Practical, tested guides from the project that became ContactAttic — how to get your contacts out of every phone and account, and fold them back into one clean set.
Why the same person ends up on three cards, what your phone's built-in merge can and can't fix, exporting to vCard from iPhone, Google and Outlook — and folding every copy into one complete entry.
Read the guide →What a .vcf file actually is across vCard 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0, why you end up with several, the messy manual ways to join them — and the clean way that de-duplicates every person to a single card.
Read the guide →Exporting your contacts to CSV from Google and Outlook, why CSV files don't merge cleanly on their own, and how to fold every duplicate into one clean address book.
Read the guide →Every reliable way to get your contacts off an iPhone — via iCloud.com, a Mac, or a vCard — and how to fold them together with your other address books into one clean set.
Read the guide →Exporting your Android contacts as a vCard or Google CSV — from the Contacts app or Google Contacts — and merging them with your other address books into one clean set.
Read the guide →Why moving to a new phone leaves you with doubled and tripled contacts, what the built-in fixes miss, and how to end up with one clean card per person.
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