How to export iPhone contacts to Excel
Open the app, choose which columns you want, and tap Export. You get a real .xlsx workbook — bold frozen header row, filters switched on, every phone number still text — that opens correctly in Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets. It reads your address book on the device and uploads nothing.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Name | Last Name | Company | Phone 1 | Phone 2 | Email 1 | |
| 2 | Amara | Okafor | Northwind Ltd | +44 7700 900412 | 020 7946 0018 | amara@northwind.co.uk |
| 3 | Sofie | Lund-Jørgensen | +45 21 34 55 09 | sofie@lundmail.dk | ||
| 4 | 李 | 伟 | 开元科技 | +86 138 0013 8000 | li.wei@kaiyuan.cn | |
| 5 | Tomás | Guzmán | Estudio Ámbar | +34 612 345 678 | +34 91 123 4567 | tomas@ambar.es |
That is the output, not a picture of the app. Row 1 is the frozen header; the accents, the Chinese characters, the leading zero in 020 and the + prefixes all survive because every cell is written as text.
The four steps
Start to finish this takes under a minute on a normal address book.
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Open the app and allow contacts access
iOS asks once. If you would rather not hand over the whole book, choose "Select Contacts" and share only the people you pick — the app works fine on a partial grant.
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Choose your columns
Fifteen to pick from: first and last name, company, job title, up to three separate phone columns, two email columns, postal addresses, birthday and websites. Drag them into the order you want them in the sheet.
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Pick Excel or CSV, then tap Export
Excel gives you a genuine .xlsx workbook. CSV gives you a UTF-8 file with your choice of comma or semicolon separator. Rendering happens on the phone, so a big address book does not stall the app.
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Save it or send it
The share sheet puts the file wherever you want it: Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop to a Mac, or straight into an email. Past exports stay in the History tab so you can reopen or resend one without building it again.
The details that ruin most contact exports
These are the four things that make an exported file useless once it lands in a spreadsheet. Each one is handled.
Phone numbers losing their + and leading zeros
A spreadsheet treats +44 7700 900412 as a sum and 020 7946 0018 as the number 2079460018. Every cell here is written as text, so numbers arrive exactly as they were stored.
Accents turning into question marks
Excel mangles å, ü, é and every non-Latin alphabet when a CSV has no byte-order mark. The CSV export ships one, and the Excel export is Unicode throughout, so Jørgensen and 李伟 arrive intact.
A CSV that opens as one long column
Excel only splits a CSV on your region's list separator — a semicolon across most of Europe, a comma in the US and UK. You can switch separators in Settings, and the app guesses right from your device region to begin with.
Second and third numbers disappearing
Most exporters keep one phone number per person and silently drop the rest. Here the extras get their own columns, or you can put them all in one column with their labels kept.
Going the other way: spreadsheet back into your iPhone
The same app imports. Open an .xlsx, a .csv or a .vcf and the contacts go into your address book — useful when you are moving a customer list off a laptop, or restoring a backup after switching phones.
It matches the columns for you
The app reads your header row and maps each column to a contact field. Anything it gets wrong you can change yourself, with a live sample from your own file shown beside each choice.
Nothing is added until you have seen it
- Every contact is listed in a preview first
- People already in your address book are spotted and left out, so nothing doubles up
- Undo removes exactly what an import added and nothing else
- Files written by Windows Excel, in any alphabet, are read correctly
What is free, and what Pro adds
- Excel (.xlsx) and CSV export, full quality, no watermark on anything
- Up to 50 contacts per file, three exports or imports a day
- All fifteen columns, your own column order, both CSV separators
- Import with column matching, preview, duplicate skipping and undo
- Your whole address book in one file, however large it is
- Unlimited exports and imports
- vCard (.vcf) backup that restores on any phone
- Duplicate finder, and a cleaned, duplicate-free spreadsheet
- One payment. No subscription, no ads, nothing recurring.
Your contacts never leave the phone
There is no account to create and no server to upload to. The app reads your address book, builds the file on the device, and hands it to the share sheet — the file goes only where you send it. It works with no network at all. Contact data is not collected, not analysed, and not sold, which is why the App Store privacy label says Data Not Collected.
Questions people ask
Can I export iPhone contacts to Excel without a computer?
Yes. This is an iPhone app, and the whole job happens on the phone: it reads your contacts, writes the .xlsx or .csv, and shares it. You never plug into a Mac or PC, and you never sign in to anything.
Is the Excel file a real .xlsx, or a renamed CSV?
A real .xlsx workbook. It has a bold, frozen header row, filter dropdowns on that row, and column widths sized to the content, so a name column is not as wide as a postal address. Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets and LibreOffice all open it directly.
Will my contacts be uploaded anywhere?
No. There is no account, no server and no analytics on your contact data. The app works in airplane mode. The exported file exists only on your phone until you choose where to send it.
Can I import contacts from a spreadsheet back into my iPhone?
Yes. Open an .xlsx, .csv or .vcf file and the app matches each column to a contact field, shows you a preview of every contact, skips anyone already in your address book, and lets you undo the entire import afterwards if you change your mind.
What does it cost?
The app is free to download and free to use for files of up to 50 contacts, three times a day. Pro removes both limits and adds vCard backup and the duplicate finder. Pro is a single one-time purchase — there is no subscription. The exact price is shown on the App Store for your country.
Which fields can it export?
First name, last name, company, job title, up to three phone numbers in separate columns or all of them in one, two email columns or all emails in one, postal addresses, birthday and websites. You choose which of the fifteen columns you want and what order they appear in.
Does it work if I only want to share some contacts?
Yes. iOS lets you grant access to selected contacts instead of the whole address book, and the app works normally on that subset. You can also hand-pick contacts inside the app before exporting.
Get your address book into a spreadsheet
Free for your first 50 contacts per file, so you can see the output before deciding anything.