For macOS
Import contacts from Excel and CSV into Apple's Contacts app on your Mac, or convert them to vCards. Full privacy, no subscription.
Restore Contact Groups from a vCard
When you import vCards with Apple's Contacts app, group membership is lost and you have to assign the imported contacts to their groups by hand. Importer for Contacts can import vCards and assign the groups automatically, as long as the vCard carries group information. No subscription, everything stays on your Mac.
How to restore groups from a vCard
- Open Importer for Contacts and add your vCard (.vcf) backup.
- Let the app read the group information needed for the restore out of the vCard. Note that very few programs that write vCards store this group information in them. Apple's Contacts app does not, but the twin app to Importer for Contacts, Exporter for Contacts 2, does.
- Import. Groups and lists that do not exist yet are created automatically.
- Your contacts land back in Apple's Contacts app and are assigned to the groups that were found.
Why a plain vCard is not suited to restoring groups
When Apple's Contacts app exports a vCard, it does not record which group each card belonged to. Re-import that file and the group membership is lost. Exporter for Contacts 2, the twin app to Importer for Contacts, can export group membership into vCards.
Groups are recreated for you
If a vCard carries that information, Importer for Contacts assigns each contact back to its groups and creates every missing group, so you do not have to rebuild your structure by hand.
Better data migration and recovery
Moving to a new Mac or recovering after an iCloud mix-up is a good deal less nerve-racking when your groups can be restored from vCard files you backed up earlier.