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Self-hosted cloud collaboration platform for home users
Store your documents, calendar, contacts, and photos securely on your server or preferred cloud with Nextcloud’s self-hosted content collaboration platform.
Access all your files wherever you are.
With self-hosted cloud storage, your data is where you want it to be: at home or in the cloud you trust. Nextcloud runs on that server, giving you easy access to your files from desktop and mobile devices, as well as boundless syncing and sharing across locations: FTP drive at school, a Dropbox, or a NAS you have at home.
Why self-hosting?
Because your data is everywhere
Right now, half a dozen companies store nearly all data about you that exists: where you live, what you search for, whom you like, what you buy, and, probably, what you think.
Because knowledge is power
Your data can easily be abused, just as power gets abused. Always. Think a local politician mad that you discovered their fraud. A police officer who likes your boyfriend. Or a well-connected businessman looking to buy your store for cheap.
Because you care about privacy
It is nobody’s business what you do. We believe privacy is a right, a foundation for democracy. And your own, private Nextcloud server is the best way to get started with getting it back!
Nextcloud is people
Nextcloud is an open source community of developers and contributors, some helping out in their free time, others paid by their company to make Nextcloud better. We organize events, attend conferences, hang out together at meetups and hackweeks. If you would like to meet Nextclouders, check out our events page.
How to use Nextcloud
Here’s three ways you can use Nextcloud to get regain control over your own data,
and share it with only people you’ve chosen.
Who owns your ?
Who has the pictures from your last vacation on the beach, your contact list, the last chat you had with your loved ones? Do you trust the services you use to handle your data?
In the era of Google Drive, Dropbox & co, storing your data online has never been easier. With privacy violations reported daily, people still say: it’s incredibly hard to find an easy and free service that respects you.
We at Nextcloud believe that you have a right to decide what happens with your data and have as much control as possible on what belongs to no one else but you.
Frank Karlitschek
CEO and founder of Nextcloud
Your data represents who you are and can easily be abused. We want this to change. This is why, at Nextcloud, we want you to have as many options as possible, to help you decide who you will trust with your data. We help you choose a place for your documents, calendars, photos and chat logs!
Why Nextcloud?
Open source
Nextcloud is open source – there are no limitations and you can inspect, integrate, extend and modify Nextcloud however you want.
Easy to use
Easy to use user interface which comes with search functionality, favorites, tags and even more ways to quickly reach the files you need.
Files
Text file editing and thumbnail previews of PDF, images, text files, office files and more
Anti-virus
Integration of anti-virus scanning functionality with the anti-virus app
Easy deployment
Run Nextcloud yourself, at home or in a cloud you trust. You can even buy a ready-to-go device with Nextcloud!
Sharing
Sharing and Provisioning REST APIs. Facilitates the integration of remote 3rd party apps
Logging
Powerful, integrated logging, two-factor authentication and NIST compliant password policy control functionalities
Devices
Fine-grained control from mobile, desktop or the Web over data access and sharing capabilities. Pick from the list of users and groups, stored either locally or on another, authorized, server.
Main features
Start your day informed
The Nextcloud Dashboard is your starting point of the day, giving you an overview of your upcoming appointments, urgent emails, chat messages, incoming tickets, latest tweets and much more! Users can set their status so others know what they are up to..
Dashboard feature
Secure audio and video calls
Operate your own secure and private audio/video communication service! You can access it through a browser, invite family or friends and collaborate in a group through secure, end to end encrypted audio and video communication. The WebRTC, peer to peer communication channel can not be intercepted even by the admin of the server. The talk app also supports chat and comes with mobile applications for Android and iOS so you can call others from your mobile phone!
Nextcloud Talk
Security first
We are deeply committed to protecting the safety of your data and we’re certain that Nextcloud offers the best security in the self hosted file sync and share world, because:
we follow industry best practices around security (aligned to ISO27001)
we offer some of the highest open source security bug bounties
we integrate unique in-transit, server-side and client-side end-to-end encryption technologies.
Security in Nextcloud
Mobile and desktop clients
The free Nextcloud clients for Android, iOS and desktop systems allow you to sync and share files, in a fully secure way through an encrypted connection. The mobile clients feature automatic upload of pictures and videos you take and can synchronize select files and folders. The clients can handle multiple accounts, show all activity happening on your server and notify you of new events such as the availability of new shares.
More about clients
Share with others on your terms
The easy web interface allows you to share files with other users on your server, to create and send password protected public links, to let others upload files to your cloud and to get notifications on your phone and desktop when a user on another cloud server shares files directly with you. And you can do all these things from the desktop or mobile clients, too.
Share with Nextcloud
Self-hosting made easy
Running your own server takes work, but Nextcloud makes it easy as possible to run a reliable, secure service for you and your family. We give you tips and recommendations in the setup screen, warn you of updates and let you run an update with a few clicks in the web interface, provide a web installer and super easy-to-manage Snap and VM images and much more.
