VCard Editor



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Apr 12, 2021 vCard Editor 2.6.6 is released.

  • Improve ContactInfo popover interface.
    • Fix the issue that the row is not draggable when the value of the cell is empty.
    • Fix the issue that the context menu will be shown when the type column is ctrl-clicked.
    • Fix the issue that the change is not reflected in the main window in the some cases when the value is changed in the ContactInfo popover.
    • Show a contact icon in the Contact Info Popover and it can be editable by the context menu.

Sep 6, 2019 vCard Editor for iOS is released.

VCFtools is a program package designed for working with VCF files, such as those generated by the 1000 Genomes Project. The aim of VCFtools is to provide easily accessible methods for working with complex genetic variation data in the form of VCF files. This toolset can be used to perform the following operations on VCF files.

  • Now you can edit a vCard file in your iOS device and share it with vCard Editor for Mac via iCloud Drive.

Jan 23, 2019 What is the difference between vCard Editor2 and vCard Editor

VCard Editor is the application for viewing and editing vCard files. When you receive a vCard via Email or AirDrop etc, you can send it to vCard Editor instead of iOS Contacts app, and check and modify it, then export it to your Contacts or save it in the iCloud Drive as a file. A vCard is an electronic (or virtual) business card format for the Internet. It stores your contact information such as emails and phone numbers and much more. VCards can be read by many programs and email clients such as Microsoft Outlook. DM vCard Editor is a crafty piece of software that allows you to edit the content of VCF files, or create new ones from scratch. Handy tool for editing vCards The application allows you to edit the.


Activities

Additional Information


VCard Editor

vCard Editor for Mac 2.6

vCard Editor is an application to create and edit vCards directly.

It lists contacts in the window such like a spread sheet. You can select which type is shown in the window as a column which has the sort option.

vCard Editor also has find&replace function.

vCard is a file has an extension vcf and used to exchange contact information between various contact applications. Not only Apple Contacts but also such applications can import/export the vcard file.
vCard Editor also has a feature of reading CSV file and showing a contact as QRCode. You can save the QRCode as a image to print on various materials.

And this application doesn't communicate with outside servers using the Internet except for iCloud. The Contacts data is only used inside of the app and never be sent to any servers.

Enabling to access your contacts

When you launch vCard Editor at first time, you will see an alert for enabling for vCard Editor to access your contacts. Please click OK. Although vCard Editor doens't access your contacts but the AddressBook Framework which is used by vCard Editor to decode/encode vCard requires the permission.

Functions of vCard Editor

  • Creating and Reading vCard file


Creating and Reading vCard and editing

vCard Editor can open a vCard file directly then lists contacts in a table.
To edit the contacts, please click the edit button at the left in the tool bar. Or select the 'Edit Document' menu in the Navigator menu.


Editing in spread sheet style

The data is shown in a column separately. Each column has a sort option, it will help you finding duplicated data easily.

You can select the View Type by the menu as below. When you select 'Address', the Name and Address columns are shown. The itmes menu can be used to add columns to see other values.

If the data has a label, a designed panel for the type will open when you double-click the cell in editing mode, or double-clik the cell with holding the command key.

For example, when you double click the Address cell, the Address panel will be shown, and you can edit the items of the address.
When you double click the Address cell with holding the command key, the Address panel will list the addresses in the contact. You can add a address with a label or delete the address.


Sorting

Each column in the table has a sort button. It will help you finding a duplicate value.

The Sort Options menu in the Toolbar is for changing the sort method. You can sort first/last name in the Name Column and ZIP/State/.. in the Address Column.


Find and Replace

vCard Editor uses TextFinder for Find and Replace which is introduced in macOS 10.7. You can find a word by name and by other categories with various options including a pattern, and replace it.

Please note that the way of finding string in the address is changed from vCard Editor 2.5.2. Before 2.5.2 the whole string in the address is used to 'find', but now each item in the address is used to 'find' a string. For example when State and City are 'CA' and 'Cupertino', you can not find 'Cupertino, CA'. However you can replace the string 'Cupertino' or 'CA'. Before 2.5.2 the Address panel is shown when you click the 'Replace' button in the Find&Replace bar.


Comparing arbitral two contacts and copy/move between them

The compare panel is for comparing arbitral two contacts in the list.
In the edit mode, you can change the value and move/copy between contacts by drag&drop.
In order to copy the value, dragging value with holding option key.


