Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VCRD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VCRD to another file type
To convert your VCRD file to another format, you need Windows Credential Manager or other System software.
Convert a file to VCRD
To convert other file formats to the "Encrypted Password Database" file type, you need software like Windows Credential Manager or a similar tool.
About VCRD files
A .vcrd file is primarily a Windows Vault Credential file, an encrypted container used by Microsoft Windows to securely store login information, network passwords, and Web Credentials for Internet Explorer or Edge. Unlike standard documents, these files are essentially binary lockboxes found in system folders like AppData\Local\Microsoft\Vault. They are paired with a VPOL (Vault Policy) file, which holds the decryption keys.
Because they are encrypted with AES and tied to your specific Windows user account, you cannot simply open a .vcrd file in Notepad or convert it to PDF using standard tools. The "conversion" process actually requires decrypting the file to a readable TXT or CSV format to recover lost passwords. Less commonly, a .vcrd file may be a legacy Virtual Card (vCard) file used by older contact management software; in this specific case, the file is plain text and can be renamed to VCF to open in Microsoft Outlook or Google Contacts.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VCRD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert VCRD file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Windows Credential Manager or similar software from the "Credential Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to VCRD, try Windows Credential Manager or another comparable tool in the "Credential Storage" category.
The VCRD Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our VCRD converter.