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Nextcloud at home
Nextcloud puts your data at your fingertips, under your control. Store your documents, calendar, contacts and photos on a server at home, at one of our providers or in a data center you trust.
Nextcloud gives you access to all your files wherever you are.
Where are your photos and documents? With Nextcloud you pick a server of your choice, at home, in a data center or at a provider. And that is where your files will be. Nextcloud runs on that server, protecting your data and giving you access from your desktop or mobile devices. Through Nextcloud you also access, sync and share your existing data on that FTP drive at school, a Dropbox or a NAS you have at home. Nextcloud is free, open source and you can get involved in making it better!
Why self-hosting?
Because your data is everywhere
Right now, nearly ALL data there is about you is stored at half a dozen companies, with names changing per country (Facebook, wechat, Vk, Google, Weibo, Tencent, Microsoft). They know where you live, what you search for, who you talk to, what you buy, what you eat and –probably– what you think.
Because knowledge is power
Your data represents who you are and can easily be abused. And power gets abused. Always. Maybe by a local politician who doesn’t like that you discovered his fraud. A local police woman who likes your boyfriend. A well connected businessman who likes to buy your store for cheap. A crime syndicate annoyed you try to help drug addicts kick off.
Maybe you just care about privacy
Even if your data isn’t abused –they promise not to, right?– isn’t it nobody’s business what you do?
We believe privacy is a right, a foundation for democracy. And we like to help you get it back.
And running your own, private Nextcloud server is the best way to get started!
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
?
Where is your data? Where are the pictures from your last vacation on the beach, where is your contact list, where are the last chats you had with your loved ones? Who has access to that data, who can see it, who can download it, who can modify or delete it? Do you trust the services you use to take care of your data?
We at Nextcloud believe that you have a right to decide what happens with your data. We believe that you should be able to have as much control as possible on what belongs to no one else but you.
In the era of Google Drive, Dropbox & co, storing your data online has never been easier. However, the simplicity of those tools comes at great cost: your privacy. Right now, nearly all the data there is about the average Internet user is stored at half a dozen companies. While media is constantly reporting on data breaches, corporate and state surveillance and other privacy violations, many people still rely on these services. Not because they are happy with the price they pay for it, but because it has been incredibly hard for people to find easy and free services that respect their users.
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!
How does that work?
First, Nextcloud is an Open Source private cloud software, which means that anyone can read the code, and make sure it keeps your data safe.
And second, at Nextcloud, we don’t force you to pick our own infrastructure or servers like the big famous public clouds do. You can run Nextcloud yourself, at home or in a data center on rented space. You can buy ready-to-go devices with Nextcloud or pick a provider who rents out space to you!
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 features
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Nextcloud Collectives
The very first use case was started by founder Max, who used Collectives with his roommates to organize cleaning tasks and other coordination for their shared apartment. It was a great way to keep track of who bought what, appliances needing maintenance, and more.
Today, Collectives can be used for a variety of causes, that help organizations, individuals, and businesses stay organized, share information, and collaborate.
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.
Nextcloud Office 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.
Nextcloud Office supports dozens of
document formats including:
- DOC
- DOCX
- PPT
- PPTX
- XLS
- XLSX
- ODF
- Import/View Visio
- Publisher
- Many more..
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
Photos App
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!
Workflow management
With Nextcloud Flow, you can automate common actions like turning a file into a PDF when it is dropped into a specific folder, or receiving a notification when a file with a certain tag is updated. The File Access Control app and other workflow tools can be used to prevent accidental sharing of sensitive data, adding an additional layer of protection to Nextcloud.
Tracking changes to your files
The nextcloud Activity app shows file modifications, downloads of shares and changes to comments or tags, providing an overview in the browser, clients or via email notifications and an RSS feed.
Monitoring your Nextcloud server
The Monitoring app enables admins to monitor the health and performance of a Nextcloud system with a graphical UI and an API endpoint for monitoring apps.
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.
And much more.
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
Nextcloud offers an easy to use user interface which comes with search functionality, favorites, tags and even more ways to quickly reach the files you need. Full Text search is available using Apache Solr.
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
Authentication
Authentication through LDAP / Active Directory, Kerberos and Shibboleth / SAML 2.0 and more
Pre-loaded files
Pre-loaded files and folders for new users. Populate a new user’s Files area with, for example, a tutorial file, which appears when they first log in.
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.
Quota management
Advanced quota management with configurable accounting of external storage
Sharing
Sharing and Provisioning REST APIs. Facilitates the integration of remote 3rd party apps
Nextcloud App API
Quick access to core functions for app development with the powerful Nextcloud App API and webhooks following the publication / subscription model
Theming
Built in, easy to use theming to set color, login background and logo from Administrator screen.
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