--- title: "ownCloud Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of ownCloud. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if ownCloud is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/owncloud-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [File Sharing Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/) / [ownCloud](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/owncloud-profile/) / ownCloud Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/owncloud-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/owncloud-profile/alternatives/) # ownCloud User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.3/5 - Total reviews: 60 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.4/5 - Customer support: 3.5/5 - Value for money: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.0/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 28 reviews (47%) - 4 stars: 23 reviews (38%) - 3 stars: 8 reviews (13%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (2%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - The utility is silky-smooth across the entire interface & sharing data conveniently via link (with custom accessibility permissions) makes it the most versatile cloud software for fulfilling my productivity purposes. - ownCloud offers a state-of-the-art GUI to navigate, share & manage my data with ease on mobile & desktop. - Moreover, I'm really amazed by the upload speeds ownCloud can reach on my home 2.5 gigabit ethernet as it takes me mere seconds to upload some of my favourite movies or series for sharing & streaming. ### Most mentioned cons - Performance issues with many small files. - Our installation is not accessible without VPN. - OwnCloud has an automatic update feature but I've had it fail more times than I've had it succeed. ## ownCloud customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 60 (page 1). ### Great software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michelle L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience has been positive, I will continue to use and tell others about it #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros We have had ZERO issues with this software, works great and is also a perfect alternative to store documents that others need to access #### Cons I do not have anything to say about this software that would be a con --- ### The best home cloud - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mihail N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I always feel secure knowing that my files are stored at home, in addition to the devices I bring with me. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to use home cloud. It has many features and is easy to operate. #### Cons It is a bit difficult to set up the server part of the program --- ### Past its prime and headed the wrong direction - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Brian F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Good while still community oriented, now a dead-end product. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros When I implemented ownCloud, it was a neat opensource platform with an active community, with the option of solid support at a fair price. Filesharing with "cloud" providers like Dropbox leaves you at their mercy for security (or lack thereof!) and the annoying clients require re-training on a regular basis. The support costs of the simple ownCloud web interface with drag-drop file uploading were one-time only. Performance was good enough, support was cheap enough, and it was fine for what we used it for. #### Cons Over the course of a few years, the founders left due to "professional managers" messing things up. Support costs went up with no real indication why. I dropped ownCloud paid and switched to a solid commercial product called FileCloud. For "free" OSS I strongly recommend NextCloud, I've helped several friends set it up and they are ecstatic with the results. #### Reasons for switching to ownCloud Limitations on file size and training costs, lack of control of shared files, distrust of Dropbox management. --- ### As inexpensive as Cloud sync can get - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Tim K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Ceding control of your files to cloud service providers does not fit every situation and own cloud solves this. Especially when you then have to share the items, the custom link based of our domain was a nice feature. #### Cons Technical ability is mostly required to setup and your system and to update. Auto update is a pain and mostly pushes one to manual process. #### Reasons for choosing ownCloud Inexpensive and stable existence. #### Reasons for switching to ownCloud Own cloud seems to have existed longer #### Vendor response Hi Tim, Thank you so much for your response. We are glad that you found ownCloud features useful. As for the technical aspect of ownCloud, it is going to get much better and easier with the launch of Infinite Scale - so stay tuned! In the meantime, you are also welcome to sign up for a free trial instance of Infinite Scale beta. Best regards, Team ownCloud Replied August 2022 --- ### Review by Albert_OwnCloud - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Albert S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Railroad Manufacture - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Since I am using the OwnCloud software, it is easier for me to share documents and files with external assessors, partners, or clients; this means that the time efficiency now is higher than using document interchange by e-mail or similar. