Nexcloud ideal for SOHO and small enterprises.
Nextcloud is used as a fully flagged PIM solution (calendar, addresses, messaging) with the addition of easy file sharing. With the …
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What is Nextcloud?
Nextcloud offers their open source, self-hosted Content Collaboration Platform, combining what they describe as an easy user interface for consumer-grade cloud solutions with the security and compliance measures enterprises need. Nextcloud brings together universal access to data through mobile,...
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- User and role management (11)8.888%
- Device sync (11)8.787%
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What is Nextcloud?
Nextcloud offers their open source,
self-hosted Content Collaboration Platform, combining what they describe as an easy user
interface for consumer-grade cloud solutions with the security and
compliance measures enterprises need. Nextcloud brings together
universal access to data through mobile, desktop and web interfaces with
next-generation, on-premise secure communication and collaboration
features like real-time document editing, chat and video calls, putting
them under direct control of IT and integrated with existing
infrastructure. Nextcloud boasts easy and quick deployment, open, modular
architecture and an emphasis on security and advanced federation
capabilities to enable modern enterprises to leverage existing file
storage assets within and across the borders of their organization.
Nextcloud Features
File Sharing & Management Features
- Supported: Versioning
- Supported: Document files
- Supported: Image files
- Supported: Video files
- Supported: Audio files
- Supported: Document collaboration
- Supported: Shared folders
- Supported: Access control
- Supported: File search
- Supported: Device sync
- Supported: Web interface
- Supported: File change notifications
- Supported: Simultaneous editing
Cloud Storage Security & Administration Features
- Supported: Single sign-on
- Supported: Two-step verification
- Supported: End-user encryption
- Supported: User and role management
- Supported: Strorage limit management
- Supported: File organization
- Supported: Device management
- Supported: Password protected files
Cloud Storage Platform Features
- Supported: Performance
- Supported: Reliability
- Supported: Storage Reports
- Supported: Multi-language
Additional Features
- Supported: Online document collaboration
- Supported: Online communication
- Supported: Groupware
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Nextcloud Videos
Share and collaborate on documents, send and receive email, manage your calendar and have video chats without data leaks.
As fully on-premises solution, Nextcloud Hub provides the benefits of online collaboration without the compliance and security risks.
Nextcloud Talk is the most secure way of communication and collaboration! Calls are encrypted and not even meta-data leaves your server. Easily share documents and work together with others on your server or guests you invited for meetings, webinars or more.
Nextcloud Files is the most secure and private way to share and collaborate on documents.
Easy to use, 100% on premises, open source and enterprise ready.
Nextcloud offers Calendar, Mail, Contacts and more, built in. Work together, share documents, plan video chats and more!
With Nextcloud you can easily share, edit and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents on your desktop or mobile device
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Nextcloud Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | Global |
Frequently Asked Questions
Reviewers rate Audio files highest, with a score of 9.7.
The most common users of Nextcloud are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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December 10, 2022
Nexcloud ideal for SOHO and small enterprises.
Score 8 out of 10
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Nextcloud is used as a fully flagged PIM solution (calendar, addresses, messaging) with the addition of easy file sharing. With the available desktop clients for all major operating systems and mobile clients, everything can stay in sync. As this product is open source and can be hosted on-prem, the only costs involved are resources and administration. The basic applications that come with Nextcloud offer file viewing of PDFs; if you're looking for office functions like word processing, there are various plugins.
- Contact sharing via WebDAV.
- Calendar sharing via CalDAV.
- File sharing via web browser and Nextcloud client applications (desktop and mobile).
- Sync conflicts need to be resolved manually in some cases.
- It's not very straight forward to setup versioning for files.
- Creating a preview of files sets the server under heavy load.
September 13, 2022
Better than paying for OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox or AWS! More secure, better privacy, way more professional
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Nextcloud to share files with clients and internally keep track of documents. It was incredibly easy to setup, instructions are very clear to every user, easy to customize for our corporate theme and generally offered much more security, data privacy, cheaper pricing (self hosted, self cost) as well as most importantly: modularity. We could grant a user terabytes of cloud storage if they needed to, give specific users less, etc. All previous NAS could be integrated through quick plug-ins and SMB, additionally the apps for it already being supported on every operating system was helpful. All in all, a 10/10 experience from a security, data privacy and user experience perspective.
- Fast up/download speeds
- Self-hosted
- Free and Open Source
- Easy to install and setup
- Easy to use for coworkers and users
- Client side end-to-end encryption like CryptPad
- Gallery sync pause on Android/iOS (sometimes I do not want pictures to be synced, there is no option to stop it on iOS or Android, but there is for Desktop)
- Disable allowing every user to see every other user by default (you need to edit the HTML of the start page of Nextcloud in order to disable a feature that allows you to see every other user registered on that platform, for privacy reasons I find this questionable)
- Be able to change user-tags, so far you are just able to change usernames, but not your tag. Every Nextcloud user should be given a UUID which represents their Nextcloud tag, this way users can change it more easily.
