khard is an address book for the console.
It creates, reads, modifies and removes vCard address book entries at your local machine. Khard is also compatible to the email clients mutt and alot and the SIP client twinkle.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Good scripting from various subcommands.
- Subcommands:
- list – list all (selected) contacts.
- birthdays – list birthdays (sorted by month and day).
- email – list email addresses.
- phone – list phone numbers.
- postaddress – list postal addresses.
- filename – list filenames of all matching contacts.
- Can be used together with email or SIP clients or a synchronisation program like vdirsyncer. It’s easy to use the software as an external address book for the email client mutt.
Website: github.com/lucc/khard
Support:
Developer: Lucas Hoffmann and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
khard is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Address Book Managers | |
|---|---|
| KAddressBook | Supports a wide range of services including NextCloud, Google Contacts |
| Contacts | GNOME's integrated address book. It is written in Vala and uses libfolks |
| qcard | CLI addressbook application for CardDAV servers |
| khard | Console vcard client |
| CardBook | Thunderbird address book based on CardDAV and vCard standards |
| aercbook | Minimalist address book for the aerc e-mail client |
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