VCF File Viewer for vCard Contacts

Online tool for viewing VCF files — the vCard contact lists that phones, Gmail, iCloud and Outlook export. It shows every contact with its phones, e-mails, addresses, birthdays and photos, reads the old encodings of Nokia, Samsung and early Android phones correctly, and saves the address book as a clean vCard, an Excel spreadsheet, a printable PDF list or CSV for Google Contacts and Outlook.

How to use it

3 steps

Pick the .vcf file

Drop one contacts file or many at once — a phone that exported each contact separately leaves a folder of them, and they open as one list.

Check the contacts

Every contact appears with its phones, e-mails, addresses and photo. Search by name or number; possible duplicates are counted and can be merged.

Save in the format you need

Download a clean .vcf for a phone, Google or iCloud, an Excel spreadsheet, a PDF list for printing, or CSV for importing into Google Contacts or Outlook.

Open contacts from a .vcf, fix garbled names and save them for a phone or Excel

Drop a file here

.vcf, .vcard — one file or many at once ·

Features

Garbled names made readable

Quoted-printable code like =D0=98=D0=B2, Windows-1251, KOI8-R and CP866 written by old phones are decoded field by field, and a file that says UTF-8 but is not is caught and read correctly.

vCard 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0

Exports from Android, iPhone and iCloud, Gmail, Outlook, Nokia PC Suite, Samsung Kies, Sony Ericsson, Thunderbird and Evolution open, including UTF-16 files and photos in base64.

A clean vCard back

The contacts are written out as UTF-8 vCard 3.0, 4.0 or 2.1 with every field kept — custom labels and app-specific fields included — so nothing is lost on the way to a new phone.

Excel, PDF and CSV

An .xlsx spreadsheet with phone numbers kept as text, a printable list sorted by name, and CSV files with the column names Google Contacts and Outlook expect.

Many files into one, one file into many

Hundreds of one-contact files merge into a single list; a big address book splits into one .vcf per contact, packed in a ZIP.

Duplicates found and merged

Contacts with the same name and a shared phone or e-mail are grouped; merging keeps every number, address and note once. Two people who only share an office number are left apart.

Why do the names in my .vcf look like =D0=98=D0=B2… or «Èâàí»?

Older phones save vCard 2.1, where a name is stored in quoted-printable code or in the phone’s own encoding (Windows-1251, KOI8-R) instead of UTF-8. Programs that expect UTF-8 show it as code or as wrong letters. Here each field is decoded by its declared or recognized encoding; then download the .vcf again — it comes out in UTF-8 and imports correctly anywhere.

How do I open a VCF file in Excel?

Excel does not read the vCard format: it shows lines like BEGIN:VCARD instead of a table. Open the file here and press “Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx)” — each contact becomes a row with the name, phones, e-mails, organization, birthday, address and note in their own columns.

Outlook imports only the first contact from my .vcf. What do I do?

Outlook’s vCard import reads one contact per file. Two ways around it: download “CSV for Outlook” and import it through File → Open & Export → Import/Export → “Import from another program or file” → Comma Separated Values, or save “Each contact as a separate file” and open the files you need.

How do I move contacts from an old phone to an iPhone or Google?

Export the contacts on the old phone to a .vcf file and open it here. Check that the names read correctly, then download the .vcf in version 3.0. On an iPhone, open that file from Files or Mail and choose “Add All Contacts”; in Google Contacts use “Import”.

What is the difference between vCard 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0?

2.1 is the format of phones from the 2000s: it states an encoding for each field and is understood by older phones and Outlook. 3.0 is read by iPhone, Android, Google and iCloud. 4.0 is the newest one, always in UTF-8. If unsure, choose 3.0.

Will merging duplicates delete any phone numbers?

No. Only contacts with the same name and at least one shared phone or e-mail are merged, and the merged contact keeps every number, address and note from all of them. “Undo the merge” puts the list back as it was, and the file is saved only when you download it.

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Published 12 Nov 2026 Author: The Supreme