- Dark mode not as an experimental feature, but fully integrated and not hidden away under "accessibility features"
June 22, 2021
Great and easy to use encrypted file sharing of your private files with customers and clients
We're using Nextcloud mainly to offer our clients and customer a way to exchange files with our company, since other tools we use do not provide such a functionality in a convenient way. In addition we also host data there that is shared with customers / clients to review and get more support information.
The feature our customers love is the option to securely send us a file with drag & drop, without having to use other (non compliant) public services.
The feature our customers love is the option to securely send us a file with drag & drop, without having to use other (non compliant) public services.
- File Storage
- File Sharing
- File Uploads
- App Center (Expandability)
- Slow in comparison to other solutions
- May be complex for the start since there are lots of apps and features
- May be not focusing on core topics
We tested the Nextcloud iOS Beta and found the UI to be refreshingly simple and easy to navigate. Nextcloud addresses remote development and collaboration for our generation with a secure and easy to use platform. With the addition of the new photos app, it's quite like having your own enterprise collaboration platform at your fingertips, without the big tech oversight. To stay focused on collaborating together without the ads, trackers, and a nice intro to get you started off on the right foot.
- Remote collaboration platform with just the right tools.
- Ease of access from any device, anywhere.
- Solid templates for development teams to collaborate without distraction.
- Nextcloud is new and relatively unknown, but with the features of enterprise solutions.
- I'd like to see a 'vault' feature for sensitive info.
- Potential for CRM use case with contacts.
May 30, 2021
Great file management and collaboration software
We're a small team using it internally for project file management (formerly we used simple network shares). It's very helpful to share files with clients without having to use additional file-sharing services or sending large unwieldy files via email.
- File management anytime anywhere.
- Complete control on own hardware and infrastructure.
- Syncing could be faster on very large collections of files.
- Sync app sometimes hangs (probably due to number of files).
May 30, 2021
Nextcloud: Great Onedrive alternative!
We use Nextcloud as an alternative to OneDrive. At the current location, we have security restrictions, which prevent us from exchanging files in certain situations, with external partners, and we had to look for an alternative solution. The solution is used by several teams within the company and solved several problems.
- Share files
- Preview files
- Quick setup
- Edit files
May 30, 2021
Open source rarely outperforms the alternatives, but Nextcloud is the exception to the rule
We use Nextcloud in the whole company. It's an excellent tool to replace a team network drive, and especially for sharing files with outside users in a password-protected environment -- we use this daily. We also use additional tools such as calendars and scheduling.
- User rights
- Version management
- Scaleability
- Online editing of office documents is limited.
- Mobile phone app doesn't always sync immediately.
- Videoconferencing tools are resource intensive.
May 30, 2021
Get the best business benefit with Nextcloud
Nextcloud is used across the organization and everybody likes it. As a leading tourism business we need to keep the whole organization updated on what's happening and what should we do at what situation. This platform enables us to collaborate with relevant stakeholders very easily through [the] file shari[n]g option. It has made the job more collaborative and efficient.
- File sharing and collaboration feature.
- Reliable and secured.
- Easy to set up and use.
- Customizable.
- Bit of expensive.
- Graphical edition could improve.
- Rest is fine with the application.
May 29, 2021
Nextcloud offers exceptional value and ROI
We use Nextcloud to collaborate between geographically diverse workers, utilizing a combination of its mail & document sharing, mostly, to expand our presence through person-to-person communications and onboard new individuals organically.
- Email
- File sharing
- Document collaboration
- Prefer to see integration with other tools like samba
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We previously used Nextcloud as a front-end for an external file shares (Windows SMB) before migrating to a full OneDrive and SharePoint solution in order to provide web-based access to files and folders in our file shares. This allowed us to support access to those files and folders by users outside of the office or those inside the office using Chrome, Android, iOS and other devices.
- Very intuitive interface.
- Superb synchronization agent.
- Integration with AD/LDAP, external file sources, and other tools is top-notch.
- Wide variety of "apps" (plugins).
- Large PHP single-page layout can be unwieldy.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Nextcloud is used as a core alternative for our key services: files (internal and with clients), calendars and address book, kanban (deck) for agile development, chat and edit/comment files online.
It is used across the whole organization as a central hub which operates as a bridge between departments.
It addresses the need for:
- Privacy, no activity or data are ever analysed.
- Digital sovereignty, all of our data are on a server which we control 100%.
- Single software/UI for several activities.
- Accessible also on mobile (iOs/android).
- Ease of installation/maintenance (sysadmins).
- Ease of use (users).
- File sharing (internal, public or federated).
- One software, many activities (files, address book, calendar, chat, edit, email) ...
- Groupware, sharing between users or groups is really easy and finely controlled.
- Integrations and many apps.
- Merge talk and file client apps on mobile devices.