VCF to Google Contacts — clean up before you import
Prepare .vcf files for Google Contacts: merge several files, fold duplicate people together, and save the CSV Google imports with labels intact.
About this conversion
Google Contacts accepts a .vcf as it is — and that is how people end up with every friend twice: once from the old phone, once from the SIM, once from a backup. Drop all the files here together. People saved in more than one file are recognised by phone number or email, even when one file writes 555-201-4477 and another +1 (555) 201 4477, and folded into one card. Then save the CSV in Google's own layout, with labels kept and everyone placed in “My contacts”.
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 XLSX, CSV, 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
- Why CSV and not just the .vcf?
- The CSV carries labels and keeps Google's field names, so nothing lands in “Other contacts”. A cleaned .vcf works too — pick vCard in the Export menu.
- Where is the import in Google Contacts?
- contacts.google.com → Import in the left menu → choose the file. Google adds an “Imported on …” label, so the whole batch can be found or removed later.