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Productivity/File Sync

Nextcloud

The full Google Workspace replacement: files, photos, calendar, contacts, office docs.

86
Activity score (0-100) — weighted from the 4 sub-scores below. Calculated automatically from the GitHub API, refreshed weekly.
89
Community
100
Development
100
Maintenance
40
Risk
36,210 GitHub stars Last commit: 1 days ago Last release: 25 days ago Open issues: 3495 License: AGPL-3.0

Hardware

RAM minimum2048 MB
RAM recommended4096 MB
CPU idle0.2 cores
CPU recommended2-4 cores
ARM supportFull

Access & auth

Needs reverse proxy✓ Yes
OIDC support✓ Yes
LDAP support✓ Yes
Multi-user✓ Yes
Mobile appBoth

Operations

MaturityStable
Maintenance burdenMedium
Setup difficultyMedium
Backup methodBuilt-in backup app or DB dump + data folder

Leaving the cloud

Migration difficultyEasy

Replaces

DropboxGoogle CalendarGoogle DriveGoogle Photos

Relationships

Install via

Docker ComposeNative

Requires

Postgres

Works well with

RedisTraefik

Recommended backup

Native/Manual

Our notes

The broadest single Google replacement on this list, at the cost of being the heaviest to run well and the most fiddly to tune. Note: routing auth through a reverse proxy layer in front of Nextcloud can break the official mobile/desktop apps — read the docs before adding SSO.