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Detachable Contact Info

When the cell in the Name column is dobule-clicked, the Contact Info panel is shown as popover. It shows whole items in the selected contact vertically. The popover is closed automatically when you click the outside of it. However when you drag the outer edge of the popoover, it turns to the normal panel. So it will stay in the desktop until you close it. And you can open the other Contact Info popover and even open the multiple Contact Info panels at the same time. This will bring you the other way of comparing and editing contacts. Also you can copy any items by drag and drop between the Contact Info panels or the main window.


Action and Substitution by a context menu

When you control-click the cell, the context menu will be shown as below. Some cells have a action such as opening a mail message or a map. The action depends on the type of the cell.

If edit mode is off, some edit menus in the context menu will be disabled such as inserting a value or replacing the value in the selected cells.

And if multiple cells are selected, the operation is done for the selected cells.


Bulk edit function in the selected multiple cells

You can set the same label or value in the selected cells at once.

Select multiple rows, then change the label of one of the cell, or the value by double clicking the value. An alert will be shown for making sure the operation. When you select OK, the values of selected cells in the same column will be changed to what you enter.

You can do the same thing via the replace menu of the context menu too.

Please note that the change can be undo by the 'Undo' menu in the Edit menu.


Reading CSV files and exporting contacts as CSV

vCard Lite can read and export a CSV file too.

You can open a CSV file as same as a vCard file through the open menu.

However you can not edit the CSV file, but you can drag&drop the contact to the vCard window.

The detail is here.


Drag and Drop vCard

You can drag and drop contacts between vCard Editor window and Apple Contact or Apple Mail.
And when Groups are visible, Drag and Drop can be used to add a member to a group.

The detail of changing member of group is here.


Showing QRCode

vCard Editor can show QRCode of the selected contact information, and you can Copy&Paste the image to other documents.

'Copy', 'Copy as CSV' and 'Copy as vCard'

When you select the 'Copy' in the Edit menu, the items of the selected row in the table is copied to the paste buffer in text format. The text is a collection of strings in which the values ​​for each column and separated by tabs. You can paste it into Numbers or Excel as it is. When you select the 'Copy as CSV', the strings in the text are separated by commas. And the 'Copy as vCard' menu is for copying the contact of selected row as vCard format.


Printing

Select a contact and then select “Print” from the File menu. You can select multiple contacts by cmd-click.
When you select the 'vCard Editor' menu in the print dialog, the configuration pane will be shown for selecting a value to print.


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Changing font and size

You can change font and size in the row of Table.


Operating system requirements

vCard Editor works in Mac OS X 10.7 and later.

How to Install the trial version:

Double click on the zip file that you downloaded, then the vCardEditor-Trial.app is created.

Uninstallation:

You can just delete this software from the installed folder in order to uninstall this software.

What's New

Nov 16, 2020 vCard Editor2 3.3.1 is released.

  • Updated design for macOS Big Sur

Nov 13, 2019 vCard Editor for iOS 1.1.1 is released.

  • Add the switch of showing Company at the second row of Contact in the list.
  • Add the button for creating a vCard when a contact is exported via vCard Extension.

Jan 23, 2019 What is the difference between vCard Editor2 and vCard Editor

Dec 1, 2018 Bulk change function of AddressBook Apps.

Nov 29, 2018 Find duplicate contacts by sort function.


vCard Editor2 for Mac

vCard Editor2 is an application to create and edit vCards directly, especially focusing on editing vCard.

And it is a redesigned version of vCard Editor with Contacts.framework which is available from macOS 10.11.

And this application doesn't communicate with outside servers using the Internet except for iCloud. The Contacts data is only used inside of the app and never be sent to any servers.

Functions


Creating and Reading vCard

vCard Editor2 read a vCard file directly and lists contacts in a table such like a spread sheet.

The available vCard format is vCard2.1 and later. If you open a file of vCard format before 3.0, you may need to select a text encoding. There is the option button in the Open Panel as below.

Spread Sheet style

The data in the vCard file is shown like the following table.

You can select the View Type by the menu as below. When you select 'Address', the Name and Address columns are shown. The itmes menu can be used to add columns to see other values.

Edit vCard

To edit the vCard file, please click the edit button at the left in the Toolbar. Or select the 'Edit Document' menu in the Navigator menu. Then a red line under the title bar is shown.

Then double-click the cell to edit the string in the cell, the text field in the cell will turn to editing mode. Drivers yulong mobile phones & portable devices.