Download options
Designed for humans
An efficient, easy to use interface is one of the main things that sets Nextcloud apart from the competition. Design is about more than being pretty. The goal is to allow users to get work done with the least amount of effort, making it obvious how to accomplish tasks and reducing the number of steps needed to do so.
Good design can be seen in the entire user interface and each release makes steps forward.
Privacy center
What does privacy mean for you, and how can Nextcloud help you keep your data under control? In the settings you can find the Nextcloud Privacy center, where you can see where your data is and who has access to it.
Calendar, Contacts and Mail
The Nextcloud Calendar and Contacts apps allow you to store, sync and share your plans and contacts. You can share with users or groups on your server or sync the calendar or contacts with your devices and access them wherever you are. Nextcloud Mail gives you a easy to use but powerful mail client, directly integrated in Nextcloud, that can talk to your existing IMAP or POP mail server.
Accessibility
To ensure Nextcloud is accessible to users with visual impairments, Nextcloud has extensive keyboard accessibility and screen reader support.
The colors used in Nextcloud meet the WCAG 2.0 AA standard for contrast and we created themes for users who need even higher support. Our High Contrast theme aims for WCAG 2.0 AAA compliance, while a Dyslexia-friendly font option helps people with reading disability. A Dark theme is also available.
Find everything in one place
On the top-right of your Nextcloud window, a search glass shows search results from all over Nextcloud. Additional search providers can be installed and over a dozen different search providers are available to show you Github issues, Moodle courses, Jira tickets and more
More about Unified search
Extend your cloud
You can extend the functionality of your Nextcloud with extra features from the Nextcloud app store. Among the more than 200 apps you can find features that enhance sharing, including:
Groupware apps
- Calendar
- Contacts
- News
- Notes
- Bookmarks
- Tasks
Collaboration productivity apps
- Keepass management
- Video Calls
- a Kanban app
- music players
- Password managers
- Checksums
- download manager
- a Markdown editor
- collaborative text editing.
Security and authentication features
- two-factor authentication mechanisms
- SSO
- Ransomware protection
- admin announcements
- Zimbra integration
- a tiny CMS app and more
View and edit documents
with Nextcloud Office
Nextcloud Office is a powerful LibreOffice-based online office suite with collaborative editing that works in all modern browsers and supports editing your documents in real time with multiple other editors, showing high fidelity, WYSIWYG rendering and preserving the layout and formatting of your documents.
It supports dozens of document formats:
- DOC
- DOCX
- PPT
- PPTX
- XLS
- XLSX
- ODF
- Import/View Visio
- Publisher
- Many more
Nextcloud Photos 2.0
Where photos used to be personal, and kept in photo albums, these days our photos are ‘floating in the cloud’, under control of big tech firms and their photo management software. With AI looking through it, analysing and checking. We think we all deserve better.
For that reason, we want to provide you with the best photo management experience possible, without compromising any of your security. Unlike closed and proprietary platforms’ photo apps, your photos won’t be surveilled or accessible to third parties. And yet it gives a wonderful experience!
Photos features
Photo Editor
Photo editing is now simpler than ever. Nextcloud’s new built-in photo editor includes all the features, filters, and common edit operations you need to create a stunning image!
Album sharing
Highly desired by our community is having the ability to create photo albums. Now you can have all your photos from a trip, party, or season in one place. Futhermore, you can share the album with others using a public link so they can add their photos too.
Tile view layout
The new tile view is modern, intuitive, and appealing to the eye. Plus, there’s a huge performance improvement to make your experience quick and easy to use.
AI-powered automatic face and object recognition
Nextcloud Photos will automatically tag photos, recognizing cars, trees, food and more. But not just objects – also faces! It will group them in the People tab and allow you to name them. Then, you will be able to search for pictures of cars or your favorite people!
Integrated account management
Nextcloud features built in account management with optional two-factor authentication, making it easy to handle creating and modifying accounts. If you have set up a LDAP, you can connect it to Nextcloud as well!
External storage, securely encrypted
The external storage feature of Nextcloud gives you access to your data wherever it is. Nextcloud can access files stored with a wide variety of popular cloud service providers such as Amazon, Google and Dropbox, but you can also access them using standard protocols such as NFS, (S)FTP, WebDAV and more.
The Encryption App can encrypt data at rest for both local and remote storage, protecting data stored on networks outside of your server. Nextcloud will keep your data where it is and retrieve it over a secure communication channel whenever you need to access it.
Get started now with Nextcloud at home
Get your own Nextcloud’s self-hosted content collaboration platform and start owning your documents, calendar, contacts, and photos securely on your server or preferred cloud.