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The software is very user-friendly, it allows you to work with third-party people outside your company while you keep the control over your documentation. #### Cons It is needed a network connection to operate with all the OwnCloud features. #### Reasons for choosing ownCloud It is more user-friendly and easy to implement. #### Vendor response Hi Albert, Thank you for your kind review. We are delighted to hear that you are finding ownCloud useful. Best regards, Team ownCloud Replied January 2023 --- ### ownCloud or Nextcloud - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It's great to have your storage in house. The piece of mind that you know where your data is at all times is important, but also, nothing beats local for speed. The clients (I use Windows, Linux and Android clients) make it super easy to sync across different devices - set up once and forget about it! #### Cons I've been going back and forth between ownCloud and Nextcloud (an ownCloud fork) for a couple of years. Started out with ownCloud, switched to Nextcloud, then found out that ownCloud development had caught up and then some, and switched back. Luckily switching is easy but ideally, you want the best of both. --- ### So Cool! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Oil & Energy - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great software and a great idea for anyone who wants their own self-hosted cloud storage. No sharing, and you keep full control over your data. What's not to love? #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros OwnCloud is seriously cool. I used it for a few years on my personal server, making use of that storage for my cloud hosting. It was surprisingly easy-to-install, no hiccups or weird configuration problems with my server (I had it running on BlueHost), and the user interface was straightforward and easy to use. I didn't purchase the smartphone app, although that would have been really cool to try out. #### Cons The software is available at no charge, so it's silly to complain, but I would have liked the interface to be a bit less sterile looking. I imagine the paid platform probably targets enterprises that want on-premise, self-hosted solutions and don't care about having a fun and attractive UI, and to be fair, ownClouds UI is super clean and it is appealing, but it would have been nice if it was just a little less "Microsoftey." That's a pretty minimal complaint though. --- ### Easy file sharing - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We frequently have to share very large files (zip files, videos, etc.) with our clients for their approvals. This process was always complicated and we employed a number of solutions over the years. None has been as easy to use and as reliable as ownCloud. It has literally made my life easier. I am able to organize files into folders with separate passwords and urls allowing me to share only what is needed to specific people. I know that my clients will be able to access and download what they need, when they need it. That gives me great piece of mind. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This software makes it very easy and RELIABLE to share files with our clients and others. It offers a very easy to use interface and has NEVER failed to upload or download. Prior to getting this tool, we struggled with method for sharing (especially large) files with our clients. Once our IT dept got a hold of ownCloud and customized it for our use, my life got measurably easier. #### Cons The only issue I have ever had with it is when I was surprised by a site expiring. Now, I know it was my fault to set a date and then forget it...but it would be nice to receive a notice when an expiration date is nearing. I have learned how to manage that better, but would still appreciate a notification. --- ### Decent but lacking - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Kevin F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, we decided to leave OwnCloud in favour of NextCloud. NC has a faster development cycle and seems to listen to the community more when it comes to what they focus their efforts on. While I'm sure OC is good for Enterprise clients, our experience was that it was ONLY for enterprise. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Overall the product is good, and a number of addons provide good expanded integration and functionality. #### Cons The development focus is generally aimed at Enterprise only, the community needs don't seem to be nearly as important and so addressing feature requests is low on the totem. --- ### Free midsize solution for filestorage - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered for a free solution it is one of the best choices in the opensource world. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It is your own server so it is the best to secure by your own way. Cook it as you prefer. #### Cons The Admin Panel lacks lots to enterprise features. The base idea of sharing files is not intuitive. It tooks a bit to get used of its limit. --- ### Un service professionnel à moindre coût. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Cyril L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Nous sommes globalement content du service rendu par OwnCloud, qui ne nous coûte rien, sur la version que nous exploitons. Tous les inconvénients cités seraient identiques sur d'autres solutions, puisque ce sont en fait les pré-requis d'un cloud privé. