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Overview

Nextcloud

4.6

(442)

Pricing

Starting at €40.00 per year

About Nextcloud

Nextcloud is a file sharing software that helps businesses in the healthcare, education, finance, government, legal, construction and other sectors collaborate with colleagues on various documents via text messages and audio or video conferences. The platform enables administrators to password-protect specific files, manage checklists and edit notes on a unified interface.

Managers can configure access permissions for staff members and secure data in accordance with GDPR and HIPAA compliance protocols. Nextcloud allows teams to receive push notifications for new messages and share screens during video calls using mobile applications on Android and iOS devices. Additionally, operators can send and receive emails, add travel itineraries to the calendar and manage contacts on a centralized dashboard.

Nextcloud offers an application programming interface (API), which lets businesses integrate the system with several third-party applications including Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird. Pricing is based on annual subscription and support is extended via FAQs, knowledge base, forum and email.

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Nextcloud Pricing and Plans

Starting price: €40.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Nextcloud Files-Standard

€67.89

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Nextcloud Files
Mobile and desktop clients
Enterprise capabilities
Fully Open Source
Nextcloud Guard
Early security and stability patches

Nextcloud Files-Premium

€99.99

per user, per year

Plan includes:

5+ years Maintenance life cycle
Custom consulting and integrations
Upgrade stand-by support
Support for clustered instances
SLA on fixes

Nextcloud Files-Ultimate

€195.00

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Nextcloud Assistant
Nextcloud Flow
Nextcloud Whiteboard
SIP bridge for phone dial-in and dial-out

Nextcloud Talk-Standard

€40.00

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Nextcloud Talk
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Nextcloud Features

Popular features found in File Sharing
Access Controls/Permissions
Alerts/Notifications
Content Management
Document Storage
Drag & Drop
Encryption
Mobile Access
Real Time Synchronization
Search/Filter
User Management
Version Control
More features of Nextcloud
Activity Dashboard
API
Audit Trail
Authentication
Calendar Management
Collaboration Tools
Data Synchronization
File Management
File Transfer
Messaging
Real-Time Notifications
Secure Data Storage
Task Management
Workflow Management

Nextcloud Integrations

GitHub

ONLYOFFICE Workspace

Zimbra Collaboration Suite

draw.io

BigBlueButton

Microsoft SharePoint

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Nextcloud User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

67%

29%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.5

Adrian W.

Verified reviewer

Management Consulting

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed August 2019

Why not

I love it

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I've been using Nextcloud since v11-12, but before that had been using ownCloud since v5. It's a brilliant way of sharing files across multiple devices and sharing files with others. I was looking for my own version of Dropbox and Nextcloud fits the bill, and some. Some of the more recent Apps really could make this a complete solution, with the Collarora/Onlyoffice integration, Decks, Circles, Passwords, Email, Talk, etc. And it's open source. Like I said at the start, why not?

Cons:

I'm not a fan of the new forum/support platform but am struggling to find something I least like about the software

Reasons for switching to Nextcloud

Nextcloud offered more features and benefits than ownCloud.

Wilco v.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Great self hosted cloud solution

It's a great piece of open source software with a ton of functionality. It is a great alternative to platforms like Google Drive or OneDrive.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

NextCloud is very easy to set up and allows a great amount of customization. There are a ton of apps available to add to your configuration so you can set it up just the way that works for you. You can integrate Nextcloud login with your own website using OAuth. The customization is almost endless so you can set it up just how you like it.

Cons:

The pricing can become complicated and quite expensive when using Nextcloud with some paid apps. Other than that I can't really complain about the functionality of the software, it has everything it should have.

Reasons for switching to Nextcloud

GDPR, control over hosted files because Nextcloud is self hosted.

Roland A.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed February 2020

Easy to use collaboration tool

We use this as an Intranet solution in our church. The most important functions are booking of locals and for filesharing between groups. We also use PicoCMS for the internal communication of news in the organisation. It works as expected but there has been some resistance to change. We plan to set up social login which should facilitate the use. Setting up and keeping your own server is of course an obstacle. You need some computer and server knowledge to keep this running. We use an external VPS-provider for the production server and another for backup. A local NAS-server for testing. This costs us about 7 EUR/month.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to add new users Easy to upload and download files Possibility to read and edit documents also in the phone Possibility to add blogg-pages for intranet with the PicoCMS app Calendar app works very well Sync with laptop and desktop using the desktop client

Cons:

The e-mail app is rudimentary The coupling between Contacts and E-mail app is incomplete Creating and editing documents and adding photos is possible in the phone but a bit slow The risk for conflicting versions if using desktop client, but this may be soved in version 18 as you can locck the file while editing You sometimes need to specifically check that the files are synced, but this also happens to me with other sync solutions (like Box Sync) The calendar app cannot be "swiped" or "scrolled" to the next week or month in the webb-browser. But this works with other optional calendar apps.

