Google Workspace vs Nextcloud Comparison

Open source Free Easy installation on FreeNAS

Low mobile apps quality (cannot upload photos (and cleanup) without downloading it back on iOS, etc) Intermittent bugs (share by link doesn't work in web interface, have to use mobile app) Not very smart integration with Gallery (expect something like Google Photos)

Thank you a lot for sharing your experience with Nextcloud! It helps us to improve.

Almost every Google products has an alternative on Nextcloud!

The ergonomy is sometimes less perfect than on Google products

Next to files, contacts and calendars you could store notes, read news, listen to music, create mindmaps and many more

You have to maintain your own server to keep the data absolute private. You need an DDNS service as well.

Dear Mark Thank you for the review on Capterra! We're very glad you are happy with Nextcloud! If you want to get the most out of Nextcloud, don't forget we have Nextcloud Subscriptions available. That improves much on the community help aimed at home users like you'll find on the forums and gives access to additional documentation and capabilities like our Outlook integration, Global Scale and more. Take care!

Excellent cloud storage and sharing tools, but the add-ons are really where Nextcloud shines e.g. the ability to spin up a Kanban board, or a groupware calendar or many others.

Some add-ons are hit and miss with quality, and some do not work at all (e.g. the forms add-on did not work)

Open source Modern Active development Customizable

It could have more in-house developed apps like a Google Photos alternative.

The best is the the multiple integrations and plugins - we have it working with our (Fossil-SCM0-based) Wiki, Best Practical Request Tracker (RT5), and the GitLab and GitHub Integrations work perfecrtly iut of the box.

Getting NCTalk to parity with Google's offering, so we can stop using Google.

NextCloud is super easy, even my non techie friends who've used basic google suite stuff transition very easy. Not to mention how motivated they are to de-Google without sacrificing convenience

Some platforms are still not default integrating with NextCloud but this is already changing rapidly.

I've been using Nextcloud as a replacement for Google Drive and Google Docs for the last four or five years. It has a ton of really great apps that I can install that can replicate popular Google services. For instance, I can use the Nextcloud desktop and mobile sync clients to have Google Drive like functionality. I can install a calendar app that gives me Google Calender functionality. There are...

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The biggest con for me with this application is it never upgrades properly. I use a third party hosting provider called Dreamhost, and whenever I attempt to do an automatic or manual upgrade to my Nextcloud instance, I end up breaking it and have to rebuild it from scratch. I don't know if this is due to something on my hosting provider's end, but every single time I've attempted to do an upgrade it has failed. Additionally, community support can sometimes be lacking. Since this is an open source product, you have to rely on a lot of forum posts and blog entries to find solutions to your problems. Sometiems that can be frustrating.

Dear user, Thank you for the review on Capterra! We're very glad you are happy with Nextcloud! Nextcloud upgrades should absolutely not give any issues - there must be a problem at Dreamhost if they do. In addition, we offer our customers stand-by support when doing upgrades to make sure even large installations upgrade smoothly. Our experienced team is extremely adept at identifying and fixing them quickly! If you want to get the most out of Nextcloud, consider a Nextcloud Subscriptions to benefit from our expertise and additional functionality like Outlook integration. The community forums are - well that, community forums, only really suitable for home users.

The amount of collaboration that is possible with NextCloud, ease of set up on private server (with Docker), perfect integration with different platforms and compatibility with tools.

The Collabora Is not there yet as reliable Google Docs alternative, but hey, it's getting there fast!

Has so many use cases and apps to do almost everything Google Suite can do

Occasionally has bugs that break the software, which is ok for self-hosted setups but not so great for organizations

The great community behind the product, and of course supporting FOSS.

Immaturity of inline office suite functionality. That is a major disadvantage when comparing to OneDrive, Google Drive, and others.

Wenn man eine günstige/gratis Lösung sucht ist Nextcloud momentan mit Abstand einer der besten Lösungen! Kann eigentlich alles im Bereich von Sharing und hat Apps dazu, wo man beliebig Erweiterungen installieren kann.

Nicht ganz so schnell wie Google Drive oder Ähnliche Dienste, wobei es natürlich auch immer auf den eigenen Server ankommt.

