What's your plan if you lose your smartphone, someone steals it, you drop it into a swimming pool, change workplaces, or geographic locations and delete your old contacts?

Citadel Contacts Archiver enables you to create backups of your essential smartphone contact information for long-term safekeeping.

Backing up your important smartphone contacts data is essential for your business and personal productivity.

Every so often use Citadel Contacts Archiver to back up these essential details: 1) contact names, 2) phone numbers, and 3) email addresses.

Citadel Contacts Archiver copies and pastes your contact information into the composition window of any email client you have on your smartphone.

From your email client, you can either edit, send, or cancel the archive.

To create an archive:

1) Open Citadel Contacts Archiver.
2) Enter your email address.
3) Tap Send. An email client selection screen appears.
4) Tap your favorite email client. Citadel Contacts Archiver populates your email composition window with To, Subject, and your contact details.
5) In your email client send, edit, or cancel the archive.

Citadel Contacts Archiver works with any email client you have installed on your smartphone such as Gmail or Yahoo.

Other backup methods synchronize with your current smartphone contacts which means if you delete a contact from your phone because you think it is obsolete, it is gone, and not backed up.

If you run Citadel Contacts Archiver occasionally and save your backup archives in your inbox there's no need to worry about that.

Citadel Contacts Archiver is a free productivity app that has no ads or in-app purchases.

Created by Demosveritas Apps, Ltd.

Update 4/27/14:

Known Issue: The Citadel Archiver app is compiled and tested for Android API levels 15 to 19 using 105 contacts. Loading time takes approximately 3 seconds.

If you have a much larger number of contacts, for instance 250 or more, after about 10 seconds the app can time out.