Reasons for choosing Nextcloud

As far as we could see G-suite and Office365 works best if all users are from one single organization and e-mail addresses from the same domain, whereas our users are individuals with private e-mail addresses from many different providers. We also found the setup and administration of Nexcloud very easy - adding users, setting up groups-folders, giving permissions, sharing files to external users, allowing upload and download to external users.

Reasons for switching to Nextcloud

Fronter was remaking their service so we needed to either reconstruct our service or change. We needed to set up a solution within a short time. Nextcloud was the only alternative to do that. And it has worked very well for almost a year now.

Vendor Response

Thank you a lot for this detailed review!

Replied March 2020

Stefanos K.

Verified reviewer

Internet

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed December 2020

Not only for file sharing

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The core functionality, sharing files, is really easy to install and use. And there are tons of additional functionality to choose from (provided by Nextcloud itself and third party software developers). One thing worked out to be particularly useful: the integration with the Nextcloud provided meeting software Talk (although it works only for small meetings out of the box. For larger ones additional, but still free, software is needed).

Cons:

There are really tons of third party apps to choose to install. And it is really tempting to add them. But this constitutes a weakness at the same time, because no one guarantees you that these apps will work with the next update of the software. And I've seen it in the past months that some apps I'd install stopped working with the next update. This is no problem of Nextcloud itself. They do not force you to install any of the third party apps. My advice would be to install only apps that have been along a long time and provide regular updates.

Reasons for choosing Nextcloud

Nextcloud seems to be more community oriented than ownCloud. I know that they originate from the same software, and Nextcloud split it self up at one point.

Miłosz R.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed August 2019

Best open source software I ever worked with

Nextcloud allowed us to replace many other services from different providers, now we have almost everything in one place.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

- simple to setup, configure, update and use - customizable - many apps and themes available - well documented - possible to connect with other services

Cons:

- many features you expect to work by default are only available after installing 3rd party extensions - encryption can be difficult to setup - some features can be configured only from command line

Reasons for choosing Nextcloud

Mostly because of community recommendations, it is also open source and seems to be actively developed, not only by its creators but also by volunteers. Now, after almost a year working with it, I am sure it was a good decision.

Kevin F.

Verified reviewer

Online Media

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed February 2020

Great stack!

Great product that's useful to more than just business clients.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Clean and consistent interface with good integration due to lots of third party addons.

Cons:

The installation process is disconnected between the CLI, and the "autoconfig.php", the supported features in the latter are far more capable despite the development focus on the former.

Reasons for switching to Nextcloud

More "open" development environment, and seemingly faster progress in areas that are more important to the general public rather than simply Enterprise clients.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review! :)

Replied March 2020

Romaric S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Nextcloud

The next cloud technology is very efficient with the oracle free tier program and it does help me in managing many things with hassles. I will advise you to purchase one of its pricing plans if you run a team and you'll like to provide a simple and easy collaboration workflow.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Next cloud is a better self-managed cloud storage alternative for small or independent businesses. It's quite easy to use and manage.I run a self-managed account on the oracle free tier ( with over 200 GB of SSD) and I haven't faced any issues with it so far. It offers a better storage capacity as compared to other cloud servers.The next cloud storage technologies help me to store and manage my business files and I'm very content with its quality of service and server download and upload speeds are very good.

Cons:

Even though for self-managed tiers there is no premium support, however, It's still very great (if you are comfortable with coding and all other techy stuff)...

Reasons for switching to Nextcloud

the mega cloud storage technology works pretty well---however, I don't trust the company that much. I mean there is no convincing information about this company so far and sincerely, I don't really trust the mega cloud.

Jerhone V.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed January 2020

Sweet As NAS of all time

I realise that I can actually push small businesses (consultation) to use this NAS if they want the core functionality of a shared NAS. Most of the clients that I have spoken are happy with it. This means am also Happy!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

NC is Free and easy to use with my skillset. I just have lots of joy when it included a free mobile application that I can basically use personally and on the enterprise leve.

Cons:

NC version upgrade is not too easy going as per my experience. However, spawning another version and mounting the previous files is easy.

Reasons for choosing Nextcloud

The next best thing on NAS is Synology. Though gotta spend moolah for it.

Vendor Response

Thank you a lot for this great review!

Replied February 2020

Tyler V.

Verified reviewer

Program Development

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed January 2020

Win for open-source over paid alternatives.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Zero up-front investment cost. Greater documentation.

Cons:

Not all extensions worked properly and even some featured ones had issues. Some ideas seem half-baked still and need time to mature and become mainstream if that is even the focus.

Reasons for choosing Nextcloud

No commercial product means greater focus and less fragmentation, at least I would hope.

Reasons for switching to Nextcloud

NextCloud seemed more on the bleeding-edge and I really really like to keep my system's PHP updated. So with NextCloud's latest updates supporting PHP 7.4 and the additional news coverage was certainly a huge factor.

Vendor Response

We appreciate your feedback a lot!

Replied February 2020