Libre Contacts Backup
Offline contact backups with optional encryption
- Developer
- Ashkan Rafiee
- License
- GPL-3.0-only
- Package
com.ashkanrafiee.librecontactsbackup- Category
- Contact
- Latest version
- 2.9.0 · Oct 27, 2026
- Minimum Android
- Android 8.0
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Description
Libre Contacts Backup is a FLOSS native Android app for private, local-first contact backups. No account, no tracking, and no automatic uploads — your contacts stay on your device unless you choose to move a backup file, export data, or share a report.
Features:
• Lossless backup preserving the full Contact → RawContact → Data hierarchy, including contact groups
• SIM card phonebook captured on a best-effort basis when the device exposes it; if it cannot be read, the backup reports that it contains device contacts only. On restore, SIM contacts can be written back to the SIM card, into the device address book, or both
• 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
• Choose the app language and system, light, or dark theme from the Display menu
• Create a problem report from About and choose whether to include technical diagnostics before sharing it with an email or sharing app
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
Features:
• Lossless backup preserving the full Contact → RawContact → Data hierarchy, including contact groups
• SIM card phonebook captured on a best-effort basis when the device exposes it; if it cannot be read, the backup reports that it contains device contacts only. On restore, SIM contacts can be written back to the SIM card, into the device address book, or both
• 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
• Choose the app language and system, light, or dark theme from the Display menu
• Create a problem report from About and choose whether to include technical diagnostics before sharing it with an email or sharing app
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
All versions
| Version | Released | Minimum Android | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9.0 | Oct 27, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 231.6 KB |
| 2.8.0 | Oct 22, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 216.6 KB |
| 2.7.4 | Oct 15, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 214.8 KB |
| 2.7.3 | Oct 12, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 213 KB |
| 2.7.2 | Oct 8, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 211.9 KB |
| 2.7.1 | Oct 2, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 208.5 KB |
| 2.6.0 | Sep 22, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 205.8 KB |
| 2.5.0 | Sep 15, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 190.9 KB |
| 2.3.4 | Sep 12, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 157.2 KB |
| 2.3.3 | Sep 11, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 157.2 KB |
| 2.3.2 | Sep 9, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 158.2 KB |
| 2.3.1 | Sep 2, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 154.7 KB |
| 2.1.1 | Aug 27, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 64.6 KB |
| 2.1.0 | Aug 27, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 59.8 KB |
| 1.5.3 | Aug 26, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 45 KB |
| 1.5.0 | Aug 23, 2026 | Android 8.0 | 42.7 KB |
How to install an older version of an Android app · How to install an APK file on Android
From the developer (GitHub)
APK files published by the developer on GitHub. They are signed by the developer and may not install over the other builds on this page (different signature). Links open github.com.
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