Easy Docker implementation and perfect alternative to Google suite. Ideal to take any privacy issues in-house.

Can be tricky to get everyone onboard with something different.

It's got a nice sync functionality that works well and is unobtrusive. you can have file structures on your computer that automatically sync with the server, and it's easy to create sharable links.

Sometimes setting up what syncs is a bit cumbersome.

I love that Nextcloud is a pluggable platform that allows me to control how many cloud capabilities I use.

As a collection of random open source projects, it lacks the polish that the industry kings like Google, Microsoft and Apple offer.

Thank you for your feedback! We will most certainly keep improving Nextcloud and exceeding your expectations!

NextCloud is very easy to set up and allows a great amount of customization. There are a ton of apps available to add to your configuration so you can set it up just the way that works for you. You can integrate Nextcloud login with your own website using OAuth. The customization is almost endless so you can set it up just how you like it.

The pricing can become complicated and quite expensive when using Nextcloud with some paid apps. Other than that I can't really complain about the functionality of the software, it has everything it should have.

We rely on our Nextcloud instance everyday for calendaring (CalDav), and document sharing to Android, Mac OS, iOS and Linux desktop clients. Since installing the host application in 2015 we have used the web-upgrade to reliably upgrade that instance without issue. Strongly recommend this excellent open-source application.

The initial installation (in 2015) of our own Nextcloud instance on a shared host was difficult.

it is free , no cost at all from the server side to app side ; both server side and app side are free of charge

the IOS app is sometimes crashing when dealing with lot of files to upload towards the server machine

Nextcloud has all the features that our clients look for in public offerings like Google Drive and Dropbox, with the advantage of privacy and customization.

Updates need to be carefully monitored to avoid crashes.

Thank you for your feedback!

Although dependent on the rental server, the system is currently stable and is useful for pulling data and making backups. The build and setup require some skill, but if you can complete it, you can get a low cost and a high degree of freedom. When I was worried about large mail files on each PC, I discovered that I could send files by URL.

As for the abundance of add-ons and insufficient localization, it is a waste of treasure because it is not possible to expand functions without knowing how to use them. It is not as collaborative as OneDrive versus Microsoft Office or Google Drive versus Google Docs. Similar to Microsoft Office, I would like to have a system that enables multiple users to edit the same document simultaneously.

All the features of Dropbox on your own server. You can run your own cloud at home with this software. No longer do you need to trust your files to computers that are under someone else's control. You can have privacy and convenience too. They have clients that work really well for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iOS so you can sync files all over the place and on all of your devices. They have a very active development community and a growing marketplace of add-on apps that you can install in your installation to expand functionality.

Initial setup can be a little complex at first. Support is based mostly on forums and google searches, but there is a paid subscription service for Enterprise support.

Thank you for your feedback! We will most certainly keep improving Nextcloud and exceeding your expectations!

NextCloud is ideal if you would like to share data across multiple region. Simple to setup, easy to use and administer.

It just came as a fork of ownCloud, this is hard to decide wether to go with ownCloud or NextCloud

Dear user, Thank you for the review on Capterra! We're very glad you are happy with Nextcloud! If you want to get the most out of Nextcloud, don't forget we have Nextcloud Subscriptions available. That improves much on the community help aimed at home users like you'll find on the forums and gives access to additional documentation and capabilities like our Outlook integration, Global Scale for higher scaelability, lower cost and data locality control and more. Take care!

The software is easy installable, configurable and especially easy in use. Besides we have our own cloud now without the thought that dropbox or google is watching in the documents.

There are no cons, just use it. The use is that simple, that's why I'm postitive and don't see any disadavantages compared to other products.

I have used Nextcloud to replace many of the apps that I had previously used from Google. The calendar and contacts are great. I also use a number of the other apps sporadically.

I wish that the Nextcloud app included the calendar or that there was a standalone calendar app. Connection between Nextcloud and the calendar app that I use is sporadic at best.

It's easy to use, setup, and maintain functional file sharing and backup systems effectively... It's good for that.

It lacks a lot of the selling points of alternative options for this purpose, such as MEGASync, Google Drive, Dropbox, and similar services. I could not rely solely on Nextcloud without some of my needs going unmet.