Nextcloud at home

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 contribution

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.

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 stay: 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.

Quote - Frank Karlitschek

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?

Main features

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
  • Mail
  • News
  • Notes
  • Bookmarks
  • Tasks
Nextcloud ecosystem appstore

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!

Nextcloud Groupware Contacts organizational chart

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.

Nextcloud external storage

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.