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Libre Contacts Backup

Ashkan Rafiee

Offline and encrypted contact backups

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About Libre Contacts Backup

Libre Contacts Backup is a FLOSS native Android app for private, local-first contact backups. No account, no cloud, no tracking — your contacts never leave your device unless you choose to move the backup file yourself.

Features:

* Lossless backup preserving the full Contact → RawContact → Data hierarchy, including contact groups

* SIM card phonebook captured in every backup; on restore, SIM contacts can be written back to the SIM card, into the device address book, or both — and on phones with more than one SIM (including an eSIM) you pick which of the available cards they go to

* Scheduled local backups at a time you choose — daily, weekly on a selected weekday, or monthly on a selected day (if a month is shorter than that day, it runs on the month's last day) — with no internet connection required

* Single-file LCB archives containing canonical JSON, VCF, CSV, and normalized exports

* Optional AES-256-GCM password-protected encryption (Android Keystore backed)

* Restore consolidates each source contact correctly, without merging different people who share a name

* Manual CSV and vCard exports, and the CSV opens in Excel and other spreadsheet apps

* Retention by age — keep the newest backups per day, week, and month with counts you choose (for example 7 daily, 4 weekly, 3 monthly), so the recent past stays densely backed up while older history thins out — or simply keep the last N sets

Libre Contacts Backup is free and open source. If you find it useful, you can support its development — see the donation options in the project README: https://librecontactsbackup.ashkanrafiee.com/#donate

What's new in 2.8.0

Fixed: - Scheduled backups now ask for permission to run at the exact time you set (Android 12 and above); when it is missing, the main screen and a notification say so and open the right settings page - The main screen now shows why a scheduled backup was skipped or failed instead of cutting the message off - Two backups made within the same second no longer share a name, and a just-finished backup is always kept

How to install Libre Contacts Backup

  1. Tap Download — the app's official page on F-Droid opens.
  2. Install it with the F-Droid app (recommended, for automatic updates), or use the download button on that page.
  3. If Android asks, allow the F-Droid app or your browser to install apps, then tap Install.
  4. Open Libre Contacts Backup from your app drawer.

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