Cypher Contacts
Eleven ways out of your phone. Your address book has never come home this easy.
Cypher Store is the only true source for this app. Every official build of Cypher Contacts comes from here. A copy from anywhere else — another site, a mirror, an APK forum — was not published by Kencypher, and nothing about what is inside it is guaranteed.
Windows may warn that the publisher is unrecognised, because the installer is not code-signed — choose More info, then Run anyway. On Linux, extract the archive and run the binary inside it. No installation and no root needed. Android blocks installs from outside the Play Store by default — when prompted, allow installs from your browser or file manager, then open the APK.
What Cypher Contacts is
Most phones will happily show you your contacts and then fight you when you try to take them somewhere else. Cypher Contacts is built around the opposite idea: browse and edit normally, then export the whole address book into whatever format the next tool actually reads — and import it back the same way.
Cypher Contacts features
What it actually does.
Eleven export formats
vCard, a full .zip backup, Excel, CSV, OpenDocument, tab-separated, JSON, XML, LDIF and a printable HTML page.
Import from anything
Reads vCard, CSV, Excel, OpenDocument, JSON, XML, LDIF and HTML — or a ZIP holding any mixture of them.
Account-scoped
Choose exactly which accounts to include — the local phonebook, WhatsApp, or any other — each shown with its own count.
Duplicate and gap finder
Finds people saved more than once, and entries that are missing a number or a name.
Country code repair
Adds the correct country code to local numbers in bulk instead of one at a time.
Backup history and undo
Scheduled backups, a restorable history, and a thirty-day bin for recently deleted contacts.
Cypher Contacts screenshots
Captured from a real device running this build. Tap any image to enlarge it.
How to use Cypher Contacts
From a fresh install to the thing working.
1 Back up your address book
- Open the Export tab.
- Pick a format. vCard (.vcf) is safest if you plan to restore onto any phone; Full backup (.zip) carries every format at once.
- Under "What to include", tick the accounts you want. Each one shows how many contacts it holds.
- Export, then keep the file somewhere that is not the phone.
2 Move contacts to a new phone
- Export as vCard (.vcf) on the old phone.
- Copy the file across by any means you like.
- On the new phone open Import, choose the file, and confirm.
3 Clean up the list
- Open the Tools tab.
- Duplicate contacts finds people saved more than once.
- Incomplete contacts finds entries with no number or no name.
- Fix country codes adds the country prefix to local numbers in bulk.
4 Turn on automatic backups
- Open Settings.
- Under Automatic backup choose daily, weekly or monthly.
- Add your email address if you want to be able to send a backup to yourself. Nothing is sent unless you tap send.
Built with
Licence
Made by Kencypher. Not open source.
Cypher Contacts was written by Kencypher. The source is not published and is not licensed for reuse. You have permission to run it — that is the whole of it.
You may
- Run it on as many of your own machines as you like
- Use it for anything, including commercial work
- Pass an unmodified copy to a friend, free
You may not, without asking
- Sell it or charge for access
- Re-upload or mirror it anywhere
- Rebrand it or publish it as your own
- Decompile it or lift its assets
This is enforced. Re-uploading it, repackaging it, stripping the author's name off it or passing it off as your own is copyright infringement — protected without registration under the Berne Convention — and is pursued with DMCA takedowns to the host, CDN, app store and search engine, platform reports for impersonation, and legal proceedings where the infringement is commercial, repeated, or involves falsely claiming authorship.
Asking first is free, and the answer is usually yes — kencypher56@gmail.com. The only official source is this store; a copy from anywhere else is not one Kencypher published.
Good to know
- On Android it reads and writes the phone address book directly. A computer has no such thing, so the Windows and Linux builds keep the address book themselves, in one file you own, and import from and export to vCard and CSV so nothing is ever trapped inside the app. On Windows it also reads your existing Windows Contacts folder the first time it opens.
- Every tool works the same either way: duplicates, merging, incomplete entries, the country-code rewrite, trash and backups.
- It reads and writes the address book directly rather than going through a sync service.
- The formats are chosen for what reads them, not for the count: vCard 3.0 restores to any phone, the CSV carries a byte-order mark so Excel reads accented names correctly, the spreadsheet is real OOXML with a frozen header and a filter, and LDIF is there for Thunderbird and directory servers.
- The full backup is one ZIP holding the vCard, the spreadsheet, the CSV, the JSON and the printable page together, so a restore never depends on which format still opens in five years.
- Exports land in Downloads/cypher-contacts, where any file manager or a cable can reach them.
- Duplicates are found by what people actually share - a number, an address, a name - and nothing is merged until you have looked at the pairs and agreed.
- Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Your backups are files that you hold.