Address Book Importer 2.0.5 - Mac OS X Mail Contacts Tool

Address Book Importer is a fantastic utility to import contacts from CSV files (to which every respectable email program or service exports) into the Mac OS X Mail Address Book with ease and elegance. You can map fields freely to accommodate for your every need and even save your mapping for later.

Getting to know new people can seem daunting and difficult at times, but retaining these people's contact details across email programs and services often really is. What a relief to know there are tools like Address Book Importer.

Sporting an unpretentious, elegant and very functional interface, Address Book Importer picks up names, email addresses, phone numbers and the plethora of other data from CSV files and puts them into the Mac OS X Address Book — in exactly the manner you desire.

With no rigid preset structure, Address Book Importer lets you map, by drag and drop, any field from the CSV file to any field in Address Book. If you import or manually synchronize frequently, you can save a mapping for later use. It might be nice for Address Book Importer to come with ready-made mappings for popular service or programs, say Outlook or Gmail.

CSV files, by the way, are text files that contain structured information in a very simple fashion. Most email programs, contact managers and email services can export address book data in CSV format.

You can browse through records and preview mappings right in Address Book Importer to make sure you get the desired result. While Address Book Importer lets you import only a select range of contacts, it does not offer filters or check for duplicates.

It might also be helpful and speed things up a bit if Address Book Importer could suggest a mapping based on key name similarities.