# Contacts2XL — user reviews

> 31 indexed App Store user reviews of Contacts2XL by Technomagination, LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 304 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/contacts2xl/id953739548/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/contacts2xl/id953739548.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 241 · 4★ 25 · 3★ 12 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 20

## What do users think of Contacts2XL?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🚀 Saves time and money
- 👍 Convenient and easy to use
- 🚀 Quick export feature
- 👍 Minimalist and straightforward
- 👍 Free to use
- 👍 Does the job
- 👍 Very nice, fast and easy
- 👍 Short and sweet, saves the day
- 👍 Worked and emailed file
- 👍 Free and good
- 👍 Thorough, detailed, comprehensive

**Cons**

- 🐛 Mixed up fields
- 🐛 Missing important elements (Notes)
- 🐛 Long ref number for each contact
- 🐛 Does not export well to mobile excel
- 🐛 Phone number errors
- 🐛 Does not convert CSV to XL
- 🐛 File in numbers format only, corrupted to excel
- 🐛 No options for export format
- 🐛 Useless, no support
- 🐛 Blank file created
- 🐛 Cannot access cloud backup
- 🐛 No data appears in Excel on PC
- 🐛 App desperately wants social media login
- 🐛 Requires account sign-up to email
- 🐛 Does not work, frustrating
- 🐛 Very slow export
- 🐛 No contact selection possible
- 🐛 Confusing, wants login to email
- 🐛 Too basic, slow generation
- 🐛 Crash
- 🐛 No file appears after progress bar
- 🐛 Missing half the contacts
- 🐛 Not worth it, try other apps

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Fields are mixed up (names in phone number fields)
- Important elements like Notes are missing
- Long reference number for each contact
- Does not export well to mobile excel
- Phone number errors during export
- Does not convert CSV files to XL files
- File comes through in numbers format only and gets corrupted when trying to change to excel
- No options for export format
- Useless, no support
- Creates a blank file
- Cannot access backup in the cloud
- No data appears when opening exported file in Excel on PC
- App desperately wants user to log into social media accounts
- Requires sign-up for an account to email the file
- Does not work, frustrating to use
- Exportation is very slow
- No selection of contacts possible
- Confusing, wants login to email backup
- Too basic, slow to generate .xlsx file
- App crashes
- No file appears after clicking 'create Excel export' and status bar shows progress
- Missing half the contacts in the exported file
- Not worth it, try other apps

**Most requested features**

- Backup notes in contacts
- Option to select fields for export
- Maintenance features like displaying duplicates

## Newest reviews (10 of 31)

### 2/5 — Contacts backup

*2020-09-26*

Would backup my notes in the contacts.  Has a long ref number for each contact.  Would not buy again.

### 2/5 — Limited

*2020-02-18*

Does not export well to mobile excel. Phone number gets errors, which I intended.

### 3/5 — Easy to use

*2019-01-10*

Downloaded over 500 contacts in less then 5 minutes great feature but the only opinion as well.

**Developer response:** Glad to hear it worked well for you!

### 2/5 — Efficace mais terriblement lent

*2018-03-08*

L’app fait exactement ce qu’elle annonce. Générer un fichier Excel (.xlsx) avec l’ensemble des contacts.
C’est minimaliste (pas de sélection de contacts possible…) mais c’est extrêmement simple.
Par contre l’exportation est très lente et peut-être ceci pourrait-il être amélioré.

### 4/5 — Very Nice

*2017-02-11*

Does what it says fast and easy.

### 1/5 — Sucks!!

*2016-11-20, version 1.0.1*

Several times clicked on "create Excel export;" status bar shows progress but at completion, NO FILE APPEARS!! The App just closes. Reopening only makes you start again. No Excel file!

### 1/5 — Pas de récupération

*2016-08-03*

Très simple à utiliser mais pas de récupération possible des contacts via l'appli ou le fichier excel - il manque la moitié ...

### 2/5 — Confusing App

*2016-07-02*

It wants me to login to email the backup. Why? Deleting off my phone as useless.

### 2/5 — Too basic

*2016-06-21, version 1.0.1*

Works but too basic for my needs.  It's free so you get what you don't pay for I guess. Was slow to generate the .xlsx file but got it done and emailed easily.  The other app I am testing is super fast to generate the file and allows me to select the fields I want to export not just the whole file or nothing.  This is an important feature for me.  It also has maintenance features like displaying duplications.  Sorry got to pass on this one.

