Comparison

Contacts to Excel & CSV Export vs Being

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

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About

Contacts to Excel & CSV Export

Features
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Contacts to Excel & CSV Export saves your iPhone address book as a real Excel (.xlsx) or CSV file, and imports contacts back from a spreadsheet or vCard. Everything runs on the device: no account, no upload, and it works offline. To export contacts from your iPhone: open the app, allow contacts access, choose which columns you want, and tap Export. You get a genuine .xlsx workbook with a bold, frozen header row that opens correctly in Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets. Accented and non-Latin names arrive intact, and phone numbers keep their leading + and zeros. To import contacts into your iPhone: open any .xlsx, .csv or .vcf file. The app matches each column to a contact field, shows you every contact before a single one is added, skips people already in your address book, and can undo the whole run. WHY PEOPLE CHOOSE THIS APP β€’ Exact columns, in your order: choose from 15 columns (names, every phone & email, company, addresses, birthdays, websites) and drag to reorder β€’ Multi-value done right: second and third phone numbers and emails get their own columns instead of disappearing β€’ Real .xlsx output: a true Excel file with a bold, frozen header row, not a renamed CSV β€’ Encoding that just works: Γ₯, ΓΌ, Γ© and every other character arrive intact in Excel, and phone numbers keep their + and leading zeros β€’ CSV that Excel actually splits: switch between comma and semicolon separators for US and European Excel β€’ Works with iOS limited access: share only the contacts you choose with the app IMPORT INTO YOUR IPHONE β€’ Open .xlsx, .csv or .vcf and the app matches the columns to contact fields for you β€’ Change any column yourself, with a live sample from your own file β€’ See every contact in a preview before a single one is added β€’ Contacts you already have are spotted and left out, so nothing doubles up β€’ Undo removes exactly what an import added, and nothing else β€’ Reads files saved in other alphabets, including Cyrillic and CJK text β€’ Handles the separators and encodings Excel writes on Windows, so nothing arrives as gibberish PRO: PAY ONCE, YOURS FOREVER β€’ Export and import your entire address book (the free plan covers 50 contacts per file, 3 exports or imports a day) β€’ Unlimited exports and imports β€’ Duplicate finder: spot doubled contacts and export a clean, duplicate-free list β€’ vCard (.vcf) backup that restores on any phone No subscription. One small one-time purchase unlocks everything, forever. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything happens on your iPhone. Your contacts are never uploaded, there is no account, and the app works completely offline. The exported file goes only where you send it. PERFECT FOR β€’ Backing up your contacts before switching phones β€’ Mail merges, newsletters, and holiday card lists β€’ Importing customers into a CRM or email tool β€’ Moving a contact list from a spreadsheet onto a new iPhone β€’ Restoring a vCard backup after switching phones β€’ Cleaning up years of duplicate contacts β€’ Keeping an offline copy of the people who matter Questions or ideas? We answer fast: support@innovaapps.ai Privacy Policy: https://app.innovaapps.ai/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

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Being

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HTML is a better content container. Exist is a local reader and library built around HTML. It helps you save webpages, documents, notes, and AI-generated content as local HTML files for reading, organizing, and long-term preservation. We chose HTML not because it is complex, but because it is open, stable, and close enough to the real structure of reading. A piece of content is never just text β€” it also includes headings, paragraphs, hierarchy, images, links, quotes, and context. Compared to plain text or Markdown, HTML preserves these details better; compared to platform bookmarks, it is lighter and freer, able to be saved, migrated, and archived as a local file. Here, HTML is no longer just a page in a browser, but personal material that can be archived, migrated, translated, and exported. You can save important webpages as offline snapshots, turn documentation, study notes, and generated content into local files, and build your own library organized by folders. Exist does not try to replace the browser, nor does it turn knowledge management into a complex system. It is more like a quiet reading space: bringing content back to local storage from temporary links, chat windows, and scattered bookmarks, in a lightweight, clear, and long-lasting way. AI features require you to configure your own API Key. The Key is stored in the local system Keychain and is never uploaded to Exist's servers β€” more secure, and more controllable. The Pro version unlocks the translation overlay and PDF export. One-time purchase, yours forever.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Being at daily against Contacts to Excel & CSV Export's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Contacts to Excel & CSV Export sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Being sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contacts to Excel & CSV Export ships an update every 2 weeks, Being daily. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Contacts to Excel & CSV Export versus Being: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContacts to Excel & CSV ExportBeing
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size6 MB5 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAlex Gameli Heyman伟 唐

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Contacts to Excel & CSV Export

One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$5.99
1 purchases

Being

One-time1
  • Being Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Contacts to Excel & CSV Export free?
Contacts to Excel & CSV Export is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Being free?
Being is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Contacts to Excel & CSV Export or Being have ads?
Neither Contacts to Excel & CSV Export nor Being shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contacts to Excel & CSV Export or Being?
Contacts to Excel & CSV Export ships an update every 2 weeks, and Being daily. Most recently, Contacts to Excel & CSV Export was updated on September 26, 2026 and Being on September 19, 2026.

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