Why the ISV Partner Program exists
The Nextcloud App Store has always made it easy to publish apps for the broader community. But some apps are built for highly specific use cases, such as compliance workflows for public-sector organizations, integrations for regulated industries, tools for particular verticals.
These solutions often serve a handful of large organizations rather than thousands of self-hosters. As a result, many are delivered to a customer and never published, making them difficult for others to discover and impossible for their creators to grow into sustainable products.
The Nextcloud ISV Partner Program is designed to change that.
Why partner with Nextcloud?
Working with Nextcloud gives ISVs access to a fast-growing ecosystem of organizations prioritizing data sovereignty, security, and open standards.
Reach enterprise customers
Through the ISV Partner Program, your application gains exposure to thousands of organizations looking for a trusted, self-hostable, and compliant solution to a specific problem.
Integrate into a proven platform
Leverage APIs, app frameworks, file access layers, authentication systems, and collaboration tools already used at scale.
Accelerate go-to-market
Benefit from co-marketing, app-store visibility, events, joint webinars, and enterprise sales alignment.
Build on trusted open source
Align with a transparent ecosystem backed by strong privacy principles and long-term extensibility.
Who the program is for
The ISV Partner Program is aimed at developers who have built — or are building — Nextcloud apps for specific enterprise or public-sector use cases, and who want to reach more customers without building a full commercial operation from scratch. These apps do not need to be made publicly available on the Nextcloud App Store.
Typical use cases include productivity and collaboration tools, AI-driven assistants and automation services, encryption, and compliance solutions, document management and workflow systems, e-signature and contract platforms, as well as backup, archiving, and data lifecycle tools.
What the program offers
Nextcloud takes on the go-to-market work:
- Promotion and visibility across the Nextcloud customer and partner ecosystem
- Sales support through customer introductions
- Marketing through Nextcloud campaigns and communications
In return, participating ISVs maintain the app, ensure stability and security, provide support to their customers, and commit to Nextcloud’s core values: privacy, local data processing, no data leakage.
Integration opportunities
ISVs can integrate at multiple layers of the Nextcloud ecosystem:
File and data integration
Working directly with files, metadata, and storage in a secure way
Authentication and identity
Connecting to enterprise identity systems like SSO or directory services
Collaboration layer
Extending sharing, commenting, and collaborative workflows
Automation and workflows
Triggering actions, integrating business logic, and connecting external systems
AI and advanced services
Adding intelligence on top of documents, processes, or domain-specific workflows
Your path to success
Step 1
Apply
Submit your application and solution overview.
Step 2
Technical review
Joint evaluation of architecture, security, and integration approach.
Step 3
Integration and validation
Build, test, and validate your integration with Nextcloud systems.
Step 4
Launch and go-to-market
Introduce the solution to selected customers, co-market with Nextcloud, and engage enterprise customers.
Current ISV partners
VoxCloud (Netherlands)
Enterprise metadata management, SharePoint-style dashboards, and related tools
Leviia (France)
Scalability and performance components for large Nextcloud deployments
HKN (Germany)
AI integration apps for enterprise environments
Conduction (Netherlands)
Process tracking and automation for municipalities and public-sector organizations
Join the program
We’re actively expanding the Nextcloud ISV Partner Program.
Built a Nextcloud app for a specific use case?
Become a Nextcloud Channel Partner
Frequently asked questions
No standard entry fee, but strategic partnerships may involve joint planning agreements.
Not necessarily. However, solutions should support open standards, interoperability, and align with Nextcloud’s values around transparency, privacy, and data control. And, of course, license compliance is required.
Specialized applications for specific industries, organizations, or workflows (e.g., public sector, compliance, enterprise processes).
No. Free and open source apps remain unchanged. The program expands the ecosystem.
Apps must be stable, secure, scalable, production-ready, and aligned with Nextcloud’s principles on privacy and data protection.
Yes. The program is designed to support commercial offerings and services.
Yes, both SaaS and self-hosted solutions are supported.
No. The program is for applications not currently distributed via the Nextcloud App Store.
No, the core functionality remains unchanged. ISV apps are complementary.
Go-to-market support including promotion, marketing, visibility, and sales enablement.
The Nextcloud App Store is for broadly available apps users can install with one click. The ISV Partner Program is for specialized, often industry-specific solutions for enterprise or public-sector use cases that are typically backed by support, training and consulting services.
If your solution targets a specific industry or workflow and is already used or evaluated by organizations using Nextcloud, it is likely a fit.
