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Libre Contacts Backup

Offline contact backups with optional encryption.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

Libre Contacts Backup is a backup mobile app, available on Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: offline use, data encryption, themes and dark mode.

File formats mentioned: CSV, JSON and VCF.

Requires an internet connection.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Offline contact backups with optional encryption” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “A free, open-source, native Android app that backs up your contacts — local-first, private, and fully yours.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “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…” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Optional AES-256-GCM password-protected encryption (Android Keystore backed)” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Choose the app language and system, light, or dark theme from the Display menu” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Libre Contacts Backup is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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