Android contacts to Excel — phone export to a spreadsheet
Export contacts from an Android or Samsung phone as a .vcf and open them as an Excel sheet, with names in any alphabet intact.
About this conversion
Android phones export contacts as a .vcf from the Contacts app (on Samsung: Manage contacts → Import or export contacts → Export). Those files are still vCard 2.1, where any name outside plain Latin is written as =D0=9C=D0=B0… and long names are broken across lines in the middle of a letter — the usual reason other converters show question marks. Here the names come out whole, and Samsung's address field, which merges the second address line into the city, is rebuilt from the copy Samsung keeps alongside it.
Just want to look inside it?
The same tool without converting anything: open the file and read it.
The same contacts, any way out
The file is read once and stays open, so the format is picked at the end: the same list
can leave here as CSV, CSV for Google Contacts, CSV for Outlook or PDF. Before that you can search it, see which people are saved
twice — the same number written as (555) 201-4477 in one file and
+15552014477 in another counts as one — and fold the duplicates into a single
card without losing any phone, address or note.
Questions
- The phone and Google both have my contacts. Which do I export?
- Either, or both: drop the phone's .vcf and Google's export together and tick “merge duplicates” — the same person in both is shown once.
- How do I get the file to the computer?
- A USB cable, or share it from the phone's Files app to yourself by mail or messenger.