD, one field per line.

One file can hold a single business card or a whole address book. Photos are stored inside the file as BASE64 text, which is why a VCF with pictures can be several megabytes.

vCard versions

vCard 2.1 (1996) - still used by many Android phones. Non-English text is often quoted-printable.
vCard 3.0 (1998) - the most compatible today. iPhone, iCloud, Google and Mac Contacts use it.
vCard 4.0 (2011) - UTF-8 only, with anniversaries, gender, language and photo links. Used by newer CardDAV apps.

Got emails rather than contacts? Open .eml and .msg files in the EML & MSG Viewer, mailbox exports in the MBOX Viewer, and archives in the ZIP Viewer. Browse all file viewers for more.

Frequently Asked Questions

Drop the .vcf file onto this page or click to browse. Every contact opens in a searchable list with photos, phone numbers, emails, addresses and birthdays.

It works on Windows, Mac, Chromebooks, Android and iPhone, with nothing to install.

No. The VCF file is read by your own browser and never leaves your device - there is no upload, no account and nothing is stored.

Close the tab and the contacts are gone from the page.

Open the file, go to Export and pick a format. Google CSV and Outlook CSV use the exact column headers those apps expect when you import. Excel XLSX gives you a real spreadsheet with one row per contact, and Plain CSV adds a UTF-8 mark so accents and other alphabets open correctly.

You can also export JSON or a print-ready address book, then check a CSV in the CSV Viewer.

Older Android and Nokia phones save non-English names as quoted-printable code, and some exports use an old code page instead of UTF-8.

The viewer decodes quoted-printable (including lines broken in the middle), reads CHARSET tags and detects code pages automatically. Export a cleaned VCF to fix the file for good.

Open the Clean up tab. Contacts that share a phone number (in any format), an email address or the same name are grouped, and each group shows a preview of the merged contact.

Merge one group, merge them all, or mark a group as not duplicates, then export the cleaned list.

vCard 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0, even mixed in one file. That covers exports from iPhone and iCloud, Android and Samsung phones, Google Contacts, Outlook, Mac Contacts, Thunderbird and most CRMs.

Google and Outlook CSV files can be opened too and turned into a VCF.

Yes. Export One VCF per contact and you get a ZIP with a .vcf file for every contact, named after the person.

You can also open several VCF files at once to combine them into one list, and save it as a single VCF.

Google Contacts: Import, then pick the VCF or the Google CSV. iPhone: email or AirDrop the VCF to yourself and tap it, or import it at iCloud.com Contacts.

Outlook: use File, Open and Export, Import, with the Outlook CSV. Export a cleaned vCard 3.0 file for the widest support.

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