--- title: "vCard Generator" description: "Create a vCard (.vcf) contact file from a name, organisation, emails, phones, address, website, note, and birthday. vCard 3.0 for iPhone, Android, Gmail, and Outlook, or 4.0. Runs in your browser, no signup." url: https://findutils.com/generate/vcard-generator/ category: generate --- # vCard Generator Create a vCard (.vcf) contact file from a name, organisation, emails, phones, address, website, note, and birthday. vCard 3.0 for iPhone, Android, Gmail, and Outlook, or 4.0. Runs in your browser, no signup. **Use this tool:** [vCard Generator](https://findutils.com/generate/vcard-generator/) ## Programmatic access - REST id `vcard-generate`: POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/vcard-generate/execute (reference: https://findutils.com/api/vcard-generate/) - MCP tool `vcard_generate` on https://mcp.findutils.com (reference: https://findutils.com/mcp/vcard-generate/) ## Why use a vCard generator? A vCard is the one contact format every phone and mail client reads: tap a .vcf on an iPhone or Android phone and the contact is added, attach it to an email and the recipient saves you in one click, put it behind a QR code and a business card becomes a contact. Writing the file by hand means getting the field names, escaping, and line folding right. This tool builds a valid vCard 3.0 or 4.0 from a short form, escapes commas and semicolons, folds long lines at 75 characters, and gives you the .vcf to download. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Which vCard version should I choose? Choose 3.0 unless a tool asks for 4.0. iOS Contacts, Android, Google Contacts, and Outlook all import vCard 3.0. Version 4.0 is the newer RFC 6350 format and some importers still handle it less well. ### How do I add the contact to my iPhone or Android phone? Download the .vcf and open it on the phone: send it to yourself by email or AirDrop, or open it from the Files app. The phone shows a contact preview with an Add button. On Android, Google Contacts also imports .vcf files from its Import menu. ### Can I put several emails or phone numbers on one card? Yes. Separate them with commas in the Emails and Phones fields. The first one is marked as preferred, which is the one a phone dials or writes to by default. ### What happens to commas and semicolons in my text? They are escaped as the vCard format requires, so a company name like Acme, Inc. survives the round trip. Line breaks in the note become the vCard newline escape, and long lines are folded at 75 characters with a leading space, which every reader unfolds. ### Does the vCard include a photo? No. A photo makes the file many times larger and some mail clients strip it. Add a photo on the phone after the import if you want one. ### Does the vCard Generator require a signup? No. It is available with no signup and no usage limits. The card is built in your browser, so the contact details you enter are not uploaded to a server. ### Can I create vCards from a script or an AI client? Yes. The same function is the REST tool vcard-generate at api.findutils.com and the MCP tool vcard_generate at mcp.findutils.com. It takes the same fields as the form and returns the .vcf text, so a script can generate a card per row of a spreadsheet. ### How do I turn the vCard into a QR code? Open the QR Code Generator, choose the vCard type, and enter the same details. Scanning the code offers to add the contact. Keep the fields short, because a long vCard makes a dense code that is harder to scan. ### Can I convert a vCard back into a spreadsheet? Yes. The VCF to CSV converter reads vCard 2.1, 3.0, and 4.0 and gives one row per contact. The two tools round-trip: a card made here comes back with the same name, emails, and phones. ### What does the birthday field accept? A full date. It is written as BDAY in the vCard, with dashes in version 3.0 and without them in version 4.0. Phones show it on the contact and can add it to the calendar. ## Related Tools - [QR Code Generator](https://findutils.com/generate/qr-code-generator/) - [VCF to CSV](https://findutils.com/convert/vcf-to-csv/) - [Email Signature Generator](https://findutils.com/generate/email-signature-generator/) - [CSV to ICS](https://findutils.com/convert/csv-to-ics/) - [JSON to Profile Card](https://findutils.com/generate/json-to-profile-card/) - [Bookmarks HTML to CSV](https://findutils.com/convert/bookmarks-html-to-csv/)