vCard contacts
File type: Mobile phones related file, Email related data file
Files with vcf extension are almost always contacts saved in vCard format. Typically used various Personal Information Managers or e-mail clients (for example Outlook), as well as exported from mobile phones, for the purposes of sharing or migrating contacts from one device to another.
Found 5 different file type records with the same vcf filename suffix.
File type category:
Mobile phones related file
Email related data file
Date updated: December 30, 2024
File extension vcf is most likely best known for its use for vCard format, universal standard for storing personal or business contacts, including such data as name, e-mail, social networks, address, or phone numbers.
These files are frequently used for import and export of contacts between two programs or devices and their respective address books. They can also be send as e-mail attachments.
The VCF format is well-supported in apps and programs on both desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux) and mobile platforms (Android, iOS, Windows). Unfortunately, some programs have difficulties with reading .vcf files that contain more than one contact.
For example, certain versions of Microsoft Outlooks only import the first contact from the file. Hence why it is usually best to export contacts on file per contact basis to avoid possible complications.
The internal structure of .vcf files may wary a little and special tags may be used by some programs.
In Google Android for example, contacts are stored in a single .vcf file and separated by tags BEGIN and END. When exported to memory card, these files can be found in the System/PIM subdirectory on the memory card and named PIM00001.vcf, PIM00002.vcf and etc. The highest number represents the latest version of the contacts and the lower numbers the previous versions.
MIME types:
text/x-vcard
The .vcf files are natively launched in Windows Contacts program, while on Mac these are opened in the Address Book application.
Other than that, many 3rd party apps support vCard format and can read or import contacts from it.
Contacts in VCF (vcard) format can be converted to several suitable formats, for example CSV (Comma Separated Value). Most PIMs can do this.
Microsoft Outlook (Microsoft Windows)
Samsung Kies (Microsoft Windows)
vCardOrganizer (Microsoft Windows)
Open Contacts (Microsoft Windows)
Handy Address Book (Microsoft Windows)
Address Book (Contacts) for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Samsung Kies for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
VCard Explorer (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Microsoft Outlook (Microsoft Windows)
Samsung Kies (Microsoft Windows)
vCardOrganizer (Microsoft Windows)
Open Contacts (Microsoft Windows)
Handy Address Book (Microsoft Windows)
Address Book (Contacts) for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Samsung Kies for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
VCard Explorer (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Microsoft Outlook (Microsoft Windows)
Samsung Kies (Microsoft Windows)
vCardOrganizer (Microsoft Windows)
Open Contacts (Microsoft Windows)
Handy Address Book (Microsoft Windows)
Address Book (Contacts) for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Samsung Kies for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
VCard Explorer (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
vCardOrganizer (Microsoft Windows)
VCard Explorer (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Microsoft Outlook (Microsoft Windows)
vCardOrganizer (Microsoft Windows)
Open Contacts (Microsoft Windows)
Handy Address Book (Microsoft Windows)
Address Book (Contacts) for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
VCard Explorer (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
SoftSpire vCard Converter (Microsoft Windows)
VCF To XML Converter (Microsoft Windows)
vcf2csv (Microsoft Windows)
Samsung Kies (Microsoft Windows)
SBU Extractor (Microsoft Windows)
phoneMiner (Microsoft Windows)
CSV to vCard (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Outlook for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
AB2CSV (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Samsung Kies for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
SBU Extractor (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Text file
Date updated: May 29, 2017
File extension vcf is also used for the Variant Call Format, a text file used in bioinformatics for storing gene sequence variations. The format has been developed with the advent of large-scale genotyping and DNA sequencing projects, such as the 1000 Genomes Project.
You can view the data using any text editor, but to use them you need to import these to some DNA sequencer.
Perhaps some sort of conversion to similar formats is possible.
File type category:
Configuration file
Date updated: September 11, 2019
The vcf file extension is associated with the Sense8s WorldToolKit, a software for Microsoft Windows operating system.
The vcf file stores configuration of objects for this program.
Seems to be obsolete.
File type category:
Settings, options, themes or skins file
Date updated: February 6, 2019
The vcf file extension is associated with the VirtualDub, a free video capture and processing utility for Microsoft Windows operating system.
The vcf file stores settings for processing video data with VirtualDub.
Use VirtualDub to work with *.vcf files.
Probably cannot be exported to other formats.
VirtualDub (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
3d graphics, CAD-CAM-CAE file
Date updated: June 1, 2018
The vcf file extension is associated with the VPHybridCAD, developed by softelec.
The vcf file contains saved VPHybridCAD drawing file.
This file format was used by older versions of the VPHybridCAD.
Use VPHybridCAD to work with *.vcf files.
Probably can be converted to other formats.
VPHybridCAD (Microsoft Windows)
VPHybridCAD (Microsoft Windows)
VPHybridCAD (Microsoft Windows)
VPHybridCAD (Microsoft Windows)
VPHybridCAD (Microsoft Windows)
VPHybridCAD (Microsoft Windows)
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