Free online VCF to XLSX converter

Address-book applications and phones commonly export contacts as VCF, while Excel, reporting tools, and spreadsheet-based workflows require XLSX. Converting the cards into worksheet rows makes them sortable and editable, and lets you share contact data with people who do not use a contact manager.

What the VCF format is

In this context, VCF means vCard, a plain-text contact format; it is not the genomic Variant Call Format, which also uses the .vcf extension. A vCard contains properties such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, organizations, job titles, postal addresses, notes, websites, birthdays, categories, and sometimes embedded photos.

A file can contain one contact or multiple BEGIN:VCARD and END:VCARD blocks. Phones, email clients, address-book applications, CRM systems, and services including Microsoft Outlook, Apple Contacts, Google Contacts, and Thunderbird create or export vCards.

What the XLSX format is

XLSX is the XML-based workbook format used by Microsoft Excel and supported by LibreOffice Calc, Apple Numbers, and other spreadsheet applications. A conversion commonly places one vCard on each worksheet row and maps properties to columns such as Full name, Phone, Email, and Organization.

XLSX supports sorting, filtering, deduplication, bulk editing, annotations, printing, multiple worksheets, and formatting. VCF remains the better format for transferring contacts back to phones and address-book software because XLSX is a table, not a complete contact-interchange format.

Convert with the online tool

1. Open the VCF-to-XLSX converter on 101convert.com.
2. Select the vCard file from your computer or device.
3. Start the conversion and wait for the workbook to be generated.
4. Download the XLSX file, open it in Excel or LibreOffice Calc, and inspect several records before sharing or importing it.

This method requires no installed software. An address book contains personal data, so upload it only when the service’s current privacy and retention terms are acceptable.

Convert with Python

For repeatable conversions or large batches, install a vCard parser and an XLSX writer:

python -m pip install vobject pandas openpyxl

Save this as vcf_to_xlsx.py beside contacts.vcf:

import pandas as pd
import vobject


def text(value):
    if isinstance(value, (list, tuple)):
        return ', '.join(str(item) for item in value if item)
    return str(value)


def values(card, name):
    return [text(item.value) for item in card.contents.get(name, [])]


rows = []
with open('contacts.vcf', 'r', encoding='utf-8-sig', errors='replace') as source:
    for card in vobject.readComponents(source.read()):
        name = card.contents.get('n', [])
        name_value = name[0].value if name else None
        rows.append({
            'Full name': '; '.join(values(card, 'fn')),
            'Given name': getattr(name_value, 'given', '') if name_value else '',
            'Family name': getattr(name_value, 'family', '') if name_value else '',
            'Phone': '; '.join(values(card, 'tel')),
            'Email': '; '.join(values(card, 'email')),
            'Organization': '; '.join(values(card, 'org')),
            'Title': '; '.join(values(card, 'title')),
            'Website': '; '.join(values(card, 'url')),
            'Address': '; '.join(values(card, 'adr')),
            'Note': '; '.join(values(card, 'note')),
        })

pd.DataFrame(rows).to_excel('contacts.xlsx', index=False)

Run it with:

python vcf_to_xlsx.py

The script writes contacts.xlsx with one parsed contact per row. Add columns for source-specific properties such as nickname, birthday, or categories. For a one-off desktop workflow, an address-book application can often export CSV; open that CSV in Excel or Calc and use File → Save As to select XLSX.

Quality and compatibility limits

• Multiple phone numbers, email addresses, or postal addresses may be combined in one cell, split into columns, or reduced to the first value. Check the output before deleting the original VCF.
• Photos, contact-group membership, custom X- properties, type labels such as mobile or work, relationship fields, and application-specific metadata may be omitted or flattened into text.
• vCard supports folded lines, quoted-printable content, UTF-8 text, and legacy character-set declarations. Use a vCard parser rather than treating the file as ordinary CSV; if accented characters are corrupted, retry with software that honors the VCF CHARSET declaration.
• Keep phone numbers, postal codes, and other identifier-like values as text where possible. Excel may otherwise remove leading zeros, reinterpret values, or alter the display of numbers beginning with +.
• Review formulas or other cells beginning with characters such as = before distributing a workbook created from untrusted contact data.
• To restore edited contacts to a phone or email application, export the spreadsheet through a contact manager as VCF and verify the imported records.