Comparison

Contact Backup vs Contacts to Excel

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Contact Backup

Features
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Contacts Export is a lightweight and efficient iPhone contact manager supporting multiple export and import formats. Safe & Secure: Fully offline, no internet required. Your data never leaves your device. (Only needs internet connection for App Store purchases.) Features: - Export as VCF, CSV, XLSX, or PDF - Import contacts from VCF and CSV files - Upload via WiFi from your computer browser - Preview before exporting or importing - Share or print via the system menu - Send directly via email - Select specific contacts to process Supported Formats: - VCF (vCard) standard contact format, compatible with all phones - CSV spreadsheet format, editable with Excel and more - XLSX native Excel format with full styling - PDF portable document format, ideal for printing and archiving

About

Contacts to Excel

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Contacts to Excel turns your address book into a spreadsheet you can actually use. Pick who goes in: search, filter by group, or take the whole address book. Pick what goes in: names, phone numbers, emails, addresses, companies, birthdays and the rest. Then look at the real table before the file is written, so nothing surprises you afterwards. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR IPHONE The app has no networking code of its own. It reads your contacts, builds the file on the device, and hands it to the share sheet. Turn on airplane mode and export anyway if you want to see for yourself. There is no account, no server and no analytics of any kind. ONE COLUMN PER VALUE Three phone numbers means three columns, each with its own label, instead of three numbers crammed into one cell. Postal addresses are split into street, city, state, ZIP and country, so a mail merge works. Custom labels you typed yourself are kept. NUMBERS STAY NUMBERS Every cell is written as text, so a phone number starting with a plus sign and a ZIP code starting with a zero arrive exactly as they are instead of being reinterpreted by the spreadsheet. FORMATS THAT OTHER APPS ACCEPT Excel (.xlsx) opens in Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets. CSV is saved as UTF-8 with the byte-order mark Excel expects. vCard (.vcf) carries every field. For CSV there are column layouts named after where the file is going, so Google Contacts and Outlook can import it without you renaming headers. BUILT FOR A REAL ADDRESS BOOK Twenty thousand contacts export in about a second. Contacts synced from Exchange or Google accounts are included, and duplicates across accounts come through as one person. FREE FOR 25 CONTACTS Try it on any 25 contacts you choose, with every field and every format. Exporting more is one payment of $6.99. There is no subscription and nothing else to buy, ever.

Screenshots

Contact Backup3 screens
Contacts to Excel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Contact Backup at none against Contacts to Excel's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Contacts to Excel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Contact Backup asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Contact Backup versus Contacts to Excel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContact BackupContacts to Excel
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 40 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS1616.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size1 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShanghai Dazhuo Information Technology Co., Ltd.Oleksii Vasyliev

In-app purchases

None

Contact Backup

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Contacts to Excel

One-time1
  • Unlimited exports$6.99

Questions

Is Contact Backup free?
Contact Backup is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Contacts to Excel free?
Contacts to Excel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Contact Backup or Contacts to Excel have ads?
Neither Contact Backup nor Contacts to Excel shows ads.

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