Work, share, collaborate, enjoy
Share images, documents or music with colleagues on your server, send password protected public links to friends and get notifications on your phone when a user on another Nextcloud server shares files directly with you. Use File Drop to let customers upload files to you in a easy and secure way!
Learn about File DropYou can trust that when you share, Nextcloud makes sure you stay in control over your data. You can easily see a list of shares, remove or change permissions and restore older versions of files.
Work with others
You can comment on files and discuss options. Through our integration of online office solutions like Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE you can work together in real time on presentations or Word documents. And with Nextcloud Talk you can seamlessly move a conversation in the comments to a chat or video call!
You can find files using our full text search app or by giving them tags and searching for them. Searching through the comments is possible as well. Admins can use our Workflow tools to automatically tag files uploaded by specific users, groups or by filetype and execute actions like converting files based on these tags.
Collaboration features
- Tag and comment on files, and see tags and comments by others
- Search by file name, tags, comments or file content (with the full-text search app)
- See what is happening with your data in the Activity feed, get notified by mail or RSS feed
- Previous versions of files you modified are retained and can be brought back. Deleted files can be found in the trash.
- Real-time push notifications on comments, mentions and new shares
- Edit documents with others using real-time document editors like Collabora Online or ONLYOFFICE.
- Smoothly transition between commenting on files to chat or video calls
- Transfer ownership of files and folders to other users
- Lock files so others know you are working with them
Sharing features
- Share with individual users, groups or create custom groups with the Circles app.
- Share photo galleries
- Share public links read-only, secure view (no download/print/copy-paste) or with editing capabilities
- Attach notes to a share, either to a Nextcloud user or to a public link
- Share directly to users on other Nextcloud, ownCloud or Pydio servers (see below: federation)
- Choose to automatically accept all incoming shares, or choose to accept them on a case by case basis
- Extensive Virtual Data Room restrictions like watermarking, ability to limit documents to filling in forms or blocking download or printing, are available. Learn more on our Virtual Data Room page. Virtual Data Rooms
Security capabilities
- Passwords for public link shares
- Expiration date in internal or public link shares
- File-drop hides existing files, providing just an upload target
- Hide Download (Secure View)
- Ultimate protection for email shares with Video Verification
Admins can control all these abilities, add trusted Federation servers and more
Video Verification
In situations where extreme security is warranted and the identity of a recipient has to be verified with absolute certainty before they are granted access, Nextcloud includes the industry-first implementation of Video Verification.
Video Verification enforces a Nextcloud Talk video call before access is given to a share, making sure the identity of the recipient is properly checked. The call can be picked up through the Nextcloud Talk Mobile apps as well as the web interface.