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros J'apprécie beaucoup le fait de garder la main sur les données, hébergés chez nous, mais fonctionnant pourtant comme un cloud classique, avec synchronisation par agent, accès web. #### Cons Owncloud nécessite évidemment du stockage sur vos serveurs, puisque vous hebergez, une adresse publique et un certificat pour https et nom DNS. Cela demande une certaine technicité si vous souhaitez avoir quelque chose de professionnel. Quelques mises à jour déconnectent les postes clients, ce qui pertubent un peu les utilisateurs, le temps qu'ils s'en rendent compte. --- ### Plattformübergreifende Benutzung - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Möglichkeit des einfachen Dateiuploads durch Mandanten #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Sehr gute Dateifreigabe an Externe User. Top Kalenderfunktion. #### Cons Zu bearbeitende Dokumente müssen immer downgeloadet werden, wenn man an einem Gerät arbeitet ohne Clientsoftware. #### Reasons for choosing ownCloud Integration in bestehende Systeme und Preisgestaltung #### Vendor response Hello! Thanks a lot for your review. We are so happy to know that you find our ownCloud features convenient to use. With the integration for Office 365 Desktop, you can open a file from the ownCloud Web interface directly in Office 365 securely without downloading. Read more about it here: https://owncloud.com/owncloud-and-microsoft/ If you have any further feedback or questions, please feel free to get in touch with us at community@owncloud.com. We also welcome you to join our community. Replied April 2022 --- ### Excelente cloud interna fácil de configurar - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nuno L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Das melhores opções internas para quem quer criar a sua propria cloud, com facilidade de integração, facilidade de criar acessos e partilhas! Dos melhores softwares do mercado!!! #### Cons Não há nada que não se possa gostar, existe aplicações para todos os sistemas operativos e aplicações moveis. Excelente! #### Vendor response Hello there! Thank you so much for your kind review. We are delighted to hear that you find ownCloud useful. Best regards, Team ownCloud Replied January 2023 --- ### ownCloud lets you own your cloud. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: andrew f. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Experience is overall positive as the benefits typically outweigh any difficulties. Data sovereignty and geo-fencing regulations are some of the main reasons I consider using ownCloud. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Controlling your own data, while enjoying much of the benefits of the likes of dropbox or onedrive. Ability to link mobile phones and sync contacts and calendars. File/folder sync between devices. #### Cons Update process between versions can be cumbersome depending on your installation and set up method. #### Reasons for choosing ownCloud Being able to be in total control of what is hosting your companies data is very nice, especially in today's age. Couple that with a touch of open source and an enterprise company that stands behind it for support and you got a clear winner. --- ### Keep control of your files - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Saving fines onto our own hardware allows for flexibility while maintaining control over the full software stack. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Having my files on a server I control is a significant benefit. The user interface makes sharing files easy, with shares including an optional expiry date. #### Cons Installation and updates take some knowledge of Linux systems, and troubleshooting gets very technical quickly. This should be expected, since you are running a powerful server. --- ### A pretty great self hosted cloud solution - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Outsourcing/ Offshoring - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros ownCloud is very easy to set up and get going using docker. installed it on my own home lab, tested it for a while - I specifically wanted the Gallery feature. #### Cons Please dont consider these cons - it’s my own personal opinion. I wanted a very simple interface for managing photos. While ownCloud does this, it brings a large bundle of features in the mix as well. IF you want a complex solution for managing files, ownCloud is a good bet! #### Vendor response Hello! Thank you so much for your review. We really appreciate it. We understand your desire for a simpler photo management interface. It is true that ownCloud is packed with features; however, they are designed to provide intuitive and highly-secure storage and sharing of files, including photos, to meet the expectations and requirements of our large user base. Thank you again for choosing ownCloud, and we look forward to evolving our platform to better serve your needs. If you have any more thoughts or questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. Best regards, Team ownCloud Replied November 2023 --- ### Host your own cloud - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Scott J. - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. While I ultimately decided to go with Nextcloud over this one they both work really well and if the idea of an enterprise version appeals to you for business reasons then this is the way to go. Own cloud functions well and does a fantastic job of syncing files between my computers and MY cloud. