What is a .VCF file?
VCF (vCard) is an electronic contact card. Opened by phones and address books.
- Did you know
- The vCard format, from 1995, is how contacts are shared between phones and apps.
- VCF files use the vCard format from the Versit Consortium, a 1990s collaboration of Apple, AT&T, IBM and Siemens.
- The widely supported vCard 3.0 was published as RFC 2426 in 1998 and added UTF-8 support, with version 4.0 following as RFC 6350.
- What Analyser reads
- Open personal-information files: iCalendar .ics/.ical and .vcs (events, times, recurrence, organiser/attendees), vCard .vcf contacts (fields + inline base64 photo), LDIF directory exports and Windows .contact - with Outlook .msg/.pst, IBM Notes .nsf, Exchange .edb and Outlook Express .dbx identified. Email messages (.eml/.emlx/.mbox) now open in a full viewer - see Email above.
- Depth of analysis
- .VCF is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .VCF file
- Drag a .VCF file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.