In order to provide a seamless enterprise user experience, Nextcloud GmbH offers branded clients to their customers. We are also introducing deployment technologies available for customers today through MSI for desktops and MDM for mobile platforms.
Logo, color and links
Our theming app provides a fast and intuitive way to theme your Nextcloud server. You can conveniently configure logo, colors, name and important urls like the privacy policy and imprint. Out of the box, the Nextcloud mobile apps adapt to the color scheme of the Nextcloud server and also use its configured logo and background in the apps.
Beyond that, Nextcloud offers a client branding service as part of Professional Services to Nextcloud Customers. Branded clients dramatically enhance your user corporate experience. They are pre-configured for the correct server so that the end user does not have to choose a Nextcloud server but can immediately proceed to enter their login credentials. They use the customers’ logo and name in the app drawer instead of the Nextcloud logo and name and more customization can be made: URLs for privacy policy, help page and contact email can also be set individually in the apps.
Last but not least, a custom Push Proxy can be configured. This provides push notification functionality in Nextcloud. Nextcloud GmbH hosts a public proxy server, and data send by the clients is encrypted and doesn’t contain anything that can be traced back to the user. But if customers want to internalize the whole process for IT or compliance reasons, they can optionally run their own push proxy server with our help.
The branding applies to supported app platforms: Android, iOS and desktop Linux, Mac and Windows. The Nextcloud Talk apps have some initial branding support and this can be made available if required.
Deployment and control with MDM and MSI
Many larger organizations have tools to manage their deployments of desktop and mobile apps. For mobile apps, various tools provide so-called Mobile Device Management services. Nextcloud supports this with the Client Branding Plus option. With this also come branded desktop clients as MSI packages for easy roll-out in large organizations.
Here is a complete overview of the Nextcloud branded client options.
Clients
| Supported capabilities |
Included |
Client Branding |
Client Branding Plus |
| Colors for application and fonts |
✔* |
✔ |
✔️ |
| Logo for login page and header |
✔️ |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Custom App icon and name |
|
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Custom visual assets |
|
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Pre-configured URL of the Nextcloud server |
|
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Contact email address |
|
✔ |
✔️ |
| URLs for privacy policy and help page for clients (mobile/desktop) |
|
✔️ |
✔️ |
| MDM functionalities |
|
|
✔️ |
| MSI installation package (Windows) |
|
|
✔️ |
* Mobile only
Web user interface
| Supported capabilities |
Included |
Client Branding |
Client Branding Plus |
| Logo in the header bar, on the login page and the favicon |
✔ |
✔ |
✔️ |
| Color of header bar, checkboxes and folder icons |
✔ |
✔ |
✔️ |
| Name and slogan |
✔ |
✔ |
✔️ |
| Login page background image |
✔ |
✔️ |
✔ |
| Additional compliance links for web UI (Legal notice/Privacy policy link) |
✔ |
✔️ |
✔ |
If your organization needs branded clients, contact us!
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