Export iPhone Contacts to Excel, CSV and vCard

The iPhone's built-in Contacts app can share vCards but has no spreadsheet export, so you need an app that reads your address book and writes a real XLSX file. Cardvault does exactly that on-device: pick your contacts, choose XLSX, map the columns you want, and save the file to Files or share it. The output is a valid spreadsheet that opens in Excel, Numbers, and Google Sheets.

Choose the CSV format in Cardvault, pick which fields to include, and export. The file follows the CSV standard with proper escaping, one row per contact, and labelled columns for multiple phone numbers and emails — so a contact with a mobile and a work number keeps both, in separate named columns, instead of collapsing into a mess.

A vCard (.vcf) is the standard file format for exchanging contact cards between phones, email services, and address book apps. One file can hold a single contact or an entire address book. Cardvault writes vCard 4.0 per the RFC 6350 specification, with correct escaping and line folding, so the file imports cleanly instead of dropping fields.

The usual culprits are formatting errors in the file: unescaped commas or semicolons, broken line folding, or duplicated character-encoding declarations. Many export tools produce these malformed files, and the importer either rejects them or silently drops data. Cardvault writes spec-correct vCards and then re-imports its own output as a verification pass before you export, so the file you send is one that parsers accept.

Yes. Cardvault lets you export everything, a specific contact group, or a hand-selected subset — tick the people you want and the count updates live. This is handy for sending a team list to a colleague or moving just your business contacts into a CRM.

Most CRMs import contacts from a CSV or spreadsheet with named columns. Export from Cardvault as CSV or XLSX, use field mapping to match the column names your CRM expects, and check the live preview of the first rows before you export. Because multi-value fields come out as labelled columns, the CRM import wizard can map them cleanly.

Not with Cardvault. Exporting only reads your address book and writes a file — your contacts stay exactly where they are. Cardvault is non-destructive by design: there is no delete-all function anywhere in the app, and re-importing is additive with a preview of duplicates before anything is written.

It depends entirely on where the app sends your data — some free contact tools are operated by data brokers. Cardvault processes everything on-device: contacts are read locally, files are generated locally, and no contact data is ever transmitted anywhere. The export file goes only where you send it.

Yes. Cardvault shows every available field — names, phones, emails, company, addresses, birthday, notes — as toggles, and you can rename the output columns too. A live preview of the first three rows updates as you change the mapping, so you see the final shape of the file before exporting.

Cardvault checks for you before the file leaves the app. It parses its own output back in — the same operation an importer would perform — and displays a verified badge with the number of contacts and fields that round-tripped intact. If the file could not be re-imported, you would know before sharing it, not after.

Cardvault keeps every number and labels it. In CSV and XLSX output, a contact's mobile, work, and home numbers each land in their own named column rather than being merged into one cell or silently dropped. A toggle in field mapping controls how multi-value fields split.

Cardvault has no contact cap. Whether your address book holds a hundred contacts or many thousands, the whole set exports in one file, and the verification badge confirms the full count made it through.

You decide at delivery time. Save to Files is the primary path — the file lands in the folder you choose with a dated name — and AirDrop, email, and every other share-sheet destination are available too. The file is a normal document you can open, move, or back up like any other.