If the cell has a label, the editing panel for the cell will open when you double-click the cell. If you double-click the cell with holding the command key, the list panel will open. The panel can be used to add/delete a labeled value too.


Reading CSV files and exporting contacts as CSV

vCard Editor2 can read a CSV file and export contacts to the CSV file.

You can open a CSV file as same as a vCard file through the open menu. However you can not edit the CSV file directly, but can drag&drop the contact to the other vCard document.

vCard Editor2 expects the items in a CSV file are ordered as the following keywords. If the file has a line at the beginning to designate the items order, the items are read as the specified order.
Please check the sample file if you want to add the items list.

download the sample csv Sample CSV File

Export as CSV

The Export as CSV menu in the file menu is for exporting contacts as CSV.


Sorting

Each column has a sort button as below which will help you finding a value in the column.

And the 'Sort Options' menu in the Toolbar is for changing the way of sort.

  • Name: Name/Firstname/Lastname
  • Address: ZIP/State/City/Street/Country/Label
  • Email: Email address/domain/username/Label
  • Phone: Phone number/Label
  • URL: URL/Label
  • Social Network: address/service type/username
  • Instant Message: address/service type/username/Label
  • Relationship: Relationship/Label
  • Dates: Dates/Label
  • Phonetic Name: Phonetic Name/Phonetic Firstname/Phonetic Lastname

Find&Replace

The FindBar will be shown when you select the Find menu in the edit menu or click the find button in the Toolbar.

The detail is here. Max usb devices driver.


Comparing arbitral two contacts and copy/move between them

The compare panel is for comparing arbitral two contacts in the list.
In the edit mode, you can change the value and move/copy between contacts by drag&drop.
In order to copy the value, dragging value with holding option key.


Detachable Contact Info

When the cell in the Name column is dobule-clicked, the Contact Info panel is shown as popover. It shows whole items in the selected contact vertically. The popover is closed automatically when you click the outside of it. However when you drag the outer edge of the popoover, it turns to the normal panel. So it will stay in the desktop until you close it. And you can open the other Contact Info popover and even open the multiple Contact Info panels at the same time. This will bring you the other way of comparing and editing contacts. Also you can copy any items by drag and drop between the Contact Info panels or the main window.


Action and Substitution by a context menu

When you control-click the cell, the context menu will be shown as below. Some cells have a action such as opening a mail message or a map. The action depends on the type of the cell.

If edit mode is off, some edit menus in the context menu will be disabled such as inserting a value or replacing the value in the selected cells.

And if multiple cells are selected, the operation is done for the selected cells.


Bulk edit function in the selected multiple cells

You can set the same label or value in the selected cells at once.

Select multiple rows, then showing the context menu by control-click or right click, and change the label or value via the context menu. An alert will be shown for making sure the operation. When you select OK, the values of selected cells in the same column will be changed what you enter.

Please note that the operation can be undo by the 'Undo' menu in the Edit menu.

The detail is here.


Showing QRCode

vCard Editor2 can show QRCode of the selected contact information, and you can Copy&Paste the image to other documents.


Drag and Drop Contacts

You can drag and drop contacts between vCard Editor2's windows and Apple Contact or Apple Mail.
And when Groups are visible, Drag&Drop can be used to add a member to a group.
You need to click the Edit button before dropping the item.


Register Custom Items

You can register arbitrary information (custom items) in the contact information. You can show the information in the contact row with the name and label of your choice.

Please see here in detail.


Changing font and size

You can change font and size in the Table.


'Copy', 'Copy as CSV' and 'Copy as vCard'

When you select the 'Copy' in the Edit menu, the items of the selected row in the table is copied to the paste buffer in text format. The text is a collection of strings in which the values ​​for each column and separated by tabs. You can paste it into Numbers or Excel as it is. When you select the 'Copy as CSV', the strings in the text are separated by commas. And the 'Copy as vCard' menu is for copying the contact of selected row as vCard format.


Printing

Select a contact and then select “Print” from the File menu. You can select multiple contacts by cmd-click.
When you select the 'vCard Editor2' menu in the print dialog, the configuration pane will be shown for selecting a value to print.


Operating system requirements:

vCard Editor2 works in macOS 10.11 and later.

How to Install the trial version:

Double click on the zip file that you downloaded, then the vCardEditor-Trial.app is created.

Uninstallation:

You can just delete this software from the installed folder in order to uninstall this software.