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Keep your files onsite. you don't have to relinquish control of your files to some cloud provider to enjoy the sync and sharing privileges that they offer you can run your own cloud. This is a storage platform that stores your files like Dropbox and sync's them with your computer or computers . They have clients for Linux, Mac , Windows, Android and iOS. There is a free version but also there is a paid enterprise version with expanded features. There is also a growing market place of apps that you can install on your instance to expand functionality even further. #### Cons Can be a little complicated to setup initially. Not all features are available in the free/open source version. --- ### Pretty good, but Nextcloud is better - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jonathan T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have used it and decided to switch to Nextcloud. OwnCloud is a good software, but not the best option. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is self hosted and open source. It has support for Plugins/Apps so you can extend the functionality easily. #### Cons The Website makes the design of the software look very modern, but in reality it is a bit boring. The fork of ownCloud called Nextcloud has a much nicer design, faster development cycles and better comunity engagement. Also on Nextcloud pretty much no features are paid. Everything except adcanced documentation and Premium Support is free. --- ### owncloud is mismanaged nextcloud - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Paul T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. it was decent, but nextcloud is better #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It was open source, so nextcloud became possible. #### Cons It seems management had some terrible ideas which is why all the mind-share seems to be behind nextcloud these days. --- ### Owncloud: ogni tuo desiderio è un link - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Per la totalità delle funzioni comunque mi sento di consigliarlo, è un ottimo prodotto sopratutto per un utilizzo professionale fra professionista e clienti, in cui la condivisione del materiale spesso e volentieri dev'essere immediata e giornaliera. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Il suo punto forte sono assolutamente i link personalizzabili da poter inoltrare esternamente: posso creare una cartella e passare un link ad un soggetto esterno per far sì che lui possa vedere o scaricare o modificare tali file - a differenza dell'autorizzazione che gli stiamo dando - senza far sì che 1. lui abbia scaricato il programma 2. che lui abbia l'accesso a tutto il percorso per arrivare a quella singola cartella, bensì gli posso rendere disponibile solamente una parte isolata, e questa è una funzione davvero ben progettata! #### Cons Alle volte ci sono dei problemi si sincronizzazione fra l'Owncloud online e sul server del proprio pc. Quasi sempre no, ma basta che capiti una volta per non capirci più niente.Infine, l'interfaccia dell'Owncloud online è totalmente da rivedere, molto lenta e ormai vecchia. #### Vendor response Hi there! Thank you for your kind review. We are delighted to hear that you are finding ownCloud useful. We will be sure to pass on your concern regarding the online interface to the relevant team. Regards, Team ownCloud Replied January 2023 --- ### Sincronización de archivos efectiva y almacenamiento seguro de nuestra documentación en nube. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jose Alfredo G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros La sincronización real online que realiza, el cifrado seguro que ofrece punto a punto entre usuarios que comparten información sea por intranet o la red de internet. #### Cons La instalación muy delicada y morosa para https. #### Vendor response Hello! Thank you for your review. We really appreciate that you are using ownCloud. May I add, if you haven't done so already, do check out Infinite Scale (https://owncloud.com/infinite-scale-4-0), the latest and most advanced version of our real-time collaboration platform yet. It is packed with new features and enhancements. Best regards, Team ownCloud Replied October 2023 --- ### Good file share and collaboration platform - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Giovanni S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. installation instruction are quite good. But you need some expertise to setup several configuration like secure access. Great point. it is completely free and work really well #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The main pro is that this platform is open, the cons is that you need to have good skill to deploy it and configure. Globally most of the feature work really well like the cloud storage, that has a really good access through web, client and mobile app. Nice also the feature to integrate your mail, calendar, food task manager. Integrated editor for document is quite difficult to install. Beware cause you need to have a good machine where to install, with enough resource to make the service reliable #### Cons Owncloud has become a minor stream of this project. Mostly Nextcloud is the new evolution with more update and feature. #### Reasons for choosing ownCloud Owncloud has been my first choice untill I have discovered that Nextcloud has a new branch of featured and update development #### Vendor response Dear Giovanni, Thank you so much for your review! It's great to hear that you found many features of ownCloud to be useful. If you ever face any issues while using ownCloud or need assistance, you are welcome to discuss it in our forum (https://central.owncloud.org/) and submit notifications regarding bugs in GitHub. If you have any questions or further feedback, feel free to contact us at: community@owncloud.com Replied April 2022 --- ### ownCloud is a robust utility for anyone looking to access & manage their own cloud storage - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mohammad M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered ownCloud is by far the best cloud solution I've tried for managing my data without any hindrances in terms of setup or drive configurations. The utility is silky-smooth across the entire interface & sharing data conveniently via link (with custom accessibility permissions) makes it the most versatile cloud software for fulfilling my productivity purposes. