Nextcloud Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started using Nextcloud during lockdown so our staff could work from home. They mostly needed to share files between different groups and read emails. Later, we added more features, such as surveys, chat, and editing office files, making it increasingly useful. Now it's one of the essential parts of our organization.

Likelihood to Recommend

With basic file sharing and syncing across different computers and with other users or groups, it's perfect. Also phone client to access those files is great. With auto uploads, like photo uploads from a phone, it's not reliable, since 1/3 of photos are missing. Mostly those taken one after another in the same minute.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have one of my clients use it as an alternative to Onedrive/Sharepoint for cloud file storage. We had issues with very large numbers of files that would cause other platforms we tested with to fail, but Nextcloud handled it effectively. It also handled larger sizes without an issue.

Likelihood to Recommend

If an organization has a very large number of files and/or large files, I think Nextcloud is a great fit. It is also very good if you have a lot of various operating systems in your environment.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

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For a SOHO business, this solution is ideal. You don't need to administrative overhead of other products like GSuite, and it saves licensing costs. The maintenance effort is minimal as long as you use their default applications. Migrations to newer versions can be done with a few commands and run automatically. If you're planning on using Nextcloud in large deployments with many users, you'll start to see higher costs on your resources and maintenance. There will be a point at which Gsuite becomes easier to manage.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

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Nextcloud suites any scenario in which a business, non-profit or government needs a DSGVO/GDPR conform, data private, cheap cloud solution. For Google Drive, AWS, OneDrive, iCloud or Dropbox you pay monthly, for a self-hosted Nextcloud instance you pay once, it will look far more professional and is far more modular.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

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There are some valid scenarios:

1. File Sharing with others around your company: great to give your employees the possibility to securely share files with outsiders of your company

2. Providing your customers / client with a secure way to upload files to your company, without having to worry that your customer sends private files with an untrusted service

3. All in One Solution for your Team (File Sharing, Calendar, Mail, Apps): This scenario is for our use cases not battle ready yet, may be suited for smaller teams.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

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While searching for tools to satisfy a quickly scaling online startup, we found Nextcloud is well suited for today's remote collaborative team. Nextcloud has just the right toolset for a collaborative workspace including video, chat, many file formats accepted, and intuitive user interface. Comparatively other popular tools like Trello were distracting with more features than functionality. Working with Nextcloud is much like having a workspace with all your content and tools available anywhere on any device, without the ads, distractions, and irrelevant functionality. We will continue to utilize Nextcloud as a remote workspace for evolving and scaling teams.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

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Good when you have the technical expertise to set it up and manage the underlying server it runs on.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

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It’s great as an alternative to OneDrive when you can’t fully use Office 365. For example, sharing files with other people, with groups, setting the expiration date and password for the files. And, about less recommended scenarios, honestly, I don't see any. Perhaps, only the configuration time, which is longer than a SaaS option.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nextcloud works well in a small organization where you need to quickly find an alternative to closed-source or hosted filesharing. It is very flexible for sharing documents with partners, clients, an accountant, etc. It integrates smoothly with email software such as emClient for calendar handling and for sharing large documents (a link will be shared automatically, instead of attaching the file). It is probably less appropriate for very large business environments where the database and rights model (shared folders) is too simple.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nextcloud is well suited for those businesses which need extreme collaboration among its' employees and customers as well. The file sharing feature is just amazing w[h]ich will enable you to update yourself as well as the relevant targeted stakeholders on the ongoing and Como issues.

This application might help the small or larger business for bringing out the efficiency and productivity.