CSV and Excel to VCF Converter

Online tool for converting a contacts spreadsheet into a VCF file. It takes a CSV or Excel workbook — an export of Google Contacts or Outlook, or a sheet typed by hand with columns like “Name”, “Mobile” and “Email” — works out which column is which, lets you correct any of them, and writes every row as a vCard that Android, iPhone, Google Contacts and iCloud accept.

How to use it

3 steps

Add the table

A CSV or TXT file, or a workbook in .xlsx, .xls or .ods. Semicolons or commas, Windows-1251 or UTF-8 — the separator and the encoding are detected from the file itself.

Check the columns

Each column shows an example value and where it will go: full name, first or last name, mobile, work or home phone, e-mail, company, address, birthday. Change any line that is wrong.

Download the .vcf

One file with all rows, or a ZIP with one file per person. Open it on the phone, or import it into Google Contacts or iCloud.

Turn a spreadsheet of names and numbers into a file your phone imports

Drop a document here

CSV, TXT, XLSX, XLS, ODS — one table ·

Features

Headers in many languages

Column names written by Google Contacts and by Outlook in English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and other languages are recognized, as are home-made ones such as “Mobile”, “Tel.” or “Full name”.

Exports from Russian Excel

A CSV saved with semicolons in Windows-1251 without a BOM, the “CSV UTF-8” variant and tab-separated text all come out with readable letters; the encoding can also be switched by hand.

Several numbers per person

Mobile, work, home and fax columns keep their types, two numbers in one cell become two phones, and the same number written twice is kept once.

Full names split sensibly

A single “Name” column becomes first, middle and last name — patronymics such as “Ivanovich” and “Smith, John” order are understood — while the name stays written exactly as in the table.

Excel numbers kept whole

Phone numbers typed as numbers in .xlsx keep every digit instead of turning into 7.91612E+10, and date cells become birthdays.

My CSV was saved from Excel with semicolons, and the letters show as symbols elsewhere. Will it work here?

Yes. Excel with Russian regional settings saves CSV with “;” as the separator and in Windows-1251 without a BOM, which many importers misread. The separator and the encoding are detected from the file itself and shown above the column list; if the names still look wrong, pick another encoding from the list.

The phone numbers in my CSV look like 7.91612E+10. Can they be restored?

Not from that CSV: Excel wrote the rounded number into the file and the last digits are gone. Pick the original .xlsx instead — numbers stored as numbers there keep every digit — or format the phone column as Text in Excel before saving the CSV.

Why did Android show 8 (495) 123-45-67 as 849-512-34567?

Android reformats imported numbers that have no country code by the North American pattern; the digits stay the same and dialing works. Numbers written with +7 are stored as they are, which is why the converter offers to write 8-prefixed Russian and Kazakh numbers as +7.

How is one “Full name” column split into first and last name?

A patronymic decides the order: “Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich” becomes last, first and middle name, “Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov” the same parts in its own order. With a header like “Last name First name” the first word is taken as the last name; “Smith, John” is read as last name, first name. Single words such as “Mom” stay as the first name.

One cell holds two phone numbers separated by a comma. What happens to them?

They become two separate phones of the same type, as long as each part has at least five digits. Numbers separated by a semicolon, a slash, a line break or the word “or” are split the same way.

Which version should I pick so that Cyrillic names import on Android?

Either. In a test on Android 16 the same contacts imported with identical names, phones and birthdays from version 3.0 and from version 2.1. Keep 3.0: it is the one iPhone and iCloud require. Version 2.1 is for phones from the 2000s.

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Published 13 Nov 2026 Author: The Supreme