### 1/5 — Crash

*2016-05-25*

Funktioniert nicht

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Not what I wanted

*2025-06-29*

First of all, many fields were mixed up (names in phone number fields, etc.). Secondly, some very important elements weren’t even included, such as Notes!!

**Developer response:** Hello.  Thank you for the feedback. Sorry to hear the app didn't work as expected for you. The latest update published (1.3.0) now includes the contact notes field in the export file. Please reach out at info@technomagination.com if you need additional support.

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work

*2019-12-11*

Do not waste your money this app does not convert CSV files to XL files

### 1/5 — Did not work for me

*2019-11-04*

the file i got comes through in numbers format only and gets corrupted when trying to change to excel - i asked for a refund. It does not give any options of anything else...very simple yes 👐 - but too simple it does not give me what I need.

### 1/5 — Don’t buy the app

*2019-06-29*

Not worth it you guys. Try any other app.

### 1/5 — Blank file

*2019-06-02*

It’ll create a beautiful blank file

The above was my original review. The developer asked me to give more detail. When going through the steps to put my contacts into XL I was presented with a beautifully blank page. I believe I was using an iPhone 6s at the time. And my contacts came from synced outlook

**Developer response:** Sorry to hear it didn't work for you.  Can you use the in app support request to provide more details about your issue via email?

### 1/5 — I cannot sign in,

*2019-05-31*

I cannot access my backup in the cloud!

### 1/5 — Something strange here

*2019-03-11*

UPDATE:
Gee, only took you 9 months to respond to this review!  That alone confirms my one star rating.  Sorry guys I've long since moved on and found a different app that actually works.

ORIGINAL:
Opened file on iPad and large spreadsheet opens but when I emailed to myself and opened in Excel on PC no data appears.  Don't have a good feeling about this.  Deleted app, hopefully no harm done.

**Developer response:** Sorry to hear you couldn't open the spreadsheet.  It simply created an export file you should be able to open in Excel.

### 1/5 — Not impressed

*2018-07-08, version 1.0.1*

You’d think it would easily create an excel file and allow you to quickly email it out, but the app desperately wants you to log into one of your social media accounts. You can email it apparently but you HAVE to sign up for an account. Found a similar app that quickly emailed my contacts to me in seconds. Not sure why this app makes it such a chore and wants your info.

### 1/5 — Funktioniert nicht, Beispiel bei 6 Kontakten mag es gehen

*2018-05-03*

Die App ist totaler Schrott. Ich habe seit Stunden versucht die Kontakte zu Exportieren und habe nach 2 Stunden genervt aufgegeben.

### 1/5 — Bof

*2017-01-04*

Ça ne veut pas fonctionner sans savoir pourquoi:je désinstalle

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Awesome App

*2021-05-12*

This saved a ton of time getting contacts off of an unmanaged device so we could then import them to our Exchange server and the contacts would be visible to a managed device in our environment. The amount of time and money this app saved us is crazy as stated in the title this is an Awesome App.

### 5/5 — So convenient and easy

*2019-10-22*

Where has this app been? I was really impressed how easy this was to use and the value it provided. Saved me quite a bit of time as I was planning on doing that manually.

### 5/5 — Solid export contacts app

*2019-10-22*

Seamless export feature for contacts to Excel

### 5/5 — Doesn’t work. Please don’t waste your time and money

*2019-09-16*

Useless. No support

### 5/5 — Quick easy free contacts to excel

*2018-07-14*

Did exactly what I needed. Able to quickly email all contacts in excel file. Thank you.

**Developer response:** You're welcome!  Glad it got you your contacts as needed.

### 5/5 — No in-app purchases that you will need!

*2017-12-11*

Just exported 464 contacts with this app. Does the job. Recommended!

**Developer response:** Thank for the feedback!

### 5/5 — Short and Sweet

*2017-01-06*

Save the day. Easy to use, no fancy crap to tangle things up

### 5/5 — Bin sehr zufrieden

*2016-10-11*

Hat alles schön exportiert und ich konnte es dann über meine GMX-App an mich selber versenden. Super! :-) Und das kostenlos :-D

### 5/5 — Worked

*2016-07-10*

E-mailed myself the excel file.

### 5/5 — Free and good.

*2016-07-02*

Good app. Worked for me.  I was able to take all my contacts out in xlsx file.

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