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros ownCloud offers a state-of-the-art GUI to navigate, share & manage my data with ease on mobile & desktop. Setting up my 2TB NAS drive into ownCloud & configuring my partitions exclusively for work & personal use proved to be an unchallenging task. Ever since I've lost all my data due to internal SSD failure, it was second nature of me to perform daily backups of my computer to avoid such catastrophe. This utility suits my backup (& sharing) demands as it doesn't have to cost me a small fortune for annual or monthly subscription. Moreover, I'm really amazed by the upload speeds ownCloud can reach on my home 2.5 gigabit ethernet as it takes me mere seconds to upload some of my favourite movies or series for sharing & streaming. #### Cons The only gripe I have with ownCloud is the time it takes to create a new user on the web application. I doubt it's a network-related issue from my end as it's noticeable on both my office & home networks. Perhaps a future update will resolve the matter. #### Reasons for choosing ownCloud ownCloud seemed to be the most reputable software recommended online when compared to other alternatives, & so I went with it. #### Reasons for switching to ownCloud I found ownCloud to be easier to setup & navigate through compared to the previous self-hosting solutions I've tried before. Another major reason for making the switch is the tremendous transfer rate improvement noticed when using ownCloud on my phone (Galaxy Note 20 Ultra). #### Vendor response Hello Mohammad, Thank you so much for your detailed and kind review. We are absolutely delighted to hear that you find ownCloud useful and it fits your needs. Best regards, Team ownCloud Replied January 2023 --- ### Great option for collaboration - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Jennifer P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience was good. It is easy to organize files, share certain files with certain people and keep confidential files confidential. The easy drag and drop features allows for document migration to happen quite quickly. I also love that I can access files anywhere. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros This software is great for office sharing and collaboration. Considering we have remote employees, I can upload a document and they instantly have access to it. It also does not take up a ton of bandwidth space like Dropbox is known for. #### Cons There were some features that it did not have that we wanted. #### Reasons for choosing ownCloud We liked most of the features that it offered. #### Reasons for switching to ownCloud Dropbox is a bandwidth hog when it comes to back ups. OwnCloud does not. #### Vendor response Dear Jennifer, Thank you so much for your review! It's great to hear that you found many features of ownCloud to be useful. The satisfaction of our users is our biggest achievement. If you have any questions or further feedback, feel free to contact us at: community@owncloud.com Replied April 2022 --- ### OwnCloud instead of DropBox - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Eric M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Besides being a "better DropBox", OwnCloud has the ability to use plugins. It has a MarketPlace where you can search for various types of plugins. Most of the plugins are free too. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros OwnCloud is wonderful. It runs on your own server so the only limitations to the amount of storage space you have is the amount of disk space on your server. You can create public links with or without password protection, and you can schedule the link to automatically deactivate. You can have as many synchronized folders as you want (not just one like DropBox). You can share each of these folders with different people or groups, and you have full control over the type of access: read only, write only (drop box), or read/write. Best of all, OwnCloud is an open-source product and it's all absolutely free. #### Cons OwnCloud has an automatic update feature but I've had it fail more times than I've had it succeed. It's not all that hard to upgrade manually, but an automatic update would be much much nicer. #### Reasons for choosing ownCloud Nextcloud is a spin-off from OwnCloud. While I like the fact that Nextcloud is less commercialized than OwnCloud, it wasn't as stable as OwnCloud, at least a few years back when we were making our decision. #### Reasons for switching to ownCloud We have a LOT of disk space on our server. And hard drives, even multi-terabyte drives, are relatively cheap... much cheaper than paying for DropBox space. We also wanted to have the file-sharing site branded with our own domain name, emsquared-inc.com. Some of the files we share are sensitive in nature and we didn't want to give custody to any intermediary services. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/owncloud-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- ownCloud Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice