Import Outlook Contacts to Mac

Switching from Outlook to the Mac? Apple Contacts often won't import an Outlook CSV cleanly – fields land in the wrong place or notes go missing. Importer for Contacts maps your Outlook export properly and brings every contact into Apple Contacts with the details intact. No subscription, everything stays on your Mac.

How to import Outlook contacts into Apple Contacts

1. In Outlook, export your contacts to a CSV file.
2. Open Importer for Contacts on your Mac and add that CSV.
3. Map the Outlook columns to the matching Apple Contacts fields.
4. Import – or save as a vCard first – and your contacts are in Apple Contacts, ready to sync via iCloud.

Where the native importer gives up

Outlook CSVs often have dozens of columns and odd encodings that Apple Contacts mishandles. Importer for Contacts lets you pick exactly which columns matter and ignore the rest.

Keeps your notes and labels

Notes, custom labels and multiple phone numbers survive the move instead of being flattened or dropped, so your address book looks the same as it did in Outlook.

Works for big address books

Hundreds or thousands of Outlook contacts import in one pass, and your saved field mapping makes the next export just as quick.

What users say

"I had 600 contacts in an Outlook PST and simply exported to CSV, dragged into this application, then reset the fields. It did this perfectly and exported into contacts. Try the same by importing the CSV into Contacts and it simply doesn't work."

"I couldn't believe importing contacts from Outlook was going to remove all my notes. This software preserves all my info into Apple contacts."

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Related guides

• Importer for Contacts – overview
• Import CSV into Mac Contacts
• Import contacts to iPhone from a spreadsheet